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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

🗓️ 12 January 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this week's podcast, we're taking on your questions! From how we make decisions to why do we go temporarily deaf when we yawn and if light wears out, these are some of the many conundrums you asked and we answered with the help of an expert panel. Plus, the top headlines in the world of science, including the four new elements discovered, why you can blame your neanderthal heritage for bad allergies and how Harry Potteresque screens could be the next big thing... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science.
0:09.2	And that is the say physics, medicine, nature, space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.2	Today on the naked scientists, I've gathered together a panel of polymaths, pundits, and professors
0:21.5	to answer the science questions that you've been emailing in.
0:25.0	Does stress cause you to get grey hair?
0:27.0	Why is it that when you need the lieu in the car, you're fine, but as soon as you get home, just have to go and what's the latest in
0:34.4	Alzheimer's research I'm katani and this is the naked scientists the
0:39.6	naked scientist podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK.
0:45.0	Yeah, new theme June. So let's begin by meeting the team and we have with us
0:56.4	Ginny Smith who's here to answer any of your mind-boggling brain-based questions.
1:00.5	We have Stuart Higgins, he's a physicist from Cambridge University working on the next generation of electronics.
1:06.0	Ben Pilgrim is a fellow in chemistry at Corpus Christi College here in Cambridge.
1:10.0	He's building nanocages to trap molecules within them.
1:13.2	And last but not least, our very own Chris Smith,
1:15.8	who's a basic know-it-all.
1:17.4	He's a doctor at Adambrook's Hospital,
1:18.9	but amazingly seems to know the answer
1:20.4	to just about everything,
	...

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