This podcast has ended. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
The funny, interesting or just weird bits from 2019 that didn’t make the final show!
Did a supernova cause human ancestors to walk upright? Is it right to use Nazi illustrations for surgery? And could a fungus produce spider-venom that wipes out mosquitoes?
The funny, interesting or just weird bits from 2018 that didn’t make the final show!
SoT 300: Science and Selfies
- June 21, 2018
- Tagged as: blood test, cancer, mars, marshmallow experiment, Planet Nine, pluto, pregnancy, psychology
Dunes on Pluto, organics on Mars. Marshmallow test reproduced, blood tests for pregnancy due dates and cancers. A potential refutation of the Planet Nine hypothesis.
SoT 294: Plastics Bad, Bacteria Good
- May 1, 2018
- Tagged as: astronomy, bacteria, enzyme, exoplanets, NASA, plastic, retrotransposons, shellfish, tess
Plastic-eating enzyme, NASA’s new planet-hunting spacecraft, and DNA that spreads to other species remarkably common in the oceans.
A possible new organ discovered, Viking navigation, the most distant star ever seen, Big Pharma and Patiet Advocacy Groups, and flourescent puffins.
SoT 290: There’s No Fuel Gauge
- March 29, 2018
- Tagged as: astrophysics, birds, China, conservation, cosmology, DNA, exoplanets, genetics, Kepler, media, NASA, space debris, Stephen Hawking, twins
Remembering Stephen Hawking, space twins are still human, a parrot comeback, a plummeting space station and Kepler running on empty.
Life in our most Mars-like region on Earth, ancient dice clues about fate and chance, silent crickets and a new species of tardigrade.
SoT 287: An Army of Clones
- March 3, 2018
- Tagged as: amber, ancestors, bacteria, bacteriophages, Cheddar Man, cloning, crayfish, early humans, rockets, SpaceX, spiders, Tesla
Elon Musk’s Big Rocket, cloned crayfish, bladder-borne bacteriophages, Cheddar Man reconstructed and tiny ancient spider-tails!
Podcast Reviews
- Great Show
September 6, 2012 by Volk613 from AustraliaAlways informative, often entertaining. Great selection of regulars with a variety of interests and expertise. Also great guests with and Australian focus.
- Great science roundup
July 23, 2012 by SB AUST. from AustraliaNice to hear science news from an Aussie perspective and with a good dose of humour. Great work!
- Fun and smartJune 17, 2012 by wertys from Australia
I have enjoyed this podcast b/c it is very funny banter about science stories but there is also a serious edge to the analysis. It's proof that you can be amusing and entertaining as well as giving the science content its due. Highly recommended weekly listening.