Your Questions, Infectious Cancer and Louisiana Wetlands

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

🗓️ 5 February 2006

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week we hand the show over to you, as Chris, Kat and Phil answer all your burning questions on science, technology and medicine. Anne-Maree Pearse joins us to describe the hellish plight of the Tasmanian Devil as it succumbs to an infectious facial cancer, Emma Marris discusses how scientists are bogged down in trying to prevent the Gulf of Mexico reclaiming large areas of Louisiana, and Derek and Dave put glow-sticks on ice in Kitchen Science. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Live from the BBC The Naked Scientists.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to this week's edition of The Naked Scientists with me,
0:11.0	Dr. Chris Smith, Dr. Catani, and with Dr Phil Rosenberg.
0:15.3	Hello. Now this week we're turning the show on its head and we're actually starting
0:19.2	clothes rather than naked and that's because we're going to play the scientific equivalent of strip poker.
0:24.3	You ring in and ask us a question and if we can't answer it, we'll lose some clothing.
0:28.2	Will we be naked by the end of the show?
0:30.1	You can watch it all on the webcam.
0:31.5	Our fate is, so to speak, in your hands.
0:33.4	Call now 849, 25, 2000. Any question to see science really stripped down and the facts laid bare.
0:41.1	Yes, I hadn't realized there was a webcam in the studio.
0:43.8	Sorry did I forgot to tell you we were doing that this week?
0:45.4	It's lucky I've got good pants on today.
0:47.0	Sorry, my mistake.
0:48.0	Yes.
0:49.0	So get phoning in that will be very interesting.
0:51.6	We're also going to be bringing you some top stories
0:53.6	from the news this week. Chris is talking about a pigeon-powered blog. Intriging to hear
0:58.9	about this, pigeons texting their messages back to a blog. I will be talking about why if you're going to give
1:05.1	someone flowers for Valentine's Day coming up it's probably best if they don't take
1:09.3	it lying down and Phil will be talking about a new planet that is bigger than Pluto.
1:14.0	Absolutely intriguing. So stay tuned, listen to that and also get phoning in with your questions now.
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