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The Best Episodes of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Season 45

Every episode of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Season 45 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Season 45!

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present scientific subjects to a

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Season 45 Episode 1 - Why Elephants Can't Dance
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    #1 - Why Elephants Can't Dance

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    How can a hamster survive falling from the top of a skyscraper, ants carry over 100 times their own body weight and geckos climb across the ceiling? In the first of this year's Christmas lectures, Dr Mark Miodownik investigates why size matters in animal behaviour. He reveals how the science of materials - the stuff from which everything is made - can explain some of the most extraordinary and surprising feats in the animal kingdom. By the end, you will understand why you will never see an elephant dance.

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  2. Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Season 45 Episode 2 - Why Chocolate Melts And Jet Engines Don't
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    #2 - Why Chocolate Melts And Jet Engines Don't

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    Dr Mark Miodownik zooms into the microscopic world beneath our fingertips. In this unfamiliar landscape, strange forces dominate the world and common sense goes out of the window. He reveals how this tiny hidden world can make objects behave like magic, and discovers the secrets of the extraordinary metals that make jet engines possible. With a mass audience taste test, Mark reveals why chocolate is actually one of the most sophisticated and highly engineered materials on the planet, using special crystals designed to melt in the mouth. He looks forward to new era of self-healing materials where a broken mobile phone or car bumper could heal itself and how, one day, material scientists might even create artificial life.

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  3. Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Season 45 Episode 3 - Why Mountains Are So Small
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    #3 - Why Mountains Are So Small

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    Why is the tallest building on earth less than half a mile high? Why don't we have mountains as tall as those on Mars? In the last of this year's Christmas Lectures, Dr Mark Miodownik investigates the world of the very big and very tall. He reveals that, at this scale, everything is governed by a battle with one of the strangest forces in the universe - gravity. With help from acrobats, levitation devices, spiders, birthday cake candles and even some sticky goo, Mark discovers how gravity can make solid rock behave like a liquid and investigates whether one day it might be possible to build a structure from Earth into space, taking us beyond the reach of gravity without the use of rocket.

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Season 45 Ratings Summary

"Why Elephants Can't Dance" is the best rated episode of "Royal Institution Christmas Lectures" season 45. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/28/2010. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Why Chocolate Melts And Jet Engines Don't".