Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

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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.
1998x2
Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Fats and Figures
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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.
1998x3
Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Chilling Out
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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.
1998x4
Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Times of our lives
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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 .. show full overview
1998x5
Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Pushing the Limits
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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 .. show full overview

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