Boiling Point is Eastside Radio’s 30-minute foray into the scientific world. The BP crew discuss obscure scientific facts, recent developments and play tunes with a tenuous connection to their topics of choice!
30% of all Australians are heavily overweight. Why do we keep eating when we are already full? What drives our cravings and what can we learn from the way animals feed themselves? Ben and Cat chat with nutritional ecologist Prof David Raubenheimer of Sydney Uni who has studied animal and human nutrition for several decades. […]
All things archeological and wombat-y tonight: Archeologist Lian Ramage talks about excavating animal remains of long forgotten times and about a surprise finding of a wombat witness of Australian megafauna at the Smithsonian museum (Lian was not associated with the excavation or identification of Mukupirna). Check out Lian’s favorite archeology blog: https://www.johnhawks.net/ Listen in […]
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Relevant science news! How should you roll your toilet paper, under or over? The age old science question answered, to best protect your bum/hands from germs (apparently) How likely is it your name predicts your career? Nominative determinism explains it all (apparently). Urologists more likely to have a name related to wee and poop (see: […]
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What is a microbat anyway? Tim and Ben chat to an expert on all things dark and fluttery, Dr. Joanna Haddock! Our night sky from our cities to deepest forests are full of an invisible world teeming with microbats. Joanna talks to us about what these mysterious critters are doing up there every night and […]
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Spider silk is one of the toughest materials on earth – it’s super light, durable and sustainable. Is it the raw material for clothes and protective gear of the future? Cat chats to Dr Sean Blamires whose research explores ways to harness the spider silk’s special features for human use. Listen in to the […]
Brain special- sight, plasticity and total recall (2018 replay) Blue, the lost colour: Blue was long unknown in human languages. Does this mean our ancestors couldn’t see it? Total recall! What it is like to live with the perfect memory? Brain plasticity! How it works and how it changes our brain every […]
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Latest lockdown podcast! Dr Paul Gibson-Roy talks a utopian future where farms could grow chocolate lilies and wildflowers instead of crops, and seed collectors no longer need to take seed from wild, fragmented, populations. Native plants are used in restoration, road and minesite reveg. But where does all the seed come from? The ANPC Seed […]
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New Lock-down podcast episode! Chantelle and Cat chat to one of the pioneers of microplastics research, Dr Mark Browne from UNSW in Sydney. Our oceans and waterways are full of microplastics, especially of microfibers from our clothes. Mark talks about the current microplastics situation and his research trying to clean up microplastic pollution. […]
Chantelle is chatting with Gail Broadband, electric car expert and PhD candidate at UNSW Sydney, about the presence and future of electric mobility. Gail and Chantelle will enlighten you on questions like: Are electric cars cheaper? Are they “greener?” Why does NZ have such high use? How can we make electric cars affordable? Sources: https://theconversation.com/australias-electric-car-revolution-wont-happen-automatically-90442?fbclid=IwAR3zRHlOV1NtCiLnMQPbGsFteGQjeJv_NVrPUdZT1PG3X2pbN6rCumuqhuw […]
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Tim and Cat interview mammal ecologist Jemma Cripps from the Arthur Rylah Institute in Melbourne and chat about some of the rarer critters that roam the Victorian forests and how they have been doing since the devastating fires in the summer of 2019/2020. Check out this video about the current situation in the East Gippsland […]
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First iso zoom session;ecologist Ben Ellis tells us about bat he forgot was in his shirt pocket….. And about the fun and not so fun parts of a life half lived “in the field”, working as an ecological consultant. As an ecologist he spends about half his working life in the field. Searching for threatened […]
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Dark sky reserves and skin cream to combat mozzie virus We revisit as favourite intterivew of 2020 as Tim chats with Takapō Dark Sky Reserve guide, Holly McClelland, about what happens in a dark sky reserve and how optical telescopes work University of Canterbury And Chantelle reviews research University of Leeds into how skin cancer […]