Naked at Edinburgh Science Festival!

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

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Chris Smith and Adam Murphy head to Edinburgh Science Festival to bring you the best - and the bizarre - from the wonderful world of science. Joining them are Chris Johnson, Head of Computer Science at Glasgow University, Sophie Goggins, Curator of Biomedical Science at National Museums Scotland as well as astrophysicist Beth Biller and microbiologist Luke McNally, from the University of Edinburgh. Plus the team were also be joined by Sir Ian Wilmut, one of the brains behind the pioneering work of Dolly The Sheep.This show was produced by Izzie Clarke. For more podcasts by The Naked... 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. Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, this week we've left the studio and headed to Scotland.
0:20.0	This show was recorded in front of a live audience at the Edinburgh Science Festival and for the next hour Chris Smith and Adam Murphy will be taking you through the wonderfully weird world of science with help from some guests. I'm easy Clark and this is the
0:35.3	Naked Scientists. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.
0:41.6	UK. So very warm welcome. Here we are at the Edinburgh Science Festival. Let's hear it for
0:56.0	Edinburgh. Now being a medical person this morning I decided to go for a bit of a walk
1:01.0	in this wonderful weather we're having called Fog and I went to go for a bit of a walk in this wonderful weather we're having called
1:02.9	fog and I went to the world famous Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. It's got a maternity
1:08.5	unit so I decided I walked along this corridor and they've got this picture on the wall of this newborn baby
1:15.0	and this sign underneath it says
1:18.0	the first five minutes of this infant's life
1:22.0	are the most dangerous, but you're in safe hands and then
1:25.8	underneath someone had written the last five minutes is pretty terrifying as well.
1:31.7	You're in safe hands here though I'm very pleased to say and joining me here on the
1:35.6	Naked Scientists this week is Adam Murphy. Please say hello to Adam.
1:39.2	Hello everyone. So with this show what we're planning to do is bring you the very best
1:47.3	and the very weirdest things we've found about scientists but we can't do that alone
1:52.4	that would be a boring show listening
1:53.8	to the two of us nattering here for an hour so we brought along some of our friends
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