Einstein A Go-Go

Dr Shane and Dr Lauren speak with Julie Boyce (Research Associate - Volcanology and Geochemistry; Monash Volcanology Research Group - MONVOLC) and Jim Driscoll (School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University) about the new Monash Earth Sciences Garden, an arrangement of nearly 500 rock specimens, weighing up to 14 tons, laid out to represent a pattern of rock outcrops.

They also chat to Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, about the opportunities to promote science in the political sphere, and Australia's scientific reputation and national science strategy.

The final guest, Dr Rodrigo Hamede (University of Tasmania School of Biological Sciences) describes his new research that has found that the Tasmanian Devil tumours have been changing and competing over the years to increase infection rates.

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Einstein a Go Go 20 September 2015 Dr Shane, Dr Lauren, Dr Chromo

News this week: The Ig Noble roundup including un-boiling an egg and the Stinging pain index. Its the 80s, Star Wars 'a new hope' comes out and a group of physicists aren't as concerned as to the main story line as they are the relative-velocity-time-dilalation effect (special relativity) on the age of twins Leia and Luke.

Mini Book review: The Martian by Andy Weir. Understanding how biological processes work on earth and how they are related to a martian environment environment. "An adventure ride all the way through" Five stars.

Guest 1: Roger Pocock D Phil, Head, Neuronal Development and Plasticity Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University.

Guest 2: Richard Sandberg, Chair of Computational Mechanics Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering. Veski innovation fellow, The University of Melbourne.

Bonus news: Got any Plutonium 238? NASA would like to talk to you!

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Dr Shane, Dr Krystal and Chris KP are joined LIVE in the 3RRR performance space with with very special guest Tim Flannery.

(For those unaware) Tim Flannery is a Scientist, Author of 30+ books, including the acclaimed best seller 'The Weather Makers' not to mention a resume that includes:

- Australian Humanist of the year (2005)

- Australian of the year (2007)

- Co-founder and original chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council (2007)

- Australia's Chief climate Commissioner(2007)

- Founder and current leader of Australian Climate Council (2013-)

Tim joins the team (and a live studio audience) to firstly discuss his new book.

Tim and the team then discuss many current issues including; Global warming, the impacts of an increase in CO2 and the latest on all things climate.

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Dr Shane, Dr Krystal and Dr Lauren discuss why children raised on farms have less allergies, a new material called Stanene and the continuing journey of the extraordinary NASA New Horizons probe.

First guest: Professor Michael Smart, Head, Hyshot Group, The University of Queensland tells us all about the faculties small satellite launching system using the combination of the ALV and SPARTAN, which allows 95 per cent of the system to be reusable.

Second guest: Saul Cunningham, CSIRO Agriculture, Health & Biosecurity, Food & Nutrition gives us a rundown on the CSIRO's call on researchers worldwide to join forces to save honey bees.

Third guest: Amon Fey, Centre for Eye Research, Melbourne University tells us all about Glaucoma.

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Dr Krystal and Chris KP join Dr Shane in the studio. On the line is Amy Shearer-Title - from the NASA Pluto In A Minute YouTube videos. Helping communicate science from the New Horizons mission to the general public. Beth Healy, on the phone from Concordia Base in Antarctica, who is studying the effects of isolation on the thirteen people in the base. In weather below -104 degrees (with wind chill).The Walter and Eliza Hall institute celebrate 100 years, with a whole bunch of events.

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EAGG 2nd August 2015 Dr Shane, Dr Lauren and Dr Krystal

First Guest: Adam Bandt Green Federal member for Melbourne. Adam talks about government spending in science, the importance of generating the next wave in industry and the future of energy in Australia.http://greens.org.au/mps/adam-bandt

Second guest: Hans Clevers Professor of Medicine, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Hans takes us through his research into stem cells focusing in on intestine and bowel cancer. https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/5417-for-good-and-bad-stem-cells-and-organoids-in-health

Third guest: Dr Katie Mack School of Physics, University of Melbourne. Katie provides us with an update of her involvement on the dark matter gold mine project and her impressions of the recent Pluto flyby developments. http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person332462

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Dr Shane, Dr Dyani and Dr Ray discuss a four-legged snake fossil discovery, handedness of animals and a funding boost to the SETI project.

First guest: Professor Benjamin Howden, Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity discusses tracking the source of public outbreaks like Salmonella food poisoning.

Second guest: Dr Alan Duffy, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University talks about the New Horizons Pluto mission and the discovery of an Earth twin like planet known as Kepler-452b.

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This week on Einstein A Go-Go, Dr Shane is joined in the studio by Dr Dyani and Dr Chromo.

Together they begin the show sharing some recent Science news.

Topics include the latest in:

- Microbiome research

- The health effects of a walk in the park

- Star Trek inspired technology

- The very exciting recently finalised Pluto Mission.

First Guest: Professor Canagasingham from CSIRO Perth joins the team by phone to discuss the recent advancements and personal success in the area of Eyecare exams in rural/remote areas.

Second Guests: Professor Mark Cook from St. Vincent's Hospital & the University of Melbourne / Dr David Liley from Swinburne University Brain & Psychological Sciences research centre, join the team in the studio to discuss in depth, the world of Epilepsy. Going on to explain the advancements in the area of invasive and non-invasive treatment of the disease.

The discussion then continues into the world of seizures and seizure control for patients.

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Dr Shane, Andrea, and Chris KP talk to Glenn Nagle from CSIRO's Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, about their role in receiving data from New Horizons mission to Pluto. They also have a chat with Rob Sturrock from the Centre for Policy Development, Sydney, and author of The Longest Conflict: Australia's Climate Security Challenge, about how Climate Change will affect our future, and the report's recommendations.

Finally, they interview Dr Janine Cooper, Honorary Fellow, Child Neuropsychology, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute at The Royal Children's Hospital, about her work with children's memory problems.

The show wraps up with Fiona explaining about the science of snow.

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