Quèquicom
All “Quèquicom” TV programs with Pere Renom.
Undressing the laundry
The perfect laundry is a challenge for physics, chemistry and for the reporters of Quèquicom, who learn the best tricks to get an immaculate clothes. How is it possible that the soap used to clean fats, is in fact obtained from fats? What is the difference between soap and detergent? How to use the bleach?
Running the Marathon
The marathon is an endurance test that takes the body to the limit. The reporter Pere Renom trains for twelve weeks to address the race with guarantees. The stress test, food, footwear, anatomy, physiology and psychology are the keys that allow the runner overcome the 42 km and reach the finish line successfully. The further […]
Natural history of la paella
In the paella is represented virtually the entire evolutionary tree and the rice absorbs all the flavors. The reporter Pere Renom travels to the Ebro Delta to learn how to cook this dish with ingredients such as shellfish or duck meat. Renom try to reap rice by hand and to fish seabass with casting net. […]
The bicycle: a perfect machine
“Quèquicom” explains why the bicycle is a perfect machine. Consumes 40 times less than the car, and its manufacturing saves 100 times energy. It is also the fastest urban transport in distances of less than 8 km. And in addition, cycling is a healthy pleasure.
Atom: asking the matter
Hadrons, neutrons, quarks, gluons, or the famous Higgs particle are concepts of the atomic physics related to a big question: what is matter? “Quèquicom” visits CERN, a laboratory built 100 meters underground in Geneva, Switzerland, where the properties of some subatomic particles like hadrons are investigated from colisions in an accelerator called LHC (Large Hadron […]
Bacteria: from our intestine to Mars
Go to Mars will be an impossible mission if bacteria can not be used to produce the food needed by the astronauts, and to recycle detritus. In addition, each of the astronauts will take 2 kilos of bacteria in his digestive, the intestinal flora that any human needs to survive. We fly from intestinal Crohn’s […]
To see by listening
Bats and dolphins generate images from echo, in certain sense they are able to see by listening. Similarly, the blind do as well. The reporter Pere Renom renounces for a while to the vision in order to experience how “sounds” reality aided by an instructor ONCE (Spanish National Organization for the Blind).
A naturalist in the Montnegre
The Montnegre Natural Park is a mountain range up to 800 meters high located near the coast. By having high humidity favors the growth of a lush, dark forest that gives the name (Montnegre it means Black Mount). But this darkness is not only observed from a distance but also from within the same forest. […]
Killing mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are insects provided with extraordinary capacities aimed at one goal: sucking blood. Their bites are annoying and can transmit dangerous diseases. Thats why we fight them systematically. The tiger mosquito is a new enemy. Many natural predators, such as swallows, bats, mosquito fishes or dragonflies, are our allies in this fight.
Rats: friends or enemies
Rats transmit diseases, but also are essential in the investigation. “Quèquicom” looks for them in the sewers and laboratories.
