Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists with Chris Smith, that's me and also here is

Dave Ansel, hi Dave, and Helen Scales.

Hello.

Now coming up this week we'll be finding out why the pill is bad for your pocket,

at least if you're a lap dancer.

Also how scientists have come up with a clever way to beat

cosmic radiation during long space voyages,

how crocodiles actually cry real tears, not crocodile tears, and why buying expensive

trainers could take you down the road to ruin, so that's all on on the way and also this week we're looking at how Hollywood has a major rival a new technology called rather

Interestingly Machinima these are films made but instead of using physical puppets, what you use are the characters in computer games.

So instead of picking up Big Bird or whatever, the puppet of choices, you go and turn on your Xbox or your PlayStation and use the

characters in the game. So more on how people are making their own movies using

their computer games coming up later on. And in this week's kitchen science I'll be building a detector for the Earth's magnetic field.

And if you want to have a go to grab a glass bowl, some water, a magnet, a needle, and something that floats like a flat piece of polystyrene.

And Dave will tell you what to do with all of that

later on in the program. This is of course our question and answer show so any question you like

and we'll try and answer it for you we're also going to be looking at very shortly whether

if you're on your bike riding along and you get hit by lightning,

unfortunately enough, the tires of the bike would be enough to protect you.

That's coming up.

If you've got any questions like that, Chris at the naked scientist dot com. The naked scientist

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