Podcast Episodes

Karl, The Universe & Everything (Case study in visual language)

Season 1 Episode 55

 Jules Faber, Illustrator and Cartoonist, talks with Dr Karl about the creative process using "Karl, The Universe & Everything" as a case study​​.  T…

8 years, 8 months ago

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Penetration Tester talks about being Naughty with Dr Karl

Season 1 Episode 54

How do stock exchanges, nuclear power plants or the military check their computer security ? They hire penetration testers - Cyber security experts w…

8 years, 8 months ago

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Land on a Comet ? No worries says Aussie Engineer Warwick Holmes

Season 1 Episode 53

We rarely get to hear "insider" stories of extraterrestrial discovery. Doctor Karl meets Warwick Holmes - Australian Avionics Systems Engineer on Ros…

8 years, 9 months ago

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Busting Gravity with Space Historian Amy Shira Teitel

Season 1 Episode 52

Self-described 'professional space history nerd' Amy Shira Teitel and Dr Karl talk about spaceflight before NASA.  Her book 'Breaking the Chains of G…

8 years, 9 months ago

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The Kepler Mission Scientist- Natalie Batalha pt 2

Season 1 Episode 51

From 2009 to 2013, the Kepler Space telescope looked for exoplanets. It stared unblinkingly at a patch of sky which Dr Batalha had selected hoping to…

8 years, 9 months ago

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Natalie Batalha pt 1

Season 1 Episode 50

From 2009 to 2013, the Kepler Space telescope looked for exoplanets – planets outside our solar system. It stared unblinkingly at a patch of sky whic…

8 years, 9 months ago

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SOFIA Studying the Birth of Stars from a Flying Telescope

SOFIA is the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.

Some German astronomers have made a one hundred inch telescope that picks up infrared.…

8 years, 9 months ago

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How We Got Into Science

Team Shirtload confesses all when they chat about how they got into science. Was it the nifty lab coats? Being able to use big words with authority? …

8 years, 10 months ago

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The Fiery Death Plunge of Spacecraft Cassini

On the 15 September, 2017, after a long and happy life, the spacecraft Cassini will do (or did, depending on when you listen to this) a suicide plung…

8 years, 10 months ago

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How good is Coffee ? Prof Clare Collins & Dr Karl (46)

Of all hot beverages, Coffee may be the healthiest. It is loaded with antioxidants and beneficial nutrients and it may even lower the risk of some na…

8 years, 10 months ago

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