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  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
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SoT 350: Rocks Were Never Not Great

  • February 28, 2020
  • Tagged as: betelgeuse, brain, climate change, early life, fruit flies, neurons, Parkinson's Disease, Zircon

Mapping fruit fly brains, the oldest known meteorite on Earth, a Parkinson protein and Betelgeuse dimming!

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  • Sarah de Garis

SoT 295: The Red Light District

  • May 7, 2018
  • Tagged as: athletes, children, facial expressions, fruit flies, fungus, gene transfer, horses, memory, sex

Horses can remember your facial expressions, male fruit flies like having sex, a fungus stole genes from a bacteria and why kids have lots of energy.

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SoT 215: Yellow Big Head

  • February 27, 2016
  • Tagged as: cancer, chimpanzees, drosophila, evolution, fruit flies, genetics, hairy panic, leopards, toxo, Toxoplasma gondii, toxoplasmosis, tumbleweeds

Does toxo lessen chimps’ fear of leopards? What happens when you leave fruit flies in the dark for 60 years? Fighting cancer with cancer, and the Aussie town filled with tumbleweeds!

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  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 165: As Common As A Toilet Brush

  • October 27, 2014
  • Tagged as: Ancient Greece, Antikythera mechanism, astronomy, beer, brewer's yeast, energy trade-offs, fecal transplants, fruit flies, microbiome, moon, seismic activity, volcanic activity

More Antikythera finds, recent volcanic activity on the moon, frozen poo capsules, shaven voles, and the scent of brewer’s yeast.

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  • Mel Thomson
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SoT 164: Cosmetically Satisfying Penis

  • October 19, 2014
  • Tagged as: artificial organs, artificial penis, chemistry, epigenetics, fruit flies, GPS, grid cells, LED, medicine, MicroBioBlitz, microbiology, microscopy, neuroscience, Nobel Prize, physics, physiology

The Nobel Prizes for 2014, a Central Park blitz, inheriting traits from mum’s ex, and artificial penises grown in a lab.

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  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 150: Several Moonwiches

  • June 9, 2014
  • Tagged as: Antarctica, astronomy, climate change, decisions, endangered, fruit flies, Ganymede, global warming, great red spot, Greenland, insects, Jupiter, moon, new species, Planets, Six Legs

Our live 150th episode! Climate change, Jupiter, various new species, eating insects, icy moons and flies that think!

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SoT 60: Pain Prone Personalities

  • June 16, 2012
  • Tagged as: cannabis, Deepwater Horizon, diabetes, evolution, fruit flies, genetics, mosquitoes, pain

Cannabis and pain, giant dragonflies, wet mosquitoes, fat fruit flies & more!

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SoT 49: Drunk, Lonely Fruit Flies

  • March 23, 2012
  • Tagged as: astronomy, fruit flies, genes, paleontology, Roscosmos, space

Fruit flies turn to alcohol when they can’t get sex, the oldest animal with a skeleton, Russia’s space plans, eye problems in astronauts, 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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