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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

🗓️ 31 July 2013

⏱️ 55 minutes

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A special question and answer edition of the show where the team get to grips with your queries, including, do hairs know they've cut? Is someone who sweats sooner fitter? How do noise-cancelling headphones work? How do we know what's inside Earth? Why are there no whale-sized insects? Does protein suppress appetite? And could there be a planet with a green atmosphere? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	This is Generation 1, the climate podcast from University College London.
0:05.2	Bringing groundbreaking research from the front lines of climate science,
0:08.5	we tackle climate action in all its forms from policy and activism to AI and urban planning.
0:13.9	I am a tech optimist. I am optimistic that it will help us solve some of the challenges,
0:20.2	especially related to climate
0:21.2	change.
0:22.1	UCL's Generation 1, turning climate science into action. Subscribe now to UCL Generation 1 on your
0:28.1	favorite podcast platform. Hello, welcome to a special naked scientist's question and answer edition with me Chris Smith, joined by Ginny Smith and Dave Ansel.
0:57.3	Also with us this week is special guest, the insect expert Ian Burgess, and we'll be talking
1:03.0	with him about daddy long legs a little bit later in the program, as well as fielding your
1:07.5	science questions, including, already in, do fit people sweat more, why don't
1:12.4	people in Australia feel upside down? I presume that's from someone in the northern hemisphere,
1:17.0	and does a lot of protein in your diet suppress your appetite. That's all coming up in the next
1:22.4	hour on this week's edition of the Naked Scientists. If you'd like to get in touch with us,
1:27.2	then please email
1:27.9	Chris at thenakedscientist.com. You can also tweet at Naked Scientists, or you can find us on
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1:48.1	And up first, let's go to Mackey. Hello, Mackey.
1:48.8	Hello.
1:50.4	What can we do for you?
1:57.3	Well, I have a question about body hair. So this is hair that's not on the head, but there's very else on the body. Okay, far away.
1:59.8	So when we remove unwanted body hair
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