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gut microbiome

  • Cameron Webb
  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
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SoT 323: Very Small Frogs

  • March 1, 2019
  • Tagged as: bacteria, depression, entomology, flies, gut microbiome, insects, mental health, mosquitoes, sickness, sleep

Are insects being wiped out? Does the risk of mosquito-borne illness increase during floods? Why do we sleep so deeply when sick? And how does our gut bacteria affect our mental health?

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  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 266: Sperm Whales Have Teeth

  • June 10, 2017
  • Tagged as: drones, dugongs, ecology, evolution, gastric bypass surgery, Great Barrier Reef, gut microbiome, whales

Why are giant whales so big? Gastric bypass changes gut flora, dugongs making a slow comeback, and underwater drone improvements.

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Ed Brown
  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
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  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 248: Through The Melon

  • December 5, 2016
  • Tagged as: antibiotics, bacteria, echolocation, gut microbiome, microbiome, Narwhals, pluto, subsurface ocean

Narwhals have excellent echolocation, gut bacteria could be the next source of antibiotics, and subsurface ocean on Pluto!

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Podcast Reviews

  • Great Show
    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
    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
    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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