TIME TRAVELLERS: Exploring Ancient Worlds with Anthropology⛏️

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about a critically endangered monkey born at a UK Safari Park.

Dan starts with the latest science news, why SpaceX has postponed its mission for the first ever space walk, how the Moon's South Pole was once covered in molten rock and Animal Adventure Keeper Samantha Peeke from Longleat Safari Park tells us all about the birth of an endangered cotton top tamarin monkey baby

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains why onions make us cry & How Stuff Works' Laurie Dove answers Huxley's question asking what is really in a camel's humps.

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the heaviest insect in the world - The Giant Weta

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Jay Silverstein from Nottingham Trent University about why the Anthropology is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

- SpaceX postponing it's mission for the first ever space walk

- How the Moon was once covered in molten rock

- An endangered monkey born at the UK's Longleat Safari Park

- What a camel really carries in its humps?

- Is Anthropology the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Welcome blog Explorer, lovely to have you here. I say it's probably about time we scoot off planet Earth for just a little while.
0:07.0	And we'll have a tour of the solar system to find some science
0:15.0	weekly, the only show that uncovers what's really happening in the galaxy
0:19.0	the only show that uncovers what's really happening in the galaxy
0:22.0	in about half an hour.
0:24.0	This week we'll learn about a very special monkey that's been born in a UK safari park.
0:30.0	Luckily the cotton-top tundra's aren are quite as naughty as some of our bigger monkey cousins that we have here.
0:37.0	They love the warm sunny weather we've been having.
0:40.0	They've been out and about sunbathing, running around.
0:42.8	Little baby monkey is just starting to get brave enough
0:45.7	to run around by itself as well.
0:49.0	Also, our quest to find the greatest science ever continues. This week we're looking at all humans ever with
0:56.3	anthropology.
0:57.3	An anthropologist, it's pretty obvious that that is the best science in the world.
1:03.7	If you just look at the name of anthropology,
1:05.7	anthro means humans, and apology means science.
1:08.9	And so anthropology is the study of humans
1:12.1	or anything human study.
1:14.0	And our dangerous stand takes us down to New Zealand.
1:18.0	It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:29.0	Let's start with your science in the news. SpaceX has postponed its attempts to launch an expedition featuring the first ever
1:34.8	space walk by private citizens. The mission, known as Polaris Dawn, has been
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