As always, a deceptively simple question that opens the door to a hilarious exploration of how our bodies make blood. Find out what happens when you scrape your knee and how the body keeps itself cleverly supplied with just the right amount of blood cells. Most importantly, find out just how newly-built blood cells manage to escape from inside the bone marrow!

Helen and Dr C are joined by Dr Mafalda Araújo Pereira, a researcher who studies blood stem cells — the tiny powerhouses responsible for producing all the different types of blood cells in your body. Mafalda also treat us to Dr C's favourite bedtime story ever!

To get in touch with Mafalda, email [email protected]

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What's the craziest experiment you could imagine doing? Now go crazier. And you're still probably not thinking about anything as crazy as the experiments that Kristoffer Frøkjær has written about in his book The Man Who Had His Brain Sliced. In this episode we talk with Kristoffer about some bonkers experiments, the important breakthroughs that they have given us, and the magic ingredient that all the pioneering scientists in the book have in common... curiosity.

To explore all these crazy science experiments, and more, visit www.vildevidenskabeligeforsøg.dk in  and www.wildscienceexperiments.com in 

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Storybooks can impact the imagination of a child in so many ways. In this episode, we meet Professor Eline Lorenzen to try and get to the bottom of whether David Walliam’s award-winning children’s novel The Ice Monster might be even the teensiest bit possible. Spoiler alert 🚨 we’re unlikely to be meeting any living woolly mammoths in the near future! 

To get in touch with Eline, email [email protected]

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What do rigged fencing swords, blue grass, and menstrual cycle coaches tell us about human behaviour? Quite a lot, actually! In this episode of Talking of Science, Helen Frost and Dr. C are joined by trivia king James Harkin and a live audience to explore the evolution of sporting rules, the role of cheating, questions of fairness, Olympic oddities, and some truly hilarious sporting cheats.

To learn more about James and his many talents, go to www.nosuchthingasafish.com

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Talking of Science is a spotlight on the mad and hilarious conversations we end up having when we try to talk science with our kids. Learn more about this show and meet the people who bring it to life.

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Well, according to Dr C… it just does! But perhaps we can go a little deeper than that. Personally, I suspect that there’s a tiny gremlin inside each device, with many, many fingers to do all those calculations. However, Lucas Casparis tells a different story. Lucas helps us to understand how calculators actually do calculations, and explains the magic of Moore’s law.

To get in touch with Lucas, email [email protected]

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We often overlook our hands - their exquisite engineering is easy to miss in the comings and goings of everyday life. This week we meet Stine Keibel Blom who is an expert on the evolution and anatomy of primate hands and feet. Stine helps us to better understand our evolutionary connection with the rest of our primate cousins during the bedtime story.

To get in touch with Stine, email [email protected]

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Is it made of cheese? Does it bring out werewolves? The moon is a fascinating topic! In this episode Dr C meets a titan of astrophysics podcasting, Tina Ibsen, to learn about the moon and its effects on us down here on the earth. During the bedtime story, Tina shares a magical tale about our origins in the stars.

To hear even more from Tina, check out her show RumSnak wherever you get your podcasts (www.rumsnak.dk) or email [email protected]

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Uncovering an ants’ nest is like opening a portal to another world - a tiny and very busy world. In this episode we meet Asta Rødsgaard-Jørgensen who is studying fungus-farming ants, an occupation which brings her face-to-face with angry (and very big) soldier ants once in a while!

To get in touch with Asta, email [email protected]

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