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SoT 38: A Very Spidery Christmas
December 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall. Topics covered: Mitochondria were ‘parasites’ The semi-naked ape, or why peach fuzz makes it harder for parasites Spiders’ Hundreds of Fine Hairs Are Hundreds of Ears Life possible on ‘large parts’ of Mars Men turning to alternative cures Download here. Duration: 0:45:23
SoT 37: A Press Conference of Nothing
December 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall. Topics covered: Study shows rats help pals escape Capturing CO2 Too Costly to Combat Climate Change Doctors take aim at chiropractors This is the dawning of the new Age of Superstition LHC: Higgs boson ‘may have been glimpsed’ 16,000 Eyes: The Vision of a Cambrian Superpredator [...]
SoT 36: BREED! Or Be Miserable!
December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Aimee Whitcroft. Topics covered: Turtle Embryos Tune In To Heartbeats Some Wasps Learn Never To Forget A Face Genetically Engineered Neurons Light Up When Firing When Women Take Bigger Risks Childless Women ‘Poorer Health’ Ladybugs Changed Color in Response to Climate Change Aimee Whitcroft is a [...]
SoT 35: Jurassic Asteroid
December 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Elf Eldridge. Topics covered: Baby Bumps Slow Dolphins Down Dinosaur ‘caught’ eating bird Terminator-style lenses a step closer Nest full of baby dinosaurs found Crooked Teeth? Blame Early Farmers Unfortunately we can’t embed the video for the dolphin story, but click the link above to watch it on Science Magazine’s website. [...]
SoT 30: Plucky Little Cycads
October 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday and Lucas Randall. Topics covered: An Egg-Citing Recipe for Human Stem Cells Cycads not so ancient after all A Buff New Twist on Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles Youngest exoplanet captured IQ Is Not Fixed in the Teenage Brain Please welcome Megavirus, the world’s most ginormous virus The book Penny mentions is [...]
SoT 25: There was a red shoe…
September 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday and Kylie Sturgess. Topics covered: Diamond planets, climate change and the scientific method Despite winning acclaim for his children’s book on evolution, Daniel Loxton faced some challenges getting published in the US Are wild birds learning to speak from their previously domesticated cousins? New study provokes a re-think on dingoes’ history [...]
SoT 23: Open-Cut Mines are Scenic
September 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Lucas Randall, Dr. Shayne Joseph and Penny Dumsday. Topics covered: Jumping genes helped evolution Cavemen sex gave humans a health boost International team discovers planet made of diamond Fossil Discovery Represents New Milestone in Early Mammal Evolution Kamikaze Satellite Could Be Earth’s Last Defense Against Asteroid Fossils hints on Earth’s first life Fruit bacteria to [...]
SoT 22: Some Wrongness In There
August 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall, Tom Sidwell, Mike McRae. Topics covered: Cell therapy fights leukaemia Suicide-Bombing Bacteria Could Fight Infections Is Evolution Predictable? The Moon’s Uncertain Age Mike McRae is a science writer for the CSIRO’s education department and author of Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs and Bad Ideas. He blogs at tribalscientist.com and is on [...]
SoT 19: Piece by Piece
August 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Tom Sidwell. Topics covered: Polar people have bigger eyes and brains Modern Humans 10, Neandertals 1 Astronomers find Earth’s first trojan asteroid 2010 TK7 Wikipedia page Volcanic complex discovered on the far side of the moon Ed’s photos of the moon Google Moon Our theme music, Step On It, [...]
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