Dissecting Christmas Dinner

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2009

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In a festive mood, this week the Naked Scientists meet their meat and dissect Christmas Dinner, but not with a carving knife! We also hear how scientists are able to re-create the acoustics of long-gone churches and cathedrals to appreciate how ancient musical compositions and carols would have sounded to an assembled congregation. Plus we also come face to face with a submarine volcano, dip into the story of a planet formed exclusively from water and find out why the skull is impervious to the effects of osteoporosis... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Boldly going where no science show has gone before.
0:05.0	The Naked Scientists
0:11.0	Hello and welcome to the naked scientist Christmas special with Helen Scales.
0:15.6	Hello Dave Ansel and me Ben Valzler. Today we're looking at some of the seasonal science of Christmas. We will be finding out how churches get
0:26.0	the best out of a choir and how we can indulge in a spot of acoustic archaeology to find
0:31.0	out what a church might sound like long after the building itself is
0:34.2	actually gone. And in kitchen science will give you the chance to meet your
0:38.0	meat by showing you the anatomy of a Christmas dinner. Got a roast chicken
0:41.6	ready so I'll be showing you things to look for when you're
0:43.7	carving up your Christmas lunch.
0:45.1	Plus we hear about a breakthrough in cancer genetics. We'll be getting to grips with the evolution
0:50.5	of those adorable cuddly koalas. We'll catch an underwater volcano erupting and
0:55.6	we'll hear about a planet that's got enormous but very very hot oceans. And of course
1:00.0	we'll be taking off science questions and answering our question of the week.
1:04.0	Hello, this is Elvin Raj from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1:10.0	Why is chocolate poisonous for dogs?
1:15.0	That's all to come on today's naked scientists.
1:17.0	So if you want to get in touch with any questions or comments,
1:20.0	we would love to hear from you.
1:21.0	Our email address is Chris at the Naked Scientists.com
1:25.2	or you can find us on Twitter at Naked Scientists.
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