What's the point of eyebrows?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2010

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Why do we have eyebrows? Can we taste food if we can't smell it? What's a cold sore? This week, we take on your science questions, as well as explore the world of social gaming, and find out how much it costs to fly an England flag from your car. We'll be asking if altitude affects how a football flies, if a large enough fan could propel a spacecraft and how spiders spin webs from one tree to the next. Plus, why size matters in bird beaks, how plant roots cope with competition and building lungs in the lab! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Boldly going where no science show has gone before.
0:05.0	The Naked Scientists.
0:10.0	Hello, well coming up this week why size is important at least when it comes to
0:17.7	your pecker because birds living in warmer climates it turns out to have bigger
0:21.2	beaks. Also evidence that plants can make decisions,
0:24.0	who would have thought they were clever enough,
0:26.0	and also how scientists have regrown a new lung
0:29.0	almost from scratch.
0:30.0	We'll be talking to the man who's made it happen.
0:33.0	Hello, I'm Chris Smith.
0:34.0	Welcome to this week's naked scientists.
0:36.0	And joining me from our naked astronomy podcast is Andrew Ponson.
0:39.0	Hello Andrew.
0:40.0	Hello, Andrew. Hello.
0:41.0	And also Helen Scales, Helen.
0:42.0	Hello. Also, this week it's our science phone in Extrabagansa.
0:45.0	So stay tuned to find out how spiders spin webs across very wide spaces.
0:51.0	What's the best way to keep the bottle of fizzy drink you've got nice and
0:54.0	fizzy after you've opened it? And does the football really behave badly because
0:58.5	the air is thinner in Johannesburg? The answer to all of those are on the way, plus this week
1:04.1	kitchen science is hitting the road.
1:07.0	Okay so we're on the M11, how fast we're going Dave? About 70 miles an hour.
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