What's the Healthiest Way to Eat an Entire Cake?

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

🗓️ 13 December 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Chris is joined by Giles Yeo, Roger Buckley, Andrew Pontzen and Kerstin Goepfrich, and they enjoy a mince pie or two while answering listener questions, including: why isn't love blinding; are glasses or contacts better for your eyes and what would happen if you brought a thimble of neutron star to earth? Plus, the team discuss the supposed benefits of the Mediterranean diet and debate the worst science movie mistakes. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.6	Hello.
0:04.6	Hello.
0:05.6	Welcome.
0:06.6	Science.
0:09.6	And that is the same physics medicine, nature or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.0	This week, what's the healthiest way to eat an entire cake?
0:21.0	How many megapixels does your your eye have and can we use quantum
0:25.1	entanglement to see what's going on inside a black hole?
0:28.8	Hello I'm Chris Smith and this week on the naked Scientists we're tackling the science questions
0:33.4	that you have been sending in. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:40.4	UK. to answer your questions for you this week. Giles Yo is from the MRC metabolic diseases unit.
0:56.1	Hello Giles, what do you get up to there?
0:58.0	Hi, good evening, Chris. I'm a geneticist that studies obesity and I also study the brain control of a food intake.
1:05.0	So why I feel hungry, when I feel hungry and how much I want to eat when I do?
1:08.9	That's correct.
1:09.9	Or why some people don't feel as full as others.
1:12.0	And that might be why Georgia Mills fed us a very small
1:14.7	mince pie before the program. Microscopic. It was microscopic, wasn't it? Andrew Ponson is a physicist
1:20.6	at University College London.
1:25.0	Well, cosmology is all about studying space and time on the largest possible scale.
1:30.6	So I like to think that of course contains everything because it's the
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