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Lexx EducationCardronym HydroxyboodleHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education!This week ron is off galavanting so it's some solo intros and outros from a soothing sounding Laura who is actually very stressed at the moment but covering it up well for podcasting purposes.We’re doing lipids, and we’re no nonsense straight into the hog. You want science? We'll give you science. Science til your sick of it.In terms of the nonsense, there's a lot of that too... Laura hates Fatboy Slim, and remembers her rad 90’s CD days. When w...2025-04-2157 minLexx Education4 Months Break Wasn't EnoughHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! It's the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her non-comedian science enthusiast brother Ron!This week is the official start to Season 2 - professional podcasting here we go. See if you can spot them eat a single thing in this episode. YOU CAN'T!There’s a fluffy start to the lesson as they explore the sweet treats on offer in Laura’s hotel room, Laura introduces Ron to the new A Level notebook and then they discuss the months and mont...2025-02-171h 05Lexx EducationPhysics Foundation Results - Some Time Before Humans Had Even Discovered PlumsHello and welcome to another sparkling episode of Lexx Education! We are reaching the end of the foundation exams and finally get to the results from physics... will Laura be dreadful or brilliant? Will she flourish? Will they argue? Will they reminisce over trifle? So many questions... and finally... some answers.---Hello and welcome to another delightful episode of Lexx Education! It's the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx attempts to learn science from her brother Ron, who is unfortunately absent for the intros and outros this week. Laura finds herself on the...2024-11-0453 minLexx EducationHalloween Special 2024 - The Spookiest Thing That You Run Into On An Almost Daily BasisHello and welcome to another SPOOKY episode of Lexx Education!First up we discuss Maki - naturally. We had been to a food fayre in Bristol that day sampling the local fayre and enjoying the skittish behaviour of Maki. Then we discuss the positives and negatives of spinach and whether or not it should be washed. Then it’s back to Maki for a good long minute and THEN we discuss all the things going wrong with our parents’ house and…Then we finally get on to spiders! Ron has the science of spiders and Laura...2024-10-2858 minLexx EducationPhysics Exam Foundation 2 - Blow The Trifle AwayHello and welcome to another excellent episode of Lexx Education! It's the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science via her younger brother Ron. Is Ron a science teacher? No. Does Laura want to learn science? No. But that's not going to stop them trying.This week they bring you intros and outros live from the Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival where they are recording their patreon Halloween episode on werewolves. That will be out in a few weeks and if you want to hear it go to patreon.com/lexxeducation and sign up...2024-10-211h 01Lexx EducationBiology Foundation Results: One of The Stuff Is The AnswersHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education - the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her nerdy younger brother Ron!This week it's the moment we've been waiting for... for the last two weeks Laura has been grilled on Foundation Biology GCSE and this week we find out the results. How did she get on?Cast your bets now...www.lauralexx.co.uk/live for Laura's tour "slinky" and patreon.com/lexxeducation to help keep the podcast alive into AS Level2024-09-161h 07Lexx EducationBiology Exam - Foundation 1 - Pieces of PotatoWell hello there and welcome to what is not just another episode of Lexx Education.... it's the start of everything we've been working towards.For over two years comedian Laura Lexx has been working painfully through the GCSE science syllabus with her younger, non comedian, brother Ron. And today, finally, the exams begin...It's the first half of the Biology Foundation level exam. All three foundation exams were recorded in one week on consecutive nights so consider this the least exhausted, giddy and depressed they were.It’s what we would call a me...2024-09-0259 minLexx EducationWalked At DogspeedHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! It's the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her normal non comedian super nerd brother Ron.This week we introduce an extra family member to the podcast - it's Youngest Sister of the Podcast AKA Meg! She joins us for a group revision session recorded in the garden of Agony Dad and Mother featuring Pigeon.Laura and Meg compete on a combined science practice paper to see whether Laura has learned ANYTHING or if Meg can outpace her simply by...2024-08-2659 minLexx EducationSensey ToonsHello and welcome to another FANTASTIC episode of Lexx Education! It's the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her non-comedian younger brother Ron.This week it's a bit chaotic... it begins with chaos and ends with chaos. It’s also a rain episode! But in Brighton only. Starts as same room, then becomes not same room, and then the intro is recorded before the quiz?! What the hell is going on?!First up we discuss Ricky Gervais and his works and what we liked and don’t like. Why do w...2024-06-1058 minLexx EducationChickens are called Ducks in this WorldHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education, the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her non-comedian brother Ron.This week Ron takes on the intros/outros solo due to Laura not having any internet in the deep dark west country. It has the vibe of a crazy man in a bunker but it's pretty nice.As for the episode... A very classic feel episode, lot’s of just saying stuff, lot’s of a very scared Laura guessing.Sign up for the patreon at patreon.com...2024-06-0359 minLexx EducationBig Bean EnergyHello and welcome to Lexx Education and gosh isn't there a lot of pressure here now I know people actually read this! Welcome to the only comedy science show featuring a brother teaching a sister the combined AQA science syllabus. It's a huge week for us this week as it's the last ever physics GCSE proper lesson... we mark it in style by beginning the episode discussing how strong we are. No spoilers but it's very strong. Then we go into electromagnets - there's a small argument over whether or not we've already done it and then we...2024-03-1159 minLexx EducationBONUS EPISODE: Patreon Comedy Episode!Hey faithful listeners!As part of our patreon series, Laura is taking the reigns and talking Ron through the science of Laughter as per Dr Robert Provine in his book "Laughter". Next week on the patreon feed we are releasing episode 3 of this series and so we thought we might try and tempt a fe wmore of you to join the patreon subscribers by giving you this little taste of what you're missing out on...We drop two bonus patreon episodes per month and they range from DetentRons where Laura has to do solo research...2024-02-0945 minLexx EducationBuff Siblings Talking ScienceSo here we go, we're entering another redo. Laura's fingers and wandering brain have struck again and the episode that was Identifying Common Gases only exists somewhere in the deleted file realm. Perhaps one day a science will exist that can find it but it is not this idea. SO, in lieu of that, the buff siblings from Somerset have re-recorded (corded?) and here present the exact same science again but this time with a lot more bickering and an absolute storm of extra banter that in no way relates to the science whatsoever.Don't forget to...2024-02-0550 minLexx EducationSnails Are The Loneliest AnimalsIt's Awards Season babaayyyyy... and does this episode win the award for shortest time from starting to the first person being told to go fuck themselves? It might do!Laura has been an arse lately and this episode really reflects Laura and Ron's bitterest feelings about each other. It's DNA and inheritance and stuff and is the last episode for a while that is not a redo so enjoy!2024-01-291h 02Lexx Education70s Punk Dystopian RoundheadHey up everyone it's Lexx Education! This week Laura has a very shiny moisturised face and the effects of the advent calendar are discussed in detail but Ron fails to finish the round up.Shout out to Will Duggan and his water flosser.We're looking at 6.6.2.3 for the numbers fans and it’s got the energy of two people killing time waiting for a bus, rather than two people in charge of running a science podcast that could be full of content.This week is heavily featuring dog of the podcast Maki having a...2024-01-221h 10Lexx EducationTwo Absolute 18th Century LadsHello and welcome to Lexx Education! It's the comedy science podcast where a sciencely challenged comedian, Laura Lexx, is trying to relearn the GCSE science triply syllabus from her brother and teacher Ron (one person).This week starts with a lot of chatter as Laura and Ron catch up post break for a holiday. Laura tells Ron all about seals and whether or not she would have sex with them and why she is angry with Cornwall.Then, as we get into the lesson, it with a lengthy chat about nothing as Ron feels the...2024-01-151h 05Lexx EducationBaby Films for Baby PeopleWayo! It's Lexx Education you eggloving mofos!It's biology this week so naturally we launch straight into the syllabus with absolutely no pre-amble or messing about... just kidding. No, of course we don't. Biology We begin with a long discussion about how Agony Dad sharpens his pencils. Then there is a meaty discussion of animated films and who should watch them.When we finally reach the science it's hormones, puberty, reproduction and the Lexx Education favourite subject: Eggs. Just a brother and a sister sitting around discussing reproduction and then their Dad unloading a dishwasher...2024-01-0849 minLexx EducationChel From FriendsWelcome to 2024 Lexx Education fans!We sincerely hope your New Year's Resolution is to listen to everything we ever do, share it with everyone you've ever loved and subscribe to our patreon! We hope you had a banging Christmas and are ready to jump back into the syllabus...We start the year with MISERABLE PHYSICS. This week it's... oh who even reads these? It's some sort of science about something.2024-01-0150 minLexx EducationThe 12 Days of Christmas: An Attempt To Ruin All Of The FunMerry Christmas beautiful listeners! What ho... a day off because it's 25th December?! NOT US! Surely we're just repeating an old episode?! NOPE - we're releasing this BRAND NEW EPISODE all about the twelve days of Christmas.In this very special episode, Laura and Ron look at The 12 Days of Christmas and what the repercussions of getting all of these gifts would actually be... as far as a connection to science goes it's pretty light but I think we can all agree if there was ever a day we can take a break from science it's today...2023-12-2558 minLexx EducationElf Anatomy: Foraging BastardsHo ho ho and welcome to Lexx Education! The comedy Christmas podcast where USUALLY comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her normal non-comedian younger nerdy brother Ron. BUT, it's Christmas episode time for the podcast!In the first of your 2023 Christmas specials, Ron and Laura are exploring Elves and what exactly would need to be going on with their anatomy and internal biology in order to make them be able to do all the things that popular dictates elves be able to do. Ie, live off sugar, make lots of toys, live in a cold...2023-12-1851 minLexx EducationA Toothless Mona Lisa Sipping Some ScrumpyWe begin with some musical chat and for once it’s Ron procrastinating because it’s him that doesn’t want to get onto the science. Laura gets worried about a possible tricko seed being planted but Ron insists she won’t see it coming. They try their best to discuss every subject on the planet (including the death of Princess Diana) before finally getting round to chatting about chemical analysis.Laura enters a gel pen blue phase and they finally get on to looking at qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis styles. It doesn’t last long and they’r...2023-12-111h 00Lexx EducationEndless Salt PorkHonestly, it's one of our most distracted introductions ever but if we can't be distracted at this time of year, when can we be?! Welcome to Lexx Education, the comedy science podcast where Laura and Ron, two siblings from Somerset, bumble their way through the AQA GCSE science syllabus.This week they are discussing hormones, where they come from, where they go & how they work. It's biology so they're both happier than usual and also being phenomenally silly. It's a banger of an episode in what some have termed "a spate of good episodes". They...2023-12-041h 04Lexx EducationMeans Nothing Adds Nothing And Isn't FunnyHello and welcome to the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx gets taught the AQA combined science podcast from her reasonably normal non-comedian brother Ron!Laura is feeling pretty festive in the run up to advent kicking off and is full of tiffin.In the science it's more waves and stuff… light waves and their lengths and stuff. Will the waves ever end?The episode is a good'un... Ron fully shuts down in shock for a while but manages to pull it back in time to quiz Laura (who has, surprise surprise, le...2023-11-271h 01Lexx EducationStanky Bow WowHello and welcome to Lexx Education! The comedy science podcast where our resident unhinged comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn GCSE science from her little brother (non-comedian) Ron.One of the most unhinged starts to an episode we’ve ever had, we don’t reference the fact we’re recording and just sing multiple different songs for a long time. We'd love to say that's the end of the weirdness but actually no... we then spend a long time trying to remember a song about Canada and a while talking about the Antiques Roadshow.Oh, the sc...2023-11-201h 04Lexx EducationSexy Little FblthpBiology! Welcome to the week we love and this week it is a humdinger! Laura and Ron briefly get distracted worrying about Laura's teeth and then the lesson begins and they are studying the central nervous system.We chat a little bit about Edvard Munch and The Scream because Laura is in Oslo during the lesson recording.The science is The Human Nervous System - the endocrine system and the nervous system. The differences between them and the effect that has.We cover the frankly awesome sounding nodes of ranvier, myelin sheaths, nerves...2023-11-131h 13Lexx EducationDid We Talk About Bernard Cribbins?Ooof, a real episode of two parts here... in part one it's the last of the sad Laura's and the brave sibling pair desperately try to work through descriptions of waves against the misery waves coming from Laura's brain. Then they both agree to take a break, they return when Laura is much happier but this time rather than discussing waves they discuss Bernard Cribbins.2023-11-0652 minLexx EducationTwo Fun Tongue Facts - Halloween Special 2 2023A second Halloween special?! Oh yeah! We are really spoiling you this year! After the joy of last week's episode on cryptozoology, we are now turning our attention to skeletons and mummies.How are mummies made? Who used to make them? Can mummies happen naturally?How many bones are in the human body? Do children have more bones than adults? Why do children have more bones than adults? Did you know a turtle's shell is actually its ribs?!All these questions and none answered in this Halloween Podcast extravaganza!2023-10-3055 minLexx EducationThe Shadow of King Kong - Halloween Special 2023Wooooooooooo! It's the spookiest month of the year! Ron's favourite season in podcasting - Halloween month! Who loves Halloween podcasts?! RON DOES! And hopefully you two... this week we bring you the first of our TWO Halloween special podcasts for 2023 where we are looking at cryptozoology... that's right, animals that don't exist but that are a bit more believable than your average nonsense.The science siblings from Somerset go on a wild ride around Loch Ness, take a peek at the chupacabre, discuss the differences between a yeti and an abominable snowman and discuss all things mythical...2023-10-231h 00Lexx EducationMilk in Glass JarsHello fabulous lab rats! We wish you love on this Monday. This week on Lexx Education Laura and Ron are talking Crude Oil Distillation... mmmmmm, fabulously sexy topic. They look at uses and boiling points and... ah do you know what, cards on the table this is Laura writing this and she doesn't really know what she's on about so it's a science episode and enjoy it.2023-10-161h 04Lexx EducationWoke Science: A Monoculture of SandSo, this week the government declared they would be kicking the woke out of science. It's a ridiculous sentence from ridiculous people and THAT'S OUR JOB. not theirs. So, in retaliation, everyone's favourite science siblings from Somerset have decided to inject a tonne more woke into their weekly science output by running through a history of some of the coolest LGBTQ+ scientists the internet told us about. Ron educates Laura on how wokeness is not a new concept, diversity has saved lives since the beginning of time, and how the idea of booting it out of science is as...2023-10-0949 minLexx EducationAte Out of Ten CatsFirstly, it's a Lexx Education first as Ron is alone doing intros and outros due to it being Laura's birthday and therefore she is unable to attend recording. It has a gravitas to it when Ron is alone, we're not going to lie: we like it.The lesson itself is lovely, they don't get too mad at each other except for one big bust up. Other than that they cover homeostasis in a relatively nice atmosphere.Join the patreon. It's good.2023-10-0251 minLexx EducationOr CarThis episode is going really, REALLY well and professionally until Ron mentions he has been for brunch with their other sister and Laura becomes the incredible Sulk. Unfortunately, that happens approximately one minute into the episode so the whole thing is kind of frosty and sad and weird as siblings can sometimes be. Good job this is a podcast about sibling relationships, right? Oh, the science? Waves.2023-09-2559 minLexx EducationTom Parry Doesn't Think You're FunnyThe science siblings from Somerset are feeling giddy, recording straight after their debut live performance at The London Podcast Festival. They bring you and introduction straight from Agony Dad's kitchen with CotP, Agony Dad's dog and The Gentle Boy all in attendance.Then we hit the lesson and Laura and Ron are discussing organic chemistry... but it is actually mainly about Laura being jealous about how much Tom Parry from Pappy's Fun Club liked Ron.2023-09-181h 11Lexx EducationLegs Longer Than The M5Hellloooooooooo! A big sciencey welcome to everyone who has survived the terrifying heat this weekend and is now embracing life on the other side of all that pit sweat and climate crisis reality.We are back in the world of biology this week... looking at METABOLISM in all its glory. Laura and Ron have a lovely time until they nearly come to blows over how breathing occurs when running. For two people who never run they have vehement opinions on it. For the record, HotP agrees with Laura for once.Anyway, the London Podcast Festival...2023-09-111h 02Lexx EducationA Friend of Curtis StigersHello Lab Rats! We hope this episode finds you well as the autumn beckons and we hurdle into a new school term! It's September... what better time to lurch into a science lesson that is filled with apathy and misery.This week we are looking at momentum... and ironically, the episode has none. But it's filled with the uniqueness that is Laura and Ron. Enjoy!2023-09-041h 09Lexx EducationJoe Better Be Ryan Your Best - Don't Gamble On ThatWelcome to another beautiful hour in the company of Laura Lexx, comedian, author and all round science dunce. Every week her patient normal brother Ron tries to teach her some more of the GCSE combined science syllabus and Laura spits it back out in a ball of insults.This week it's chemistry and Ron is trying to get Laura to understand equilibriums and reaction energy. Even Laura doesn't really understand the answers she's trying to give... then the pair of them get very sweary trying to persuade you all to come to the London Podcast Festival and...2023-08-281h 00Lexx EducationThe Narcissism SnailThis week it's biology and specifically: respiration! Aerobic and anaerobic! Ron tries to get Laura to understand the difference between the two and Laura sort of follows until the quiz... where it all falls completely spectacularly apart. Terrible ending to fairly interesting conversation.2023-08-211h 03Lexx EducationThe Narcissism SnailThis week it's biology on Lexx Education: the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her non-comedian brother Ron. This week Ron covers respiration - both the aerobic and the anaerobic kind. Laura falls apart somewhat in the quiz and they have the kind of arguments this podcast is famed for. Enjoy!2023-08-211h 03Lexx EducationIt Came In Three Parts Like An AntThis week it's all about Issac Newton... or Benjamin Franklin, or George Washington or that guy that got in the bath. Either way, it's meant to be Newton and his Laws.The science siblings are sick of paella and don’t want to do scalars and vectors anymore. Those are the headlines.Hey, get tickets to our show at the London Podcast Festival! See us play Who Egg Millionaire LIVEhttps://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/lexx-education/Support Lexx Education on patreon at patreon.com/lexxeducation2023-08-1454 minLexx EducationHumiliating Orange PenWelcome to Lexx Education - the only comedy podcast where a brother teaches a sister science. There’s a weird amount of science this week. An usual amount of science. Like they are both concentrating or something.Laura and Ron look at the rate of reactions in chemicals. HotP is also around. Laura and Ron are showing off in front of him and it shows. There’s a lot of pens stuff. Ron is very distracted. There’s Minecraft chat as per. You hear Ron’s heartbreak about 28 minutes into the lesson when they discuss chloride...2023-08-0759 minLexx EducationSand LivingWhat a peach of an episode we have for you here… it’s Laura and Ron actually getting on well for once and barely an argument in sight! There’s also no eating sounds and a small smattering of science. Because the lesson was so delightful, Laura and Ron decided to pick a fight with each other in the introduction and goodbye section instead.This week the science siblings from Somerset discuss glucose, starch and how plants and humans store energy and use it.To support the podcast and help Laura and Ron ha...2023-07-311h 03Lexx EducationHow Would You Arrive At A Paella StandIt's a record breaking week for Lexx Education. The week with the giddiest boy, the worst soundscape, the least science and the triumphant return of paella to the business of science.It’s physics. It’s a slow trudge through an olivey swamp of physics.To be fair, a lot of the blame for this week's hellscape goes to Ron who is distracted first by olives and then by alcohol and never by science. Laura doesn't help, but she is not the worst offender for once.If you like the podcast please consider supp...2023-07-241h 01Lexx EducationToo Many Mixy MedicinesIt’s Lexx Education time! This week the science siblings from Somerset take on the rate of reaction in chemistry. They begin though with Laura’s hangover and again, Ron tries to convince Laura of the importance of being hydrated.Tom is in the building for this Same Room Episode and it adds a level of supervision and judgement that Laura just can’t cope with.They look at the things that affect the rate of reactions in chemicals and debate strongly whether or not the factory is important. It's the last same r...2023-07-171h 13Lexx EducationLexx BoggleLexx Education! The comedy science podcast from comedian Laura Lexx and her science fanatic brother Ron!WAIT - are you hear having heard last week’s episode with Dara O’Briain talking space and now you want more? We’re so glad to have you, but, this podcast is experienced best from episode 1 and working through… so we suggest you pop back to the start and then crack on and we’ll meet you back here in a few days. We know you’ll binge it, you won’t be able to resist.Anyway… this...2023-07-101h 06Lexx EducationDara O'Briain Teaches Space Physics: Squishing and ClumpingDara O’Briain is our first ever special guest - here to help us celebrate a whole year of Lexx Education and graduate us into our second year. International superstar Dara O’Briain (Stargazing Live, Infinite Monkey Cage, Dara O’Briain Meets Stephen Hawking) tells the science siblings all about his passion: space. Dara turns his masterful skills to the job of trying to get Laura and Ron to care about physics by explaining that all the stuff that currently makes them livid about physics is just the building blocks to loving it in the future.We discus...2023-07-0359 minLexx EducationThe Second Paella CalculationHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education, the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn GCSE science from her non-comedian brother Ron. After a quick discussion of intestinal health, followed by Ron’s water debacle, it’s back to scalas and vectors today. Ron enlists the help of paella and festivals to try and get Laura to engage with the concept of distance and displacement. We’re so sorry to put you through this again but there you go: it has to happen. Ron and Laura are in the same room for THE WHO...2023-06-261h 08Lexx EducationA Lot of Plants are OutsideHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! The comedy science podcast where two siblings bicker vociferously over science that should have been learned 20 years ago.This week they discuss endothermic/exothermic reactions, energy changes, biogenetics, e = mc squared. In amongst a lot of marshmallows and twiglets.For tickets to Lexx Education live in 2023 go tohttps://www.designmynight.com/london/pubs/balham/the-bedford/cheerful-earful-podcast-festival-day-6 to see the 5th November show.https://shop.kingsplace.co.uk/29528/29531 to see the 16th September show.To support Laura and Ron in...2023-06-191h 08Lexx EducationMusic to my AnusHello and welcome to Lexx Education, the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx this week vehemently hates hydrating. She’s especially distracted, and if it’s the science you’re interested in, you can skip a whole healthy chunk before they finally begin today’s subject which is bioenergetics: the study of energy within biology. Actually, probably don’t bother because before you can blink, they are discussing the long since passed Coronation of King Charles III. It features an improvised Christian rock song and then goes on to some Chinese takeaway discourse chat… so, a pretty weird episode in a...2023-06-1255 minLexx EducationImagine if a Bumble Bee Was Riding a BikeLive from the hutch come Laura and Ron: two hutch based comedians making a hutch based podcast for you, our beloved listeners. This week Laura makes a declaration to focus really hard on physics and within seconds has mentioned Piglet’s Big Movie and the science siblings from Somerset are chatting absolute nonsense about the development of various civilisations. Classic stuff. It’s not their most focused episode, but they do seem to be getting on pretty well. There’s some kangaroo chat, some Columbus chat, a brief insight into how lovely the podcast could be if it was about...2023-06-051h 32Lexx EducationDead AirHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education: the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her normal brother Ron.This week we start with a bit of funeral procession etiquette, during which Ron finds it ridiculous how Laura functions in the world.We then get back to electrolysis and specifically the electrolysis of molten ionic compounds. There's an element of hysteria about trying to define a metal - soemthing Ron swears they have covered ad nauseum and Laura swears is just nauseum. Then the periodic table is a...2023-05-291h 02Lexx EducationMoo Cow PoxThe final instalment of the post Eggathon season of Lexx Education. Episode 49 comes in with some beautiful news, and then scampers into an eggy back alley.We cover antibiotics and double check if we remember Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin for the one millionth time. No sandwiches were harmed in the making of this podcast. We look at the effect of antibiotics on the world. Then we cover painkillers. Laura is very distracted and on because we recorded the video for this ep as well. We talk a lot about this being a video episode...2023-05-221h 16Lexx EducationBilly Bags are Equal to Scum PucketsPlease ignore Ron's best attempts to get you to stop loving the podcast.Hello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education. The pendulum swings back to Physics today but mercifully THE PENDULUM IS GONE. It’s work and energy transfers today.The episode today has a sort of “wet break” energy. It’s low key. Less screaming than usual but the apathy… oh boy the apathy! You could cut that apathy with a butter knife! The gel pens never stop rattling.There’s the wonderful soundscape of Maki being fed dinner in the middle o...2023-05-151h 00Lexx EducationDog Tooth FairyHello and welcome to yet another episode of Lexx Education. The comedy science podcast where a comedian randomly decides with her brother to try and conquer GCSE science for comedic reasons no-one is entirely sure of.After a brief interlude where Laura and Ron plan their diaries and organise a visit from Ron to Laura, they finally get on with the podcast. This week Laura and Ron cover electrolysis, a weird lesson where Ron is only marginally more attentive than Laura but this spurs Laura on to focus and fill the focus gap. Current breaks Laura’s he...2023-05-081h 08Lexx EducationDoesn't Involve SticksIt's Lexx Ed time! Just a quick warning: this episode contains information about a certain Christmas jolly figure that is not suitable for younger ears who may still have magic alive in their hearts and minds.Other than that this week we are studying cells, antigens and antibodies - how are we still studying these? A long detour through the teletubbies.We cover Lymph node libraries, with interruptions from Gnocchi in the introduction and interruptions from Maki in the actual episode.The podcast about the HIV crisis Laura mentions is called Fiasco, by...2023-05-011h 00Lexx EducationA Very Potato Salad Kind of PersonHello and welcome to the latest offering from Lexx Education. It's meant to be a comedy science podcast but today it's more like a horrible endless cycle of the same bullshit interrupted consistently by the internet being a twat.Plagued by technical difficulties and the sad ghost of horribly covered topics Laura and Ron wage war against resultant forces for what feels like the 100th time. Ron is in Vienna. We discussed the centre of gravity of objects. Laura is obsessed with making Ron eat a biscuit.To support the podcast and cheer Laura and...2023-04-241h 00Lexx EducationParmahooticalThe science siblings from Somerset discuss soluble salts. That’s a lot of acids. There’s a good and reasonable high amount of giddiness. They try putting the contents of chemistry to music to see if that helps with the learning, the success is… well, we’ll leave that for you to judge. Ron is in a grump and won't tell Laura what the problem is, which goes down badly.Laura is in a Travelodge recording this episode so has gone a little stir crazy. We have a quick chat about all the acids she puts on her face...2023-04-171h 07Lexx EducationEggatha ChristieHey Lab and Fab Rats! Happy Easter to all those enjoying for religious, chocolate, or day off reasons! We hope you've had a spectacular time, you've smoothed all the egg tinfoil out nice and flat with your thumbnails and now you're ready to mow the lawn to the sweet sweet sounds of Lexx Education.This week Laura and Ron focus on eggs, but each in a slightly different way. We have to be honest - it's not our most cohesive episode, but since when did we ever aim for that? Two podcasts in one! What more could...2023-04-101h 17Lexx EducationApril Cool's DayHello and welcome to another episode of the smash hit podcast Lexx Education - where comedian Laura Lexx works her way through the GCSE science syllabus with help from her younger brother non-comedian Ron.This week they are dealing with fall out from The Big Tricko; Laura is reeling from Ron’s betrayal and doesn’t know how to cope with what’s real and what’s false in the Lexx Education Universe.They get back on the bacteria train, looking at bacterial diseases and infections. But this time the information is accurate. Instead of sticks a...2023-04-031h 15Lexx EducationDon’t Lick MudIt’s biology this week, and Ron is teaching Laura all about bacteria and antibiotics. The Somerset science siblings are coming to you from inside a pillow fort in Brussels. There’s no notepad and Laura and Ron are in the same room… chaos ingredients ASSEMBLED.We recover vesicles and look at bacteria and how they attack cells. In trying to discuss convergent evolution they wind up discussing whether or not dolphins are attractive.Then we're in to antibiotics and antigens and other exciting ways that the body fights off problems. Or are we?2023-03-271h 04Lexx EducationA Ratatouille of Rotten CourgettesGird your loins, it's down 2.Welcome to the comedy science podcast that leans heavily on the comedy as it wriggles away from the hideousness of science.This week we have a lot to try and get through...Vector and Scaler - Ron tries to use a metaphor that Laura should understand and discusses driving from Brighton to Taunton to try to get Laura to understand. It makes things much much worse. Like smearing mud all over your magnifying glass to try and get it to help you see more details.We...2023-03-201h 16Lexx EducationCheese Pipe of a ManHello and welcome to Lexx Education, the comedy science podcast where Somerset science siblings Laura and Ron embark on the GCSE science curriculum together with Ron in the teaching seat and Laura hastily trying to learn...This week Laura and Ron start off with a weird energy, then there's a weird energy in the middle and a weird energy at the end. It was after all a Friday afternoon recording.Was last week a revision episode? We'll never know. There's some festival chat, some cheese poo talk, lots of poo talk actually.Then...2023-03-131h 07Lexx EducationThrow Him In The ScuppersHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! The comedy/science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her non-comedian younger brother Ron.This week is biology week... a happy where week where usually all is well and good with the world and to make things even happier and safer Laura has bought 30 gel pens.This week the science siblings get stuck in to viral diseases, pathogens and stuff. Laura gets very hung up for a long time on specifically what a pathogen is, like what physically is it BUT WHAT...2023-03-061h 06Lexx EducationThe Whole World is Wibblin ThingsThis week it's radioactivity and Laura and Ron get on reasonably well through all of it! A fun episode despite a brief crisis moment from Laura when she realises she does a niche podcast with her brother that her dad doesn't want to be on, but Ron quickly snaps her out of it.Featuring the start of a new game where we encourage you the listener to guess what the other options for an episode title were... obviously we went with "The Whole World is Wibblin Things" but see if you can guess what the three other...2023-02-271h 18Lexx EducationBog On For WoodliceLaura is sick and Ron has a fat tongue. Those are the headlines. Who even knows or cares what the actual science in the episode was at this point? Something about woodlice. Don't know. Enjoy!Anyway, here are the Big Bad Banksia Men: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/344455071478209130/ Laura’s fact about pool comes from the Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-etymologicon/mark-forsyth/97817857817042023-02-2056 minLexx EducationA Very Pregnant Love IslandHappy Valentines Day Lab Rats! we wish you joy and love and expressions of admiration that you're comfortable with. Ron says he hopes no one tries to touch you today. Laura says KISSES GALORE.Anyway, today is the Valentines Special and Laura and Ron are having a go at pitching the animals they think would make the best contestants on a series of Love Island. They're pitching dicks, they're pitching muscles, they're pitching polyamory, dressing up and sneaking around. they're pitching good dads and good mums and animals that have no sex. The only snag is that...2023-02-131h 00Lexx EducationNutwoodHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education, the smash hit comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her normal brother Ron.This week we look at cancer, but it isn't the most terrifying thing in the episode as Ron brings up his deepest darkest fear - Raggety. No, no it's not normal. Enjoy!Our patreon is now live and has a whole Geography lesson in it ready for your enjoyment. Go to patreon.com/lexxeducation to support the podcast with £3 a month.2023-02-0658 minLexx EducationThe Book of MoronHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education. The comedy science podcast absolutely filled with tangents, similes and idiots. Welcome to the club.This week it’s a revision episode, covering some old familiar to some but brand new to Laura ground, and gearing up to do radiation. the silly bus asks us to do a quick double back on what atoms areLaura is scared radiation is trickos. Ron is tired and eating a lot of cheese. We cover standard form again.Don't forget to sign up to patreon.com/lexxeducation to...2023-01-301h 08Lexx EducationInk on a Beetles FeetEpisode 32 of Lexx Education and we're staring down the barrel of chemistry week. We’re looking at how the molecular and atomic behaviour of the element affects what we see happening to the substance en masse. In a moment where it almost sounds like Ron’s heart falls out of his bumhole, Laura can’t even correctly name the Periodic Table. That’s a low point, but shrouded in a happy moment where the science siblings are actually having a very lovely time.Feel the euphoria in Ron when Laura retains a good amount of information about how what...2023-01-231h 02Lexx EducationShe’s Making a Shit Book of ScienceHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! The comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her real life brother Ron.Technically, the science siblings are still on their holidays, so the intro and outro are from the brief pause in time on the 16th December. You remember that day? The day of the 90 minutes redo episode and multiple intros? They are still frozen in time there and then, but it is now somehow the future. But! From next week they are back in the future, or present as you call...2023-01-161h 07Lexx EducationHonking for HonksHello! Welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! The comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her real life brother Ron! You might have heard us on Just Films n That, or on Loremen, or you might have just chanced across this podcast and decided to bravely have a listen. Either way, thanks for coming: hello, and we're happy to have you. This week it's physics and we're looking at changes of state and specific latent heat.Capital E and some equation stuff is back, even though Laura has really wanted to...2023-01-0954 minLexx EducationClassic TV Hag (The Moles Redo Special)Well, Happy New Year everybody and you might be noticing that this episode is a strong length. It's long. It's very long. It's also, the first episode where we've had to resit the lesson due to a technical issue. So it should have been short right? Because we've already done it once? Classic wrong. No.Ron tries to sneak in some higher tier stuff and it goes down like a tonne of bricks all puking cold sick. It's like a merry go round of fury and numbers that never seems to end.Technically, they're talking...2023-01-021h 41Lexx EducationHow To Make A Reindeer Fly: You Need A Rat CarpetThe science siblings are still on their Christmas break, and so this week, rather than wading through the GCSE science curriculum they are instead trying to work out what evolutionary pressures a small reindeer population would need in order to become airborne.First, Ron talks Laura through the basics of evolution and how it all works. Then, they get to work in designing an island on which, given a few millenia, reindeer might slowly become flying creatures. Sit back, enjoy and try not to take it too seriously.Merry Christmas everyone!2022-12-261h 08Lexx EducationThe Science of Home Alone: Hot KnobsWell that's it! We are almost there, almost at Christmas holiday time. But, what last day of term would be complete without the teacher letting you watch a Christmas film? But, we can't just watch a film: Laura's attention span wouldn't last that long, would it? So, instead we're bringing a science twist to that end of term classroom TV time.Ron has painstakingly looked through some of the best/worst defences that Kevin builds onto the Macallister household when it gets invaded by the Wet Bandits. He uses these defences as a way to try to...2022-12-191h 03Lexx EducationRiddled With Buttholes6 months of Lexx Education! Thank you all so much for all the support and love as we fight to get this bad boy off the ground! She's a beautiful craft but the conditions for new podcasts aren't easy and we appreciate all your love, support and shares as we try to take off. We feel like 6 months is a really big milestone though, and we couldn't have got here without you. You're all wonderful but a particularly big shout out this week to Carole, who loves Bunsen so much she now has him permanently inked on her arm: that...2022-12-121h 12Lexx EducationMcDeath 2: Fupa and RoyHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education, the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her reasonably average younger brother Ron.Unfortunately the stars have aligned this week to really bring out the worst of Laura. For one it’s our old nemesis physics, and for two this lesson was recorded on a Friday night when Laura did not feel good or focused whatsoever. In better news electricity is finally over. In slightly less good news we are on energy, and the particle model of matter.This episode fe...2022-12-0556 minLexx EducationHave You Ever Tried Not Being Sad?Hello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! The two Somerset siblings are back, and this week trying to get their head's round quantitative chemistry.The intro and outro has even worse energy than usual - unless you want to hear Laura sniffing, Ron whining and chewing and them both being worse than ever, we suggets you skip to the lesson. Where they... are not really any better. Ron reveals his plan to become a hulking strong man and gets confused as to the structure of the podcast the science siblings are now 24 episodes in to.2022-11-281h 01Lexx EducationBar Graph For WankersHow is it Monday again already? And not just any Monday, but a cold (probably) rainy (more than likely) Monday in November - the official worst month of the year.This week it's biology week and Ron and Laura are looking at illnesses and things that can make you ill. In all honesty though, it's Laura who does these bits and she's not listened the episode yet (as you'll hear in the intro) so she doesn't really know what to type.Whoop whoop biology.2022-11-2159 minLexx EducationThe Worst Episode YetIt is an absolute classic bants physics episode this week. Barely minutes in and we’ve got Ron’s greatest hits: clicking, shutupshutupshutup Don’t Just Say Things and shouting. Bliss. It's exactly what you want from Lexx Education and what Laura and Ron will end up in therapy over.It takes a shocking amount of time to work out the resistance of a circuit. A really shocking amount of time. Maybe half the episode? I mean... my goodness.Is it a record number of ba dum tish sound effects? It’s good way to measure...2022-11-141h 03Lexx EducationCarbonzo BeansWelcome back to Lexx Education; the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her younger brother Ron!Listen folks, we mustn't lie to you: Ron is padding the episode. For the first time ever Ron really wants Laura to be as distracting as possible because there’s not enough of the syllabus to make a whole episode so he’s finishing up something small and saving quantitative chemistry for next time. To be honest, it's hard to tell it apart from the usual episodes, but we want you to know that the lack...2022-11-0755 minLexx EducationJumble Frog - Halloween Special 2022Hello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! The comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her nerdy younger brother Ron.This week, at Ron’s insistence, the science siblings take on the spooky science of Halloween! Ron talks to Laura about the science of reanimation and zombies. He’s the most excited and happy you will ever hear him!Ron talks about the science behind Frankenstein, and the developments in medicine that led to the interest in reanimation. There’s a reappearance of the Maki song, but with altere...2022-10-311h 13Lexx EducationA Pig and an AirbedHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! The comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her nerdy younger brother Ron.This week, it’s biology which are usually our happy balmy waters, but this week we have to look at the very serious subject of coronary heart disease, via coronation chicken, raisins and Danny Champion of the World. While we don’t go out of our way to be insensitive, it is a lighthearted podcast and we are our usual selves so bear in mind that if heart attacks or hear...2022-10-241h 01Lexx EducationEverybody HertzHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! The comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her nerdy younger brother Ron.You probably heard the deep sad sighs at the time of recording but it's back to physics this week, and the siblings are fuming to realise they are still on electricity. But, Ron has a trick up his sleeve this week in the form of an interactive website! Can Laura take it seriously enough to learn or will the batteries just burn for eternity? Eburnity.We cover circuits...2022-10-171h 07Lexx EducationIntermolecular Force To Be Reckoned WithWelcome to another episode of Lexx Education! Episode 17 and a return to chemistry! This week the science siblings get stuck in to atomic bonds and intermolecular forces. They take another look over types of bonds, not for the first or last (we expect) time this series.Ron walks Laura through the changes in state occurring at melting, freezing and condensing points on the journey of matter as energy is applied to it. What can we say, Laura does her best, and is only really stumped when they reach the subject of molten wood, which is just something...2022-10-101h 10Lexx EducationValve SlapThe science siblings are bouncing back out of the dry dry lands of electricity and into biology. They seem happy here. They’re looking at the body, starting with the structure of the heart. Somehow Laura manages to make the Tower of Terror queue an analogy for the heart. It’s not a winner.Ron takes Laura on a journey with blood through the heart and all its vestibules, out into the lungs for a minute and back into the heart. Laura is mainly picturing queues at Disneyland so it’s anyones guess how much of it actual...2022-10-031h 03Lexx EducationThere's No Such Thing As A FireHello and welcome back to another episode of Lexx Education! The comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn GCSE science from her nerdy younger brother Ron. Hello, he's Ron.This week it's physics and so we all know what that means... Laura is furious. The twist this week is that Ron hates the subject too! How exciting!This week the science siblings are trying to learn electricity but Ron has to stop to explain the basics of the universe. We find out that Laura doesn’t believe in fire or glass. Ron ex...2022-09-261h 18Lexx EducationFigabeeHello and welcome back to the 14th episode of Lexx Education. The comedy podcast where Laura Lexx tries to learn GCSE science from her nerdy younger brother Ron.This week we are back on the chemistry trail and, it's not just siblings who have bonds: it's atoms too! We look at all types of chemical bonding: ionic, covalent and metallic bonds. There's some time spent on crystal lattice structures, and how things react in solution. There's also a lot of Laura reacting in fury.Ron accidentally tries out a new catchphrase, there's the return of...2022-09-191h 06Lexx EducationHigh Tummy PressureLaura is back from holiday and the science siblings are back giddy to be reunited via the medium of the internet. Fresh from not arguing over physics for once, they bound into biology with fresh enthusiasm only to be met with squabbles straight out of the gate. What a nightmare!This week they are looking at diffusion (again), osmosis (Jones), Active transport, catalysts, enzymes and emulsions (not gloss or satin). There's also, for the first time in Lexx Education history a live Lexxperiment in an episode. It's featuring bread (the foodstuff not the band).2022-09-121h 19Lexx EducationGravity Is Not An EmotionOh my goodness... can you believe it? A physics episode with next to no screaming at each other? It has to be heard to be believed! This week the science siblings leave tiny, obscure nonsense alone for a hot minute and take a peek at energy sources... Ron walks Laura through all the current available energy sources and they discuss the pros and cons of each one.Ron is... hot during this episode. There's really no avoiding how hot Ron is. Some would say too hot, but not Ron: he really refuses to admit that at all.2022-09-0553 minLexx EducationXenon Warrior PrincessHello! Welcome back to Lexx Education, the science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her nerdy little brother Ron. This week the Somerset siblings are actually in the same room for the intro and outro of the podcast, and thanks to a little gift from a listener, they have a LOT OF FUN. Also featuring a live studio audience by way of girlfriend of the podcast Judith, and husband of the podcast Tom.In the chemistry lesson portion of the episode, Laura is recovering from her ultra marathon and also in Oslo for...2022-08-291h 14Lexx EducationYou Can't Measure ChaosThis week the science siblings are in their comfort zone of biology, but don’t let that fool you into thinking that they can’t fall out about it. Ron tries to teach Laura using her favourite thing on planet earth: tea. However, it just causes Laura to be annoyed that the learning never actually turns into tea.Diffusion is the big topic of the day; looking at chaos theory, entropy and then how bodies make use of concentration gradients to get functions done. Things like breathing, and making piss. They manage to say piss a lot in t...2022-08-221h 07Lexx EducationMcDeathThis week Laura Lexx is back in the Physics Lab and oh boy is she furious about it! As her brother Ron attempts once again to get over his own disinterest in science and get her to concentrate, they have a look at energy transfers and how to calculate how much energy is used in heating and cooling objects.Laura gets promised tea that never comes, but helpfully she does now know how much energy her kettle is using to make this hypothetical tea that never comes. Via a picnic at Tarr Steps, Ron teaches Laura about...2022-08-151h 01Lexx EducationCaesium the DaysiumIn their third trip around the science sun, the science siblings pass by Chemistry again to see what's new. There's time for a quick brushing up on atomic structure to see what Laura has retained from last chemistry, and then it's on to new ground.In order to look at the periodic table Ron needs to describe the difference between a row and a column, and then it all gets a bit dreamy as they look at how Mendeleev thought up the Periodic Table. Ron is his very patient best as he tries to work through the...2022-08-0854 minLexx EducationA Blood Factory in a Bone CaveAfter the burning trash pile that was last week’s attempts to delve further into physics, the science siblings are thrilled to be back in the warm comforting arms of biology. Mmmmmm cosy.Biology 3 picks up from where they left off last time with cell specialisation but this time Ron is teaching Laura about the all powerful totipotent cells: Stem Cells. Much to both Laura and Ron’s relief, Laura has heard of these.They chat uses for stem cells, where cem stella can be found in the body, Laura comes up with a really good...2022-08-0155 minLexx Educationdown.It's that time again: Physics. Not the science siblings favourite but maybe their second time round to it will improve their relationship with the forces of nature?No.If this podcast had ever had wheels we might say that this was where they came off. Ron tries to persuade Laura that every action has an equal and opposite reaction and Laura asks if tables are made of jelly and why the floor wants a ball to be in the sky. They get distracted on what exactly a person should picture when picturing a pendulum and...2022-07-2553 minLexx EducationAAANAWelcome back to the chemistry lab… it’s our second delve into the world of atoms, electrons, neutrons and protons AKA Bob Marley, sound engineers, sad boys and parties!This week Ron tries to introduce the concepts of Relative Charge and Relative Mass to a Laura that still can’t quite remember whether she’s talking about cells or atoms. Even if she could remember, the fact they both have nucleus’ apparently renders them both stupid and pointless anyway.There’s also going to be maths. Gross, horrible, number filled maths… Laura tries to get her head aroun...2022-07-181h 07Lexx EducationMight O’Condria feat. HaddawayEvery week Ron and Laura meet up to cover a little bit more of the GCSE Science syllabus and try and re-teach laura GCSE science.This week they return to biology, and attempt again to get Laura to understand that cells and atoms are different things. Maybe one day it will sink in? It's not today though.Via a quick description of how electron microscopes work, the siblings get on a mission to understand what makes cells different to one another. They look at the different organelles that can give cells the abilities they need...2022-07-111h 03Lexx EducationIs that lentils bulgur wheat or...?Welcome back science fans! Physics Lesson 1 is about to begin... having beaten biology and conquered chemistry, Laura is back to form a physics philosophy (it was the best we could think of for that, shut up).Physics doesn't so much get off with a bang, more of a teensy weensy whimper of pain as Laura realises she hates physics and Ron is forced to admit he's not that keen on it either.The siblings start to learn about standard units of measurement, and how to calculate energy transfers. Laura soon realises that unless she can...2022-07-0451 minLexx EducationBob Marley and the Sad BoysWelcome back to the lab!This week brother/sister duo Laura and Ron are back in learning mode and embarking on the chemistry leg of their adventure.Ron gives Laura a potted history of the periodic table and the discovery of atoms. He attempts to rectify a lifetime of white washing of scientific plaudits by covering the immensely interesting history of the sciences. Laura tries to be impressed but doesn't really understand.The Plum Pudding model is where things really get spicy for Laura as she finally gets her head round something only...2022-07-0453 minLexx EducationA Lego Brick Full of MeccanoFire up your Bunsen burners and join award-winning comedian Laura Lexx as she attempts to pass her Science GCSEs (all over again) with the help of nerdy younger brother, Ron.Every week the squabbling siblings dissect a topic from the baddest educational document on the planet - the UK’s National Curriculum.Lesson One is in Biology. Ron's favourite subject. He starts Laura off with cells: getting to know the different types of cell and the different parts of a cell.Laura uses her own very individual methods to try to remember the di...2022-07-0452 min
Lexx EducationLexx Education - Launches 4th July!Star of Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, Hypothetical, Roast Battle & The Comedy Club, Laura Lexx has conquered the comedy world. She's won all the awards and got nothing left to prove... but can she translate that achievement to another subject?!
Her younger brother Ron loves science. He studied molecular biology at UCL and would like nothing more than to be able to chat science with his sister. But, science and Laura are like oil and water. Can he help her pass a Science GCSE?
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