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  • Cameron Webb
  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
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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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  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
  • Podcast
  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 278: Nobel Prizes 2017

  • October 25, 2017
  • Tagged as: chemistry, conservation, jellyfish, kakapo, matter, medicine, Nobel Prize, physics, physiology, sleep, The Universe

Nobel Prizes 2017, sleeping jellyfish, we found some matter, and sequencing the kakapo genome.

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  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 258: An Elephant Never Sleeps

  • March 29, 2017
  • Tagged as: Aboriginal, ancestors, archaea, Australia, bacteria, Elephants, human migration, Indigenous Australians, sleep

Sleepless elephants, the Archaea that we don’t know we don’t know, and tracing ancient human migration to Australia.

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  • Lucas Randall
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SoT 228: That’s So Birch

  • June 8, 2016
  • Tagged as: caves, dark energy, entropy, eruption, extinction, Mt. St. Helens, Neanderthals, second law of thermodynamics, sleep, stalagmites, Tasmanian devils, The Arrow of Time, thylacine, time travel, trees, volcano

Trees sorta sleep at night, new Tassie devils found, Neanderthal stalagmites, and dark energy and time.

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  • Ed Brown
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  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 200: Never Memorise A Formula

  • September 23, 2015
  • Tagged as: bacteria, climate change, immune system, immunology, Kuiper Belt, neuroscience, New Horizons, nitrogen-fixation, Oliver Sacks, pluto, psychology, sleep, viruses

RIP Dr. Oliver Sacks, the link between lack of sleep and illness, climate change could affect nitrogen fixating-bacteria, New Horizons has a new target.

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  • Ed Brown
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  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 123: Jellyfish on a Space Shuttle

  • November 17, 2013
  • Tagged as: botox, botulinum, brain, cryptozoology, jellyfish, NASA, sleep, space, urination, urine, yeti

We sleep to wash our brains, jellyfish in space, yeti was a bear, urination time and secret botox.

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  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 119: Drunk On Your Own Supply

  • October 1, 2013
  • Tagged as: aliens, beer, blue whale, ear wax, fear, life, mars, methane, phobia, sleep

Treating phobias while you sleep, auto-brewery syndrome, no methane on Mars and no aliens on Earth. And the life story of a whale, through its ear wax.

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  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 92: Vulcan Rat Mind-Meld

  • March 11, 2013
  • Tagged as: brains, mars, neuroscience, ocean life, origins of life, pluto, sleep, space travel, undersea vents

Brain-to-brain communication between rats, the genetic impact of lack of sleep, old people on Mars, undersea vents and more!

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  • Ed Brown
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  • Rachael Dunlop
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SoT 78: The Dark Side of Science

  • October 27, 2012
  • Tagged as: accountability, babies, earthquake, funding, genetic modification, jail, memories, neuroscience, sexism, sleep, virophage, virus

Mice that detect bombs and forget fears, and the problems with science – sexism, funding cuts, jail sentences and more!

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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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