Why is There Always Room for Dessert?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Do astronauts get WiFi in space? What is the speed of gravity? Why is there always room for dessert? Giles Yeo, Anne-Laura Van Harmelen, Richard Hollingham and Francesca Day gather round the microphones to answer your need-to-know questions about space, food and mental health. 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. Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Happy New Year, welcome to 2019.
0:18.0	We are back and we are asking, can Dark Matter make Dark Stars?
0:22.8	The gut-busting question of why is there always room for dessert?
0:27.0	And do the astronauts on the International Space Station have Wi-Fi?
0:30.5	I'm Chris Smith, and this is The Naked Scientists.
0:34.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Well, first up, let me introduce our guest this week.
0:47.6	Richard Hollingham is one half of the Space Boffins of Space Boffins
0:51.3	podcast Fame. He's the Space science journalist and he'll take any questions
0:55.1	on about space exploration. Anna Laura Van Harmelan, she's a Comber University psychologist.
1:00.5	She specializes in mental health, particularly adolescent mental health.
1:04.0	Sitting along from her is Francesca Day.
1:07.0	She's a Comber's University astrophysicist, so the universe is quite literally her playground.
1:11.0	And back here on Earth, Jarsio, also at Comber University is a
1:14.2	playground and back here on earth. Charles Yo also at Cambridge University is a geneticist and he's got a special interest in food
1:17.1	haven't we all? Well welcome to all of you. Now just before we come to the
1:21.1	questions I'm very interested to ask each of you since we have such a diverse range of skills and abilities here.
1:27.0	What is the one thing either a breakthrough, a development or a discovery that you in your respective fields, otherwise would really like to see happen in
1:35.6	2019.
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