Naked Question and Answer and The Life of Benjamin Franklin

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

🗓️ 24 June 2006

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Answering all your questions on science, technology and medicine this week are Drs Chris, Dave and Kat, who will be revealing why spicy foods make you sweat, the highest possible temperature, the cause of labyrinthitis and why tissues turn black after receiving frostbite. Also on the show is Mark Skousen, a direct descendent of Benjamin Franklin, who will be talking about the life and work of this famous scientist and statesman; and in Science Update, Bob and Chelsea find some animal magic in the feeding strategies of killer whales and the interpretation of a horse whinny. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Live from the BBC The Naked Scientists.
0:07.0	Hello welcome to this week's edition of The Naked Scientists and it's our Naked
0:11.8	Scientists Science Phoen phone in an hour of
0:14.3	Q&A an hour of live unplugged
0:17.0	un hugged science questions from you. You just call up the numbers 08-559
0:21.8	25 2000 you can email and we're using a slightly different email address this week because we have a computer problem.
0:28.0	It's The Naked Scientists at Yahoo.com, the Naked Scientists at Yahoo.com, or of course you can text us.
0:34.2	And our text number is 07786 20, 1960. Any science question goes.
0:40.0	My name's Chris Smith and also here to tackle your science questions this evening.
0:43.2	We have Dave Ansel, and we have Catani.
0:46.4	Hello and also coming up on the show, Chris is going to be telling us about the oldest
0:50.5	bling in existence and how scientists may be finally getting to the root
0:54.6	of Parkinson's disease. Dave will be telling us some trembling news about earthquakes
0:59.0	and also how we're going to be sending telescopes up to space on the cheap.
1:04.0	And I'll be bringing some good news for PANDAS listening to the show
1:07.0	and also revealing how scientists at the University of Delft really are,
1:11.0	extracting the proverbial from our wastewater. So what else Dave?
1:17.0	If you have any questions give us a call on 849, 25 2,000 and you have the chance to win two copies of the completed autobiography by Benjamin Franklin,
1:25.8	compiled by his great, great, great, great, great grandson Mark Skousin, who will be talking
1:31.2	to later.
1:32.2	Thanks Dave, and here's a quick question to kick us off this evening and this one's from me.
1:37.0	What was the first thing ever invented to break the sound barrier?
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