SoT 85: Priscilla The Yutyrannus

Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Dr. Mick Vagg, Upulie Divisekera, Lucas Randall.

Topics covered:

• Higgs Boson Discovery
• Mars Curiosity Landing
  • We are on Mars
  • NASA’s Curiosity shows there’s more to life than life
• Private Space Industry Boom
  • Landmark Year in Private Space Flight Development
  • Asteroid Mining and Planetary Resources
  • Mars One finds more than 1,000 volunteers for one-way trip to planet in 2023
• Death of Neil Armstrong
• Cybernetics
  • New Prosthetic Hand Has Sweet Skills, Terminator Looks
  • Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind
  • Paralysed woman controls robot arm with brain
• ENCODE yields insights into the deeper genome
  • ENCODE: The story of you
• Eclipse Chaser: A Firsthand Account of a Total Solar Eclipse
• The Transit of Venus: Advance Australian Astronomy Fayre
• Climate Change predictions coming true
  • 2012 in review: Environment
  • Arctic ice melts to record low
  • If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month
• Japanese bees cook enemy in ‘bee ball’
• Lab-grown meat is first step to artificial hamburger
• Vaccine arrives to boost the frontline fight against Hendra virus
• Yutyrannus, a giant tyrannosaur with feathers
• Flying dinosaur had black feathers: study
•  DNA helps to flesh out Otzi’s past

Dr. Mick Vagg is Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medicine, and Pain Specialist at Barwon Health. He’s a Fellow of the Institute for Science in Medicine and he often writes for The Conversation.

Upulie Divisekera is a molecular biologist. She’s a ‘dinosaur evangelist’ and enthusiastic science tweeter.

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