Sleek Geeks

This episode is dedicated to the number 12... Dozen comes from the Latin word duodecim: duo, meaning two and decim, ten. A brief overview of skeptics and the things they believe. Why is chocolate bad for dogs and why does beer that’s been in the freezer turn to ice when you take the lid off?

Karl and Adam discuss supercapacitors, moonshots and human breast milk. Also, do hurricanes with female names really kill more people than hurricanes with male names? What exactly is Man-Washing and why are Karl and Adam obsessed with it?

Meet Thomas F. Midgley: amazing man, chemist and inventor of leaded petrol and CFCs (when he almost single-handedly destroyed all the oxygen on our planet) who died in a most unusual fashion. Polio is making a comeback – find out how and why. In Twitter Time this week, the Sleek Geeks answer and discuss facial attractiveness, Gwyneth Paltrow and ‘emotional water’...

Hear some awesome football science and realise how bad a World Cup Football tipster Dr Karl is... How Beckham bends it and the Magnus Force; why goalies are worried about unknown toxins in artificial turf; and Prof Steven Hawking’s World Cup formulae and the fall of a childhood role model.

The number one is the first of the counting numbers; it's a multiplicative identity, and is NOT a prime number. We look at the world of Big Data, where chain store Target has data-mined its way into my favourite organ, the uterus! And welcome to Twittertime, where Dr Karl and Adam answer questions from the Twitterverse.