Geek Chic's Weird Science

The Geek Chic team take a look back at some of their favourite stories of 2017! 

 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the Geek Chic team!

Thank you for all your support.

See You In 2018!

 

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This week the team look at Pepsi Lobsters, Bonafide Man-Flu and Injecting Instructions into brains

 

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The team look at the weird and wonderful news from the world of science.

This week looks at Costa Rica's renewable energy, can virtual reality help schizophrenia?, how different booze affect our emotions and the joys of coffee!

 

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This week the team look at The brand new orangutan, asteroids curing cancer and how your brain changes in space 

 

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Noel Fielding, Carla Valentine & Prof Of Goth join us for a live Halloween Special: The Science Of Vampires

 

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this week the team discuss

 

Growing drugs in chicken eggs, policing pollution from the skies, and why you're less likely to die if your surgeon is female.

 

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This week the team look at Music for psychopaths, Moon living, two-faced cats and continents under the sea.

 

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The concluding part of how social media might be changing our brains featuring Special Guest Ellen Helsper.

 

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In the first of a two part episode, the team are joined by Special Guest Ellen Helsper to look into how social media might be changing our brains.

 

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In this very special episode, the team are joined by Helen Keen as they look into the science of one of the biggest TV shows in the world, Game Of Thrones 

 

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This special live episode is from WOMAD 2017, the team are joined by special guests and look into the stories of the latest breakthroughs on SETI's search for E.T., 20 million mosquitos released by Google, the Bermuda Triangle, and Tiny Swimming Robots!

 

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Back into the studio for the team as they look at ravens making future plans, why neurotic people may live longer, can baby poop tell you how smart your baby is, and falling sperm counts

 

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Robin Ince & Helen Keen join the team live at Latitude Festival to talk altruistic chimps, cannibalistic caterpillars and why chocolate is good for your brain.

 

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This week the team are back to look at Reverse Zombies, Birds Waging Chemical Warfare On Insects & The Return Of Boaty McBoatface

 

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Geek Chic LIVE at the Cheltenham Science Festival with special guests Greg Foot & Caspar Addyman joining Lliana Bird & Dr Jack to talk ravens holding grudges, A.I death clocks and the taste of water....

 

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This week the team look at Voles in love, brains eating themselves and gay vultures

 

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In a jam packed episode the team look at Plastic Munching Caterpillars, Ancient Comets, Saturn's Moon and Were Hobbits Real? 

 

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This week the team look at Flying Cars, Drunken Crayfish, Diet Coke and are Vampires right about blood?

 

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This week the team look at the latest stories from the weird and wonderful world of science including 

 

Skyscrapers hanging from asteroids, mind controlled turtles, marmite brain, seawater to drinking water and should your boss let you have a nap at work?

 

 

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This week the team look at the weird and wonderful stories in the science world.

 

Are older people as good at judging music as the young?

Can A.I. beat the poker pros?

How much pee is in our swimming pools?

 

and How the Wooly Mammoth became extinct .

 

 

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this week the team look at Bees playing football,  the question of whether Facebook save your life? and is NASA a step closing to finding life on other planets.

 

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This week the team look at Curing cancer with Salmonella, Whooping Bees and the return of the wooly mammoth 

 

 

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This Week - Do kids prefer pets to their siblings?, Why do we sleep?, How to turn Hydrogen into metal and can Porn Sites teach sex ed?

 

 

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Happy 2017! 

 

Geek Chic returns with Teenage worms, killer mice, no more fillings and the question - does Nutella really cause cancer.

 

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