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July 1, 2016

Science Party Australian Election bonus edition


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Brendan Clarke talks about the National Broadband Network,
James Jansson talks about the need for an Australian Space Agency,
James Coffey talks about the Science Party's Energy policy.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

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James Jansson

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Brendan Clarke

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James Coffey

Science Party

July 4, 2016

Oz in High Earth Orbit


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CFS identified by gut, by Ian Woolf,
Tom Crosten talks about building a little satellite for QB50,
William Crowe starts a business mapping all the asteroids.
Why is Uranus upside-down? by Fred Watson
Production checked by Charles Willock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

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Tom Crosten

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William Crowe

High Earth Orbit Robotics
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Fred Watson

Reduced diversity and altered composition of the gut microbiome in individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
Indicator of chronic fatigue syndrome found in gut bacteria
ME isn’t just ‘exercise phobia’: it’s a physical illness
First official UK death from chronic fatigue syndrome

July 11, 2016

Music inspired by Space


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Brains scan bugs by Ian Woolf,
Keyna Wilkins talks about creating music inspired by Astronomy,
Paul Francis has transcoded radio astronomy signals into haunting sounds.
Production checked by Charles Willock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf.

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Ephemera Ensemble

Paul Francis' Sounds of the Universe

Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates
IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study
Bibliometrics of Cluster Inference
Don’t Be So Quick to Flush 15 Years of Brain Scan Studies
A software bug could render the last 15 years of brain research meaningless


July 18, 2016

Fine tuning for Life


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Rat robot stingrays have heart by Ian Woolf,
Luke Barnes discusses how finely tuned the Universe is for life,
Callisto by the Ephemera Ensemble.
Production checked by Charles Willock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

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Luke Barnes
Luke Barnes' blog contributions
Letters to Nature blog


Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray

A Cyborg Stingray Made of Rat Muscles and Gold
Synthetic Stingray May Lead To A Better Artificial Heart - NPR interview
This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells
This Tiny Robot Stingray Made From Gold And Rat Hearts Can Also Swim
Made of gold, powered by heart cells of rats – meet the robo-ray

July 25, 2016

Retro trivia special


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Ian has the flu this week, so here's the trivia special from 2009:

Join Marc West, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf as we tackle questions in mathematics, biology, popular science and chemistry. Can you do better than the team?
Produced and Panelled by Marc West
Also starring Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf

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Mr Science Show - Marc West

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