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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

🗓️ 9 March 2008

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Naked Scientists, we tackle your questions. We find out what creates a 'Moonbow', how much water there was on Earth over one million years ago and what happens to milk in the freezer. Also, how butterflies could remember what caterpillars learn, why electric cars may stress stretched water supplies and how the 'smell' of a coral reef attracts fish from miles around. Plus, we speak to Marc Abrahams, creator of the Ig Nobel awards for science that makes you laugh, then makes you think! And in Kitchen Science we try to strike a balance between two balloons! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	This is Generation 1, the climate podcast from University College London.
0:05.2	Bringing groundbreaking research from the front lines of climate science,
0:08.5	we tackle climate action in all its forms from policy and activism to AI and urban planning.
0:13.9	I am a tech optimist. I am optimistic that it will help us solve some of the challenges,
0:20.2	especially related to climate
0:21.2	change.
0:22.1	UCL's Generation 1, turning climate science into action. Subscribe now to UCL Generation 1 on your
0:28.1	favorite podcast platform. It's science, but not as you know it, the naked scientists.
0:42.8	Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists with me, Chris Smith and also with Dave Ansel.
0:47.9	Hi there.
0:48.8	And with Richard Van Norton.
0:50.3	Hello.
0:51.2	Now, coming up this week, we'll be finding out how scientists have discovered that it's possible to train a caterpillar, and what it learns as a caterpillar, it actually
0:57.6	remembers as a moth. Also, how a strange force is at work in space, which is slowing down
1:02.9	space probes, but what is it? And why environmentally friendly cars might be bad news after all,
1:09.4	because powering them is going to use a lot more water.
1:12.8	That's all on the way. Dave.
1:14.9	Thanks, Chris. Also this week, when meeting the man who created the Ig Nobel Prizes,
1:19.3	which rewards science that makes people laugh and think.
1:22.8	The Ig Nobel Medicine Prize was awarded to Dr. Francis Fezmeier of Tennessee for his medical case report called
1:32.5	Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage.
1:40.2	Is there anyone here who needs this concept clarified?
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