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2008-08-31 Rising sea levels
The CEO of Green Cross Australia, Mara Bun, reports on what will happen if sea levels continue to rise. According to scientists we could experience an 88cm rise by the end of the century if greenhouse emissions keep increasing and this will have catastrophic effects on vast populations globally.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-08-24 Hearing impairment - a personal story Nineteen-year-old Sarahjane Thompson is a double degree student at the University of New South Wales and has had a hearing impairment for as long as she can remember. She talks about her experiences living with a hearing disability.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-08-17 Culture change Professor Jane Goodall from the University of Western Sydney is fascinated by the dramatic unpredictability of culture change. Today she focuses on the debates surrounding climate change.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-08-10 The Wallace-Darwin papers on biological evolution - 150 years ago 150 years ago Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace made a joint presentation to the Linnean Society of London of their views on biological evolution. But who was Alfred Wallace? Emeritus Professor Tony Larkum from Sydney University relates the story of this unsung man.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-08-03 The last environmental taboo Today Richard Begbie from Canberra looks at the environmental cost of air travel. Airplanes add around 750 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year to the atmosphere and in the process burn 250 million tonnes of a non-renewable resource.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-07-27 Peak oil - the trigger for global sustainability Ian Dunlop is Deputy Convener of the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil and warns that the oil supply will eventually run out and with that and the global warming issue in mind, we need to look for alternatives.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-07-20 Dr W.G. Grace - Last match 1908 Medical historian Dr Jim Leavesley from Margaret River in Western Australia, talks about Dr W.G. Grace, medicine's greatest gift to cricket, whose last match was in 1908 when he was 59 years old. Apparently he was much better at cricket than at medicine.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-07-13 H. floresiensis - where are we now? In October 2004 a new species of hominin, less scientifically called The Hobbit, was discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesie. Today PhD candidate Debbie Argue from the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra discusses the controversy that erupted after this discovery was announced.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-07-06 Can science teach us anything about morality? Are we born with a sense of good and evil? Science writer Tim Dean reports on findings made by an increasing number of scientists.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-06-29 Speed cleaning for your soul Melbourne writer Rosaleen Love has some suggestions on how to clear the clutter in our mind space.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-06-22 How many reports do we need? There have been many reports into the state of school science over the last decades. However, former President of the Australian Science Teachers Association Ruth Dircks says that despite these reports and recommendations nothing has been achieved and she has some suggestions of her own.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-06-15 The public's perception of potable water Emma Pratt is a science student at the University of New South Wales and her passion is water and how we're running out of it. Here she talks about how the public perceives the use of recycled water.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-06-08 Abrolhos birds Discovered by Portuguese Commander de Houtman in 1619, the Abrolhos Islands are 60 kilometers off Geraldton on the Western Australian coast. This was where the second oldest shipwreck in Australia, the Batavia, came to grief in 1629. Today author and keen birdwatcher Sue Taylor from Melbourne takes us on a tour of these islands in her quest to see nesting seabirds, some of which she has never seen before.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-06-01 There's something odd happening in the minds of the Australian public Craig Cormick, Manager of Public Awareness, Biotechnology Australia, looks at recent public attitude studies towards biotechnology that showed some really significant changes in the way people think about themselves, technology and the state of the planet.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-05-25 On failing successfully Professor Mark Dodgson, Director of the Technology and Innovation Management Centre at the University of Queensland, suggests that failure doesn't get the credit it deserves. He points out the positive side of failing.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-05-18 The global warming debate - Professor Stephen Schneider's response to Professor Don Aitkin Recently Professor Don Aitkin presented a two part series on the challenges to global warming orthodoxies and today Professor Stephen Schneider, a climatologist from Stanford University, responds to these talks.
This is an extended transcript. Part of this talk was broadcast on last week's Science Show.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-05-11 Secrets of the immune system 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-05-04 A challenge to global warming orthodoxies - part two In part two of his talk about global warming Professor Don Aitkin explores why the issue of global warming is such a difficult one.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-04-27 A challenge to global warming orthodoxies - part one Professor Don Aitkin, former Vice Chancellor at the University of Canberra, delves into the question of global warming to see what's at the heart of it.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-04-20 Ventriloquism, lip reading and left and right As a young child Professor John Bradshaw from the Department of Psychology at Monash University, was fascinated by the Punch and Judy puppet plays and the very convincing ventriloquistic effects. This later led him to research how we hear - is it the left side of the brain or the right side that dominates our auditory signals? And do mouth movement asymmetries impact on our ability to lip read?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-04-13 Schizophrenia and the origin of human nature This year is the centenary of the naming of the illness known as schizophrenia. Forensic Psychiatrist Dr Robert Kaplan from Wollongong talks about the history of schizophrenia.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-04-06 The plea of the Great Barrier Reef 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-03-30 Cooking with hominids Journalist Dr Peter Lavelle, from ABC Health Online in Sydney discusses the evolution of food and the history of cooking.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-03-23 Public policy: It's so obvious Dr Adam Graycar is Dean and Professor at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. Before that he was a senior bureaucrat, as Head of the Cabinet Office in South Australia. In this talk he suggests that sometimes obvious problems could be solved if government departments would work together, instead of working in their own jurisdiction without sufficient communications with other sections.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-03-16 Protecting the world's cultural heritage Director of Studies with the International Law Association, Keith Suter, discusses how cultural property is often targeted in wars and draws attention to one of the world's most significant places for archaeology - Iraq.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-03-09 What is killing the frogs? - A reply to last week's talk Last week on this program Barrie Oldfield looked at the decline of frog populations and suggested that electro magnetic radiation and mobile phones may play a role in their demise. Today, Professor Rodney Croft, Executive Director of the Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research, responds to last week's talk and tells us of his research in this area.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-03-02 Why frogs don't like mobile phones Barrie Oldfield is a member and past president of the Western Australian branch of Men of the Trees and he discusses the decline of frog populations in this International Year of the Frog. He suggests that maybe electro magnetic radiation may be the reasons for this calamity.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-02-24 Wretched or contented? The politics of past lives 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-02-17 Peace Technology Sydney author Andrew Greig has written a book called Taming War - Culture and Technology for Peace and suggests that the problems of war may be solved by technology. His hope is that we can turn our technological skills away from war and focus on technologies for peace.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-02-10 Abraham Lincoln revisited 26 years ago medical historian Dr Jim Leavesley gave his first talk in this time slot and today he revisits the same subject which dealt with the ailments of President Abraham Lincoln. Over the years opinions have changed. It was believed that the President suffered from Marfan's Disease, but did he?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-02-03 Is the book as we know it dead? 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 talks about his use of technology to research this work.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-01-27 Silver and gold collectables Bill Hall from Adelaide is a collector and professional writer for the antiques and collectables trade. Today he discusses the collection and value of precious metal antiques. Many people believe that they are too expensive, however there are bargains available in many bric-a-brac shops.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-01-20 Is it really me? A question of bodily integration and identity Professor John Bradshaw, a neuropsychologist from Monash University in Melbourne, has a neurological explanation for a not uncommon phenomenon, that of experiencing the powerful and disturbing sensation of someone watching us or standing behind us, whether or not there is really someone there.
Transcripts of this program will be available at the end of January, 2008.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-01-13 Science curriculum in British schools Science teacher Dr Berry Billingsley from Windsor in the UK tells us about the new science curriculum in British schools, which is designed to make science seem more relevant and more exciting for the students. It aims to show the students by examples that science is alive and happening in the present.
Transcripts of this program will be available at the end of January.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2008-01-06 The world's tallest tree There was a report in the media last year that Nelson's column in London had been re-measured and to general surprise, the monument is nearly 5 metres shorter than had always been believed. This is not the first time this sort of thing has occurred, as Perth forester Roger Underwood recalls in this story about his encounter with the world's tallest tree.
Transcripts of this program will be available at the end of January.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2007-12-30 Applied imagination 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'.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2007-12-23 Science and religion Dr Richard Eckersley researches progress and well-being and is a Visiting Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the ANU in Canberra. In this talk he ponders the question whether there is a road to peace in the war between science and religion. Dr Eckersley suggests that science and religion can co-exist, but both sides need to give ground.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2007-12-16 Bodysurfing Surf Life Saving Australia is celebrating its centenary this year and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Neville de Mestre, who is the Australian and World Masters surf race champion in the over 65 group, talks about the science of bodysurfing.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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