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Beyond Infinity

Piers Cunningham

Broadcast every Tuesday at 11am AEDT on Radio Port Phillip 98.7 or 98.3 FM. It’s your weekly dose of science and technology. Including features on cool gadgets, website reviews, the latest science and IT news, not to mention astronomy and space exploration. http://beyondinfinity.com.au/ Special thanks to John Young, Paul Wattie, Steve Meyers, Brendon Telfer and the team at RPPfm.

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00:40:33

Remote Collaboration - Rick Springfield Discusses His...

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2021/11/01

Piers talks with Australian-American musician and actor Rick Springfield about his latest album ‘Jack Chrome and the Darkness Waltz'. A joint project with singer-songwriter Russell Morris, the new album has been #1 on the ARIA Top 20 Jazz and Blues Albums Chart. In this wide-ranging interview Rick explains the album's 'Day of the Dead' inspiration and how a creative process with friendly competition worked with his old friend Russell, enabling the project's completion in just 6 weeks. Rick offers

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00:11:29

Lockdown Radio - Questioning The Media's Role In...

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2021/10/27

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. More freedoms as Victoria nears 80% double vaxed; Leunig fired after 55 years at The Age over censored cartoon; lack of transparency from Victorian government; controversial permanent pandemic powers set to pass into law.

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00:15:54

Lockdown Radio - Restrictions Ease As Victoria...

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2021/10/20

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Victoria passes 70% double dosed; Mornington Peninsula vax rate well ahead of many other Melbourne LGAs. Booster jabs being rolled out in Europe, US and Israel as double dose protection wanes over time, but should 3rd doses be going to poorer countries instead? Boom times for Pfizer forecast to continue in 2022. Update on subvariant AY.4.2 - more infectious than original Delta? And with daily case numbers stubbornly high,

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00:13:14

Lockdown Radio - Stark Contrast Between Victoria And NSW

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2021/10/06

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Authorities lose control of Delta as lockdown fatigue intensifies in Melbourne. Who is dying of covid? Health system shortcomings. Sydney crisis management better than Melbourne's. New Zealand, world's last bastion of covid-free living, abandons its eradication policy.

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00:21:12

Lockdown Radio - At 241 Days And Counting,...

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2021/09/29

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Melbourne's 241+ days of cumulative lockdown surpasses any other city, costing at least AUD$150 million a day. Record daily case numbers surpass Sydney's for the first time. Hospitals overrun when whole purpose of lockdowns was to buy time and prepare the health system for covid. Failure to learn lessons from last year's city hotspots. Rapid home testing to start in November. Pfizer boosters approved in Israel and the US.

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00:10:52

Lockdown Radio - Quakes, Riots And Chaos In The City

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2021/09/22

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Victoria struck by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake as a riotous anti-lockdown mob gathered in Melbourne's CBD threatening the public, police and efforts to control the city's growing delta outbreak. The potential for a super-spreader event is real and could seriously set back efforts to emerge from grinding lockdown, set to be the longest for any city in the world. Meanwhile, federal health minister Greg Hunt has requested approval for

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00:28:01

Andrews Government's Vague And Confusing Roadmap Out...

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2021/09/19

Piers discusses Victoria’s new Roadmap to Deliver the National Plan with Geoff Wells, a senior consultant urologist at Melbourne's Box Hill hospital. While Geoff says there's some improvement for Melburnians, the slow pace of getting kids back to school is scandalous and the roadmap is confusing and lacking in confidence. He thinks people who are fully vaccinated should enjoy more freedoms now and if future lockdowns occur once vaccination targets are met, government ministers should have their pay

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00:12:19

Lockdown Radio - Melbourne Nears 8 Months Of Lockdown...

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2021/09/15

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Regional status of Mornington Peninsula an increasingly hot issue; Shadow Health minister Georgie Crozier calls for more nuanced, targeted response to hotspots; risk averse Andrews Government plans for gradual and cautious reduction of tight restrictions; overseas lessons in benefits of rapid antigen testing; how to incentivise double vaccinations.

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00:23:12

Charting A Clear And Transparent Path Out Of Lockdown

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2021/09/11

Georgie Crozier, Victorian Shadow Minister for health and deputy leader of the Legislative Council, explains why Melburnians must be given hope that their city will emerge from nearly 8 months of crushing lockdown. In a wide-ranging interview, she discusses the government's broken promise of providing thousands of extra ICU beds, its failure to promote all vaccine options to the most vulnerable and its lack of a firm plan to open up from lockdown. Georgie also discusses the return of Matthew Guy as

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00:14:57

The Race That Could Start A Nation

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2021/09/09

Piers talks with Bruce Keebaugh, founder of catering and events company The Big Group, about the need for a clear and transparent plan to reopen the Victorian economy. Bruce says there's huge frustration for businesses and people stuck at home who want to get back to living. He's a big supporter of rapid anitigen testing, which he reckons is a great tool not being utilised. And he'd love Melbourne Cup Day on November 2nd, often referred to as 'the race that stops the nation', to mark the beginning

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00:10:01

Lockdown Radio - Covid Spreads As Vic Government...

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2021/09/08

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Cases popping up on highly vaccinated Mornington Peninsula as faith in Andrews government wanes; futile elimination target replaced with vaccine drive. New Opposition leader Matthew Guy reinstalled to take fight to ALP. WHO designates MU mutation a 'variant of concern'.

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00:34:07

Remote Collaboration - Russell Morris Discusses His...

Beyond Infinity ·

2021/09/03

A chat with Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist Russell Morris about his project with musician and actor Rick Springfield. Their new album 'Jack Chrome and the Darkness Waltz' came together from opposite sides of the world and celebrates the Mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead. Russell explains how the album seemed to almost write itself, plus the influences and technology which made this amazing work possible.

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00:12:19

Lockdown Radio - Despite Tough Restrictions, Case...

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2021/09/01

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. If stage 4 restrictions don't work and even NZ can't control Delta, what will work to bring the numbers down? Mornington Peninsula vaccine rates well ahead of state average; Europe sets limits on American travellers as US 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' worsens; the unbelievably high cost of over 7 months of lockdown for Melbourne.

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00:51:01

Unprecedented Uncertainty (Part 2)

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2021/08/25

Guy West, professional share market investor and a world chess master and Dr. Ian Storey, mathematician and lecturer in information systems share their thoughts on where the world's booming markets might be headed - the possibility of a catastrophic crash, how to balance a future of deflation versus hyper inflation and how to be less of a loser than the next person if things go pear shaped. Keep in mind this is a friendly chat and should not be construed as advice. We don't pretend to know the

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00:26:25

Unprecedented Uncertainty (Part 1)

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2021/08/25

Piers chats with Guy West, professional share market investor and a world chess master and Dr. Ian Storey, mathematician and lecturer in information systems about the world's exuberant financial markets and the risk of a so-called Minsky moment - a sudden, major collapse of asset values. Part 1 of a 2 part-long form interview.

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00:40:19

The Lockdown 'Cure' Is Worse Than The Disease

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2021/08/19

In-depth interview with Mr. Geoff Wells, medical specialist and outspoken critic of prolonged lockdowns in Melbourne, which now exceed 200 days. He says we must learn to live with covid and end the city's sixth punitive and futile lockdown. He says the Victorian government lacks openness and transparency and is acting in a dictatorial, ineffective and cruel way causing incalculable damage to the lives of Melburnians. Geoff is particularly concerned about the harm to young people aged 14 to 17 years

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00:14:41

Lockdown Radio - Melbourne Endures Seven Months Of...

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2021/08/18

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Melbourne's lockdown extended again, with tighter restrictions and a 9pm to 5am curfew introduced. The city of 5 million souls has been in lockdown for longer than anywhere else in the country, with devastating effects on people's lives, livelihoods and kids' education. We examine the demographics of Australians who've died from covid, plus overseas warnings of super variants emerging in the unvaccinated 3rd world.

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00:32:30

No Way To LIve - Australia's Rolling Lockdowns

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2021/08/16

Piers chews the fat with beekeeper activist Simon Mulvany. We talk disrupted travel plans, state border closures, vaccine passports, lost freedoms, economic fallout, mental health and lockdown fatigue.

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00:13:49

Lockdown Radio - Covid Numbers Heading The Wrong Way...

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2021/08/10

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. While Europe enjoys summer holidays, Australia's biggest cities are under wraps, with lockdowns extended as case numbers rise sharply in Sydney and remain stubbornly high for greater Melbourne. We discuss the limits of what lockdowns can achieve, vaccine certificates and how Oxford researchers are questioning the very notion of herd immunity.

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00:14:07

The War Has Changed

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2021/08/10

We could be entering a new and dangerous phase of the pandemic, with delta and other super contagious variants threatening populations around the world. Piers discusses what can be done to stem the tide: high tech and low tech options and the limits to what lockdowns can achieve.

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