Christmas Bonus episode: How? What? Why? Expert Answers to Crazy Questions Live at Cheltenham Literature Festival

Mysteries of Science

Fun Kids

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Isabel Thomas, and Peter Gallivan answer some crazy questions live on stage at Cheltenham Literature Festival 2022, in this bonus Christmas edition of Mysteries of Science.

See you in the new year for a BRAND NEW SERIES of Mysteries of Science. Until then – stay curious!

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0:00.0	Merry Christmas, everyone. I'm Dan. I'm the editor of the Week Junior Science and Nature,
0:09.3	the monthly magazine for Smart and Curious Kids. We're back in the new year with a brand new season
0:15.5	of Mysteries of Science, which starts on the 13th of January. But in the meantime, I wanted to share with you a very special thing we did earlier in the year.
0:26.1	At Cheltenham Literature Festival in October, we got up on stage in front of loads of readers and listeners
0:32.5	put on our very own show called How, What, Why, Expert Answers to Crazy Questions. Here's the live recording that we made.
0:41.1	I hope you enjoy it. Hello and welcome to the Times and the Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival.
0:48.3	Thank you very much for coming here today. I'm Dan Green and I'm the editor of this magazine here called The Week Junior Science and Nature.
0:56.6	It's a monthly magazine that's made for smart cookies just like you.
1:02.4	Now then, boys, girls, grown-ups, grannies, granddad, gorillas.
1:08.1	I'm so excited because today we have three incredible science writers
1:13.6	here for you and also three of the most curious adults that I know. You can take that as you will.
1:21.6	Isabel Thomas is a multi-award winning author and and she writes regularly for Science and Nature magazine.
1:30.3	And in her book, the Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions,
1:33.3	she's going to show us how
1:36.3	asking and answering the craziest sounding impossible questions
1:41.3	can actually reveal more than you know.
1:45.0	Well, every month children write in to us at the science at science of nature with questions that just literally make our head spin.
1:55.0	And we call them head scratches because, well, actually you know why. You can guess why they call them that.
2:03.8	So we're talking about questions like, why is a candle flame pointy? And if you took all of the
2:10.9	fish and living things and ships out of the sea, would the sea level fall? And by how much?
2:18.9	And possibly my favourite style of question is, who would win in a fight? So who would win in a fight between an
2:24.7	African elephant and a diplodocus? Well, actually, let's put that to the test. Who thinks
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