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The best things about plastic, it’s durability and usefulness, are also the worst things, which makes plastic the perfect material for manufacturing double edged swords.
Comedians Claire Hooper, Kirsty Webeck and science journalist Jacinta Bowler help us smother the ocean of ignorance with the plastic flotsam of knowledge.
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To make sex unsexy, reproduction is just copying. That’s why it’s not allowed during exams. To understand how life has continued since the first single celled organism got a bit frisky we talk to comedian Lloyd Langford, broadcaster Beverly Wang and Dr Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist at Zoos Victoria.
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How can you stop time?
What machine can’t move and only works half the time?
Where on earth does time travel the slowest?
Find out the answers in the 25 so-called ‘minutes’ of this mind-bending episode of the best science comedy podcast of all time
Featuring Shaun Micallef, Claire Hooper and Astrophysics lecturer Katie Auchettl
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What convinced the Nobel judges to give her the first Nobel Prize? What's a little curie? What did she hoard in her youthful life of crime?
It's time to laboriously stir our mix of pitchblende to find the uranium of truth.
Featuring comedians Vidya Rajan, Alanta Colley and writer Laura Elvery
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Who invented dinosaurs? What would a T Rex have tasted like? Who sells sea shells by the sea shore?
It's time to dig through some rocks, carefully reveal the fossils and then extract the DNA inside to create an exciting but lethal theme park.
Featuring comedians Cal Wilson, Matt Stewart and science communicator Jacinta Bowler.
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The best things about plastic, it’s durability and usefulness, are also the worst things. Which makes plastic the perfect material for manufacturing double edged swords.
Comedians Claire Hooper, Kirsty Webeck and science journalist Jacinta Bowler help us smother the ocean of ignorance with the plastic flotsam of knowledge.
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History, like electricity, illuminates the darkness and it's expensive to get a specialist in it to come to your house on a public holiday.
Find out more about the science and the history behind you turning on a light switch.
Featuring comedians Kirsty Webeck, broadcaster Beverly Wang and Jamie Evans, Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne.
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How did life start? Was it a warm pond of foul smelling water, deep sea underwater vents or the divine work of the Lord God?
Comedians Sami Shah, Jude Perl and cell Biologist Dr. Bianca Le attempt to answer (and be funny about) the most fundamental question of all time.
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Like nachos, burritos and tacos, the elements are unique in themselves, but are all made of the building blocks of Tex-Mex cuisine,
just rearranged in different proportions. And also they can be organised neatly on a table.
Featuring comedians Greg Larsen, Kirsty Webeck and Professor Mark Quigley from the University of Melbourne.
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Are you too cold or too hot right now? There’s a very high chance that both are to do with heating.
The Pop Test returns to give heating the grilling it deserves and to ask why is it so hot right now?
Featuring science communicator Prof Jenny Martin and comedians Sammy J, Craig Quartermaine
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What role did old boots and horse manure play in the history of flight? What should you do if your helicopter fails 12,000 metres up? How should you pronounce helicopter?
Andy and Al ask these and many other questions as part of a one off special, to celebrate National Science Week.
Featuring comedians Naomi Higgins, Ben Russell and Professor Alan Duffy.
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When the moon hits your eye like a regular pie that’s a metaphoré from the liquid
hot core of our series finale with comedians Greg Larsen and Alex Lee and
Professor Mark Quigley on a journey to the centre of the Earth.
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Brains! Like a zombie neurologist we can't get enough of the stuff.
Join us as comedians Laura Davis, Josh Earl and science communicator Dr Jenny
Martin try, somewhat tautologically, try to get their heads around the human brain.
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We catch up with the fastest thing in the universe, light, and ask it why it’s in such a hurry.
Featuring comedians Danielle Walker, Jack Druce and Physicist Suzie Sheehy.
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Death comes to us all…so this episode should be very relatable!
Join our grim reapers/comedians Nazeem Hussain, Vidya Rajan &
cancer researcher Tane Hunter as they walk towards the light and answer questions about the final destination.
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Who gives a monkey’s about evolution?
Well, comedians Ross Noble, Alex Lee and Dr Jenny Martin of University of Melbourne do!
Let's hope they are up for Dar-win.
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Are we alone? Will we ever travel to the stars? What is a rocket?
These and many other questions will be asked but not necessarily answered by Kate McLennan, Kate McCartney (The Katering Show/Get Krack’n) and Dr Alan Duffy.
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Germs account for millions of death each year and frankly have had it too good for too long.
But how will they react to the antimicrobial properties of our guests comedian Kirsty Webeck, science communicator Alanta Colley & the ABC's Doctor to the nation, Norman Swan?
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What links food, bush poetry and millions of litres of raw sewage?
No it’s not the world’s fastest-cancelled country fair - they’re all part of agriculture.
Featuring comedians Alice Fraser, Angus Gordon and Dr Samantha Grover, a soil scientist from RMIT in Melbourne.
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Taking science seriously is vital right now and that’s why on The Pop Test we ask Shaun Micallef, molecular Biologist Upulie Divisekera and Sami Shah the big questions ... like what’s your favourite atom?
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