Why Do We Have WEIRD Cravings?

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 28 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this weeks Science Weekly we hear about a humungous hurricane season and why NASA are listening to Marsquakes. We also answer the questions Why is Water See-through and Why do We Yawn? In Dangerous Dan this week its about one of the fieriest and deadliest mushrooms around - he's not a fungi! We learn about broken bones with Professor Hallux and Nurse Nanobot and its all about earth fluids when we go OUT OF THIS WORLD with Deep Space High!

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. I'm Cressida Cowell, author of How to Train Your Dragon, and I'm just popping
0:04.4	in to tell you about my new book series, Witchway to Anywhere. It's a story about four children
0:10.0	who discover that there are alternative worlds beyond our own, and that they can travel to them
0:15.3	with the help of a magical map and a very special gift. Of course, this leads to epic, unexpected
0:21.9	adventures. Witchway to Anywhere, and its sequel, Witchway Round the Galaxy, are both available
0:27.5	to buy now. Happy reading. Hello and welcome. It's a brand new episode of The Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:37.8	My name's Dan, thank you for being there. Now, whether you've meant to or not,
0:42.4	somehow you've stumbled across the smartest show in the universe. If there is anything
0:52.0	rattling around your brain, we will figure it out in this episode, I promise. This week we'll take a
0:57.3	look inside your body at your gut, and why you have cravings by chatting to Dr. Brian Treveline
1:04.6	from a university in America. There are literally microbes everywhere, all over us, all over our
1:11.3	houses, our animals, our family, our friends. We are literally swimming in the sea of microbes,
1:17.9	and those microbes are now just beginning to come into. Also, we'll head to the smartest
1:23.2	school in the solar system deep space high to see how fluids affect the Earth. The Earth's atmosphere,
1:29.4	oceans and core are fluids. You're breathing fluids as well as drinking them. The movement of
1:35.5	fluids is responsible for all sorts of cool things on and around Earth. Wow, the fluids getting
1:43.4	quite strong now. And I've got your questions to answer as always this week. They are on water
1:50.4	and eye rubbing. It's all on the way in a brand new episode of Your Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:58.0	Let's crack on with this week's Science in the News.
2:02.6	Scientists are predicting a very active hurricane season. Now, weather patterns for the last
2:08.4	couple of years have been influenced by a phenomenon called Lanemia. This is when winter temperatures
2:14.2	are warm in the south, but cold in the north, which means winds move around the Earth at different
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