Q&A: Atoms, Avalanches & Armpits

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

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, could we colonise a planet beyond our own galaxy? What's the greenest way to heat my home? And why do bright lights make some people sneeze? It's QA time! Chris Smith is joined by a panel of scientists to take on the questions YOU'VE been sending in. Joining him are chemist Ljiljana Fruk, physiologist Sam Virtue, mathematician and technology journalist Tim Revell and our very own physics boffin Adam Murphy.This episode was produced by Katie Haylor and Izzie ClarkeFor more podcasts by The Naked Scientists, head to nakedscientists.com or search "Naked Scientists" on your favourite... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.3	Hello.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Welcome.
0:06.3	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	It's the naked scientist, and this week
0:18.0	is the sugar in fruit any better for you than a donut?
0:21.0	Had a reflective jacket's work work and why do bright lights make some people
0:25.8	sneeze.
0:26.8	Hello I'm Chris Smith.
0:28.2	This is the Naked Scientists and this week we're tackling the science questions that you have been sending in.
0:34.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. With us this week our Lilliana Fruks. She is a Cambridge University chemist
0:51.2	and you're also going to be a restauranter pretty soon. Isn't that right?
0:54.8	You're opening a restaurant in Zagreb. Yes and it's going to be based on my
0:57.9	chemical knowledge. Which I'm not saying to the customers though. Really?
1:01.5	What are you going to cook up for them?
1:03.0	Well, we will explore how to use the proper ingredients to get the flavors out and we will use
1:08.6	some historically relevant recipes that have been forgotten as well.
1:12.8	But haven't been cooks and decent chefs been doing that for years anyway?
1:16.2	Well, yes, but we are developing a new methodologies as well because we are going to use
1:21.7	biomaterials as well to produce some stuff.
1:25.8	So I think you will need to come to visit us.
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