Do My Eyes have Anti-Shake Vision?

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

🗓️ 4 June 2011

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

What would we see at the edge of the universe? Are there long term health effects of eating spicy food? Why doesn't diesel need a spark to ignite? It's another Naked Scientists science question and answer show, where we take on your questions! Find out how a volcano makes Mars wobbly, why birds' lungs are more efficient than mammalian lungs and how a single speaker can make so many sounds at once. Plus, an outbreak of a new and lethal strain of E.coli and why increasing ocean acidification may be deafening fish. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science, the naked scientists.
0:07.0	The Naked Scientists with me, Chris Smith.
0:24.8	With me, Dave Ansel.
0:26.0	And also joining us from the Naked Astronomy podcast,
0:29.0	Naked Scientist.com, astronomy,
0:31.0	is Dominey forward, hello Dominic.
0:32.2	Hi Chris.
0:33.2	Now this week we're answering your science questions, including what would you see at the
0:37.6	edge of the universe?
0:38.6	Assuming you can get there of course.
0:40.4	How can a single speaker play so many different sounds all at the same time?
0:45.0	And how do our eyes have this anti-shake system built into them that stops the world looking fuzzy when we move around?
0:52.0	And in this week science news, an update on the E.coline situation in Europe,
0:55.9	what is this new bug? Where did it come from? And evolving technology at DNA-based
1:00.8	computer that can calculate the square root of any number up to 15.
1:04.3	Thank you Dave. So if you have any questions for us, do get in touch now.
1:07.3	You can tweet at naked scientists, write on our Facebook page, that's at the naked scientist
1:12.4	dot com slash Facebook, or drop us an email. on our email
1:15.0	email address is Chris at the naked scientist.com
1:16.7	is Chris at the naked scientist dot com.
1:18.6	The naked scientist podcast is powered by UK Fast. The UK's best hosting provider on the web at UK Fast.
1:25.0	UK's best hosting provider on the web at UKfast.co.uk. This is the naked scientist with Chris Smith, Dave Ansel and Dominic Ford and we begin as ever with a look at some of this week's top scientific stories, Dave.
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