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dung beetles

  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
  • Podcast

SoT 314 – Sensitive New Age Gorillas

  • November 15, 2018
  • Tagged as: dung beetles, Gorillas, Hubble Space Telescope, pollution, whales

Hubble fixed, worms in dung beetle genitals, noise and pollution hurting whales, and babysitting gorillas.

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Ed Brown
  • David Hawkes
  • Ed Brown
  • Penny Dumsday
  • Podcast

SoT 124: Name the Virus

  • November 17, 2013
  • Tagged as: birds, DNA, dung beetles, HPV, junk DNA, Name the Virus, vaccination, viral vectors, viruses

Name the Virus, galloping dung beetles, genes for facial features, replaying birdsongs is bad, and racial differences in HPV vaccine effectiveness.

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Ed Brown
  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Mick Vagg
  • Penny Dumsday
  • Podcast
  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 118: The 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes

  • September 26, 2013
  • Tagged as: air safety, alcohol, beer, cows, digestion, dung beetles, heart transplants, Ig Nobels, onions, opera, penile amputations, penis, running on water, surgical reattachment

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 dung beetles to penis amputations!

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Ed Brown
  • Alan Kerlin
  • Ed Brown
  • Podcast
  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 79: Giant Ball of Poo

  • November 7, 2012
  • Tagged as: bacteria, climate change, dung beetles, ozone, raw food, space, space junk

Space troubles, bacterial live wires, quick nanoparticle diagnosis technique, the shrinking ozone layer, dung beetles and more!

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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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