Why not "Ask the Naked Scientists?"

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

🗓️ 6 January 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

There's no Naked Scientists show this week, so why not try "Ask the Naked Scientists" - our weekly phone in show with Sue Marchant. This week, we answer qustions like why do we have Adam's Apples? Do other primates have them? When we find new species are they due to evolution? Why do we get sleep in our eyes? Plus, we reveal the healthiest type of olive oil, investigate spinal surgeries and look into the rare condition of Morgellons Disease. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Hello and happy new year from all of us here at the Naked Scientists.
0:04.8	Our brand new series starts next week on January the 13th,
0:08.8	so until then here's the latest Ask the Naked Scientists,
0:12.9	Our Weekly Science Phoning Show with Sue Marchant.
0:16.9	Why do people go bald?
0:18.2	Why are baboons, bums red?
0:19.7	What's the light, yeah.
0:20.6	Why do leaves go round in the autumn?
0:21.8	Why the monkeys like bananas? Why do some things go into town? Why the autumn? Why the monkeys like bananas?
0:23.0	Why do things going on?
0:24.0	Why do you understand you?
0:25.0	Why do you want to sleep to stay after a year?
0:26.0	Don't know the answer?
0:28.0	Ask the Naked Scientists.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to this week's Ask the Naked Scientists with me, Sue Marchant and Chris Smith. What's new in the world of science for you?
0:46.0	Well, today's exciting news is of course the announcement of the RAE, the research
0:51.2	assessment exercise. Now this has been going on for seven years and
0:54.8	universities all around the UK have submitted their entries.
0:58.8	220 plus thousand assessments were submitted by academic institutions around the UK.
1:06.1	And this is a sort of scoring and rating system which is used to scrutinise the quality
1:10.6	of Britain's academic research output. The idea being to work out who's good
1:15.7	and who's the best. And the government then uses that data and research councils use that data to work
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