International Skeptics United

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Science reports from Oscar and Daph Alabaster... then...

Introduction

Richard Saunders and Fred the cat.

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North to Brisbane!

We chat to Ross Balch about the upcoming Australian Skeptics National Convention.

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Evidence Please... with Jo Alabaster

Jo looks at the case of the seemingly anti-vax cartoonist.

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A Week in Science

The Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) is a national scientific not-for-profit organisation with a mission to bring science to people and people to science.

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Vale Prof. Colin Keay

We remember a great skeptic and a world renowned astronomer.

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Even further north to Darwin

Find out about the new Darwin Skeptics group as we talk to Michelle Franklin.

On this week’s show, Cristina rouses the panel with some research that addresses whether we can ever really catch up on lost sleep. Guest Lars Péloquin explains the concept of Trickle-down Economics. Finally, Pat looks into why NASA recently had to address rumours which suggested an impending Asteroid catastrophe.

ContentMine is a project which provides the tools and workflow to convert scientific literature into machine readable and machine interpretable data in order to facilitate better and more effective access to the accumulated knowledge of human kind. The program's founder Peter Murray-Rust joins us this week to discuss ContentMine. Our discussion covers the project, the scientific publication process, copywrite, and several other interesting topics.