Lexx Education

The 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...

Well 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/w...

6 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...

Hello 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...

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 r...

How 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 do...

It 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 h...

Welcome 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 qu...

Hello 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 t...

Hello 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 g...

Hello 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...

Welcome 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 ene...

The 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 mi...

Hello 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 electr...

Hello 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,...

Laura 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 (no...

Oh 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....

Hello! 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...

This 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 bod...

This 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 he...

In 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...

After 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 h...

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...

Welcome 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’...

Every 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 und...