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!
This week’s episode of Boiling Point features Tim’s interview on location in Launceston with Dr Suzi Claflin on Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and the University of Tasmania’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC ) on MS. The full interview is available here. Find out about the March 2020 enrolment for the next MS MOOC here. Subscribe to […]
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The new Boiling Point Podcast is out – cow special! Nick and Cat are joined by carnivore conservationist, Cam Radford who works on the i-cow project in Botswana. Segment 1 (Nick) – How do you reduce the amount of flies landing on a cow? Paint stripes on them! Segment 2 (Cam Radford) – How […]
Boiling Point’s new Podcast is out! This week, Nick and Alex ask Should your hobbies mix with your work? How common is impostor syndrome? What really wiped out the woolly mammoths? Listen in: bit.ly/BoilingPointScience Links: https://digest.bps.org.uk/…/spending-more-time-on-your-hobb… https://edition.cnn.com/…/woolly-mammoths-death-…/index.html https://phys.org/news/2019-09-impostor-syndrome-common-thinkstudy-cope.html […]
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This week Boiling Point Science brings you a 2018 favourite featuring Chantelle, Tim and Alex. Why is ice slippery? How can nanoparticles used to fight cancer help rescue malnourished crops? And the human genome adaptation that gives ‘Sea Nomads’ their undersea diving advantage. […]
What is it like to be a science artist in residence? Boiling Point chat with Dr Sarah Jane Moore to find out. Dr Sarah Jane is the Australian Network for Art and Technology On Country Artist in Residence and is hosted in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) UNSW. Her residency focuses […]
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This week’s dose of Boiling Point is brought to you by Cat, Chantelle and Tim. Moving corpses, cubic stool and the micro full moon Moving corpses and mummification – what research on a body farm looks like, Faeces come in cubes – at least when you are a wombat, and how the industry can benefit […]
Welcome to the world of aphantasia! What is it like when your mind can’t visualize your last holiday at the beach or last night’s delicious dinner? Cat talks to special guest UNSW Prof Joel Pearson about the world happening in our mind and those people whose mind’s eye is blind. What does it feels like […]
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Cat, Chantelle and Tim bring you this week’s installment of Boiling Point. White, yellow, green – ever wondered why your snot turns green when you have a really nasty cold? More weight, similar diet – according to a new study, we weigh more than in the 1980s, although we eat about the same amount […]
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Tim, Alex and Nick revisit a 2018 Boiling Point classic… Ethanol-Based cancer treatments ; Are they a cost-effective option ? ‘Total recall’ in snails. ‘Memory transplant’ achieved in these marine molluscs […]
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On tonight’s episode of Boiling Point, Chantelle is back and joined by Tim. Does University education really mean a higher income? Perhaps if you are male and want work in a engineering, construction or electrical related field Is Ebola cured? Nope. But two trialled drugs are increasing survival rates Plug into our podcast here : […]
Dr Will Crowe joins Tim and Nick on Boiling Point (August 13) to talk all things space including his “Top 5 Tips for Remaining Radiation Free”. Will is an expert on asteroids, asteroid mining, spacecraft swarms, space mining and potentially hazardous asteroids. Will’s recent thesis focuses on using swarming spacecraft to characterize asteroids. This episode […]
This week on Boiling Point Science, Nick and Tim speak with special guest Zoe Ford, who’s podcast Scientists are people too launched on Monday 5 August. And Nick delves into the dire environmental consequences of cigarette litter. It’s Science Week in Sydney and National Science Week across Australia, with events and activities galore – Sydney […]
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