The Bright Ideas Challenge, a brain eating amoeba and a shaky Spanish city!
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Bright Ideas Challenge was created to help inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. Bobby Seagull & Emma Wyatt are on the line with Dan to chat all about how we could power the cities of the future and the brand new findings that show that kids think they are the key to changing the world for the better through Science.
Plus Dangerous Dan is discovering a tiny single-celled organism that will eat your brain, we find out why Barcelona shakes from time to time and we're pitching carnivores and herbivores against each other in the Age of the Dinosaurs!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids. Listen on DAB Digital Radio across the UK or online at FunKidsLive.com. |
| 0:09.9 | Right then, brains on, ears open, eyes wide. Are you ready? Good. Time for another Fun Kid Science Weekly. |
| 0:17.4 | This is the show that's a bit like turning up to a private party at a secret rocket lab in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. |
| 0:26.0 | You know, you're only getting in if you're interested in the most amazing, weird and wonderful things in the universe. |
| 0:31.6 | My name is Dan. Hello. Thank you so much for giving us a listen. |
| 0:34.5 | This week we're learning about a tiny little single-celled |
| 0:38.0 | bug that lives in the sea and it wants to snack on your brain. Also, we'll chat about a way |
| 0:44.7 | that you can use the random inventions that are floating around your head to try and save the |
| 0:48.8 | world and we'll get the answer to one of the smartest questions that's ever been sent into the |
| 0:54.1 | show. |
| 0:54.6 | First, it's time to head deep down into your gut, though, with our germ friends, Benny and Mao. |
| 1:00.8 | Good bugs, bad bugs, with support from society for general microbiology. |
| 1:07.3 | Microbes get everywhere. They're on us, in us and around us. If you've got a microscope, |
| 1:12.6 | like me, you can see them for yourself. Look. |
| 1:18.6 | All right there. That's Benny. He's a helpful sort of microbe. Lots of microbes are... |
| 1:23.6 | Not you again. Can't you leave us in peace? |
| 1:26.6 | And that's Mal. He's not very very nice a few microbes are horrible and they're called germs charming i'm not all that keen on you either |
| 1:36.8 | Hey easy mal mate you're not doing yourself any favours there so what's up guys well what we thought would be quite nice is to introduce you to a few of our |
| 1:45.8 | microbe mates. |
| 1:47.1 | Show you some of the shapes and sizes they come in. |
| 1:49.4 | And hopefully you'll catch a horrible, |
| 1:51.8 | snotty cold, and you have to stay in bed |
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