Posts Tagged ‘biology’

SoT 280: The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes

November 8, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

The Ig Nobel Prizes..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Mick Vagg, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: anatomy, bats, biology, cats, cave insects, cheese, coffee, cognition, crocodiles, didgeridoo, ears, economics, fetus, fluid dynamics, foetus, Ig Nobel, improbable, medicine, music, nutrition, obstetrics, peace, penis, physics, snoring, twins, vagina, vampire bats

SoT 265: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

June 4, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Juno results,..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Helen Maynard-Casely, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: bad journalism, biology, climate change, flamingos, international space station, Juno, Jupiter, media, mice, planetary science, space, sperm, Svalbard

SoT 163: The 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes

October 8, 2014 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

The Ig Nobel Prizes..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Alabaster, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Sean Elliott, Shayne Joseph

Tags: arctic science, art, baby poo sausages, banana peel, biology, economics, Ig Nobel prizes, Ig Nobels, Jesus toast, medicine, neuroscience, nutrition, pain, physics, polar bears, psychology, psychopaths, public health

SoT 128: Plants on the Moon

December 13, 2013 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Trial to improve..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Benhamu, Kate Naughton, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: astrobiology, astronomy, biology, cancer, de-extinction, lab mice, lab rats, prostate cancer

SoT 106: I Like My Squids Curvy

June 18, 2013 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Lyrebirds caught..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: biology, comet, ejaculate, embryonics, lyrebirds, mimicry, organs, sperm, squid, sun, sungrazers

SoT 105: Delicious Mammoth Meat

June 9, 2013 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Zombie plants, mammoth..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Matthew Witkowski, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: biology, evolution, feet, frozen plants, Ice Age, meteorite, schizophrenia, turtles

SoT 84: The Mad, Bad Uncle

December 18, 2012 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

James Cameron's deep dive..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Helen Maynard-Casely, Lucas Randall, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: astronomy, bacteria, biology, Curiosity (Mars Rover), mars, moon, NASA, space, virus

SoT 76: 2012 Nobel Prizes

October 14, 2012 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Nobel prizes for Medicine,..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Mick Vagg, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: biology, evolution, malaria, medicine, pain, physics, quantum

SoT 73: Monkeys on Crack

September 23, 2012 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Newly discovered monkey: cute..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Shayne Joseph, Simon O'Toole

Tags: astronomy, bacteria, biology, cognition, exoplanets, gerbils, GRAIL, hearing, Leidenfrost, memory, monkey, moon, physics, stem cells

SoT 63: It May Have Helped Harry Potter

July 6, 2012 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Dear Sir..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Kate Naughton, Mags Lum, Podcast, Upulie Divisekera

Tags: biology, CERN, evolution, genetics, higgs, Higgs boson, medicine, sea stars, Sir David Attenborough