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SoT 351: Air Sea’n’Sea

  • March 20, 2020
  • Tagged as: Aboriginal Australians, archaeology, burial, climate change, compost, conservation, cremation, deathcare, early humans, ecology, history, methane, seahorses

A luxurious plan to save seahorses, precise methane measurements, 65,000 year old food and the environmental impact of dying.

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SoT 344: Teeny-Tiny Black Holes

  • November 8, 2019
  • Tagged as: ancient humans, archaeology, black holes, cows, flies, Planet Nine, zebras

Painting cows to look like zebras, Planet Nine could be a black hole and prehistoric humans used bones like soup cans!

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SoT 333: Altered State Of Consciousness

  • June 9, 2019
  • Tagged as: archaeology, artificial intelligence, bonobos, cancer, climate change, drugs, lung cancer, machine learning, mating, trees

Bonobo mothers watch their sons mating, AI detects lung cancer, trees trying to keep up with carbon dioxide levels and the drug-laced contents of an ancient Shaman’s pouch.

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SoT 332: Muddy, Liefie and Lixy

  • June 2, 2019
  • Tagged as: ancestors, antibiotic resistance, archaeology, bacteriophage, denisovans, fungi, graphene, Lake Mungo, nanoribbons, phosphene, plant communication

Trip report from Lake Mungo, ancient Denisovans spread widely, an accidental super material, genetically modified phage therapy and trees use the Wood Wide Web!

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SoT 329: Not The Father Of Lies

  • April 16, 2019
  • Tagged as: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, archaeology, early humans, history, magnetic fields, magnetoreception, Out of Africa

The ancient historian that got it right, possible very early humans in Australia, and can some people detect magnetic fields?

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SoT 327: You’ve Been Browned!

  • March 28, 2019
  • Tagged as: archaeology, astronomy, galaxies, linguistics, Nikola Tesla, plants, rogue planets, speech

Houseplants don’t clean the air, lots of rogue planets in our galaxy, and our galaxy could be bigger than Andromeda. Plus, how our changing diets changed our language.

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SoT 322: Captain’s Log

  • February 20, 2019
  • Tagged as: archaeology, lapis lazuli, magnetic field, plants, spiders

Why was lapis lazuli found in a medieval tooth? Can plants be trained? How does body position affect spidey-sense? And why has the Earth’s magnetic field suddenly sped up?

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SoT 321: Our Favourite Science Stories of 2018

  • January 15, 2019
  • Tagged as: ancient art, Ancient Rome, archaeology, chili, ethics, Europa, evolution, exoplanets, fossils, genetic engineering, hurricanes, lizards, poop, Vulcan, wombats

Our top stories from 2018. All the stories we thought particularly interesting, from wombat poop to very hot chilies!

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SoT 310: Faster Than Lightning

  • September 26, 2018
  • Tagged as: archaeology, art, climate change, dolphins, fish, mirror test, self-awareness, self-recognition, shark attacks

The oldest known drawing, sharks attacking dolphins, and the first fish to pass the mirror test.

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SoT 308: The Universe Does Exist

  • September 13, 2018
  • Tagged as: Ancient Egypt, archaeology, bacteria, cannabis, cheese, cosmology, dark energy, marijuana, microbiology, string theory

The genetics of marijuana use, microbes that darken, String Theory vs Dark Energy, Ancient Egyption cheese.

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Podcast Reviews

  • Great Show
    September 6, 2012 by Volk613 from Australia

    Always 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 Australia

    Nice to hear science news from an Aussie perspective and with a good dose of humour. Great work!

  • Fun and smart
    June 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.

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