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2010-02-07 The effect of a terminal illness on family life Updated: 2010-02-06 14:00:00 Description: Psychiatrist Dr Jane Turner from the Mental Health Centre at the University of Queensland's School of Medicine talks about her research into the impact that parental cancer and subsequent death has on children....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2010-01-31 Black Saturday Updated: 2010-01-30 14:00:00 Description: Geoff Hudson, inventor, author and computer programmer, lives in an area close to the devastating bushfires of last year. Today he looks at what went wrong with the warning system and suggests what could be done to prevent such a catastrophe happenin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2010-01-24 Early language and reading skills in indigenous children in Australia Updated: 2010-01-23 14:00:00 Description: Professor Margot Prior from the Department of Psychology at the University of Melbourne has been working in Aboriginal child health for over 10 years. In this program she talks about the terrible state of literacy in Aboriginal children and some of t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2010-01-17 Edison the organizational innovator Updated: 2010-01-16 14:00:00 Description: Professor Mark Dodgson from the University of Queensland talks about the achievements of inventor Thomas Edison. He also tells us about some of the less pleasant aspects of Edison's life, i.e. his lack of personal hygiene, the harsh way he treated pe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2010-01-10 Is fructose the root of all evil? Updated: 2010-01-09 14:00:00 Description: On 12th July last year lawyer and author David Gillespie presented an Ockham's Razor talk telling us that fructose is very bad for us. In this program nutritionist Chris Forbes-Ewan refutes some of the claims made by David Gillespie....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2010-01-03 Aboriginal astronomy Updated: 2010-01-02 14:00:00 Description: Professor Ray Norris from the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility, together with his wife Cilla, has written a book called Emu Dreaming - An Introduction to Australian Aboriginal Astronomy. In this talk he tells us about Aboriginal Australian...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-12-20 A short history of cell deaths Updated: 2009-12-19 14:00:00 Description: Many cells in our bodies are programmed to die. In a human about one million cells divide in two every second. Professor David Vaux from La Trobe University in Melbourne looks at how cells function and behave....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-12-27 A response to evangelical atheism Updated: 2009-12-26 14:00:00 Description: Philip Ponder teaches chemistry at a High School in Melbourne. In this program he tackles the rise of what he calls aggressive atheism and tries to reconcile creationism and evolution by suggesting that every major religion was created or has evolved...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-12-13 The coral reef crisis Updated: 2009-12-12 14:00:00 Description: The former Chief Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Dr Charlie Veron, discusses the situation of coral reefs and the environmental challenges ahead....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-12-06 Ching Chong China Girl - From fruitshop to foreign correspondent Updated: 2009-12-05 14:00:00 Description: Helene Chung, author and former ABC Foreign Correspondent, wrote her biography: Ching Chong China Girl: From fruit shop to foreign correspondent. She recalls what it was like growing up Chinese in 1950s Tasmania and gives insights into her life as an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-11-29 Look back with pride Updated: 2009-11-28 14:00:00 Description: Emeritus Professor of Ethology at the University of Queensland, Glen McBride, gives us a different view of natural selection as we celebrate the birth of Charles Darwin 200 years ago and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-11-22 A Gunn and two Hookers - Part two Updated: 2009-11-21 14:00:00 Description: Last week Dr Jim Endersby, from the University of Sussex in the UK, told the tale of how Joseph Dalton Hooker met Tasmanian Ronald Gunn who, over the years, sent hundreds of carefully dried and preserved specimens of unknown flora to Kew, where Hooke...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-11-15 A Gunn and two Hookers - Part one Updated: 2009-11-14 14:00:00 Description: Dr Jim Endersby is a lecturer in British History at the University of Sussex in the UK and he's the author of a book called Imperial Nature - Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. Joseph Hooker was an internationally renowned botanist...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-11-08 The role of undergraduate education in Australia Updated: 2009-11-07 14:00:00 Description: Michael Bradley is in his 4th year studying engineering at the University of Sydney. In this talk he discusses some interesting thoughts about the role of university education....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-11-01 The evolution of world peace Updated: 2009-10-31 14:00:00 Description: In recent history we've seen numerous acts of global terrorism, invasions, genocides, wars and the growing threat of nuclear proliferation. Dr Scott Field is a lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey and a Visiting Scholar at the Instit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-10-25 Women, science and politics Updated: 2009-10-24 14:00:00 Description: Politics used to be known as 'a man's business'. However, the situation seems to be changing globally to some extent. Emeritus Professor Sol Encel from the University of New South Wales looks at female politicians, past and present, and found that a ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-10-18 Professor Ian Plimer replies to his critics Updated: 2009-10-17 14:00:00 Description: In June this year Professor Kurt Lambeck, President of the Australian Academy of Science, discussed Professor Ian Plimer's book Heaven and Earth. Professor Plimer has been criticised in some circles about his views on climate change and in this talk ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-10-11 How T.H. Huxley helped me teach my students how to write Updated: 2009-10-10 14:00:00 Description: Dr Susan Lawler is a teacher of evolution and genetics at the Albury/Wodonga campus of La Trobe University. The lack of writing skills in her students gave her the idea to correspond with her students as T.H. Huxley....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-10-04 Is our sustainability science racist? Updated: 2009-10-03 14:00:00 Description: Dr Ariel Salleh is a sociologist in political economy at the University of Sydney and today she focuses on the ecological debt notched up by affluent societies as main contributors to global warming....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-09-27 The Coolibah story Updated: 2009-09-26 14:00:00 Description: Paediatrican Dr John Boulton retired from the University of Newcastle in 2005 and now works part-time in Aboriginal Child Health in the Kimberley region in Western Australia. Recently he had an opportunity to glimpse the life of an Aboriginal man cal...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-09-13 What do we mean by species? Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Description: Colin Groves, who's Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University, discusses the definition of a species....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-09-06 Science and religion revisited Updated: 2009-09-05 14:00:00 Description: Author Larry Buttrose has just published a book called Tales of the Popes: From Eden to El Dorado which looks at the lives of the popes from the inception of the papacy up to the burning at the stake of the humanist philosopher Giordano Bruno in Rome...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-08-30 Fuel saving follies Updated: 2009-08-29 14:00:00 Description: Author Gerard Ryle, while doing research for his book Firepower, discovered that Australian investors have long had a weakness for fuel saving devices. There have been many famous names involved in this endeavour, such as Peter Brock and Pro Hart. As...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-08-23 Two killer factors Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Description: Dr John Reid from Monash University, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, looks at two factors responsible for perhaps the great majority of car crashes - young drivers with immature brains and sleepiness....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-08-16 Water wars Updated: 2009-08-15 14:00:00 Description: Will there be wars about water? Some people think so. Wendy Barnaby, who's a journalist and author from London, used to think so, but has changed her mind. In this talk she explains why....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-08-09 Language and prehistory Updated: 2009-08-08 14:00:00 Description: Professor Claire Bowern from the Linguistics Department at Yale University in Connecticut, US, tells us of her research into the languages and history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-08-02 Preventing osteoporosis Updated: 2009-08-01 14:00:00 Description: Professor Christopher Nordin from the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science in Adelaide has grave concerns that there is no primary prevention program for osteoporosis in Australia....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-07-26 Zen, the science of clean engines and bureaucracy Updated: 2009-07-25 14:00:00 Description: Marcus Clayton from Melbourne outlines some of the bureaucratic obstacles he and his business partner have experienced in trying to get alternative technologies accepted....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-07-05 The Chamberlen family - barber/surgeons Updated: 2009-07-04 14:00:00 Description: 440 years ago Williams Chamberlen and his wife fled from religious persecution in France to Southampton in England.The Chamberlen family made history by using obstetrical forceps, which they managed to keep a secret within the family for about 125 ye...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-07-12 Fructose Updated: 2009-07-11 14:00:00 Description: Author of Sweet Poison, David Gillespie,discusses the effect of fructose on our bodies....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-07-19 Dealing with complex health problems Updated: 2009-07-18 14:00:00 Description: Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Ian Webster, talks about the inadequacies of the health care system to deal properly with health problems of the homeless and mentally ill people....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-06-28 Body integrity identity disorder Updated: 2009-06-27 14:00:00 Description: Earlier this year the ABC TV Science program Catalyst featured the amazing story of Robert Vickers who, by the age of ten, felt that his left leg didn't belong to him. For 30 years he tried to damage his leg to force an amputation, without success. A...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-06-14 Thinking about memes, minds and cultural evolution Updated: 2009-06-13 14:00:00 Description: Educationalist and commentator on educational issues, Don Tinkler from Melbourne pondered the question: Did culture determine learning or could learning determine culture? This led him to the need for research into the science of memetics and how thi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-06-21 Group A streptococcus - the bacterium that links the heart and the throat Updated: 2009-06-20 14:00:00 Description: Dr Melina Georgousakis from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research focuses her attention on Group A streptococcus, which is also responsible for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-06-07 Comments on Heaven and Earth: Global Warming: The Missing Science Updated: 2009-06-06 14:00:00 Description: Today Professor Kurt Lambeck, president of the Australian Academy of Science, discusses Professor Ian Plimer's book Heaven and Earth....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-05-31 Science and Christianity: hand in glove Updated: 2009-05-30 14:00:00 Description: Today we hear from Bill Hall, who has contributed many talks over the years. Bill died recently and in this talk, which he recorded not so long ago, he discusses how science and Christianity can complement each other....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-05-17 Corruption in our world - part two of two talks Updated: 2009-05-16 14:00:00 Description: Last week Professor Adam Graycar, Head of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers State University in New Jersey, talked about how corruption affects everybody. Today he suggests ways of controlling and combating corruption....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-05-24 The trigger for the clathrate gun Updated: 2009-05-23 14:00:00 Description: Melbourne computer specialist Geoff Hudson explains what clathrates are and the danger they pose to climate change....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-05-10 Corruption in our world - part one of two talks Updated: 2009-05-09 14:00:00 Description: Today Professor Adam Graycar, Head of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers State University in New Jersey, discusses how corruption in our world affects everybody....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-05-03 Smallpox in Sydney: 1789 Updated: 2009-05-02 14:00:00 Description: Historian Craig Mear from Coledale in New South Wales tells us about the appearance of smallpox in the Indigenous population living around Sydney Harbour in 1789....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-04-26 Pelican stories for the future Updated: 2009-04-25 14:00:00 Description: Dr Libby Robin from the National Museum of Australia in Canberra is Senior Editor of a recently released book called Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country and today she ponders why pelicans fly inland after rain, even though they never saw it...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-04-19 Welcome to gravitational astronomy 101 Updated: 2009-04-18 14:00:00 Description: Today's Ockham's Razor is set 50 years into the future with Professor David Blair from the School of Physics at the University of Western Australia welcoming students to a new course in astronomy. The threat of a cosmic bullet threatening life on ear...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-04-12 Literary predictions Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Description: Janice McAdam from Sydney has degrees in physics and children's literature and calls herself a 'lapsed physicist'. Today she talks about the genre of science fiction as a prediction into the future. A transcript of this talk will be available by mi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-04-05 Koala Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Description: Dr Ann Moyal from Canberra has written a book called Koala, a historical biography. She tells us about the history of the koala, when it was first discovered by white colonialists and its treatment and mistreatment since white settlement in Australia...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-03-29 Lost explorers Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Description: Ed Wright from Newcastle in New South Wales is the author of Lost Explorers. In this talk he tells the story of some of the early explorers/adventurers who came to a grizzly end and explores some of the possible reasons for their downfall....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-03-22 A Darwin tourist, Shrewsbury, England, February 12, 2009 Updated: 2009-03-21 14:00:00 Description: Charles Darwin had his 200th birthday on February 12th, 2009 and Professor Karl Flessa from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona, made the pilgrimage to Shrewsbury, the village where Darwin was born....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-03-15 The Manhattan Project for climate change Updated: 2009-03-14 14:00:00 Description: The Manhattan Project was established to develop nuclear bombs and today computer programmer Geoff Hudson from Melbourne suggests that a similar program should be introduced to combat climate change....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-03-08 The Waddi tree Updated: 2009-09-05 00:00:00 Description: On the fringes of the Simpson Desert, separated by hundreds of kilometres, are three stands of Waddi trees which are a miracle of arid zone botany. Today PhD candidate Jacqueline Hodder from the University of Melbourne tells the story of this remarka...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-03-01 A noun in your auricle Updated: 2009-02-28 14:00:00 Description: Dr Rob Morrison from Flinders University in Adelaide discusses how errors of grammar, punctuation and inaccurate scientific terminology can be misleading and complicate important social issues....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-02-22 Tramlines Updated: 2009-02-21 14:00:00 Description: Retired chemist Dr Trevor McAllister looks at the history of the tram, from the first horse-drawn service to the technology that has created the electric trams....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-01-25 A piece of my mind Updated: 2009-01-24 14:00:00 Description: Professor Alan Baxter, an immunologist at James Cook University in Townsville, talks about the history of neurological complications of viral diseases that could affect the brain and spinal cord and the history of rabies vaccination. Louis Pasteur's ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-02-01 Clocks and watches Updated: 2009-01-31 14:00:00 Description: Bill Hall from Adelaide, who writes about collectables with his wife Dorothy, tells us about collectable clocks and watches and how much that antique clock or watch in your bottom drawer or on the mantlepiece might be worth....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-02-08 Economic fiction - how Homo Sapiens could stop climate change Updated: 2009-02-07 14:00:00 Description: Melbourne author Valerie Yule looks at the problem of waste, which is anything that becomes useless rubbish before it need be....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-02-15 Mirror neurons and empathy for pain Updated: 2009-02-14 14:00:00 Description: Professor John Bradshaw from Monash University in Melbourne discusses how some people when observing distress and pain in others experience it themselves. Or why, when we see people yawn we are compelled to do the same thing....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-02-08 Economic fiction - how Homo Sapiens could stop climate change Updated: 2009-02-07 14:00:00 Description: Melbourne author Valerie Yule looks at the problem of waste, which is anything that becomes useless rubbish before it need be....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-11-16 The return of the Osprey Updated: 2008-11-15 14:00:00 Description: Ospreys are a bird of prey and are found in costal regions worldwide. Unfortunately, in the UK at the start of the 1800s these birds were high on the list of species to be destroyed. Today Bob Holderness-Roddam, Project Officer with Volunteering Tasm...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-11-23 The meaning of life Updated: 2008-11-22 14:00:00 Description: Dr Jack Carmody, who coordinates a postgraduate course in Medicine and Music at the University of Sydney, tells us amongst other things how hormones influence the brain, the march of DNA down generations and reproduction....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-11-30 Innovation today, not tomorrow Updated: 2008-11-29 14:00:00 Description: Professor Kurt Lambeck, President of the Australian Academy of Science, assesses the Cutler Report and the Green Paper, an outcome of the Review of the National Innovation System. He suggests ways in which Australia must increase its investment in sc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-05-11 Secrets of the immune system Updated: 2008-05-10 14:00:00 Description: To mark World Day of Immunology, which is held on April 29 each year, Professor Alan Baxter, President of the Australasian Society for Immunology, explains how our immune system works....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-04-06 The plea of the Great Barrier Reef Updated: 2008-04-05 14:00:00 Description: Former Chief Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science and author of A Reef in Time, Dr J.E.N. (Charlie) Veron, draws urgent attention to the devastation waiting in the wings for our beautiful Great Barrier Reef....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-03-30 Cooking with hominids Updated: 2008-03-29 14:00:00 Description: Journalist Dr Peter Lavelle, from ABC Health Online in Sydney discusses the evolution of food and the history of cooking....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-02-24 Wretched or contented? The politics of past lives Updated: 2008-02-23 14:00:00 Description: Dr Richard Eckersley, Visiting Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the ANU in Canberra and Founding Director of Australia 21, asks whether we really do have a better life than our hunter/gatherer ancestors....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-02-03 Is the book as we know it dead? Updated: 2008-02-02 14:00:00 Description: Many people have predicted the death of the book as we know it, claiming that text will be stored in digital form. However, Sydney science writer Peter Macinnis disagrees. He has just published a book called Australia's Pioneers, Heroes and Fools and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2007-12-30 Applied imagination Updated: 2007-12-29 14:00:00 Description: In this talk retired psychologist Val Yule from Melbourne talks about the power of imagination. 'Applied imagination is the ability to consider what may be possible in the real world, not only in fantasy'....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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