Science Friction - Abc Rn

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 120:31:50
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Synopsis

Science, culture and everything in between. Feel the heat. All species welcome.

Episodes

  •  Rats to the rescue (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 2)

     Rats to the rescue (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 2)

    10/07/2022 Duration: 26min

    You just never know when you'll need a rat will save your life.

  • The mighty fly army (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 1)

    The mighty fly army (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 1)

    03/07/2022 Duration: 26min

    Some people dream of changing the world. Others do. Thank the flies.

  • Carlo Rovelli: intellectual free spirit, quantum physicist, bestselling author[REPEAT]

    Carlo Rovelli: intellectual free spirit, quantum physicist, bestselling author[REPEAT]

    26/06/2022 Duration: 26min

    There is nothing this physicist with radical roots won't think about! [REPEAT]

  • Gene edited foods back on the menu - what are they and whats changed?

    Gene edited foods back on the menu - what are they and what's changed?

    19/06/2022 Duration: 30min

    Once fences and armed guards protected genetically modified (GM) crops. But the rules are rapidly changing. From Vitamin D-boosted tomatoes to low GI potato chips, what say should citizens have?

  • Move over Mills and Boon, the HOT SCIENTISTS are here

    Move over Mills and Boon, the HOT SCIENTISTS are here

    12/06/2022 Duration: 25min

    Meet the neuroscientist turned bestselling rom-com novelist who's exposing the underbelly of science, the passion, and the power games.

  • The STEAM Room science experiment - I wannabe a stand-up comic!

    The STEAM Room science experiment - I wannabe a stand-up comic!

    05/06/2022 Duration: 25min

    Would you be game? Hear what happened when scientists make themselves vulnerable AND hilarious.

  • How two short words triggered a racism reckoning for plant scientists

    How two short words triggered a racism reckoning for plant scientists

    29/05/2022 Duration: 25min

    Two words. Tweeted then deleted. A meeting meltdown. Has #BlackLivesMatter put international science on notice?

  • The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure (REPEAT)

    The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure (REPEAT)

    22/05/2022 Duration: 25min

    Lace up your boots. Get down and dirty. We're hunting the impossible.

  • The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind (REPEAT)

    The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind (REPEAT)

    15/05/2022 Duration: 25min

    Nature's rules are made to be broken. Paul Steinhardt just had to find a way.

  • Should Big Pharma profit from secret COVID-19 vaccine deals? Moderna responds

    Should Big Pharma profit from secret COVID-19 vaccine deals? Moderna responds

    08/05/2022 Duration: 26min

    Big Pharma has helped get life-saving COVID-19 vaccines into billions of arms. The profits are pouring in, but at what cost?

  • Feeling a bit hopeless? Primatologist Dr Jane Goodall is here for YOU

    Feeling a bit hopeless? Primatologist Dr Jane Goodall is here for YOU

    01/05/2022 Duration: 28min

    Jane Goodall wants you to gird your loins. What does that mean? Well ... for hope, push PLAY.

  • Scratch that itch! She of flamenco flair and molecular dances

    Scratch that itch! She of flamenco flair and molecular dances

    24/04/2022 Duration: 26min

    By day, she's making molecules dance. By night, this vintage fashionista has a different dance on her mind.

  • AI ethics leader Timnit Gebru is changing it up after Google fired her

    AI ethics leader Timnit Gebru is changing it up after Google fired her

    17/04/2022 Duration: 30min

    Timnit Gebru was fired by Google in a cloud of controversy, now she's making waves beyond Big Tech's pervasive influence

  • World-first pig to human heart transplant. What happened?

    World-first pig to human heart transplant. What happened?

    10/04/2022 Duration: 25min

    You need a new organ. But there aren't enough to go around. Would you accept one from a pig? Hearts, kidneys, corneas ... xenotransplantation is here.

  • Scratch that itch! Meet the Sneaky Artist

    Scratch that itch! Meet the Sneaky Artist

    03/04/2022 Duration: 25min

    Indian-born engineer Nishant Jain flew in the face of expectations to radically reinvent himself as the Sneaky Artist

  • Escaping Russias new Iron Curtain - superstar science podcaster Ilya Kolmanovsky

    Escaping Russia's new Iron Curtain - superstar science podcaster Ilya Kolmanovsky

    27/03/2022 Duration: 30min

    Ilya Kolmanovsky is a popular science superstar in Russia. Like so many anti-Putin activists, he’s just made the most wrenching decision of his life. 

  • Foodies, why you should give a f*** about farming!

    Foodies, why you should give a f*** about farming!

    20/03/2022 Duration: 25min

    Why are we so weirdly paradoxical about food? Food, farms, revolution with two women closer to it all than most.

  • The gun dealer’s defence — on nukes, fossil fuels, and Australia

    The gun dealer’s defence — on nukes, fossil fuels, and Australia

    13/03/2022 Duration: 33min

    If you sell the gun but don’t pull the trigger ... are you to blame?  

  • Breaking Buruli, part two

    Breaking Buruli, part two

    06/03/2022 Duration: 26min

    After 25 years of painstaking research, could scientists be getting close to unlocking the mysteries of Buruli ulcer?

  • Breaking Buruli, Part One

    Breaking Buruli, Part One

    27/02/2022 Duration: 25min

    When people from a small beach town on Phillip Island started developing severe skin lesions, scientists were left scratching their heads as to what was causing them.

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