Peter Hill Explains

This is a long podcast that goes through as series of integrated experiments in detail. The general train of action is built up with description of a system plagued by "lag" teaching concepts hundreds of years out of date with a prime focus of cloning the unquestioning teachers that are churning out textbook pages with ardour. Direct observation of a dye plume rising some significant an suspenseful pause after the bottom of the beaker has been briefly heated with a single match unleashes curiosity. More is to follow as a ghostly vibration travels from a test tube into the hands of a profoundly moved student. Most would dismiss it a weird and look around to detract some idle trait that would all the slumber of the mind to permeate all dimensions of existence, time, social structure. However, this student is imaging holding a star, and for this student the realm of the distant ensemble of happenings that appear in the construct of school is reaching out and shaking them. This is personal, and personal is good when it comes to science. The journey of discovery pauses as student happen upon the global ocean conveyor that transports life giving energy to what would be otherwise frozen climes. Winter is coming, The reasons are there is the script of our every day life. We are yet to decode the significance and the sincerity of those who would covert our future. This is just awful guff, but it is flowing out and I am surprised to see what comes out as I type. The issue here is that many people spruik (Australian for sales pitch)  education as a heroic saga and grand vision but it is more a fabric of authentic moments in time. This moment in time comes as the class undergoes intellectual convection seeing that they are the masters of this phenomena, some work well others less so. The environmental vision is cast: how are we going on experiment earth? MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.

The article on gene modification to treat Parkinson's is truly mystifying. How do you get gene therapy inside the blood brain barrier. The effects are bizarre. Similarly finding stone tools some 30 000 years old in Tibet predating modern human occupation from and earliest time or 12 000 is a complex story and I personally would be cautious about calling in the help of Denisovians to solve this mystery seems fraught with danger. The article on avoiding food waste by buy in prepackaged means seems fair enough. It just strikes me that living in a commune achieves the same efficiency but perhaps I am not thinking about consumption in the correct frame of reference. I think the comment article about medical implants is about time and on the mark. I just think it made such a powerful point relating things to the CE accreditation. My mind has gone blank for the second comment article all I can recall is that the author was a woman named Irani. I cheated an looked at the magazine, and yes it was fantasy as far as I can tell about workers in Google and Apple making these firms ethical. I think it is a cruel deceptions. The comment article really missed the point about just how uninspiring low earth satellites are. The gem was to find out that Apollo 15 planted a 8.5 Australian astronaut called Bruce or "Brucy-me-mate" on the moon, and Bruce is still there waiting for the earth to explode or the Sun to die which ever is the sooner given he doesn't get smashed by an asteroid in the mean time. Finally using 303 quasars as a celestial GPS as picked up by Very Long Baseline Interferometry is just what we all need to read. What absolutely beautiful science. This was a clear example of fatigue for me as in my first venture in this podcast and I just slowed and fell asleep. Go figure. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.

Fixing a bit of code here, shaping an opportunity from what is left over there is not much strategy but it is emergent My insight is that it is not the nature of the content that is the issue but who is developing it. In this case we have expert minds forming it, then expert voices projecting it, and thoughtful stewards guiding it. The technology is the enabler but the business model is fundamentally different. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.

Continuing the practice of asking a quiz question before most articles. In doing so I am more sensitized to bad science, things I didn't know and more generally a confusing way of putting things that pads out the article. The Finish survey on a Robot sex brothel is sensational but really doesn't access authentic information or trends. The dance of European aviators to avoid the 2% load to the greenhouse budget is really the tip of the ice berg (in this case probably a melting one). My insight is that this is set to rise, but if you consider the scenario that the rest of the systems achieve a fall then we are in for an even greater percentage rise. The only solution I can see from a market driven problem is to increase the price. The Spider Mum idea was simply too good a headline for the science. I think watching the baby spider die is so 19th century. Radio active tracers seem a pretty solid way to go if you can't actually see the spiders drinking the milk. I wound up actually sorry for the researchers opening up the possibility of finger removal, the real story here is not the hand art but rather that the practice of finger amputation is so common, or perhaps not. I think the article is unnecessarily broad at the start saying that the art is common, yet in the next paragraph that it is confined to two caves. The extragalactic gamma ray scattering of ancient photons raised with me the question on how could I have missed so much fundamental science. The answer is most likely that the key principle upon which the phenomena is based has simply been miss explained, which is deeply confusing for me. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.

This is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It basically looks and comments on the idea of Art actually displacing Life. I see parallels in the education of science at the expense of growing the fire of reason in the souls of our students. I am studying the history of English literature analysis and English as a subject for education. I am coming to the understanding that just researching Science education or just English education you have an incomplete picture. Many do not know about the invention of Scientists, or the invention of English as a subject. The former predates the later by 50 years. If you consider Carl Sagan as a type of Science poet, then the power of his language has another dimension. I like his turn of phase "the highly combustible mixture of ignorance and power". Richard Dawkins is another mind in this space. Only in Australia, I read under a porch light, that is near to be bright enough. As dusk fall a swarm of insect that seem to be all extremely odd examples of evolutionary innovation just crash in. Itching as their wings become waterlogged with my sweat, I soldier on until... a 3 cm beetle kamikaze lands on my book at speed bouncing off onto my chest, then falls onto its back covering the vary sentence. I was reading. Perhaps Darwin had summoned up an army plucked from the tree of life and commanded them to stop the podcast. Then again perhaps not. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.

Stepping up the level of complexity for myself here. In this I ask three quiz questions before reading the New Scientist article. This is a great way of teaching some science, but it does make conceptual errors in the article really stand out. Here the author has not really understood the Terminator orbit. Sorry this didn't upload first of, this is due to a space in front of the file name, so I will get in and error trap this. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.

After an amazing first run quiz we have brought things forward from the iron age Celts to a modern 1926 innovation which has taken Britain by storm. This cartoon is an in joke about how I misused my knowledge about Celtic history to incorrectly fill in the information blanks in the original quiz. The software publishes this page first and then downloads the lesson and quality suite in background, so it you may have to wait 10 minutes or so for the upload if you are viewing this just after it is posted.... okay all uploaded, was fast this time. A favourite social event in England, Ireland and Scotland is the Cèilidh (Kay-lee)where people of all ages gather to perform simple, traditional folk dances, accompanied by folk instruments such as the Bodhrán (bore-anne)-an Irish frame drum played with a double-ended beater, the fiddle which is like a violin played in a rustic style, an accordion or squeeze-box, various types of flutes and whistles and anything else that local musicians play that fits in with the music such as a guitar or string bass. The dances are simple to learn but energetic to perform. They are structured in sets, for example, circles, sets of four couples in a square, or couples facing each other in a line. Cèilidhs (Kay-lee's) have been popular in Ireland since 1926 when Séamus (Shaymus) Clandillon, Radio Éireann's (Erin's) director of Music held the first cèilidh (Kay-lee) to have dance music for his studio-based programs. The oldest, largest and longest running cèilidh (Kay-lee) event in Scotland is the Highland Annual, held in Edinburgh. It originated decades ago probably in the 1920s. It is the oldest cèilidh in Scotland. Note that pronounciation is kindly provided by the expert in the above paragraph. I feel that it is probably better to build across from the input form directly to the Mobile Phone app automaton. The view in toolkit presents a clean webpage designed for browsing, I will Quiz Toolkit Style of Program Audio Support File Trailer Your browser does not support the audio element. Radio Program Your browser does not support the audio element. Class Test Your browser does not support the audio element. Answer Sheet Just the information Your browser does not support the audio element.

Doing the maths on an experiment lets one see that it can be very poorly designed. A little care could make the results conclusive. As an Australian tax payer myself I am not exactly full of joy to see people burning my money, when a little care could really nail results. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.

I think now it is said it can not be unsaid: Self reported mobile phone use is so poor that it is taking up valuable thought space. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.

My encounters with Malaria playing a key part in history, and acting as a potent geopolitical player has evolved over time. There are 5 strains of Malaria all of which have the art of evading the immune system and being a walking if not dying pool for the parasite to spread. I have learnt that it is easy to spot in a red blood cell as it had tell tale DNA in a cell that would other wise be completely stripped of a nucleus. I consider that we shamefully don't care about "another country's that is not us" disease, not recognizing the real burden of having a population that has to carry a disease burden,. MP4 recording     MP3 recording -- -- Your browser does not support the audio element.