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🗓️ 9 April 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Doctor, presenter and award winning author Dr Ranj teaches us how to train our brains this week, we hear about how a ROBOT BOAT is monitoring the biggest volcanic explosion in 100 years, and answer the question: Why Are Cats Eyes Mostly Black? We also catch up with Professor Hallux and Nurse Nanobot in their Map of Medicine, and hear about the fearsome T-Rex in Age of the Dinosaurs!
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0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. I'm Cressida Cowell, author of How to Train Your Dragon, and I'm just popping |
0:04.4 | in to tell you about my new book series, Witchway to Anywhere. It's a story about four children |
0:10.0 | who discover that there are alternative worlds beyond our own, and that they can travel to them |
0:15.3 | with the help of a magical map and a very special gift. Of course, this leads to epic, unexpected |
0:21.9 | adventures. Witchway to Anywhere, and its sequel, Witchway Round the Galaxy, are both available |
0:27.5 | to buy now. Happy reading! Hello, welcome along. It's time to zoom around the universe |
0:34.3 | in a brand new episode of The Fun Kids Science Weekly. My name is Dan. Thank you for being there. |
0:41.7 | Thank you for joining me as we take a trip around the galaxy. We search out all the science secrets |
0:47.2 | lurking in the solar system, and we're staying a bit closer to home this week, looking inside you, |
0:55.2 | inside your brain. We'll chat to the superstar, Tilly expert, Dr. Ranch, all about his brand new book, |
1:02.6 | Brain Power. One of the more things that has fascinated humans for centuries, right from |
1:09.4 | sort of ancient Egyptian times when they didn't think that the brain was very important, |
1:13.8 | so they used to think that all your thoughts and your mind came from your heart, so they used |
1:18.9 | to preserve the heart and set the brain out through the back of your skull when you died and throw it |
1:23.2 | away. So they didn't really think it was that important, right from to now what we know. |
1:30.0 | Also, for one more time, we'll dive into the age of the dinosaurs this week, learning about one |
1:35.4 | of the most fearsome beasts of them all. He's coming this way. Quick run! You definitely want to run |
1:44.0 | from a T-Rex. His name means King of the Tyrant Reptiles, and he was a terrifying meeting |
1:50.9 | dinosaur found in the continent that is now North America. |
1:57.6 | And I've got your questions as always. This time out, they are on cats and colors. |
2:03.6 | There's loads on the way. Stick around. It's a brand new episode of The Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
2:09.6 | Let's get this week's Science in the News. |
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