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SoT 336: Text Neck

July 17, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Those puppy-dog eyes evolved..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Benhamu, Lucas Randall, Podcast

Tags: black holes, cosmology, dogs, evolution, media, mobile phones, science reporting

SoT 335: Parmesan Not Brie

July 4, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

An ancient grape variety..

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

Tags: agriculture, cancer, evolution, gravity, moon, radiology, wine

SoT 334: That’s My Clickbait!

June 24, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Did a supernova cause..

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

Tags: bioethics, eradication, genetic engineering, genetic modification, human evolution, malaria, mosquitoes, science in the media, supernova

SoT 333: Altered State Of Consciousness

June 9, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Bonobo mothers..

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

Tags: archaeology, artificial intelligence, bonobos, cancer, climate change, drugs, lung cancer, machine learning, mating, trees

SoT 332: Muddy, Liefie and Lixy

June 2, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Trip report from Lake..

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

Tags: ancestors, antibiotic resistance, archaeology, bacteriophage, denisovans, fungi, graphene, Lake Mungo, nanoribbons, phosphene, plant communication

SoT 331: A Hyperactive Toddler

April 26, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

For the first time..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Kirsten Banks, Podcast

Tags: astronomy, astrophysics, black hole, event horizon, Event Horizon Telescope

SoT 330: A Very Large Horn

April 23, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

All about the meteor that..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Kate Naughton, Peter Miller, Podcast

Tags: bad science, dinosaurs, extinction, fluorescence, frogs, uncanny valley

SoT 329: Not The Father Of Lies

April 16, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

The ancient historian..

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Filed Under: Chris Curtain-Magee, Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, archaeology, early humans, history, magnetic fields, magnetoreception, Out of Africa

SoT 328: Thralala, Thralala, Thralala!

April 2, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

How fish survive..

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

Tags: asteroids, Bennu, convergent evolution, DNA, fish, NASA, OSIRIS-REx, Parkinson's Disease, super smellers, synthetic DNA

SoT 327: You’ve Been Browned!

March 28, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Houseplants don't clean..

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

Tags: archaeology, astronomy, galaxies, linguistics, Nikola Tesla, plants, rogue planets, speech