Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAI - Avian Intelligence with Professor Gisela Kaplan (94)
Season 1 Episode 94
The original "AI" could be Avian - and from Australia. Professor Gisela Kaplan with Dr Karl of her research on why Australian birds are smarter than…
7 years, 5 months ago
Ultra-Processed Foods and Drinks - what harm can they do ? Professor Claire Collins explains to Dr Karl.
Season 1 Episode 92
A dietary study in Europe reveals a connection between processed foods (and drinks) and cancers. 8 years of research they tried to eliminate factors …
7 years, 5 months ago
What is Real ?
Season 1 Episode 91
Three Cases cracked by Three Doctors. From Floppy Hats, to Firebirds, The Dark Knight and the Broken Escalator Phenomenon. Doctor Karl is joined by A…
7 years, 6 months ago
Why Great physics is Messy with Dr Helen Czerski
Season 1 Episode 90
Dr Karl and Dr Helen - talking about .World's longest echo, how to photograph the molecules inside an explosion, Oceans, Coffee rings and climate cha…
7 years, 6 months ago
The "E" in STEM - Dr Karl & Dr Kanga talk Engineering (89)
Season 1 Episode 89
Meet Dr. Marlene Kanga, president of an international governing body looking after 2 million engineers. Our future depends on innovation. The creativ…
7 years, 6 months ago
Prof Graint Lewis's Dark Matter Quest
Season 1 Episode 87
So you want to solve the Dark Energy conundrum ? Then you need to be patient. It'll be clumpy, relativistic and you'll be seeing double at times. It…
7 years, 7 months ago
DIET is a 4 Letter word - but it doesn't have to be Dr Karl has soluions
Season 1 Episode 86
95 % of diets fail. By middle age you will try over 60 diets and 19 times out of 20 you will not lose weight. Australia is now the 5th fattest nation…
7 years, 7 months ago
Galactic Archaeology with professor Lewis RPT
Season 6 Episode 5
Prof Geraint Lewis takes you back to the birth of our stars. He uses Optic fibres, Robotic observations, Grisms, Hermes and Galah. It all happens at …
7 years, 7 months ago
How to get a PhD in Whale Watching ?
Season 1 Episode 84
Meet one hardworking Sydney Uni student, Vanessa Pirotta. She works with a boat and a drone. Off Sydney (and in Antarctic waters) she has developed a…
7 years, 7 months ago
Top 10 researcher in the World (Prof. Jennifer Byrne, the Australian who did it in her spare time)
Season 1 Episode 83
When Nature magazine published the top 10 researchers of 2017 there was one Australian. A radio astronomer ? no. A paleontologist? no.
She is a prof…
7 years, 7 months ago