Science Centre Showoff
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2013
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Naked Scientists which comes to you from the Cambridge Science Center. We are, of course, in the Auguste city of Cambridge, |
| 0:19.0 | which is originally home to Isaac Newton, inventor of gravity. |
| 0:23.6 | Also the place where this amazing thing, deoxy ribos nucleic acid |
| 0:28.3 | was discovered and red. |
| 0:30.3 | Of course, deoxy ribos nucleic acid is better known as DNA which shares its name with the acronym for the National Dyslexic Association. |
| 0:38.0 | Still after mark that one, weren't they? |
| 0:41.0 | It's also home to Cambridge University, which means that pretty soon a new term is going to start, |
| 0:47.0 | and we'll see a whole bunch of students who are going to start suffering from the terrible condition known as the Heineken Uncin |
| 0:51.5 | Uncin uncertainty principle. This is rather like the Heisenberg |
| 0:54.5 | uncertainty principle with the exception that you wake up not knowing where you are or how much |
| 0:58.4 | you've actually drunk. What we're going to do for the first time here from the Cambridge Science Center |
| 1:03.4 | is to give you the opportunity to meet a panel of august and esteemed |
| 1:08.8 | scientists from Cambridge University and ask them questions and you can ask them about their research, you can ask them about their science in general, |
| 1:16.9 | and we also have some kitchen scientists because we're going to do some experiments as well. |
| 1:22.4 | Please join me in welcoming. |
| 1:23.4 | I'm going to go through our panel who are going to speak to you this evening. |
| 1:26.4 | Our guests are Professor Rod Jones, he's great at parties. |
| 1:37.0 | Rod, what do you do and what you work on? |
| 1:38.0 | Just summarize your work for everyone. |
| 1:39.0 | Well, I'm a professor of atmospheric science |
| 1:41.0 | and I try and make tiny sensors so that we can look at |
| 1:44.1 | air pollution and try and link it to human health. Next to Rod is from the |
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