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Ep 107: Ranking Cricketers

The Mr Science Show ·

2009/06/03

Cricket is one of the world's most statistical sports, and mathematicians in cricket-loving nations love nothing more than delving into the minutiae of the numbers and diving into averages, strike-rates and custom-made measures of batting and bowling effectiveness.For many people, including me, cricket isn't just a sport, it is a way of life.These words could easily have come from me, but are actually the words of Rob Eastaway, a cricket-loving mathematician from the UK, and originator of the

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28:44

Ep 106: The Global Financial Crisis - The...

The Mr Science Show ·

2009/05/14

This week on the podcast we are tackling something dear to all our hearts, money.The Global Financial Crisis has hit many people hard, with the resultant economic recession causing job losses, stock market crashes and company failures. But what started it all? Why are we in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?I spoke to Nick Davis from the World Economic Forum to answer some of these questions and to toss up ideas on how we might emerge from the crisis. The World

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33:08

Ep 103: Climate Change Science and Policy

The Mr Science Show ·

2009/04/07

In last week's show on Earth Hour, we had a quick chat to Dr. Ben McNeil, a Senior Fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre in the University of New South Wales, about the current state of knowledge on climate change and some of the policies that Australia and the world could implement to tackle the problem. This week I am putting up the longer, more wide-ranging interview I had with Ben on all things climate change. Ben is a very impressive young scientist and one of Australia's renowned

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21:06

Ep 101: Molecular Design

The Mr Science Show ·

2009/03/27

Dr. Luke Hunter is an organic chemist whose chemistry career has been based around molecular design - that is, designing organic molecules through experiment.I grabbed Luke over a few cocktails and chatted organic chemistry, molecular synthesis and design, and the Hollywood lifestyle that organic chemists lead. This podcast also has our first Correlation of the Week.

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20:26

Ep 102: Earth Hour

The Mr Science Show ·

2009/03/27

Earth Hour is a WWF initiative where individuals, businesses and governments turn off their lights for one hour to show their support for action on climate change. It is a symbolic event designed to engage people in the climate change discussion in order to send a strong message to political leaders that we want them to take meaningful action on climate change. It claims to be the largest climate event in history and it is hoped that one billion people around the world will participate - not bad for

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17:12

Ep 100: Your Top 10 Science Stories from 2008

The Mr Science Show ·

2009/03/02

With 2008 done and dusted, it is now time to look back and reflect on the science year that was. It is also our 100th podcast episode, so I would like to say thanks very much to all my subscribers, whether you get your Mr Science fix via the podcast, email, in an RSS reader, however you do it, thanks! The winner of our 2008 year in science competition is… Dr Steven Farrell from Cork in Ireland. Congratulations Steven! Steven won the random draw for suggesting the Large Hadron Collider as his

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23:22

Ep 99: The Unknown Solar System

The Mr Science Show ·

2009/02/13

You may think that with the Hubble Telescope, the Mars Rovers, the Huygens probe and even the Voyager missions launched way back in 1977, that there is little left for us to learn about our solar system. But this is far from the truth, and it seems that the more we learn, we more we realise how much we don't know. This week in our 99th show, I speak to Bianca Nogrady from New Scientist about the recent NS article The biggest mysteries of our solar system. The 6 biggest unknowns were: How was the

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17:29

Ep 98: Santa Claus - a fat, diabetic substance abuser?

The Mr Science Show ·

2009/01/29

Santa Claus is a ticking time-bomb. Not only does he eat copious amounts of sugar and drink gallons of beer, he is also at risk of altitude sickness, deep-vein thrombosis, jet-lag, zoonotic diseases from exposure to wild reindeer and countless other problems associated with lack of sleep and poor diet. Not to mention all the concerns associated with smoking.Australian science writer Bianca Nogrady assembled a crack team of health experts to look into the state of the big man, and the prognosis

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11:04

Ep 97: My Top 5 Mathematics Stories from 2008

The Mr Science Show ·

2009/01/17

Having worked in maths communication throughout 2008, I thought it about time to reflect on the 2008 year in maths, so here are the maths stories from 2008 that caught my eye. I'm sure I have left out many mathematical stories from the year, so please let me know of anything you think I should have included.

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15:06

Ep 96: Reflecting on the science year 2008

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/12/30

This week I sat down with a kebab and Darren Osborne, editor of ABC Science Online, to reflect on the science year that was 2008. Darren was immersed in science in 2008 and is across nearly all the science topics that hit the headlines - as well as breaking the science news himself. Topics we discussed include:Climate Change;The LHC;X-rays and Sticky tape;Genomic Research;Biofuels and the food crisis;Alternative Energy Sources;Beer made from 45 million-year old yeast;A 380-million year-old

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08:12

Ep 95: Merry Christmas from Mr Science!

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/12/22

Reindeer and Santa Claus are the topic of this week's Mr Science Show. With Christmas here, we thought we'd look at some Christmas news, and this week we take a look at reindeer facts and the problems Santa is having at the North Pole. Due to global warming, and the global financial crisis, Santa has had to put his North Pole residence up for auction and is currently looking for a new place in Lapland.

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14:56

Ep 94: The Geek Pop Virtual Music Festival

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/12/22

Geek Pop is the world’s only sci-pop festival - a free online music event featuring songs about science. The festival brings together science-inspired artists from around the globe in a gleeful celebration of geek culture. In 2009, Geek Pop will take place between 6-15th March.This week on the podcast I spoke to Hayley Birch, the organiser of Geek Pop, about the festival, where the idea came from and what type of music we can look forward to.

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16:29

Ep 93: Communicating Mathematics with the Masses

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/12/14

Some people find mathematics perplexing, whilst others find it beautiful. This week on the podcast, I spoke to two young men professionally employed to communicate mathematics to school-children around the country. Both these guys have a long history in science communication - I got to be good friends with them back in my science circus days.Jamos McAlester travels Australia with Tenix Questacon Maths Squad, which is an outreach program of Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre

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09:49

Climate Change News and closing in on 100 episodes

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/11/29

This week on the Mr Science Show Podcast we take a look at the latest climate change news, and start reflecting on the science year that was, as we close in on 100 podcast episodes (this is episode 92).The news items we discuss this week are:CO2 build-up in the atmosphere may prevent a coming ice-age. Ice-ages occur roughly every 100,000 years and are possibly due to small shifts in Earth's orbit which change the amount of solar energy hitting the surface. A build-up of CO2 and its associated

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11:55

Science on stage

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/11/19

Dr Christopher Pettigrew, a post-graduate researcher at the Department of Biochemistry in University College Cork, is no stranger to putting science on stage.With the 2009 AAAS Dance your PhD competition up-and-running, we decided for this week's episode of the podcast to chat to Chris about his experiences in the public performance of science.

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08:57

Halloween Science Special

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/11/02

As it's Halloween, here is the Halloween news that I presented on Diffusion Science Radio this week. Diffusion can be heard on Monday nights at 6.30pm on 2SER 107.3 in Sydney, at various times across Australia on stations affiliated with the Community Radio Network, and on the Diffusion podcast.

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15:48

Japan and the sumo diet

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/10/14

Travelling Japan and Korea was a wonderful experience - magnificent sights, great food, interesting people and of course, of interest to this blog, science.I have finally put together the Japan / Korea podcast, which you can listen to here. It was recorded whilst we travelled from Tokyo to Fukuoka on the shinkansen (bullet train), Fukuoka to Busan in Korea on the JR Beetle (ferry), and Busan to Seoul on the KTX (high-speed train) - all fantastic methods of transport that put Aussie transport links

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19:04

Reflections on the London Science Blogging Conference

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/09/09

With the London Science Blogging Conference finished up, it was time to reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly of science blogging. I chatted to Lisa Bailey, who blogs about science at Bridge 8, about what we learnt at the conference, how blogging can be used effectively to communicate science, the challenges laid down at the conference - including the challenge to get senior scientists to blog - and where science blogging might be going from here. For more from the conference, check out the Mr

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11:59

London Science Pubs

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/08/29

Last night I attended the most interestingly themed pub-crawl I have ever been on. It was a science crawl of London pubs.

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32:20

Your favourite fictional scientists

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/08/15

Emmett Brown vs Dr Who;Professor Honeydew vs Beaker;Q vs Dr. Evil;And Mr Science vs The Ordinary Guy?This week the podcast has joined forces with the Brains Matter podcast to discuss the topic of our favourite fictional scientists. We looked at the poll and at your suggestions, then chatted at length over Skype about what turned out to be quite an interesting topic.

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