Fuzzy Logic Science Show

Australian wildlife has been hit from all directions. Loss of habitat, fire, pests, and cats. The Australian Wildlife Conservancy is one organisation trying to save our native animals.

Senior ecologist for the North West, Dr James Smith tells about how the AWC is helping to fight extinction.

Interview by Rod

Humans can go deaf, but what about dogs? Like any other animal, their hearing can go. Especially when we meddle with their breeding.

And did you know dogs lipread? Or perhaps that should be faceread.

Recorded at the Living Green Festival, Canberra with Michelle from AustralianDeafDogRescue. Find them on FBook.

Interview by Rod.

Humans can go deaf, but what about dogs? Like any other animal, their hearing can go. Especially when we meddle with their breeding.

And did you know dogs lipread? Or perhaps that should be faceread.

Recorded at the Living Green Festival, Canberra with Michelle from AustralianDeafDogRescue. Find them on FBook.

Interview by Rod.

The Pokémon Go craze is sweeping the world, but its success relies on some serious physics and chemistry. 

Why do you owe your Eevee to Einstein and his theory of relativity?

How did Volta and Galvani pioneer battery-powered devices like smart phones and Pokédexes?

Can Pokémon Go players help real life Professor Willows monitor animal populations?

We've got the answers for you! 

Brought to you by Siân (Team Valor), Jason (Team Mystic), and Eleanor (Team Instinct).

This episode also features interviews with Dr Dimitri Tolleter about his National Science Week event, Duality: A Life Outside The Lab, and with Vance Lawrence and Kate Lehane who are involved in organising SciScouts. Keep an ear out for Bridget and Adrian talking about what they're looking forward to at SciScouts too! 

The Pokémon Go craze is sweeping the world, but its success relies on some serious physics and chemistry. 

Why do you owe your Eevee to Einstein and his theory of relativity?

How did Volta and Galvani pioneer battery-powered devices like smart phones and Pokédexes?

Can Pokémon Go players help real life Professor Willows monitor animal populations?

We've got the answers for you! 

Brought to you by Siân (Team Valor), Jason (Team Mystic), and Eleanor (Team Instinct).

This episode also features interviews with Dr Dimitri Tolleter about his National Science Week event, Duality: A Life Outside The Lab, and with Vance Lawrence and Kate Lehane who are involved in organising SciScouts. Keep an ear out for Bridget and Adrian talking about what they're looking forward to at SciScouts too! 

The list may seem strange, but it applies to our two featured women. Dorothy Hill was a pioneering Australian scientist who's field was coral paleantology. She also drove rally cars and had a pilot's license.  Hedy Lamarr was a renowned Hollywood beauty. She invented secure frequency hopping radio transmission. Something like it is in your mobile phone.

We look at a surprisingly simple way to make renewable energy reliable on the grid.

And in today's Ask Fuzzy we learn about arthritis.

Brought to you by Rebecca Kaye from National Science Week, with Rod.

The list may seem strange, but it applies to our two featured women. Dorothy Hill was a pioneering Australian scientist who's field was coral paleantology. She also drove rally cars and had a pilot's license.  Hedy Lamarr was a renowned Hollywood beauty. She invented secure frequency hopping radio transmission. Something like it is in your mobile phone.

We look at a surprisingly simple way to make renewable energy reliable on the grid.

And in today's Ask Fuzzy we learn about arthritis.

Brought to you by Rebecca Kaye from National Science Week, with Rod.

Two guests spontaneously appeared today. Luckly they were intelligently designed.

Lots of people talk about evolution, but lots of people don't really know about evolution. There are many misconceptions. Then there are those who prefer mythical explanations. What does that mean, and why does it matter?

Dr Nick Matzke is an evolutionary biologist who's been mapping the large scale history of life (the phylogenetic tree).

Phil Hore is from the National Dinosaur Museum.

Created by Rod.  @FuzzyLogicSci

Lots of good things on the way at National Science Week.

#natsciwk

Two guests spontaneously appeared today. Luckly they were intelligently designed.

Lots of people talk about evolution, but lots of people don't really know about evolution. There are many misconceptions. Then there are those who prefer mythical explanations. What does that mean, and why does it matter?

Dr Nick Matzke is an evolutionary biologist who's been mapping the large scale history of life (the phylogenetic tree).

Phil Hore is from the National Dinosaur Museum.

Created by Rod.  @FuzzyLogicSci

Lots of good things on the way at National Science Week.

#natsciwk

What would it be like to find your vision was suddenly infected by strange apparitions?  Lines, shapes, whole buildings, faces, and lizards crawling up the wall. All inventions of the condition called Charles Bonnet Syndrome.

No, you're not going mad, these are tricks that the visual system sometimes plays.

Rod interviews Scot Muirden, director of the Charles Bonnet Syndrome Foundation, and Ian Lawther who shares some remarkable stories of his experience with CBS.

Charles Bonnet Syndrome is much more common than you might think. If you have vision loss, or know somebody who has, a simple question can make a huge difference.

Too many people live in fear that their mind is going, and don't want to talk about it. Even the medical profession are generally not well informed.

Scot Muirden's Ask Fuzzy column on CBS

Oliver Sacks TED talk.

An excellent Damn Interesting article

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