Science stories for people who sit up the back of the classroom! Made by Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant from The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science.
There's a whole bunch of reasons to not be fans of the Proud Boys. In the words of the Southern Poverty Law Centre they're a 'general hate' group, their members played key roles in the January 6 attack on the US capitol, and they're pretty goddamn misogynist. But it's rule number two of their by-laws that's just weird. It states “No heterosexual brother of the Fraternity shall masturbate more than one time in any calendar month". Or maybe it's not weird... So here's the question we're asking this week: why are the Proud Boys so obsessed with (not) wanking? The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
In the olden times people used to climb mountains wearing all sorts of odd things - wool, leather, or just in the nude! But George Finch was an ideas man... Rod tells Will the story of the invention of the puffer jacket! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Guess what listener - it's possible that people alive today might live a very long life... like 1200 years maybe. That sounds fun, but maybe it might lead to dystopia? Will agonises with Rod about what we should do about longevity treatments! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! Sources: Aeon: What are the ethical consequences of immortality technology? https://aeon.co/ideas/what-are-the-ethical-consequences-of-immortality-technology BBC: A frozen graveyard: The sad tales of Antarctica's deaths: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180913-a-frozen-graveyard-the-sad-tales-of-antarcticas-deaths EMBO Rep. Jayne Lucke and Wayne Hall: Who wants to live forever: 2005 Feb; 6(2): 98–102. doi: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400339 Bernard Williams: The Makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality: https://web.archive.org/web/20160528020748/http://stoa.org.uk/topics/death/the-makropulos-case-reflections-on-the-tedium-of-immortality-bernard-williams.pdf Forbes: What Kills Billionaires: https://www.forbes.com/2005/04/05/cx_vg_0405feat.html John Hardwig: Is there a duty to die? The Hastings Center Report , Mar. - Apr., 1997, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1997), pp. 34-42 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3527626 JAMA Health Forum. Eric D Finegood et al. 2021;2(7):e211652. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.1652 John Harris: The Harold Hatch International Lecture on Longevity and Population Aging Intimations of Immortality The Ethics and Justice of Life-Extending Therapies: https://www.ilc-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/publication-pdfs/IntimationsImmortality.pdf Journal of Aging Studies: Public attitudes towards human life extension by intervening in ageing: Brad Partridge Jayne Lucke Helen Bartlett Wayne Hall https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406510000757?casa_token=ELUiWi4dNksAAAAA:cziJHAtan_8s5o-az6WYOS8Kqwrre9g4YJ3jw1vhoUg7M1eWHHimfqRlbq3sKdzzbschLWviN6vE Live Science: The Ethical Dilemmas of Immortality https://www.livescience.com/10465-ethical-dilemmas-immortality.html Long Bets: Peter Schwartz and Melody Haller: At least one human alive in the year 2000 will still be alive in 2150.https://longbets.org/11/ NBCNews: Mainstream docs join anti-aging bandwagon: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23358964 REJUVENATION RESEARCH: Brad Partridge, Jayne Lucke, Helen Bartlett, and Wayne Hall: Ethical, Social, and Personal Implications of Extended Human Lifespan Identified by Members of the Public Volume 12, Number 5, 2009 a Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089=rej.2009.0907 Scientific American: Aging Is Reversible—at Least in Human Cells and Live Mice: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/aging-is-reversible-at-least-in-human-cells-and-live-mice/ Wikipedia: Lawrence Oates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Oates Wikipedia: Richard Lamm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lamm
At the end of the 19th century in Paris there were a range of weird and wonderful acts - but one stood out... Rod tells Will the story of Le Pétomane! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! Le Pétomane By The Wholesome Show is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Old timey people put a lot of stock in maps, but they didn't always get things exactly right. They joined Tasmania to mainland Australia, got Africa in the wrong place, and moved Siberia a long way to the east. But was this by accident? Or design? Will tells Rod the story of lying with maps! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! Sources Bar News: Review of Lying for the Admiralty by Margaret Cameron-Ash, by Caroline Dobraszczyk The Globe (84) Captain Cook Invented Point Hicks to Hide Bass Strait by Margaret Cameron-Ash The Globe (87) Cook conspiracy at point hicks? By Trevor Lipscombe The Globe (87) Where's my embassy comrade? An examination of the 1981 Soviet Military City Plan of Canberra, by Brendan Whyte. Lying for the Admiralty by Margaret Cameron-Ash Signals 125: James Cook's false trail by Nigel Erskine. Gyula Pápay POLITICS AND CARTOGRAPHY in State Security and Mapping in the GDR Map Falsification as a Consequence of Excessive Secrecy? Imago Mundi: Silences and Secrecy: The Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern Europe by J. B. Harley
We all go to the movies right, we see the sights, we hear the sounds! But what if we could smell the smells? Rod tells Will the history of Smell-O-Vision! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
People have been cooking food for as long as they've been people - and for almost as long other people have been pushing against it. Will tells Rod the history and science of raw food evangelists! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! Sources Bismark Daily Tribune: Apostle of Raw Food Explains Sect: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042242/1913-10-09/ed-1/seq-3/ Carnivor Aurelius on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/1175851010977337344?lang=en Encyclopedia.com: Szekely, Edmond Bordeaux (?-1980) https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/szekely-edmond-bordeaux-1980 Edmond Bordeaux Szekely: The Essene Gospels of Peace: http://www.thenazareneway.com/index_essene_gospels_of_peace.htm Discover Magazine: Archaeologists Find Earliest Evidence of Humans Cooking With Fire https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/archaeologists-find-earliest-evidence-of-humans-cooking-with-fire Glikson, A., Fire and human evolution: The deep-time blueprints of the Anthropocene. Anthropocene (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2014.02.002 LA Weekly: L.A. HAS BEEN EATING RAW VEGAN FOOD SINCE 1918, THANKS TO THIS COMMUNIST, FEMINIST ANGELENO https://www.laweekly.com/l-a-has-been-eating-raw-vegan-food-since-1918-thanks-to-this-communist-feminist-angeleno/ McGee, H. On Food and Cooking. National Cancer Institute: Chemicals in Meat Cooked at High Temperatures and Cancer Risk https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/cooked-meats-fact-sheet New York Times: Chimpanzees Would Cook if Given the Chance, Research Says https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/chimpanzees-can-cook-a-mean-potato-research-says.html Ogden, Utah Standard Magazine: Love and Raw Potatoes https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058396/1915-08-07/ed-1/seq-9/ Restaurant-ing through history: Back to nature: The Eutropheon https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/2014/02/02/back-to-nature-the-eutropheon/amp/ Terrence Twomey (2013). The Cognitive Implications of Controlled Fire Use by Early Humans. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 23, pp 113-128 doi:10.1017/S0959774313000085 Wikipedia: Bernarr Macfadden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernarr_Macfadden Wikipedia: Herbert M. Shelton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_M._Shelton Wikipedia: Maximilian Bircher-Benner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Bircher-Benner Wrangham, R., 2009. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human. Basic Books, New York 320 pp.
Ettore Majorana was a physics genius who really could have won the Nobel Prize... but in 1938 he disappeared. The question is, what happened to him? Rod tells Will the story! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Ok, the Americans won the race to the moon - but do you know what the Soviets actually did land on the moon? It's something a little bit special. The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
You might not know this but ozone has a bizarrely 'clean' smell - so much so, there's a long history of people using it to 'clean' things that they really shouldn't... Rod tells Will the story! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
We at The Wholesome Show of course want to live forever. But if you have to go, there are a hell of a lot of worse ways than dying in the saddle. Will tells Rod the science and history of dying on the job! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Tycho Brahe is one of the most important astronomers of all time - but he died under super mysterious circumstances. So who killed him? Rod tells Will and special guest Hans the story of the murder of Tycho Brahe! The Wholesome Show is Rod Lamberts and Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science.
We all have... unique ways of looking at the world. But what if two mutually contradictory views of the world are put in the same room? Rod tells Will the story of the ethically dubious Jesus experiments of Milton Rokeach! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
There are a few places around the world where a large number of people live to over 100 - do you want to know how? Well, Will tells Rod exactly what the secret is! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
What evidence would we need to confirm that Bigfoot exists? Photos? Hair sample? A pool of blood? Rod tells Will the story of Melba Ketchum's quest for the Big Foot! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
In the middle of the 20th century it became totally normal - at a 21st, a wedding or a confirmation - to give people the special present of the total removal of their teeth. Was science to blame? Will tells Rod the story! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! Sources: - Brides.com: The 34 Must-Have Items to Add to Your Wedding Registry: https://www.brides.com/gallery/best-wedding-registry-items - Dallas Museum of Art: THE BRIDAL REGISTRY https://collections.dma.org/essay/a8mBA7yW - Dusty Old Thing: From the Fashion to the Gifts- Wedding Trends Over the Past Century Sure Have Changed! https://dustyoldthing.com/wedding-trends-changed/ - J Prosthet Dent. 2002 Jan;87(1):5-8. doi: 10.1067/mpr.2002.121203. - Australian Dental Journal 2007;52:(2):154-156 - BMC Public Health volume 14, Article number: 65 (2014) - MMWR: Ten Great Public Health Achievements -- United States, 1900-1999: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056796.htm - British Dental Journal: Total tooth loss in the United Kingdom in 1998 and implications for the future https://www.nature.com/articles/4800840 Reddit: How true is this claim about Victorian England? “Having all your teeth removed was considered the perfect gift for a 21st birthday or a newly married bride.” - https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/agyegl/how_true_is_this_claim_about_victorian_england/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf - CDA Journal 28 (3): Focal Infection Theory Revisited
The early days of nuclear science were very much a... move fast and break things world. And some people? They ended up in some dangerous spots. Rod tells Will about the risky world of nuclear science at the 1940s Los Alamos National Laboratory! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Do you get sick of waiting for your packages from your online retailers of choice? Have you ever wanted to get your mail just that little bit faster? Yes? Yes! Then might I interest you in... rocket mail? Will tells Rod and special guest CJ Josh the story of rocket mail! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, joined today by @cjjosh and proudly brought to by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Is English spelling needlessly complicated? Should we fix it? Som pepl say yes! Will tells Rod the story of the Simplified Spelling Board! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Exercise is great. It helps with just about everything! But here's the thing, does it help you... spread the word of God? Rod tells Will the story - and future - of muscular Christianity! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
We love the metric system - you love the metric system! But... what if it wasn't perfect? Will tells Rod the story of dozenalism! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! Sources: Svalbard: French Revolutionary (Decimal) Time; https://svalbard.watch/pages/about_decimal_time.html Wikipedia: Units of measurement in France; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_measurement_in_France Today I found out: A GENIUS AMONG US: THE SAD STORY OF WILLIAM J. SIDIS; www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/12/genius-among-us-sad-story-william-j-sidis/ New York Times: Sidis Could Read at Two Years Old: 18 October 1909. The Listener: Twelves and Tens A.C.AITKEN on the case against the system of decimalization; www.dozenalsociety.org.uk/archives/aitken.html
The Gambian Pouched Rat - or the African Giant Pouched Rat - can hold heaps of stuff in its awesome face pockets... But it's also very useful in helping humans... Rod tells Will the story, a pocket episode for the holidays! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
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Over a few hundred years from the year 1200 on, the people of Easter Island / Rapa Nui built an amazing pocket universe - a flourishing civilisation with their own system of writing and amazing carved stone Moai. But then it collapsed. Will tells Rod what happens, and why the story of what happens matters! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Chatbots are everywhere these days - your bank, your phone company, your facebook... your therapist? Well actually, they were therapists first... Rod tells Will the story! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! Sources: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-eliza-effect/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666827020300062 http://www.jabberwacky.com/j2convbydate-N6641part2 https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=4137 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23615538 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect https://www.businessinsider.com.au/therapy-chatbot-depression-app-what-its-like-woebot-2018-1 https://news.mit.edu/2008/obit-weizenbaum-0310
We all know the Nazis embraced a bunch of dumb - awful - ideas. But their ideas about how the universe worked? Well that was sincerely whackadoo... Will tells Rod the story! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! Sources Willy Ley: Pseudoscience in Naziland, http://www.alpenfestung.com/ley_pseudoscience.htm Christina Wessely: Cosmic Ice Theory—Science, Fiction and the Public, 1894–1945. https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/DeptIII-ChristinaWessely-Welteislehre Eric Kurlander: Hitler's Monsters Eric Kurlander: A Song of Ice and Fire https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/song-ice-and-fire Philip Ball: How 2 Pro-Nazi Nobelists Attacked Einstein's "Jewish Science" [Excerpt]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-2-pro-nazi-nobelists-attacked-einstein-s-jewish-science-excerpt1/ The Occult Bistory of the Third Reich: Horbiger http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/
We've all ridden in Ferris Wheels - including some that are getting really pretty gigantic. But have you ever wondered where they came from? Rod tells Will the story of Ferris's Wheel! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! --------------- Sources: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-25/what-happens-when-every-city-has-a-giant-ferris-wheel https://interestingengineering.com/the-worlds-largest-ferris-wheel-has-just-opened-in-dubai?utm_source=IGStory&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=Oct27 https://pressofatlanticcity.com/history/look-back-atlantic-citys-almost-famous-somers-wheel/article_289d2b62-27a5-59d4-b1a0-44821117ed61.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-ferris-wheel-180955300/ https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2019/05/06/history-of-the-ferris-wheel-new-jersey-william-somers-george-ferris/1116618001/ Ferris Wheels: An illustrated History N.D.Anderson (2006) https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/0968.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20130118143455/http://www.hydeparkhistory.org/newsletter.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale_Ferris_Jr. https://petticoatsandpistols.com/2015/02/02/ferris-pleasure-wheel/
Grey Owl had a crucial message for the world - but was he the right person to bring it? The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
You didn't know you needed to know it, but penis prosthetics and penis transplants are both VERY IMPORTANT and VERY SCIENCE. They are! It's true! Rod tells Will the story of where they're up to! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Curt Herzstark had an invention ready to go... but he never knew it would save his life. Will tells Rod the story of the Curta pocket calculator! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
We use a lot of sand. In fact, it's the number two thing we use as a species after water! But because we use so much, there's some bad things that happen as well... Rod tells Will all about the world of sand mining! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
We all know that even though the ground beneath our feet feels solid, it's actually moving nice and slowly towards somewhere else. But the science underpinning this idea? It was actually a huge fight... Will and Rod explore, joined by Tanja Pejic of Geoscience Australia! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, joined today by Dr Tanja Pejic of Geoscience Australia!
People have taken things to enhance their performance for ages - but the things they've taken, that's what's weird... Rod tells Will the story! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Bikes are awesome! But during the biggest bicycle craze of the 19th century, medical opinion on bikes went a little bit weird... Will tells Rod the story! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Art forging - and catching art forgers - is a booming business these days. And on both sides, science has a key role to play... Rod tells Will the story! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
We love science here at the Wholesome Show, but what if you used science to make a workplace more efficient? Would you be a good person? Or is that dangerous? Will tells Rod the story of Taylorism, or Scientific Management! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
The treatments we have available for various psychiatric issues aren't either vast... or precise. Which is why electroconvulsive therapy is still a regular thing... Rod tells Will and special guest Shaam Al Abed the history! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, joined today by Shaam Al Abed and this time brought to you by Brain Teaser as well as The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Symbolic communication is ours! Just for us humans! Or... maybe it's not... Will tells Rod the story of Karl von Frisch and the bee waggle dance! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
So, simple question. If someone says their leg isn't really part of them, how should we help? Rod explains apotemnophilia to Will! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Doomsday devices suck. Just straight up not great. The Soviets built one at the Cold War, and now we've potentially got another one on our hands. Will asks Rod if we can get the bitcoin doomsday device back in the tube! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Would you stay in Hitler's sea side resort? You can if you want, but it's a weird building... The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Prions are freaking horrible. Don't eat them if you can utterly avoid it. @willozap explains to @rodl what happens if you do. The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
So this is by far our most communist episode ever - and it's about people being worked to death. Cool cool! Rod tells Will all about karoshi! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
We're pretty used to the idea of extinction. Species live, species die, it sucks, but... it's kind of a fact of the modern world. But we didn't always think this way. In fact, the idea of extinction took a lot of work to get off the ground. Will tells Rod all about it! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Hey listener, are you having surgery anytime soon? Hugs if you are, it can be scary! Well, Rod is about to go under the knife... and to calm himself, he went and explored three (terrible) stories of surgeons behaving badly. Enjoy! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Ok listener, this is the big question: did the SARS-CoV-2 virus - you know, the goddamn bug that's making Australians wear masks even now - leak from a lab in Wuhan? Ok I lied. That's not even the big question. The big question is not whether it SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab leak, but whether research like that was opening dangerous doors... The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
Ok, this is the question listener: after you die, would you be interested in being frozen for reanimation in the future? Or do you think that sounds like the biggest scam around? Rod tells Will the story of cryonics! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
So scientists, what science would you do if ethics were not an issue? We trawl through the mad scientists of Reddit to explore some options! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
How scientists communicate is... not historically great. And Randy Olson's got opinions. We sit down to explore! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and joined today by Randy Olson!
We all know the facts of Covid-19. Wash your hands, wear a mask, stay 1.5m away from the rest of the universe. This is good advice! But the science it's based on... is interesting. Rod tells Will the story of the aerosol vs droplets saga! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
The Rosetta Stone is a byword for an amazing tool able to unlock a world... and it did give the modern world knowledge of hieroglyphics. But the translation wasn't exactly easy... Will tells Rod the story of the translation of hieroglyphics! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!
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