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CrowdScience: Why can’t you tickle yourself?

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29/05/2020 GMT

Why can’t you tickle yourself?

BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Why can’t you tickle yourself?

In this kids special, we explore a raft of questions from our younger listeners

In this kids special, Marnie Chesterton explores a raft of questions from our younger listeners on the themes of self-tickling, eyebrow hair, killing for fun & interstellar space.

This week the kids take over. Our younger listeners are as curious as their parents, it seems, so presenter Marnie Chesterton seeks out the finest minds and attempts to answer a raft of their science questions, including why can’t you tickle yourself? Why don’t our eyebrows grow as long as the hair on our heads? 
 
Not content with humankind, these whizz kids have been pondering deeply about other animals. Ava, 9, from the UK wants to know if any other animals kill for fun, like some humans do.
 
Not limited by planet Earth, these little thinkers have been contemplating even weightier questions. Joshua, 13, from Kenya wonders if our Solar System rotates around anything. And Seattle-based Michael, 10, puzzles over what would happen if a black hole collided with a wormhole.
 
These and other mysteries are uncovered by Marnie and her experts.
 
Presenters: Marnie Chesterton & Arlo Byrne  
Producer: Dom Byrne

[Photo: Children Tickling each other, Adorable laughter. Credit: Getty Images]

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