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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Can you Flavour Breast Milk?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2008

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It's an Extravaganza of Questions and Answers on the Naked Scientists this week as we take on your questions, including whether dogs can sniff out a seizure, what is fire made of, and how do glow in the dark objects work? Also, we hear what an artificial tongue can tell us about speech production and the way to build superior voice recognition software, we rev up a system that can harness the waste heat in car exhaust to boost efficiency, find out how to flavour breast milk and hear why dolphins sing lullabies. Plus, in Kitchen Science, Ben and Dave go for a drive with a helium filled... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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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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