How does the Assassin Bug calm its prey?
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Anne Wignall joins Dan for this week's Science Weekly podcast talking about the history and importants of the assassin bug and how it uses taps to calm its prey. We catch up with Sidney McSprockett who's teaching us about great british scientists, this week its Babbage, Lovelace and Berners Lee. In Karina's Chemistry we find out about how we can help save the environment. Plus in Science in the News, Dan talks about a new small but mighty satellite that spots deforestation!
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| 0:00.0 | Meet Ivy and Maggie, two best friends born 12 years ago, at exactly the same time. |
| 0:09.0 | Oh and did I mention it was on Friday the 13th? |
| 0:14.0 | They're always on the lookout for their next adventure and they don't have to wait long. |
| 0:19.0 | Three new kids are in town and they're all behaving very mysteriously. |
| 0:26.0 | Don't worry though, the Double Trouble Society know how to handle witches, |
| 0:30.0 | but can they manage vampires, werewolves and ghosts too? |
| 0:35.0 | The Double Trouble Society and the worst curse is the new spellbinding mystery book |
| 0:40.0 | from Carrie Hope Fletcher. It's spooky and is out now. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello, Ahoy, welcome to a brand new episode of The Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 0:53.0 | My name's Dan, this is the show where we search out some of the real secrets, |
| 0:58.0 | some of those unknown beasts, those hidden mysteries lurking all around the universe. |
| 1:05.0 | This week we're talking about a small but mighty predator in the ocean. |
| 1:09.0 | Also checking up on how a telescope is getting on. |
| 1:13.0 | It's going to be launching in a month or so. |
| 1:15.0 | It's hit some problems, we'll find out more. |
| 1:18.0 | And I've got your questions this week, they're on sleep, on cats, and on getting scared. |
| 1:23.0 | First, let's catch up with one of our favourite geniuses on the show |
| 1:28.0 | who tells us all about other geniuses. This is Sydney McSprocket. |
| 1:35.0 | So Sydney McSprocket's great British miles. |
| 1:39.0 | Oh, hello, such Sydney McSprocket here. |
| 1:43.0 | Now, modesty aside, I consider myself a rather good inventor. |
| 1:49.0 | But Britain has produced some truly great minds, inventors, designers, and engineers |
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