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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Q&A: How to avoid being squashed by a whale

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

How stars burn for billions of years. Can Rishi Sunak turn us into a nation of mathematicians? And how misinformation changes the shape of our brains. Plus, there'll be our customary quiz at half time... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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All engine running.

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running.

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I'm so genius.

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Welcome.

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This is the show where we bring you science.

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What that essentially means is

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Discoveries,

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advances, research, technology, unbelievable.

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Without further ado, this is the naked scientist.

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Hello, happy new year.

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It's Q&A time.

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You supply the questions.

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We supply the answers.

0:23.6

Coming up, how stars burn for billions of years, can Rishi Sunak succeed in turning us all into

0:28.8

a nation of mathematicians and the naked scientists

0:35.0

information can change the shape of our brains. This is the Naked Scientists.

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The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.

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UK. And with me to help answer those questions that you're sending in,

0:56.2

are Tom Mustill. Now he's an award-winning natural world filmmaker. He's

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directed some David Attenborough including giraffes Africa's gentle

1:03.9

giants he's also an author and I gather recently you've been diving into the

1:09.2

underwater realm tell us more well yeah I've got a sort of a quite weird link to Wales in that in 2015 I was kayaking and a

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