InSight gets a helpful tap, amber gives clues towards Ideal Glass, and fish finger development!
SoT 341: The 2019 Ig Nobel Prizes
- October 9, 2019
- Tagged as: anatomy, bacteria, biology, chemistry, cockroaches, diaper, economics, engineering, faeces, happiness, Ig Nobel, itching, magnetic fields, medical education, medicine, money, nappy, natural language processing, nutrition, peace, physics, pizza, poop, psychology, replication, reproducability, saliva, scratch, scrotum, wombats
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from the benefits of pizza to the temperature of French postal packages!
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from rollercoaster medicine to Voodoo in the workplace!
SoT 278: Nobel Prizes 2017
- October 25, 2017
- Tagged as: chemistry, conservation, jellyfish, kakapo, matter, medicine, Nobel Prize, physics, physiology, sleep, The Universe
Nobel Prizes 2017, sleeping jellyfish, we found some matter, and sequencing the kakapo genome.
The Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry.
The Nobel Prizes for 2014, a Central Park blitz, inheriting traits from mum’s ex, and artificial penises grown in a lab.
SoT 122: 2013 Nobel Prizes
- October 27, 2013
- Tagged as: chemistry, Elephants, Higgs boson, higgs field, medicine, Nobel Prize, pain, physics, pointing
Nobel prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry, a pointed study of elephants, and the Chinese centipede that could completely block all pain.
SoT 74: The 2012 Ig Nobel Prizes
- October 3, 2012
- Tagged as: bureaucracy, chemistry, chimpanzees, coffee, colonoscopy, copper, diamond, Eiffel Tower, explosion, fluid dynamics, fmri, Ig Nobel Prize, intracolonic explosion, literature, medicine, neuroscience, oscillation frequency, peace, physics, ponytail, psychology, report, salmon, SpeechJammer, spill
All the fun from the 2012 Ig Nobel awards! Ponytails, SpeechJammer, coffee, dead salmon, the Eiffel Tower and more!
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SoT 28: Bugs Bonking Bottles – The Ig Nobel Prizes
- October 7, 2011
- Tagged as: beer, biology, chemistry, discus, distraction, end of the world, exploding trousers, hammer throw, Ig Nobel Prize, literature, medicine, methematics, Miss Sweetie Poo, peace, physics, physiology, procrastination, psychology, public safety, sigh, tank, tortoise, urination, wasabi, yawn
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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.