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This Podcast will be an edited package of Dr Karl's magical hour, Live on Mel in the Morning. It's roughly an hour devoted to the collective exploration of some of the great mysteries of life, such as "why does the water in the shower slow down just when Primary Format : News Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Sydney State/Province : Unknown Country : Australia Region : OC User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Dr Karl on triple j - triple j's science guru Podcasts Methings.com listings of Dr Karl on triple j - triple j's science guru Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Dr Karl on triple j - triple j's science guru Dry lightning and deja vu What is dry lightning? Is there a scientific explanation for deja vu? Can hot tea cool you down in hot weather? And could a fart cast a shadow? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farts in baths and musical heartbeats Why do farts smell worse in the bath? Why does my heartbeat change to the beat of the music? And without oxygen can things still explode in space? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space screams and surfing feeds Is it true you can't hear a scream in space? Can eating burnt toast give you cancer? And is it better for my metabolism if I eat before or after I go surfing? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Water, wormholes and freezing cheese Why does hot water in the shower taste different to water out of the tap? Does a wormhole take more energy to create than is available in the universe? And can you freeze cheese? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Runaway rubber and stunted gym junkies Where does all the rubber you lose from your tyres go? If you start working out at a young age will it stunt your growth? And is there alcohol in sweets? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bug baby and mobile mysteries Can flying ants give birth to live young? Why can I get mobile phone coverage at a gig when the band is playing and not when it stops? Why does my brain hurt if it doesn't have pain receptors? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Romantic reproduction and rutty roads Does the mood a couple are in when having sex to conceive a child have any effect on the personality of the resulting child? And what causes corrugations to form on dirt roads? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wee, water and weighty wind Why do we get an urge to wee when we hear the sound of running water? How did water come to be on Earth? And do you lose weight when you pass wind? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Karl gets dusty in the name of science Why did the sun appear blue in the dust storm yesterday? What causes the white marks you can get on your fingernails? How can women who haven't given birth lactate? And can you smell danger? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stainless steel soap, sunburn and synaesthesia How does stainless steel soap work? Can animals get sunburn and skin cancer? Who invented the concept of time? And why do you see different colours and shapes when you close your eyes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Speedy spacecraft and eating dirt Could my child love to eat dirt because of an iron deficiency? Why do spacecraft re-enter the atmosphere so fast? And why do the mushrooms in my paddocks grow in big circles? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lumpy tattoos and tiger allergies Why do tattoos become lumpy when the weather changes? If you were allergic to cats would you also be allergic to lions and tigers? Can the image resolution of a digital camera beat the human eye? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing red and heavy sleepers Why do you vomit when you overexercise? Can we create AC electricity from sunlight? Do you actually see red when you're angry? And why do people feel heavier when they're asleep? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Karl and Fred Watson celebrate National Science Week What causes bags under your eyes? Does using sunscreen reduce your body's ability to produce Vitamin D? And what is a shooting star and why does it shoot? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hoaxes, human skeletons and hermaphrodites Dr Karl debunks some persistent internet hoaxes. Plus: How are scientists able to reconstruct what a person looked like from only their skeleton? And how does hermaphroditism occur? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Karl talks stars, shadows and baby pelicans What is the Big Aussie Star Hunt? During the bushfires why did shadows have a light blue tinge? Why are flies so attracted to humans? And where do baby pelicans live? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shocking science and Guinness world records What would happen if you got stuck in an electric fence? Why do Perth and Melbourne have such different climates although they are at similar latitudes? And why do some people have a heightened sense of smell when they're exercising? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Karl looks for aliens with Jill Tarter How does SETI@home work? Would technologically advanced alien civilisations share similar emotional and psychological traits to us? How did an African tribe know Sirius had a companion star centuries before astronomers? And what's the best picture of aliens you've ever seen? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Karl ponders with the public on triplej Do springs get affected by tides? Why is it colder just before dawn? Sound in air races sound travelling via an electric cable, and sunburn faces off against osteoporosis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Karl explores the universe with Simon Singh What happens if you remove an electron from an atom? Is anything in the physical world truly random? What caused the Big Bang? How do you measure distance in space and would a corpse decompose on the moon? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website