QnA: Fridges and impossible food

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 August 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this month's QnA show we're asking: why are fridges harder to open again after you just closed them? What's the best way to wipe the memory of a smart phone? And what might climate change mean for chocolate? We're answering your questions with the help of an expert panel - neuroscientist Duncan Astle, techxpert Peter Cowley, food security expert Nadia Radzman and engineer Livia Souza... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Hello.
0:06.3	Welcome.
0:07.3	And that is the same physics, medicine, nature or space, time, a brain, life, the universe.
0:17.0	Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists.
0:19.1	I'm Chris Smith, and this time it's a science cue and hay show. You ask the questions and we're supplying the answers.
0:24.8	Coming up, why are fridges harder to open again after you've only just closed them?
0:28.8	What's the best way to wipe the memory of a smartphone and what might climate change mean for chocolate.
0:35.0	Oh no!
0:36.0	The Naked Scientist Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. K. Now with me to tackle the questions this week are Duncan Astell who's a cognitive
0:53.2	neuroscientist at Comber University and sitting in front of him is something
0:56.9	very interesting what have you got there Duncan? It is let me describe it to you so it
1:00.9	looks like a tiny sculpture of a brain.
1:05.0	It looks like a truffle.
1:07.0	It might not have a truffle or maybe a walnut.
1:09.0	Yeah.
1:10.0	It's around an inch and a half long, about an wide it weighs quite a bit I'm going to hand it to the person next to me he's going to hold it
1:17.3	so it looks like a tiny sculpture but actually it's not it's a real 3D printed brain.
1:25.0	So that's the brain of one of the research fellows in my lab.
1:29.0	Is it really that small?
1:31.0	It's life size.
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