Can you Flavour Breast Milk?
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2008
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's science, |
| 0:05.0 | science, but not as you know it. |
| 0:08.0 | The Naked Scientists. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, have you're here. We're coming up on this week's naked scientist, how scientists have found |
| 0:23.4 | out that what a woman eats can affect the flavor of her breast milk and that can give babies a taste |
| 0:28.0 | for all kinds of new foods apparently. Also, how scientists have found a way to make your cargo |
| 0:32.1 | 10% further on the same |
| 0:33.8 | amount of fuel which will come in very handy at the moment with oil prices as |
| 0:36.6 | they are and also how researchers have fathomed out the origins of singing in the |
| 0:40.4 | bath and it's all down to a species of humming fish and we'll be |
| 0:43.8 | hearing all about that in just a minute. Thanks Chris also this week it's our |
| 0:47.5 | science question-and-answer extra-ganza we'll be taking a look at all your |
| 0:51.5 | scientific medical |
| 0:52.6 | chemical conundrums so hit us with them you can get phoning in and |
| 0:56.8 | emailing in. We'll be finding out how glow-in-the-dark |
| 0:59.3 | materials work, what makes your tummy rumble and why snakes don't get poisoned by their own venom. |
| 1:05.0 | Fantastic, so the answers to all those questions and lots, lots more are on their way. |
| 1:09.8 | And also, later in the show, we'll be delving into the ultimate in recycling with this week's question of the week. |
| 1:15.0 | My name is Sky. I'm an archaeologist in Arkansas and America and I was taught when I was young that we drank the same water today that the dinosaurs drank when they were alive and I wondered if that was true. |
| 1:26.0 | So how much of the world's water has been drunk before either by us or by dinosaurs the answers on the way? |
| 1:32.0 | Plus in kitchen science this week Ben Ben and Dave have got an exciting experiment for you to try in the car. |
| 1:37.5 | All you'll need is a car, a helium balloon, and preferably somewhere you can drive nice and safely without causing an accident like a car park. |
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