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Nina And The Neurons Go Inventing - Bright Ideas (DVD, 2010)

Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Belle and Luke got chosen together by Nina due to the way hearing, sound, sight and looking all work together. Nina explains that it is thought that the reason the body wriggles and pulls away from a tickle is because this feels like an insect is on the skin. Afterwards, Nina takes the children out to find out more about the answer to the question, sometimes with the help of their friends and family.Nina explains that feet have more of the special nerves that sense tickles than any other part of the body. It shows events occurring or machines working, then at a level that children comprehend, conducts experiments explaining the science behind how they operate.

Nina And The Neurons Go Inventing - Bright Ideas (DVD, 2010) Nina And The Neurons Go Inventing - Bright Ideas (DVD, 2010)

We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use.More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. After they have found out the answer to the question, they travel back to the Glasgow Science Centre to do another experiment and then, the 'experimenters' leave. Experimenters Breagh and Zoe visit Nina in her lab and find out that tickles are caused when something touches the skin very, very lightly. Scientist Nina and her young experimenters investigate the human body and find out why it is brilliant.