MIND TRICKS: How Your Brain Controls Pain

Full Episode description

It’s time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly! 

In this episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, we continue our bigger and better podcast where we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about the brain’s ability to block pain!

Dan kicks off with the latest science news, starting with a spectacular planetary parade—a rare celestial event that won’t grace our skies again until 2040! Next, we learn about the record-breaking pace at which the world’s glaciers are melting. Finally, horticulturist, Roger Parsons, joins Dan for a daffodil hunt and what YOU can do to help.  

We then answer your questions, Jack wants to know why do we breathe automatically? Professor Georgina Ellison from KCL then answers Fifi’s question: Why do humans need to drink water?

Dangerous Dan continues, where we learn all about the Texas Blind Salamander 

Then, it’s time for Battle of the Sciences, where Dr. Dan Baumgardt from Bristol University explores the power of neuroscience, revealing how the brain can switch off pain!

What do we learn about?

·     A rare celestial event you won’t see again for another 15 years!

·    The record breaking-pace the world’s glaciers are melting at 

·     Why humans need to drink water

·     The dangerous Texas Blind Salamander 

·     And in Battle of the Sciences, the secrets of the brain!

All on this week’s episode of Science Weekly!

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