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SoT 59: Might As Well Be Blind
June 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
SoT 51: Even Crazier Mutants
April 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
SoT 45: Hardcore Honey Badger
February 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday Topics covered: Meet ‘Amasia,’ the Next Supercontinent Asia and Americas on Course for Arctic Collision Mystery of Zebra’s Stripes Finally Solved? Massage’s Mystery Mechanism Unmasked Mice study shows fasting weakens cancer Climate speeds up microbial change Image: Gabor Horvath, How The Zebra Got Its Stripes. Download here. Duration: [...]
SoT 44: An Elevated Risk Of Blowing Up
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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 [...]
SoT 34: Stupid Little Worm
November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Dr. Krystal Evans. Topics covered: Dr. Krystal gives us an in-depth progress report on malaria. There have been two big achievements this year: the final trial of what could be the first malaria vaccine ratified by the World Health Organisation, and the discovery of a ‘master key’ the parasite uses to infect [...]
SoT 33: It’s Russian For Dirt
November 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Vanessa Hill. Topics covered: NASA’s Next Mars Rover to Launch in 15 Days Phobos-Grunt status, launch plus six days Novel Drug Shrinks Monkeys’ Waistlines Plate shapes hold earthquake clues Extra brain cells may be key to autism Was the Spotted Horse an Imaginary Creature? Unmuffled Genes [...]
SoT 32: A Freezer Full of Drool
November 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Adam vanLangenberg. Topics covered: Happiness Associated With Longer Life NASA Considers Tractor Beams for Future Rovers Billion year old bacteria created What Killed Ice Age Beasts? U.K. Quakes Likely Caused by Fracking Here is the video from NASA showing how the ‘corkscrew’ tractor beam would work: [...]
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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