Cambridge Science Festival: Battle of the Brains

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week is a Cambridge Science Festival special with the Naked Scientists coming straight from the Cambridge Science Centre alongside a very lively audience!But that's not all, it's battle of brains as six of Cambridge's finest researchers strut their stuff in a competition of mind, matter and ultimate cool. From freeze-dried blood to turbo charged wheat who will come out on top? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science.
0:09.2	And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, this week we have a special show for you recorded at the Cambridge Science
0:20.5	Festival.
0:21.5	We're at the Cambridge Science Center alongside this extremely lively audience.
0:25.0	I am Chris Smith from the Naked Scientist team,
0:31.0	and also here is BBC presenter and erstwhile science buff.
0:35.0	Chris. Hi Chris.
0:37.0	Hi there and in store for you this week six of Cambridge's finest researchers
0:40.0	they're here to strut their stuff and give us a peek into the surprising world of science
0:44.4	that they're working on.
0:45.6	Right now Chris, are you of the competitive persuasion?
0:56.0	Well you know me Chris I'm always happy to put my money where my mouth is.
1:00.0	Well that's very lucky for you that you're a gambling man because we have decided to
1:03.2	split our scientists into two teams. There's going to be Team Barrow and Team Smith.
1:08.5	Now they're going to be indulging in a scientific grown-up version of show and tell and we'll also be testing
1:15.4	whether they can tell some science facts from some science fiction that we made up and
1:21.0	then at the end of the show we're going to be asking our audience
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