It's a Scientific Fact: Recent Episodes
Chris Stewart & Tilly Boleyn
A weekly snippet of science to expand your brain, brought to you by Chris Stewart and Tilly Boleyn, from Tilly's Thursday Overdrive show on radio 2SER 107.7FM in Sydney, Australia.
This week? We're so lazy it's killing us. Also, go figure: extreme weather events leads to an increase in belief in climate change. And dolphins might be using some awesome maths when finding fish for dinner.
Chris & Tilly, back with fresh pantaloons! No Higgs boson news this week. Instead? Australian boys to get Gardasil. Also: magnetic fish noses, and watching salmon evolve. Very ichthyological, this episode.
This week: we found it! By "we", of course, we mean "they": physicists galore at CERN announce the discovery of a new fundamental particle that looks one helluva lot like the long-sought Higgs Boson, responsible for all the mass in the Universe.
Taking the fight to the notorious cane toad, by nabbing the tadpoles before they even leave the pond. Also, Brain scans can show you how hard your mind is working to accommodate those non-intuitive scientific facts.
Astronomical nerdery this week: the Big Decision has been made about the location of the Square Kilometre Array — yay! And, something slammed into the atmosphere around 1200 years ago that made levels of Carbon-14 jump. What was it? No one knows.
If you've ever done anything stupid, take heart: at least you didn't inadvertently chop down the oldest organism on the planet.
Chris and Tilly natter about birds and their magnetic navigation skills. Then a quick lesson on light — UV light to be exact. Did you know that some people can see UV light? No? Amazing!
See-through solar cells are the bee's knees and birds with Heads-Up Displays are the dog's bollocks.
Snuffles, sneezles and why there's no cure for the common cold, and why it's really time to stop sitting on your bum all day.
What's the link between the Superbowl and the search for the Higgs Boson? Come on in, let's find out ...
Stoopid presidential candidates, the Lego Death Star, and the fabulously named Bruce Effect.