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Trivia night! | Lost in Science
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Sciencey news and discussion, on the radio. Listen to the show. World Time Machine Project. Are you sick of trivia nights that don’t have enough science questions? Then come to the inaugural LOST IN SCIENCE TRIVIA NIGHT! Help us raise money to keep 3CR Community Radio (and us) on the air and celebrate National Science Week. Doors open at 6.30 for pub meals and chatting before a 7.30 start. Come along and join a team, or bring your own of 4 8 people and guarantee a victory! Find out more on Facebook.
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Listen to the show | Lost in Science
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Sciencey news and discussion, on the radio. Listen to the show. World Time Machine Project. Listen to the show. Lost in Science is broadcast at 8.30 am every Thursday on 3CR Community Radio 855 AM. In Melbourne, and repeated at 6 am the following Tuesday. If you’re not in Melbourne, you can probably catch us on your local member of the Community Radio Network. A distribution service run by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. We’re also streamed live. Lost in Science 10.04.2014. We look a...
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Pouring wine… with a twist | Lost in Science
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Sciencey news and discussion, on the radio. Listen to the show. World Time Machine Project. Pouring wine… with a twist. It’s coming into the summer imbibing season, so expect a lot of wine to be poured. And as the wine was poured at a recent pre-summer BBQ, I was asked the question: what’s up with that little twist thing that waiters do when they finish pouring your glass? Is it just for show, or does it really stop the drips? Can answer the question! Vol 104, 084503, arXiv:0910.3306. A) A normal teapot,...
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A good night’s sleep literally clears your head | Lost in Science
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Sciencey news and discussion, on the radio. Listen to the show. World Time Machine Project. A good night’s sleep literally clears your head. The excellent web-toon XKCD. Said it best when it pointed out that we all spend so much time sleeping and most of us love doing it but we still don’t know why. But never fear, some scientists finally think they may have a clue a discovery so significant it was a runner-up for. Magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year. Naturally, there are theories:. However, it could als...
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Sunny sensibility and liquid metal | Lost in Science
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Sciencey news and discussion, on the radio. Listen to the show. World Time Machine Project. Sunny sensibility and liquid metal. Did you know that the phrase “mad as a hatter” comes from the use of mercury in millinery? And that burning coal. Is the source of most. And that red mercury, a feared and much-sought ingredient of nuclear weapons, probably doesn’t exist. A drop of pure liquid mercury on a bed of cinnabar, an ore of mercury sulphide (photo by Parent Géry, via Wikimedia Commons). Fill in your det...
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Geoengineering as climate change plan B | Lost in Science
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Sciencey news and discussion, on the radio. Listen to the show. World Time Machine Project. Geoengineering as climate change plan B. Clearly, the best way to address climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions is to. Stop emitting greenhouse gases. Which is great, except we don’t seem to be very good at that – particularly in terms of getting international cooperation. So what do we do if it turns out we can’t cut emissions quickly enough to avoid catastrophe? What we’re talking about is. In the li...
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How cats land on their feet | Lost in Science
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Sciencey news and discussion, on the radio. Listen to the show. World Time Machine Project. How cats land on their feet. OK, so cats don’t really have 9 lives. That rumour was probably due in part to their incredible powers of survival, including the ability to always land on their feet. But the question of how they do that. Still puzzled physicists for a very long time. Turning in mid-air seems to violate the conservation of angular momentum. Etienne Jules Marey, 1894. Vol 7, no. 189, pp. 1647-9. Dr McD...
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Sport dope cheaters are not winners | Lost in Science
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Sciencey news and discussion, on the radio. Listen to the show. World Time Machine Project. Sport dope cheaters are not winners. Drug cheats risk damage their health and their sport, but they may not even be getting any benefits victory-wise. For instance, Essendon got busted by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) for a big long list of drugs ( See pages 24 25 [PDF 167 KB]. Some of these were bordering on the homeopathic. The banned peptide AOD 9604, aka Lipotropin (Image: ABC). The troub...
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World Time Machine Project | Lost in Science
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Sciencey news and discussion, on the radio. Listen to the show. World Time Machine Project. World Time Machine Project. One objection to the possibility of time travel is that we’ve never seen any tourists come back from the future. Well I say we just haven’t been looking hard enough! There are other objections too, like how time travel causes paradoxes, but I don’t have time to deal with those right now. Go read our post on ‘Is time travel possible? You have to be a time traveller, or can vouch for one.
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Doppler affects you and me, quite frequently | Lost in Science
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Sciencey news and discussion, on the radio. Listen to the show. World Time Machine Project. Doppler affects you and me, quite frequently. It’s making the news in oceans both Indian and Saturnian, tracking the movements of space probes and missing Malaysian airliners. And yet you encounter it every day, when you hear a car passing you on the road change from high to low pitch. So what exactly is the Doppler effect, and how does it work? Q: What sound does a. Make when it goes past at high speed? But in th...