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  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
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SoT 318: A Wacky Eukaryote Is Always Fun

  • December 7, 2018
  • Tagged as: astronomy, exoplanet, faeces, marsupials, microbiology, poop, sun, taxonomy, wombats

Why do wombats have square poops? Earth’s sun may have a twin, a new kingdom in the tree of life and water detected in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.

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Ed Brown
  • Carolyn de Graaf
  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
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SoT 308: The Universe Does Exist

  • September 13, 2018
  • Tagged as: Ancient Egypt, archaeology, bacteria, cannabis, cheese, cosmology, dark energy, marijuana, microbiology, string theory

The genetics of marijuana use, microbes that darken, String Theory vs Dark Energy, Ancient Egyption cheese.

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Ed Brown
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  • Lucas Randall
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SoT 192: Test By Shooting The Journalist

  • July 8, 2015
  • Tagged as: 3d, conservation, lasers, materials, microbiology, origins of life, ravens, selfhealing, ui, ux

A single-celled organism that can see, 3D computer interfaces could be coming soon, the origins of multicellular life could be a simple gene, self-healing aeroplane wings and shooting ravens with lasers for science!

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Ed Brown
  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • 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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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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