{"id":116,"date":"2004-09-03T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-09-03T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T13:22:27","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Night is &#8216;Brainiac Night&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky One &#8216;science&#8217; series, Brainiac, has returned for a second series.  Presented by Richard &#8216;used to be on Top Gear&#8217; Hammond and Jon &#8216;famous geek from Big Brother&#8217; Tickle, it takes a rather anarchic, but educational look a popular science.<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s programme addressed such important things as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what happens to soap when you put it in a microwave&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>how to make quicksand at the beach;<\/li>\n<li>can a bunch of blokes re-enacting the American Civil War with muskets and cannons destroy a conventional &#8216;black box&#8217; flight recorder?<\/li>\n<li>can you make scrambled eggs in a tumble dryer?<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s <i>science<\/i> and therefore educational.  So that&#8217;s alright then &#8230;  Sky One, Thursdays at 20:00 for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky One &#8216;science&#8217; series, Brainiac, has returned for a second series. Presented by Richard &#8216;used to be on Top Gear&#8217; Hammond and Jon &#8216;famous geek from Big Brother&#8217; Tickle, it takes a rather anarchic, but educational look a popular science. Last night&#8217;s programme addressed such important things as what happens to soap when you&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=116\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}