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SoT 273: The Last Place You Look

August 11, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Antarctic rift could..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: Antarctica, Australia, early humans, fossils, human migration, iceberg, Indigenous Australians, megafauna

SoT 272: Raven Pocket

August 2, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Gigantic iceberg, cannibal..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: Antarctica, birds, cannibalism, caterpillars, climate change, data storage, DNA storage, genetics, icebergs, intelligence, plants, ravens

SoT 271: Seductive Cockatoo Music

July 20, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

The secret to Roman..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: animals, Anne Druyan, Carl Sagan, concrete, golden records, life, mars, music, Romans, tools, Voyager

SoT 270: Sweeping Majestically Across The Plain

July 14, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Sean Elliott, Shayne Joseph

Tags: chimpanzees, eggs, mass-migrations, quantum, quantum entanglement, Wildebeest

SoT 269: LISA is Amazing!

July 8, 2017 by Ed Brown • 1 Comment •

Mental health, space-based..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: anxiety, astronomy, big data, depression, gravitational waves, human birth, Kuiper Belt, LISA, mental health, New Horizons, visualisations

SoT 268: The Deadiest Ones

June 29, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

The oldest human bones..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Benhamu, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: flatworms, fossils, human evolution, mass extinctions, pareidolia, space

SoT 267: Come See The Mass Spawning!

June 20, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Is sourdough better..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: bacteria, bread, drug-resistant bacteria, fish, sourdough, superbugs, white bread

SoT 266: Sperm Whales Have Teeth

June 10, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Why are giant whales..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: drones, dugongs, ecology, evolution, gastric bypass surgery, Great Barrier Reef, gut microbiome, whales

SoT 265: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

June 4, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Juno results,..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Helen Maynard-Casely, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: bad journalism, biology, climate change, flamingos, international space station, Juno, Jupiter, media, mice, planetary science, space, sperm, Svalbard

SoT 264: A $500 Car

May 24, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Old cancer archives, bacteria that..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: bacteria, brain lesions, cancer, gut bacteria, gut flora, microbiota, Stradivarius, strokes, violins