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  • Title :

    Jupiter's Missing Band and Babies cry in native tongue

  • Date :

    05/05/11

 

In this weeks episode, Dr Karl and Dr Shave discuss:


Karl has discovered that Dr Shave has a "...big mo fo light bucket!" This leads to a discussion about the number of discoveries made by amateur astronomers. On the 8th May 2010, amateur astronomer  Anthony Wesley took a photo of Jupiter and discovered that it had lost lost its Southern Equatorial Belt !!!  Full Story.

Annyone seen my belt?
CREDIT: Anthony Wesley via The Planetary Society.

Babies cry in their own language - scientist compared 30 French and 30 German babies and discovered that their cries mimicked the inflections common in their native tongue.

Shave imitates how this might sound... Read more: 

 

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  • Title :

    Elephant Units, Belly Button Fluff Update & Autotune

  • Date :

    03/05/11

 

In this weeks episode, Dr Karl and Dr Shave discuss:

1    Elephants as a unit of measurement - New Scientist, May 16, 2010

   Belly Button Bacteria...Yummy. 

"A group of scientists at North Carolina State University is taking navel-gazing to another level..." Read more and check out the lovely pictures.

3    The invention of Auto Tune...who's fault was it?  Find out here....

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