Do you burn more calories when thinking?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week: you asked the questions, we have the answers. Our expert panel take on queries like: why don't whales get the bends, does chloroform work like it does in the movies, and would a spinning spaceship simulate gravity? Plus, the week's science news, including the controversial sugar tax, how ExoMars 2016 hunts for life on the red planet and why NASA plan to set fire to a space station. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.4	This week you're asking the questions and we're answering them.
0:20.0	We've assembled a dream team of five mines to take on your scientific conundrum
0:24.0	including why don't Wales get the bends what happens if you set fire to your
0:28.6	space station and do brains burn more calories when you're thinking hard?
0:33.4	Hello, I'm Chris Smith, and this is the Naked Scientists.
0:37.2	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.co. UK. And let's begin by meeting the team. We have Ben Pilgrim, he's a chemist at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge.
0:56.0	Tony Stia is a nutritionist from the MRC Human Nutrition Research Unit.
1:01.0	Chris Basso is a vet at the Royal Veterinary College and also a recent
1:04.6	Fame Lab finalist, long time Naked Scientist Dave Ansel is with us to talk physics, and finally,
1:10.8	I'm a medical consultant from Adam Brooks Hospital. And on that note let's open the surgery doors if you'd like to get in touch
1:18.0	with the naked scientist you can email Chris at the naked scientist dot com look us up on
1:22.3	Facebook or you can tweet at naked
1:25.0	scientists. Let's kick off with this question that's come in for you Ben from
1:30.2	Luke. I was wondering what would happen if you covered a swimmer with a
1:33.6	hydrophobic substance? Would they go faster or slower? So firstly I'll
1:38.3	sort of just recap what a hydrophobic substance is. So hydro obviously refers to
1:42.4	water. Phobic means dislike. So a
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