MIND TRICKS: How Your Brain Controls Pain 🧠💥

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

In this episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, we continue our bigger and better podcast where we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about the brain's ability to block pain!

Dan kicks off with the latest science news, starting with a spectacular planetary parade—a rare celestial event that won’t grace our skies again until 2040! Next, we learn about the record-breaking pace at which the world's glaciers are melting. Finally, horticulturist, Roger Parsons, joins Dan for a daffodil hunt and what YOU can do to help.

We then answer your questions, Jack wants to know why do we breathe automatically? Professor Georgina Ellison from KCL then answers Fifi's question: Why do humans need to drink water?

Dangerous Dan continues, where we learn all about the Texas Blind Salamander

Then, it’s time for Battle of the Sciences, where Dr. Dan Baumgardt from Bristol University explores the power of neuroscience, revealing how the brain can switch off pain!

What do we learn about?

· A rare celestial event you won’t see again for another 15 years!

· The record breaking-pace the world's glaciers are melting at

· Why humans need to drink water

· The dangerous Texas Blind Salamander

· And in Battle of the Sciences, the secrets of the brain!

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Hey, Explorer, look at this. Welcome along. It's time to get out of planet Earth.
0:06.4	Let's search through the solar system, shall we?
0:09.8	There must be some interesting stuff lurking around. It's a brand new Fun Kid Science Weekly.
0:15.6	My name is Dan. This week, we'll find out what's really happening in our bodies. Why are we always so thirsty? Why do we need to drink water?
0:25.9	The heart is made up of about 73% water. So if you want to keep your heart functioning healthily, you're going to need to replenish that water to give it that water to make sure that your heart stays hydrated.
0:40.0	And you know when you're hurt and something's stinging when it's aching, you can hear what your brain is doing to try and control that pain.
0:49.4	Pain is an example of a sensation. You don't detect pain. It is your brain's picture of putting together
0:56.3	all the information that's coming in from outside your body and from inside. And for our dangerous
1:02.3	stand this week, we are headed deep underground into hidden caves to search out a very strange
1:08.2	amphibian. It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kid Science Weekly.
1:15.6	Let's start with your science in the news. Stargazers had a treat last week as seven planets were visible in the night sky together.
1:23.6	You had Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn. They were all up there in what they call a planetary parade.
1:31.0	It's rare.
1:31.9	The next time that seven can be seen is in 2040, so in 15 years.
1:37.6	Now, it's rare because the planets need to be on the same visual plane as Earth,
1:42.6	so along the same line, really, at a time when we can see them,
1:47.0	all moving in their orbit in the right bit of the night sky. So to have all of those factors,
1:52.3	all happening, it's a huge coincidence, and that's why it's so rare, you need to wait 15 years
1:57.0	before you can see such a planetary parade again in 2040. Also, the world's glaciers are
2:03.9	melting faster than ever recorded. That's according to the most thorough analysis of them to date.
2:10.2	Now glaciers are frozen rivers of ice, way high up in mountains. They act as fresh water,
2:16.6	a resource for millions around the world. Old, old
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