You probably have a favourite colour, flower, or song. But do you have a favourite parasite?
Shokoofeh Shamsi does - although she studies parasites for a living, so maybe that makes a bit more sense.
The bad news for the rest of us who don't spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff? Her favourite parasites liv ... Show More
Jul 2022
Peeking inside unhappy Aussie knees
How are your knees feeling? There's a pretty good chance one or both of them are sore — after all, knee osteoarthritis is a leading cause of disability globally, and Australia's no exception.
Trouble is, we don't really have any way of treating it. But never fear — this week we'r ... Show More
11m 15s
Jul 2022
Indigenous voices in water planning
What does it take to survive on the driest inhabited continent on Earth? Indigenous people have tens of thousands of years of knowledge about this, but their place in the conversations about water planning and management are often tokenistic at best, or worse, completely absent.
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11m 54s
Jun 2022
Australia's place in the future of radio astronomy
Don't you love tipping your head back on a clear, dark night, and seeing those silvery stars twinkling above you? We know in our brains that they're giant balls of burning gas, even though they look like fairy dust scattered across the sky. And the reason we know this is because ... Show More
11m 44s
May 2023
Unlocking the mysteries of the brain’s neocortex
efJf Hawkins’ 2021 book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, focuses on the neocortex and how it helps us to understand the world around us, before examining the future of artificial intelligence, based on what we already know about the brain.
In this final episode of ... Show More
26m 3s
Sep 2021
Exploring the brain with music and science with Dr. Simón(e) Sun
Simón(e) Sun, PhD is a scientist, musician, and artist in the J. Tollkuhn Lab at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. She received her PhD in the R.W. Tsien Lab at the NYU Neuroscience Institute studying neuroplasti ... Show More
37m 5s
Oct 2023
Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Baboons, Stress Research, Connection and Determinism
In today’s episode of the podcast, we are joined by neuroscientist and primatologist, Dr. Robert Sapolsky, to discuss his work with baboons, stress, and his own mental health journey. Dr. Sapolsky is professor of biology, neurology, and neuroscience at Stanford University, as wel ... Show More
1h 7m
Jun 2023
PT416 – Frederick Barrett, Ph.D. – A New Chapter for Johns Hopkins Psychedelic & Consciousness Research
In this episode, David interviews Frederick Barrett, Ph.D.: cognitive neuroscientist, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and now, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research. ... Show More
45m 26s
Feb 2020
Science Stories - Mary Somerville, pioneer of popular science writing
Mary Somerville was a self-taught genius who wrote best-selling books translating, explaining and drawing together different scientific fields and who was named the nineteenth century's "queen of science". Born Mary Fairfax in 1780, she was an unlikely scientific hero. Her parent ... Show More
27m 33s