Science from the Sporran, with the Naked Scientists
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Science from the Sporran, with the Naked Scientists
The Naked Scientists have uncovered an extraordinary collection of old film reels featuring experimental scientist Dr Ernest Otherford. He had a penchant for exploring the laws of science using whatever was in his sporran...
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12 episodes
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 ascen...
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:...
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 Otherfo...
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 m...
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 hesitate...
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 mi...
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 wit...
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-defyin...
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 adh...
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 sa...
08.12.11 - Stabbing Potatoes - Science from the Sporran
The esteemed Dr Otherford partakes of a perambulation within his estate when he abruptly is compelled to thrust drinking facilitators into objects of...
08.11.28 - Levitating balls - Science from the Sporran
The audacious experimenter achieves the most sublime effect of levitation through the engagement of an imbibition flute and an inscrutable electrical...