Become one of the best young gardeners in the country and why can you hear the sea in shells?
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Rachel Godfrey from the Royal Horticultural Society joins Dan in the studio to chat all things gardening - what's easy to grow, what we can grow to eat in a couple of months and how you can become school gardener of the year.
Plus, Professor Hallux explains why we can hear the sea in seashells, we find out how touch screens work with Techno Mum and was the Black Death really spread by rats? Some scientists are questioning it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids. Listen on DAB digital radio across the UK or online at FunKidsLive.com. |
| 0:09.9 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly. This is the show where only the most wonderful, weird and dangerous things in the whole universe are allowed in. |
| 0:20.6 | My name is Dan. I'm with you |
| 0:22.3 | throughout this journey through science. Today, right, we're looking at how touch screens actually |
| 0:27.5 | work. So how they know where your fingers pointing and what it wants to do, is it done by heat, |
| 0:34.3 | is it done by magic? Not really sure. We'll find out in a little bit. Also, we'll chat about seashells and whether you can actually hear the sea in the shells that she sells. |
| 0:43.2 | And we're going to go into the ocean as well deep down to the bottom to look at a mean evil fish that camouflages itself before it lashes out like a lightning bolt and strikes its prey. |
| 0:55.4 | First we're joining Finley, who is travelling back in time and he's heading all around the |
| 0:58.9 | world as well to look at the stuff that makes our planet. |
| 1:02.1 | Today, he's headed to the very beginning of the earth. |
| 1:05.0 | Geology rocks! |
| 1:06.4 | Theological Society! |
| 1:14.8 | You might be having some nice warm weather, but it's a snowy day here. |
| 1:21.2 | Snow always makes things look clean and new, and I love being the first to leave footprints in it. |
| 1:30.3 | In fact, thinking about it, more new stuff is usually nice, isn't it? Well, not our planet. |
| 1:32.3 | In fact, when it was new, it was really, really, really horrible. |
| 1:38.3 | Do you want to take a look? |
| 1:39.3 | Let's check out the horrible Hadean time. |
| 1:42.3 | Hold on tight! No! It definitely isn't nice at all! |
| 1:51.0 | Let's move out the wind! |
| 1:53.0 | Hmm! |
| 1:55.0 | It's called the Hadean time after a Greek god, Hades, who was the god of hell. |
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