The 12 Scientific Days of Christmas
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I have you loud and clear. |
| 0:03.4 | Hello. |
| 0:04.4 | Hello. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome. |
| 0:06.4 | Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, space, time, the brain, life, the universe. |
| 0:16.6 | This week we're celebrating the 12 scientific days of Christmas. |
| 0:20.8 | From people who go swimming in frozen lakes to whether the booze can kill the bugs in your eggnog. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Chris Smith and I'm Gray Jackson and this is The Naked Scientists Christmas Special. |
| 0:31.6 | The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. |
| 0:37.0 | Now with us this week our biochemist James Bowers. So James, |
| 0:47.0 | James Bowers, what's the best gift you've ever had for Christmas? |
| 0:49.3 | The best present is a little bit kind of like, a little bit obvious maybe and a little bit kind of cliche but I was living abroad for quite a few years and the best Christmas present I got was somebody actually bought me a plane flight home to be home for Christmas and it was actually like yeah it was the nicest thing and it really made my year. |
| 1:07.0 | Well a lovely present. I wish I got presents like that. Eleanor Drinkwater is a bird expert so he's had a wonderful experience. |
| 1:13.8 | Have you got any bad ones to tell us about? |
| 1:15.1 | Well actually at home I have a cocker spaniel and I'd say probably the worst |
| 1:20.0 | present came from her in that she... |
| 1:21.9 | On the kitchen floor? Uh, no not quite. She has a real love for finding |
| 1:25.8 | half-rotted seabirds and presenting them to me with much love. But unfortunately I don't quite |
| 1:30.7 | share her enthusiasm for rotten birds. Oh dear so so you've got a rotten bird for Christmas? |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah, it was very unfortunate. |
| 1:35.0 | Good job, it wasn't a turkey. |
| 1:37.0 | No, not to the turkey. |
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