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Season 1998
1998x1
Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Sense and Sensitivity
Episode overview
In the first of her lectures, Dame Nancy Rothwell reveals how we are endowed with a multitude of sensors that help us regulate our bodies.
In the first of her lectures, Dame Nancy Rothwell reveals how we are endowed with a multitude of sensors that help us regulate our bodies.
In her second lecture, Nancy Rothwell explores how much energy is in the different foods we eat, and what happens to our body weight when we eat it.
In her second lecture, Nancy Rothwell explores how much energy is in the different foods we eat, and what happens to our body weight when we eat it.
In the third of her Christmas Lectures, Dame Nancy Rothwell reveals how humans and animals alike have evolved to keep their body temperatures constant, even when the temperature of their habitats is changing.
In the third of her Christmas Lectures, Dame Nancy Rothwell reveals how humans and animals alike have evolved to keep their body temperatures constant, even when the temperature of their habitats is changing.
In her fourth lecture, Nancy Rothwell explores how our bodies and those of animals are trained by sunlight. The human body has a clock of its own and every creature works to a rhythm
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In her fourth lecture, Nancy Rothwell explores how our bodies and those of animals are trained by sunlight. The human body has a clock of its own and every creature works to a rhythm controlled by its genes. Professor Nancy Rothwell explains why the iguana has a third eye and how migrating birds navigate.
1998x5
Season finale
Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Pushing the Limits
Episode overview
In her final Christmas Lecture, Nancy Rothwell reveals some of the incredible adaptations that animals have evolved to cope with life in the extremes. From anti-freeze blood to
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In her final Christmas Lecture, Nancy Rothwell reveals some of the incredible adaptations that animals have evolved to cope with life in the extremes. From anti-freeze blood to double-layered fur, each animal has found its own way to overcome the extremes.
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