The Best of the Naked Scientists

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2007

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, we look back at some of the juiciest bits of Naked Science from the last series. We find out how an iPod became an iRod to conduct lightning, discover an electrifying bikini and find out why teenagers feel so misunderstood, not that they're 'bovvered' about the answer. We discuss wine as an essential part of an healthy diet, find out about the people who feel no pain and explore why you can immediately tell an Aussie from an American or a Londoner from a Liverpudlian, just by learning about the way accents are formed. Plus, in Kitchen Science we find out how to turn an oven shelf... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science, the Naked Scientists.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to this very special best of the Naked Scientists with me Ben Valzler.
0:12.0	And me Miracinthilingum.
0:14.0	We're sitting in for Chris and the gang whilst they are off enjoying their summer
0:17.1	holidays lucky for some. So we're taking this chance to look back through some of the
0:21.6	very best bits of the last series of the naked scientist.
0:25.0	Coming up, we're discussing the health benefits of red wine.
0:28.0	I became convinced that, A, wine should be part of a healthy diet, and B, some of the nutrition advice that was being pushed to the general public was actually not based on fact.
0:39.0	Finding out why not feeling pain could be more a curse than a blessing.
0:43.0	We've met some adults with this condition now and they'll tell terrible stories about the types of injuries
0:48.9	they put up with because they didn't want to not go on a school trip or appear unusual.
0:54.0	And Kirstie McDougal explains why this
0:57.0	is like a woman's voice.
1:02.0	That's all coming up on today's very best of the naked scientists.
1:06.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast, powered by UK Fast,
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1:15.0	Each week we bring you the latest in cutting-edge science news,
1:19.0	so now we return to some of the more exciting stories from the past year.
1:23.0	Now interestingly, let's kick off with an electrifying experience for someone.
1:26.3	This paper in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, Helen, in which this guy was jogging
1:30.7	along in the rain and in the thunder and he was listening to some music on his iPod
1:36.1	and he unfortunately was a victim of a thunder clap. It jumped onto a tree nearby him and then this
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