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April 5, 2010

Australian Pirate Party, and LHC restarted


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The Australian Pirate Party's Simon Frew explains how the party is for online civil liberties to Ian Woolf. Victoria Bond reports that the Large Hadron Collider didn't destroy the world, the brain has a moral centre that can be switched off with giant magnets, and the courts rule that human genes can't be patented. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf.


April 12, 2010

Doc Oc, Element 117, and Nikola Tesla


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Aaron Cook reports on Element 117-- Ununseptium
Marc West speaks with "Doctor Boob" about villain Doc Oc
Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf discuss the life and legend of Nikola Tesla
Presented by Ian Woolf,
Produced by Victoria Bond,
with technical support by Ian Woolf

April 19, 2010

Dwarf planets and cooperating rats


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Pluto demoted again? It's been some fall from grace for Pluto. This week sees a possible new definition of dwarf-planet, and it seems Pluto is hardly special at all. interview by Marc West
Ian Woolf tackles grey hair and baldness, and rats solving the long-standing mathematical conundrum, the prisoners' dilemma.
Produced and presented by Victoria Bond

April 26, 2010

Quolls, laser planes, anosmic flies


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Jon Bale discusses glow in the dark sperm (because who doesn't love glow in the dark sperm?), Victoria Bond talks geriatric dieting fruit flies, and Ian Woolf gets excited about laser-propelled paper planes.

Marc West gets to the bottom of why anyone would train quolls to avoid eating cane toads, with an interview with Jonathan Webb.
Presented and produced by Victoria Bond



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