New Year, New Naked Science

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

🗓️ 13 January 2009

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year! For our first show of 2009, we take on your science questions. We find out how earthworms can get airborne, why people get cramp and why Dr Chris' hypnic jerk frightens people on the bus. We also listen to the flirtatious duet between two mosquitoes, find out how rocks are arranged on Mars, and how stem cells bring sight back to blind mice. Plus, we find out how to make indoor snow and explain why all of these snowflakes are identical, and in kitchen science Dave explains the science of sneezing on your computer screen! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Boldly going where no science show has gone before.
0:05.0	The Naked Scientists
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Naked Scientists in 2009 and that's with Dr. Cat hello cat
0:18.8	Hello,
0:19.8	Dr Dave, hi Dave, hi Chris Smith.
0:23.0	Now in this week's show how scientists have found a way to give blind mice their sight back,
0:27.8	how mosquitoes fall in love, well us humans flutter out eyelids at each other, but these creatures
0:32.0	flap their wings and also
0:33.6	we've got new insights into how cancers reprogram other tissues to help them to
0:38.0	spread around the body and that's all coming up shortly cat.
0:40.3	Thanks Chris also this week we're kicking off the new year with a bumper crop of
0:44.0	your science questions including finding out and I love this one
0:46.9	whether an iPod becomes heavier when you load it with music why are bikes easier to
0:51.8	keep upright when they're moving? I have fallen off several
0:54.4	stationary bicycles in my lifetime and how do clouds generate lightning? The answers
0:58.8	to all those are on the way. Thanks Kat and in this week's kitchen science I'll be showing you a funky trick with a drop of water
1:05.0	all you use a piece of plastic a drop of water and something interesting to look at like a sheet of
1:09.2	printed paper.
1:10.2	Thank you very much Dave. That's Dave with kitchen science. Well worth having a go, an amazing observation to be made.
1:15.5	So if you've got a question for us though, you can email the program on Chris at the Naked Scientist.com.
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