Peer Revue

Let's find out where the universe started! And we'll look at how a satellite picking up interference accidentally found evidence for where the universe started. We also find out why you can have a COVID vaccination on the same day as another vaccination but not the day after...

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/cosmology-and-astronomy/universe-scale-topic/big-bang-expansion-topic/v/cosmic-background-radiation

https://www.space.com/18090-alpha-centauri-nearest-star-system.html

https://immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au/contents/vaccine-preventable-diseases/covid-19#coadministration-with-other-vaccines

NASA reckons Antarctica is losing around 150 billion tons of ice per year, increasing the average sea level. Does the ocean have an "average" level? Does the sea rise more in some places than others? We also hear Callum's runners high and Vegemite stories and some other tangents.

As always send your questions (and Vegemite soup recipes) to @peer.revue on Instagram

It's a fact that religious people live longer, but why? And what other groups live longer for the same reasons?

Plus we talk about turning dead people into chatbots, testing your biological age, how vaccines are actually the GOAT.

https://www.sciencealert.com/deadbots-could-be-the-future-of-advertising-ethicisits-warn-and-were-not-ready

There was a hypothesis a few years ago that blue light might be responsible for keeping us up late. While there is evidence that wearing orange glasses increases our melatonin, there's no evidence that they help us go to sleep earlier or improve our sleep quality.

So, if it's not blue light what is it? Let's find out.

We'll also break biodiversity down into three important aspects and talk a little about Bell Burnell finding pulsars!

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https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(14)00324-3/fulltext

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271223089_Adolescents_who_perceive_fewer_consequences_of_risk-taking_choose_to_switch_off_games_later_at_night

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329668451_How_Internal_and_External_Cues_for_Bedtime_Affect_Sleep_and_Adaptive_Functioning_in_Adolescents

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcal.12841#jcal12841-bib-0056

The deeper underground we go the further back in time we see. What do the fine white layer of rock and the black rock layer found underneath it that we talk about in this episode have in common? I don't want to spoil it.

What makes someone interested in plants? How can you cultivate a fascination in plants? Why does it matter? You will find out by listening to this week's episode of Peer Revue which was recorded live at the Australian National University's Woroni radio station.

This week we are looking at the CSIRO's Strengthening Australia's Pandemic Preparedness report. Pandemics can kill hundreds of millions indiscriminately and are one of the biggest threats to humankind so it might be an idea to do something about them.

Males might not need a contraceptive pill after decades of research on contraceptive underwear. I also talk about Ozempic, how bone size and animal size aren't necessarily related and how bees can teach other bees.

Check out the original paper:

Roger Mieusset and Louis Bujan, 1994, The potential of mild testicular heating as a safe, effective and reversible contraceptive method for men

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07126-4

Why can't a cell live forever? If a cell can't live forever, how can a whole jellyfish? That's right there's an immortal jellyfish.

How should you use emojis to include people with low vision? Why is Australia's social cohesion weakening? Should we tie down rats and pull out their fur to figure out if they go grey?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1935-3

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/can-stress-really-make-hair-or-fur-turn-gray-2020030619062

https://scanloninstitute.org.au/mapping-social-cohesion-2023

https://livehowyouwant.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/for-what-purposes-if-any-is-painful-experimentation-on-animals-justified/