It's not surprising that an Australian scientist got a Nobel prize for drinking something weird - but how he lined up the ducks to get there, that's the story...

Rod tells Will the story of Barry Marshall, Nobel Prize winner!

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In the early 19th Century, John James Audubon achieved something truly amazing - but he needed to commit a stupendous fraud to do it...

Will tells Rod the story!

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People have used leeches in medicine for thousands of years - but the story is not quite what you might think. Will tells Rod all about it!

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In the 1930s, a blizzard blew through Wisconsin, and some cattle got sick - what happened then is a story of the development of one of the world's most important drugs!

Rod tells Will the story!

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Did you know that the world is controlled by the tuning frequency of our music industry? (It's not). That this was deliberately designed by the Rothschilds and the US Navy and the Nazis to control our bodies? (It wasn't).

Ok, this isn't true. But it's a fun conspiracy theory, and it lets us explore how conspiracy theories work with Professor Colin Klein from the ANU Philosophy Gang!

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The Anti-Vaccination movement is... a broad church. Steven Brandenburg takes a leaf from every pew!

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Here's a story about things (lies) going viral. It involves moon beavers, 24 tonnes of glass, and a scientist jumping into the air declaring 'thou art the man!'. Enjoy!

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Here's a question for you - if you're healthy, what temperature is your body?

Did you say 37 (or 98.6) degrees? Congratulations, you're kinda right! But also... kinda wrong...

It turns out body temperature varies whether you're male or female, whether you're menstruating or not, whether you measure in the mouth or the ear or the forehead or the anus, or even - and here's the strange part - what decade you live in...

Rod tells Will the story of body temperature!

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Ok, 2020 sucked. But surely it wasn't 100% disaster?

To round off the year, Will explores some of the silver linings of 2020 with Rod and special guest Janie! Thanks heaps to Inger Mewburn, Aparna Lal, Bec Colvin, Anna Raupach, Saul Cunningham, Jill Sheppard, Sharon Friel, Mark Howden and Arnagretta Hunter for additional silver linings!

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Real physical mermaids - do they exist? (No). But if they don't exist, where do the fake ones come from?

Rod tells Will the story of the Feejee Mermaid!

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