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Ockham's Razor

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


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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 ]


2009-03-22 A Darwin tourist, Shrewsbury, England, February 12, 2009

Charles Darwin had his 200th birthday on February 12th, 2009 and Professor Karl Flessa from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona, made the pilgrimage to Shrewsbury, the village where Darwin was born....

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[ Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-03-15 The Manhattan Project for climate change

The Manhattan Project was established to develop nuclear bombs and today computer programmer Geoff Hudson from Melbourne suggests that a similar program should be introduced to combat climate change....

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


2009-03-01 A noun in your auricle

Dr Rob Morrison from Flinders University in Adelaide discusses how errors of grammar, punctuation and inaccurate scientific terminology can be misleading and complicate important social issues....

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


2009-02-22 Tramlines

Retired chemist Dr Trevor McAllister looks at the history of the tram, from the first horse-drawn service to the technology that has created the electric trams....

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[ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-02-15 Mirror neurons and empathy for pain

Professor John Bradshaw from Monash University in Melbourne discusses how some people when observing distress and pain in others experience it themselves. Or why, when we see people yawn we are compelled to do the same thing....

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


2009-02-08 Economic fiction - how Homo Sapiens could stop climate change

Melbourne author Valerie Yule looks at the problem of waste, which is anything that becomes useless rubbish before it need be....

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


2009-02-08 Economic fiction - how Homo Sapiens could stop climate change

Melbourne author Valerie Yule looks at the problem of waste, which is anything that becomes useless rubbish before it need be....

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


2009-02-01 Clocks and watches

Bill Hall from Adelaide, who writes about collectables with his wife Dorothy, tells us about collectable clocks and watches and how much that antique clock or watch in your bottom drawer or on the mantlepiece might be worth....

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


2009-02-01 Clocks and watches

Bill Hall from Adelaide, who writes about collectables with his wife Dorothy, tells us about collectable clocks and watches and how much that antique clock or watch in your bottom drawer or on the mantlepiece might be worth....

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


2009-01-25 A piece of my mind

Professor Alan Baxter, an immunologist at James Cook University in Townsville, talks about the history of neurological complications of viral diseases that could affect the brain and spinal cord and the history of rabies vaccination. Louis Pasteur's vaccine for rabies was first used clinically in 1885 and, while there were no reported complications in the first two years of treatment, problems with the vaccine appeared after that time....

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


2009-01-25 A piece of my mind

Professor Alan Baxter, an immunologist at James Cook University in Townsville, talks about the history of neurological complications of viral diseases that could affect the brain and spinal cord and the history of rabies vaccination. Louis Pasteur's vaccine for rabies was first used clinically in 1885 and, while there were no reported complications in the first two years of treatment, problems with the vaccine appeared after that time....

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


2009-01-18 Nursing in Australia and the UK

Professor Linda Shields from Curtin University of Technology in Perth has written, together with Professor Roger Watson from the University of Sheffield in the UK, about the state of nursing in Australia and the UK. She talks about the international nursing shortage which threatens the health of Australians, the nursing recruitment drive and the difference in education of Australian and British nurses, and about the treatment of nurses by health authorities in both countries....

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


2009-01-11 Charles Darwin in Australia

Charles Darwin arrived in Australia on 12 January, 1836, 173 years ago. He was on board a Royal Navy ship called the Beagle as a companion for Captain Robert FitzRoy. Emeritus Professor Frank Nicholas from the University of Sydney has written a book called Charles Darwin in Australia, in which he writes about Darwin's experiences while in this country....

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


2008-12-28 William of Ockham and the black death

William of Ockham died of plague during the black death epidemic in a convent in Munich either in 1347 or 1349, the exact date is unknown. However, as the disease did not reach Munich until late 1348, the year of his death is more likely to have been 1349. Medical historian Dr Jim Leavesley from Margaret River in Western Australia, talks about this period and has set the time for this tribute half way between, to make this year the 660th anniversary of William of Ockham's death....

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[ Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-12-21 Resilient cities and the crash

The financial crash has an enormous impact on the global situation and Australia is no exception. Our cities are places where the crash hurts deeply. Many cities with their urban sprawl, poorly designed buildings and inefficient transport systems consume enormous quantities of fossil fuels and emit high levels of greenhouse gases. Professor Peter Newman from Curtin University in Perth, has some suggestions for the future of our cities....

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[ Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-12-14 An innovator for the ages

Professor Mark Dodgson, director of the Technology and Innovation Management Centre at the University of Queensland, nominates Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the Wedgwood Company, as one of the greatest innovators of all time....

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[ Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-12-07 Anniversaries are what we make of them

Honorary Associate Professor and President of the Medical Alumni Association at the University of Sydney, Paul Lancaster, tells us about the achievements of some of the past medical graduates from Sydney University....

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[ Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2008-11-30 Innovation today, not tomorrow

Professor Kurt Lambeck, President of the Australian Academy of Science, assesses the Cutler Report and the Green Paper, an outcome of the Review of the National Innovation System. He suggests ways in which Australia must increase its investment in science and technology....

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


2008-11-23 The meaning of life

Dr Jack Carmody, who coordinates a postgraduate course in Medicine and Music at the University of Sydney, tells us amongst other things how hormones influence the brain, the march of DNA down generations and reproduction....

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

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