SoT 77: Wobble

October 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A handout photograph released by Red Bull Stratos on 14 October 2012 shows Austrian stunt daredevil Felix Baumgartner jumping out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, New Mexico, USA, 14 October 2012. Credit: Jay Nemeth / Red Bull Stratos

World record skydive, slime moulds, Jurassic Park, and the exoplanet in our backyard! Also Nobel chocolate, a control for invasive sea stars, and the Curiosity rover finds an ‘unusual’ rock.

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SoT 71: The Least Strange Thing About Christopher Walken

September 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Mars One plans to build a colony on Mars, partly funded by reality television

Reality TV on Mars, beer, Denisovan genome, brain destroying bacteria and more!

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SoT 68: Wet Dog Shaking

August 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Wet Finnegan 2: Shaking

Dogs shaking dry, multiple ancient humans, allergies reducing brain cancer and more!

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SoT 65: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

July 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By NASA, ESA, and L. Frattare (STScI) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Magnetic fish, Pluto’s new moon, trade-offs for bigger brains and more!

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SoT 61: You Still Need a Golf Club

June 24, 2012 By 1 Comment
By NASA (NASA website) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Baby talk with gorillas and robots, cannibal cane toads, dyslexia and more!

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SoT 41: No Riding On The Manta Rays

January 22, 2012 By 1 Comment
Torquise

Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Kylie Sturgess. Topics covered: Chinese tree offers hope for alcohol antidote Could Climate Change Alter Lizard Learning? Manta Rays Endangered by Sudden Demand from Chinese Medicine Extinct Giant Tortoise May Still Be Alive in Galapagos Darwin’s long-forgetten fossils unearthed You are bitching about the wrong things when you [...]

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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 [...]

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SoT 23: Open-Cut Mines are Scenic

September 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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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 [...]

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