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Thoughtful people have their say, without interruption, on important science-related topics.


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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....

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[ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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?...

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[ Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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?...

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[ Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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'....

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[ Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +1000 ]


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....

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[ Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +1000 ]





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