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  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
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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 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 287: An Army of Clones

  • March 3, 2018
  • Tagged as: amber, ancestors, bacteria, bacteriophages, Cheddar Man, cloning, crayfish, early humans, rockets, SpaceX, spiders, Tesla

Elon Musk’s Big Rocket, cloned crayfish, bladder-borne bacteriophages, Cheddar Man reconstructed and tiny ancient spider-tails!

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  • Ed Brown
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SoT 273: The Last Place You Look

  • August 11, 2017
  • Tagged as: Antarctica, Australia, early humans, fossils, human migration, iceberg, Indigenous Australians, megafauna

Antarctic rift could lead to another giant iceberg, early human migration to Australia, and megafauna fossil footprints.

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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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