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Lexx Education
Hosted by lexxeducation · EN
Fire 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.
Microbiology, magnetism, manganese…can long-suffering Ron explain atomic structures or will Laura be forever banging her head against the periodic table?
Whether you love thermodynamics - or ridiculous family dynamics - Lexx Education takes you back to your school days to find out whether it’s possible to relearn your GCSEs…or be forever doomed to looking things up on Wikipedia.
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More Fish Good Heart
Mar 2300:47:06Tap to summarizeSome audio issues today and sorry about that! Laura is fizzy from workout and Ron sometimes is a robot. The gang delay and delay before finally getting into the Lipids quiz so they can finally move on from the oily quagmire of this topic.Sorry for it being out slightly late, Ron edited on a train and then completely forgot to upload when he arrived at his destination! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Religion’s Being All Boo Hiss
Mar 1600:55:20Tap to summarizeWelcome back to Lexx Education everyone! We hope you're on the brink of a startling good week, and we're here to spur you on to greater things with a very good episode all about the perils of being a woman in Elizabethan England!We make a startling revelation about being a woman in the 21st Century and then we move on to whether or not Elizabeth I was a unicorn or not. We talk property laws for Elizabethan women, we talk education. We look at being a normal woman and being a high society woman and discuss how either way you lived you were between a rock and a hard place in terms of female restriction.We discuss the way Henry VIII had properly rocked the boat for even being a Queen, and then we get distracted by matchstick girls for a while.Mostly though, we're on topic, focused and having a good time. And we have the lack of science to thank for that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Blue Gum Gully!
Mar 800:53:23Tap to summarizeIt’s an impromptu Australia episode, but Laura can’t make up her small and silly mind about exactly what she wants to talk about, and no matter how Ron tries to do it, he’s down it wrong.Get ready to listen to Ron do research while they are talking things through, Laura hasn’t researched anything but Ron isn’t allowed. Don’t know how that’s fair.Anyway, weird ep, hope you like it, it’s probably good!Join the Patreon!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Business in London
Mar 200:48:45Tap to summarizeWelcome back to Lexx Education you beautiful little rats! We hope you've had a busy business week... welcome to the space to relax in a little bundle of siblingness. This week Ron has been wedding venue scouting and Laura is trying to do one thing at a time. They are both equally excited about what they're up to. Laura can upload files without complications and Ron is sharing his life with the woman he loves.This episode has the beginnings of Laura’s obsession with Slow Horses… be prepared for this to probably come up quite a lot over the next few months. Obviously it's a brilliant show but let's face it - Laura is in it for the fart jokes isn't she?Laura is prepping for leaving for Australia… which might feel odd for people currently following her on social media but obviously because we’re such organised beans we’re a few episodes ahead in recording. Aren't you stunned?As for the science. It's clubnuggets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Churlish Boy Moments
Feb 2200:44:32Tap to summarizeWelcome to a new episode of Lexx Education, Ron and Laura have caught up recently so while, much like Brussels where Ron lives, there’s a lot of waffle, it’s not particularly interesting waffle. Coughs, animal hair, car repairs, it’s all in the waffle. We have a couple of false starts when it comes to actually getting into the nuts and seeds of the podcast. Unfortunately, we then squabble a lot while just going through what the lesson is going to be covering, before we even go through the millimetre of science that we cover win this episode.
Transcribe →Horny For Boleyns
Feb 1600:50:44Tap to summarizeWelcome back to Lexx Education!It's a history week on Lexx Ed and so Laura is in the teacher's chair getting Ron all knowledgeable about Lizzy 1.Except, it's Lexx Education, so things go gleefully off the rails almost as soon as they've begun. Ron introduces a new segment: ASMR. Let's see how long this lasts for. They have the usual start to the show of chat and catch up and then just as the history is supposed to begin full force Ron gets utterly distracted by a false childhood memory that he must solve right here right now on your time. Spoiler: it's been skilfully edited by Laura to sound better than it was but you need to understand how long this research took.Then Ron goes into a bit of a sulk but it does leave space for us to find out about the many difficulties faced by Elizabeth I during her reign as Queen of England.
Transcribe →Enormous Cheese Manta Ray
Mar 17, 2025Tap to summarizeHello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! It's the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her nerdy younger brother Ron.This week they're attempting some chemistry but honestly not a lot gets done... they're STILL in Leicester (the longest weekend in history?) and they're hungry.Falafel Land is the Lebanese place Laura and Ron ate at. This is just information in case you should ever want to go.In terms of the actual science... well, we recap Mass Spectrometers and Ion Drift and then start learning about Time of Flight Spectrometeter. But mostly it's not science and it's just Ron talking about how much he loves Ethan Hunt and Mission Impossible.Ron is hungry.Oh let’s face it - we do basically nothing in this episode. It’s a real series one episode here and we would apologise but we don’t think you mind.---These show notes were generated by Headliner AI. If you enjoy them please tell other podcasters by giving a shoutout to https://headliner.app in your episode ✨---💬 Show NotesIn this episode of Lex Education, Laura Lex and her brother Ron dive into the chaotic world of chemistry while navigating the trials of a busy Leicester Comedy Festival. With a Duolingo family plan gone awry and a plethora of food-related tangents, the siblings explore the intricacies of mass spectrometry, discussing ionisation and the differences between ion drift and time of flight spectrometers.As they meander through the science, the conversation veers into hilarious territory — from TikTok algorithms to the challenges of being a clean boy in his teenage years. Despite their hunger-induced distractions, they manage to break down the process of how a mass spectrometer functions, albeit with some amusing misunderstandings along the way.Expect plenty of banter, a quiz on US states, and a charmingly unprofessional recording setup as they attempt to balance science with their comedic chemistry. Will they get to breakfast before the episode wraps up? Tune in to find out!00:00 - Lex Education is the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lex tries to learn science05:25 - Brussels 2.0 is all about immersing yourself in local community07:59 - Ron is missing his anniversary party because he's on a Sweden trip10:43 - The Leicester Festival show is today. I'm really excited about this one13:24 - M liked the Lebanese more than the other one. It wasn't as smoky. Um, but that was much more citrusy15:32 - Laura runs us through how a mass spectrometer works20:24 - We use varying strengths of magnetic field to bend ions around the corner23:15 - Mass Spectrometer 2 is an ion drift mass M spectrometer25:12 - We've not eaten while we're recording, Ron says27:10 - Today we're going to learn how to read a mass spectrograph30:02 - Morticia Adams: Mass spectrum is what it's called34:40 - So even if I'd been like. Um. You listening to me? Yeah. Three more minutes, Ron. That's all you got a35:02 - The mass charge ratio measures the difference between the charge and the mass38:59 - This isn't good, is it? See you for the quiz40:34 - How do you feel about trying to name all 50 US states43:35 - You're missing one of the deserty guys. What? Kansas. Oh, what goes hand in hand with Kansas47:45 - Lester: We definitely went back to Jet Punk once. That was what it was49:21 - Ron: Scientology are bad dudes. Can we do a Patreon episode on Scientology52:46 - This episode explained some of the mysteries. Should we explain the Deliveroo storyShow notes created by https://headliner.app---🎙️ Thanks for podcasting with Headliner!
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How Would You Arrive At A Paella Stand
Jul 24, 2023Tap to summarizeIt'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 supporting it at patreon.com/lexxeducation and see our live show at this year's London Podcast Festival in September.The podcast Laura refers to is Fall of Civilisations Podcast, specifically the episode about Carthage. https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/
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