Ockham’s Razor

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Ockham’s Razor episodes

June 22, 2019 To catch a (wildlife) thief
There's nothing criminals love more than finding a branch of crime that pays, but is poorly enforced - like wildlife trafficking. Can science fight back? Lydia Tong thinks so.
12 min
June 15, 2019 The future is fungus
Fungi are behind everything from blue cheese and truffles to zombi-making head spikes. And that's just the ones we know about it.
11 min
June 15, 2019 The future is fungus
Fungi are behind everything from blue cheese and truffles to zombi-making head spikes. And that's just the ones we know about it.
11 min
June 08, 2019 When anaesthetists can't sleep ...
What do you call an insomniac anaesthetist? Michael Toon.
12 min
June 08, 2019 When anaesthetists can't sleep ...
What do you call an insomniac anaesthetist? Michael Toon.
12 min
June 02, 2019 Reimagining the thylacine
Can we bring back mammals from extinction? It will take more than just technology, says evolutionary geneticist Andrew Pask.
12 min
June 01, 2019 Reimagining the thylacine
Can we bring back mammals from extinction? It will take more than just technology, says evolutionary geneticist Andrew Pask.
12 min
May 25, 2019 Algorithms that make art
Computers write poems and jokes, and generate music and images. But is it art?
12 min
May 25, 2019 Algorithms that make art
Computers write poems and jokes, and generate music and images. But is it art?
12 min
May 19, 2019 What's in a name?
What have the Wallace Line, Confucius and plane crashes got in common? Taxonomy, as it happens.
12 min

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This program is no longer in production. Ockham’s Razor is a soap box for all things scientific, with short talks about research, industry and policy from people with something thoughtful to say…