IdioFacto

Matt and Levi chat about nothing in particular and preview Season Two of IdioFacto, which starts October 16, 2019. Apologies for the occasional audio clipping, we have a new setup that we're still getting the hang of.

In the final episode for season 1, Matt employs the help of his brother Michael to educate (and confuse) us about the internet and Levi walks us through the pseudoscience behind glyphosate scaremongering.

 

Show notes for the Internet

 

The never ending knowledge of Master Michael McCabe

 

Show notes for Glyphosate

Glyphosate LD50 http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/dienochlor-glyphosate/glyphosate-ext.html

Comment on IARC report https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/wk/cej/2018/00000027/00000001/art00012

Glyphosate Use and Cancer Incidence in the Agricultural Health Study https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/110/5/509/4590280

IARC Report https://monographs.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mono112-10.pdf

IARC list of carcinogens https://monographs.iarc.fr/list-of-classifications-volumes/?fbclid=IwAR1lP3nzKqbNFqI7oX3Cu8uLyVT61EQHYqlpw1S-Ly0fS8KKeppI6eT1J3M

European Chemicals Agency report https://echa.europa.eu/-/glyphosate-not-classified-as-a-carcinogen-by-echa

This week, Levi takes us on a virtual tour through the ISS and Matt discusses close encounters with Unidentified Flying Objects

 

SHOW NOTES FOR THE ISS

 

ISS Live stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfcoT_lO80

ISS timeline https://www.issnationallab.org/about/iss-timeline/

Configuration diagram https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/ISS_configuration_2017-06_en.svg

Wikipedia article on all scientific research conducted on the ISS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_research_on_the_International_Space_Station

 

SHOW NOTES FOR CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE FIRST KIND

 

The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe book is an invaluable primer for all things extraterrestrial, check that out for a crash course in the skeptical bent on UFOs.

Daily Mail article: https://dailym.ai/2K9WOS4

CNET article: https://cnet.co/2pf1itG

CIA Database of UFO Research (Declassified): https://bit.ly/2rRa8jj

This week on IdioFacto, Matt discusses the strange and wonderful class of Cephalopods and Levi gets realistic about Antioxidants.

 

SHOW NOTES FOR CEPHALOPODS.

 

Octopus escape: https://youtu.be/949eYdEz3Es

Cuttlefish changing colours: https://youtu.be/K5CZ74ybnbE

Octopus beak and radula: https://youtu.be/Q-jBksy7z8U

Again, I used my Campbell, Reece & Meyers first year biology textbook, Biology for a bunch of information, and a lot of knowledge I had from a great Invertebrate Zoology class I did back in my second year at Uni.

 

SHOW NOTES FOR ANTIOXIDANTS

 

Cochrane review on effect of antioxidants on mortality - https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD007176.pub2/full

Cochrane review on antioxidants vs gastrointestinal cancers - https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004183.pub3/full?

Victorian government advice on antioxidants - https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/antioxidants

Australian government health advice on antioxidants - https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/antioxidants

Cancer council warning on beta carotenoids - https://www.cancer.org.au/content/pdf/CancerControlPolicy/PositionStatements/PS_Betacarotene_and_cancer_risk_September_2009.pdf

Viva Glam article on "superfoods" - https://vivaglammagazine.com/antioxidant-foods-you-should-include-in-your-diet-to-stay-healthy-young/

Cochrane review on link between lung cancer in smokers and beta carotene - https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD002141.pub2/full

Our weather series is over! This week Levi runs you through nuclear energy and Matt pulls apart Simon Sinek's pop psychology.

 

NUCLEAR POWER

 

Uranium energy density https://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/f/fuelcomparison.htm

Information on Uranium and nuclear energy http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/introduction/what-is-uranium-how-does-it-work.aspx

Video on Thorium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMuxjHLLk0E

Chemical equations and reaction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBdVK4cqiFs

How uranium becomes nuclear fuel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apODDbgFFPI

 

SIMON SINEK

 

Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace: https://youtu.be/hER0Qp6QJNU

Simon Sinek on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonsinek/

Simon Sinek Biography: https://startwithwhy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Simon-Sinek-Bio_April-2019.pdf

Millennials in the Workplace - A Communication Perspective on Millennials’ Organizational Relationships and Performance: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10869-010-9172-7.pdf

Millennials at Work - What We Know and What We Need to Do (If Anything): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-010-9177-2

Psychology Today article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201701/no-dopamine-is-not-addictive

Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelschein/2018/06/13/simon-sinek-is-full-of-fluff-and-other-reasons-you-should-follow-his-lead/#285dfaef5657

Birth Cohort Differences in Self-Esteem:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1037/a0019919?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.2#articleCitationDownloadContainer

If you haven't listened to IdioFacto 10 or our weather-based IdioFactoid, we recommend you check those out first to give you a good understanding of some of the concepts we discuss in this episode.

Matt and Levi both discuss Climate Change and dispel some of the common myths and arguments from climate change "skeptics" (read: climate change deniers).

 

Greenhouse Gases https://www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au/en/climate-campus/climate-system/greenhouse-gases/

Thermohaline Circulation https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/ocean-conveyor-belt/

A good general resource for an overview of skeptical climate change arguments: https://skepticalscience.com/

Joel Pett comic: https://www.gocomics.com/joelpett/2009/12/13

“Consensus on consensus” article: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048002/pdf

“A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 years” in Science: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/339/6124/1198.abstract

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/

Interesting Graphs https://www.co2.earth/co2-ice-core-data

With time running out in a busy weekend, we decided to save our climate change special until we could give it the time it deserves. Enjoy this meteorology-themed Idiofactoid in the meantime.

This week, we start introducing important meteorological concepts before our climate change special next episode.

 

Matt gives us a run down of the Carbon Cycle and Levi gets an interview with Climatologist Robyn Duell to discuss long range weather forecasting.

 

Show notes for the Carbon Cycle

 

Khan Academy video: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-ecology/hs-biogeochemical-cycles/v/carbon-cycle

 

World Meteorological Organisation: https://youtu.be/E8Y6L5TI_94

 

Show Notes for Long Range Weather Forecasting

 

Interview with Robyn Duell - Senior Climatologist, Bureau of Meteorology

In this short instalment of IdioFactoid, Levi clears up the myth behind water down the plug hole and Matt runs us through some Spurious Correlations.

 

Show notes on DRAINING WATER

 

Video on draining paddle pool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXaad0rsV38

Show notes on SPURIOUS CORRELATIONS

 

Spurious Correlations website: http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Inhibitory Spillover Paper: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/282526/3/MO_1007.pdf