Ockham's Razor - Program Podcast

520 million years ago, the oceans teemed with some of the most bizarre animals ever to have lived.

What do boiled bandicoot, smuggled salami and an invisibility cloak have in common?

They breathe air but live underwater, and like their land-dwelling counterparts their bites are venomous.

Nathan Brooks-English usually studies the geological processes that make mountains but on one particular field trip, the thing he learned most about was human connection.

Microbes are critically important to the health of a coral reef.

It's a story familiar to many families. A loved one is in aged care, and it's only after you visit them that you discover things are going wrong.

Tens of thousands of fans watching on. The weight of a country's hopes on your shoulders. And a leather ball speeding towards you at 140 kilometres per hour.

When life gives you fire, you don't need more coal. This talk was first broadcast on 26 April, 2020.

When Kylie Soanes bounced out of her graduation ceremony with a newly-minted PhD, she thought she knew what she was in for. This talk was originally broadcast on August 6, 2017.

Every day we make hundreds of choices, big and small, that build to become the story of our lives – the friends we make, the careers we choose, our partners and our purpose.

It might be the ultimate dream for preppers and Trekkies: life in a Dyson sphere. Astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker takes us to a possible distant future via the physics of continuous economic growth. This talk was first broadcast on October 27, 2019.

It's one thing to big note yourself. But the founder of the Church of Scientology is guilty of scientific fraud, explains author and investigative journalist Steve Cannane. This program was first broadcast on September 8, 2019.

Can kids understand relativity and quantum physics? This program was first broadcast on 8 December, 2019.

What happens to communities when a company wants to put in a wind turbine farm? This program first aired on November 12, 2017.

Cross disciplinary research, undergraduate study, postgraduate study, double degrees! This program first aired on February 4, 2018.

Treating obesity is never as simple as eat less, exercise more. This program first aired on November 17, 2019.

Neuroscience PhD student Samuel Mills reflects — and shares a few stories about the brilliant neurologist and author — at Melbourne's Laborastory. This program first aired on April 22, 2018.

Could VR headsets save your life? This episode first aired April 29, 2018

How NASA helped calculate the economic value a refugee population brought to town. (First broadcast March 11, 2018.

Truly clean coal technology is not a myth, argues University of Newcastle chemical engineering researcher Dr Jessica Allen.