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There Is Plenty Of Work Behind The Cameras Of A Show. Looking For New Ideas, Designing The Set… All The Teams Must Be Coordinated So The Final Result Is Spectacular. Here There Are Some Of The Big Projects I’ve Been Involved

Shedka & TV
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Physicist, research assistant for the “Ciencias de la Tierra y Astrofísica” department at UCM and experienced in science-spreading.

Shedka & Science

STARS4ALL

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STARS4ALL is a European project raising awareness about the negative effects of artificial light on human wellbeing, biodiversity, visibility of stars, safety and energy waste....

Cities at Night

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Cities at Night is a citizen science project that aims to create a map, similar to Google maps, of the earth at night using night time color photographs taken by astronauts onboard the ISS....
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You are surrounded by science. It’s literally everywhere! If you look carefully you will find plenty of scientific questions just looking around!

How do cats land on their feet? Why don’t the waves from microwave escape through the front glass? How were post-it notes invented?

We will give you some easy answers to all these difficult questions on Fridays at 10:30 on ‘The Show With no name’, with Alberto Alonso at Vaughan Radio.

While waiting until Friday you can check out some podcasts and scripts from last shows.

Shedka on the radio

Holiday Science

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If you are going on holidays don’t forget science will go with you whenever you are!   Why do some drinks sweat?   When it’s hot outside and you are drinking in a terrace you just have to wait 5 minutes to feel that the glass is wet on the outside. Tiny drops of moisture have formed on the outside of the glass like the sweat on your forehead. You knew it was hot out, but is your glass really sweating? Not quite! It may look like sweat, but that’s water on the outside of your glass. But how did it get there? Did it just magically appear out of thin air? Actually, it did come right out of the air, but there’s nothing magical about it. It’s all science! The scientific name for what happened is condensation. Whether...

Surprising inventions from war

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Since its earliest days, science has been associated with war. The inventors Archimedes and Leonardo turned their talents to the problems of fighting. If I ask you what technological advances we owe to war (and cold war) you would probably think of all kind of weapons, tanks, planes or even nuclear bombs. But there are some inventions with a military background that you didn’t know. Until know.   Sanitary Napkins   Everybody get shock the first time they know something as girly as sanitary napkins was originate during an arm conflict when war is so a masculine thing. But you will understand it as soon as you think how massive wounds can be on battlefield. It’s logical that the most effective bandage were develop in order to help the soldiers. The girls started taking advantage of the invention when...