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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Peeing on an Electric Fence

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2009

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

What happens if you urinate on an electric fence? We find out the answer to this and some of your other science questions on this week's Naked Scientists, including why chilli peppers are red, how does squinting help you see further and what's the best way to align your laundry with the wind? Plus, why blue food colouring could reduce the damage of spinal injury, how shrimps could catalyse biodiesel production and the physics behind the regularity of raindrops... 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.

0:06.0

The Naked Scientists.

0:10.0

Hello,

0:13.3

welcome to this week's naked scientist and that's with Helen Scales.

0:16.4

Hello Helen.

0:17.4

Hello. With Dave Ansel.

0:18.4

Hi Dave.

0:18.9

Hi Dave.

0:19.4

Hi, Chris.

0:19.3

And I'm Chris Smith.

0:20.5

Now coming up this week, how a blue food dye could actually help to heal spinal cord injuries in the future.

0:26.0

Also, how scientists have turned prawn shells into a new breed of high efficiency catalytic converters that can help us to make bio-diesl and

0:35.5

raindrops keep falling on my head. But how big are they? Well, scientists have made a big breakthrough

0:39.8

in discovering what affects the distribution of sizes of raindrops and that's all

0:43.7

coming up or should I say in the case of raindrops coming down in just a second

0:47.2

Helen. Thanks Chris also this week it's our science question and answer show

0:51.5

we'll be finding out if peeing on an electric fence or a live rail is likely to result in an electric shock.

0:58.0

Sounds very painful to me.

0:59.0

And does what a mother eats end up in her breast milk?

1:02.0

Also, do animals like whales and dolphins get... does what a mother eats end up in her breast milk?

1:02.8

Also, do animals like whales and dolphins

1:04.8

get high blood pressure because they eat too much salt?

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