SoT 50: The Little Green Sub

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday and Dr. Maia Sauren.

Topics covered:

• Maia’s PhD on mobile phones and the shape of your head
• James Cameron Completes Record-Breaking Mariana Trench Dive
  • This video gives an idea of the scale of the dive
• Australian Synchrotron beams on with $100m injection
  • The Australian Synchrotron is great … but what does it do?
• Megafauna collapse led to mega changes
• 45-foot paper airplane flies
• New peanut allergy test gives hope
• Real-time single-molecule imaging of quantum interference
  • Maia talks about the open-source tricorder
  • Ed mentions the Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE
• Lying brings more satisfaction

Dr. Maia Sauren is an electrical engineer. She recently completed a PhD looking at the anatomic differences in people’s heads, and how those affect whether they’re safe while using mobile phones.

 Download here. Duration: [0:37:18]