Science from the Sporran, with the Naked Scientists Podcast
1) 09.02.26 - Speedy tennis balls - Science from the Sporran
We present the final outing of this twelveweek featuring the inscrutable Dr Otherford as he succeeds in his efforts to make a simple tennis ball ascend into the air with a most surprising level of rap...Show More
2) 09.02.19 - Oily Invisibility Cloak - Science from the Sporran
Subsequent to a typical indulgence in his reveries, the daring nature of Dr Ernest Otherford's character compels him to re-enact one particular jaunt: that is to say, obscurity. Post-haste, the dexter...Show More
3) 09.02.13 - Balloon Force Fields - Science from the Sporran
The enthralling conventions that govern a phenomenon commonly described as attraction are mischievously exhibited by the redoubtable Dr Ernest Otherford in this fastidious escapade of escapades. Despi...Show More
4) 09.02.05 - Toaster Hot Air Balloon - Science from the Sporran
In anticipation of explorative feats typically confined to the world of Jules Verne, Dr Otherford devises a dirigible that somewhat lacks a means of manoeuvrability. The esteemed Dr achieves this triu...Show More
5) 09.01.29 - Flying Toilet Rolls - Science from the Sporran
A sporting Dr Otherford inspects the qualified merits of a vigorous games technique known as backspin in which a cardboard cylinder, that one hesitates to venture originated from a temple of convenien...Show More
6) 09.01.22 - Cola Eruption - Science from the Sporran
Upon resumption of his ambulatory grounds inspections, Dr Otherford convenes a vessel of carbonated vegetable extract-based imbibation fluid with a mint of salubriousness and produces from within his ...Show More
7) 09.01.15 - Vacuum Bazooka - Science from the Sporran
A most bellicose form of artillery is ingeniously mobilised by Dr Otherford subsequent to his precipitous detection of a locomotive aspirator from within the dark reliquary of his sporran.
8) 09.01.08 - Defying Gravity - Science from the Sporran
Following an excogitation upon the baroque quality of aqua vitae in the sober milieu of his withdrawing room, Dr Otherford relishes the gravity-defying nature of the most avant-garde materials known t...Show More
9) 08.12.18 - Hurricane in a bottle - Science from the Sporran
An hurricane of most symmetric and yet lilliputian proportions is manufactured with the exploitation of a vessel of synthetic-organic solids, some adhesive strips and water by the highly-regarded Dr O...Show More
10) 08.12.05 - Submarine - Science from the Sporran
Dr Ernest Otherford assembles a material manifestation of his naval warfare reveries through the ingenious employment of a polymer resin bottle and sachet of condiment.