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Ockham's Razor

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2009-11-15 A Gunn and two Hookers - Part one

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 and a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin and he was one of the first British men of science to become a full-time professional. Dr Jim Endersby talks about Hooker's career and offers interesting insights into the 19th century natural...

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[ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-11-08 The role of undergraduate education in Australia

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....

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[ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-11-01 The evolution of world peace

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 Institute of International Studies at the University of California Berkeley and he argues that we are on the path to eventual world peace....

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[ Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-25 Women, science and politics

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 large number of them have a scientific background....

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[ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-18 Professor Ian Plimer replies to his critics

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 he answers his critics....

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[ Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-11 How T.H. Huxley helped me teach my students how to write

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....

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[ Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-04 Is our sustainability science racist?

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....

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[ Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-09-27 The Coolibah story

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 called Coolibah who was looking after his sick 3-year-old grandson, who was suffering with severe nephritis. So, what will it take for an Aboriginal child to have the same life chances for health as a white child?...

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[ Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-09-20 Dr Samuel Johnson's illnesses

Medical historian Dr Jim Leavesley from Western Australia remembers Dr Samuel Johnson's illnesses on the 300th anniversary of his birth on September 18, 1709. Dr Johnson is famous for his dictionary which was published in 1755 and he was plagued from birth by many illnesses....

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[ Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-09-06 Science and religion revisited

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 in 1600....

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[ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-03-08 The Waddi tree
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 remarkable tree which grows up to 18 metres....

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2009-08-30 Fuel saving follies

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 it turns out, no one so far has come up with a genuine fuel-saving device and fortunes have been won and lost in this attempt to revolutionise the car industry....

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[ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-16 Water wars

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....

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[ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-09 Language and prehistory

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....

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[ Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-02 Preventing osteoporosis

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....

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[ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-26 Zen, the science of clean engines and bureaucracy

Marcus Clayton from Melbourne outlines some of the bureaucratic obstacles he and his business partner have experienced in trying to get alternative technologies accepted....

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[ Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-19 Dealing with complex health problems

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....

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[ Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-12 Fructose

Author of Sweet Poison, David Gillespie,discusses the effect of fructose on our bodies....

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[ Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-05 The Chamberlen family - barber/surgeons

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 years. Medical historian Dr Jim Leavesley has the story....

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[ Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-28 Body integrity identity disorder

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. At 41 he froze the leg with dry ice which resulted in the desired amputation. This is his personal story....

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[ Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-21 Group A streptococcus - the bacterium that links the heart and the throat

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....

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[ Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-14 Thinking about memes, minds and cultural evolution

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 this might be applied to educational theory and practice....

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[ Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-07 Comments on Heaven and Earth: Global Warming: The Missing Science

Today Professor Kurt Lambeck, president of the Australian Academy of Science, discusses Professor Ian Plimer's book Heaven and Earth....

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[ Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-31 Science and Christianity: hand in glove

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....

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[ Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-24 The trigger for the clathrate gun

Melbourne computer specialist Geoff Hudson explains what clathrates are and the danger they pose to climate change....

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[ Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-17 Corruption in our world - part two of two talks

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....

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[ Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-10 Corruption in our world - part one of two talks

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....

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[ Sun, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-03 Smallpox in Sydney: 1789

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....

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[ Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-04-26 Pelican stories for the future

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 falling. How do they know there's water available in usually dry desert areas?...

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[ Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-04-19 Welcome to gravitational astronomy 101

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 earth is very real and a sound knowledge of graviational astronomy in 2059 will be crucial to our survival....

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[ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]

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