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STEMpunk quiz in action:On Tuesday August 15 2017, The STEMpunks, Tom, Christie and Shane hosted our third STEMpunk quiz as a part of the Sydney Science Festival and supported by National Science Week at Wayward Brewery in Annandale, Sydney. It was a huge success with a huge audience, and a great vibe.  This time we invited Gid M-K and Bish Marzook who were great! Massive thanks to all involved, especially Linda and the team at Wayward Brewing Co. and the Sydney Science Festival for such an awesome venue and event. We had an incredible turnout of 85 people including some school students and a lot of awesome people and prizes (in fact tone of the reasons for the poor sound quality at times was due to the large crowd. This is a great problem to have. We had a lot of fun and we hope those who were there did also. In this episode, for something different, we've included the pre-quiz interview with Gid and Bish and we pick up the action from the quiz about halfway through Round E. Congrats again to Team Christie for winning the event, and to all for everyone in the audience for participating. Here are the questions we asked: Round Science:1. What does a manometer measure?2. Who invented the microscope?3. What is a blype? Round Technology:1. What does the POP in POP3 mean?2. In 1970, there were 15 computer languages in use. How many are there now? a) 500, b) 2000 c) 5000 d) too many to count.3. In Gartner's Hype cycle, what comes after the trough of disillusionment?   a) Technology trigger,   b) Peak of inflated expectations,   c) Slope of enlightenment,   d) Plateu of productivity Round Engineering:1. Scientists at Cornell University in New York manufactured a playable device about the width of a five human blood cells. What was it? a) A miniature transistor radio b) A propeller c) An animated smiley face d) The world's smallest guitar.2. The Mars Climate Orbiter space probe was designed to orbit Mars to study its weather but crashed into the planet. What was the cause of the failure of the mission?  a) Mission control lost communication with the probe,  b) A solar flare destroyed the electronics in flight,  c) Confusion between English and metric units in thruster subsystem,  d) Its fuel tank exploded as the thruster ignited,3. What is the oldest type of engineering profession? Round Mathematics:1. A happy number is a number defined by the following process: Starting with any positive integer, replace the number by the sum of the squares of its digits, and repeat the process until the number equals 1. if it does not end in 1, it is an unhappy, or sad, number. Is 44 a happy number?2. What power does the prefix Yocto represent?3. Arithmophobia is a fear of numbers, Name a number that is one of the most feared. Send us an email at [email protected], or contact us on twitter: @STEMpunk3Outro Music: STARSET -Let It Die. Used with permission. STEMpunk PodcastLook: Website Twitter FacebookListen: iTunes Stitcher PlayerFM -->

In this episode of STEMpunk, Tom talks with Science Communicator Phil Dooley. Since handing over the Science Communicator baton to Tom on 2011, Phil has been travelling all over the country side, and world, spreading science, variety, cabaret and music wherever he can. Phil has a few live things coming up all over the place and you can have a look at where he is and what he is doing on his many avenues of contact. Phil will be doing a live cabaret/comedy/science show in Science week in Sydney at Wayward be aware (fans of STEMpunk will know this venue!) Link is here: Dark Matter: An alternative fact cabaret Web: https://philuponscience.com.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philuponscience/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/@philuponscience YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbu5tisooIYsV_ljx3VxQbA Don't forget our Live STEMpunk quiz show at Wayward Breweries on August 15 from 6:30-8pm. STEMpunk will be hosting a FREE live event at Wayward Breweries in Annandale on Tuesday August 15 for the Sydney Science Festival called STEMpunk quiz. This is very exciting! STEMpunk quiz is a live recording of STEMpunk podcast which will be a mix of Science, variety, quiz, experiments and guests. Think Spicks&Specks Vs Rockwiz, but with more science! There will be 4 rounds (S, T, E & M) where we ask STEM type questions as well as live demonstrations and activities. The event will be held at Wayward Brewery in Camperdown. Send us an email at [email protected], or contact us on twitter: @STEMpunk3 Outro Music: STARSET -Let It Die. Used with permission.

This week our interview is with our first ever repeat guest, James O'Hanlon. James is a Insect Ecologist at the University of New England. In another STEMpunk First, this episode has had no edits at all! This is our conversation as we had it in Jame's house in Armidale. It was great fun. We talked about his research, what it's like to be a scientist in the real world, and we revisited James answer to What is STEM? After this chat, we switched mics and James interviewed me (I believe I am his first repeat guest too!) And you can hear what we chatted about on James Podcast In Situ Science You can Follow James on Twitter @jamohanlon

STEMpunk Tom interviews Science Communicator and Journalist Sarah Keenihan. Science and Technology Editor from the Conversation.We talked about the Conversation, STEM, politics, funding, Communication and other things. Thanks Sarah for taking the time with us and we'll hopefully speak again soon. I'm sure paths will cross!The Conversation  Twitter: @sciencesarahSarah answered a previous question about how to communicate with a climate denier, and asked her own question for our next guest:Who should fund Science?

Rebecca WinkelsSTEMpunk Shane interviews Science communicator Rebecca Winkels.Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Science Journalism.  Rebecca came out to Australia to undergo professional development with the Sydney University’s press team.  In her short stint here, she managed to find some time to have a chat with STEMpunk. There is a fair amount of background due to the podcast being recorded at the Lord Nelson Brewery.Interesting links mentioned in the discussion:Helmhotz Association https://www.helmholtz.de/en/The Conversation https://theconversation.comRebecca answered the Mikayla Keen's question about how to communicate with a climate denier, and asked her own question for our next guest:Do scientists need to become more political in times like these?

Mikayla Keen and STEMpunk Shane Hengst What do banknotes, Elvis and gluten-free beer have in common? Shane interviews Mikayla Keen, an experienced communicator. Mikayla has worked out of the Parkes Radio Telescope and can even brag that she gave public talks in a ‘Priscilla’ wig! They chat about science communication, history and philosophy of science, the challenges of scientific literacy and much more! RBA banknote site which links to app download - http://banknotes.rba.gov.au/You can go to iTunes or Google Play to download "RBA Banknotes app" CSIRO blog post: https://blog.csiro.au/from-a-summer-with-telescopes-to-getting-your-sea-legs-the-hard-way-2/ Elvis festival: http://www.parkeselvisfestival.com.au/ The Dish:http://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Facilities/ATNF/Parkes-radio-telescope CSIRO Summer student program  http://www.csiro.au/en/Careers/Student-and-graduate-opportunities/Vacation-scholarships Mikayla answered the wholesome question about work -life balance and asked her own question for next guest:What tactics would you use to communicate with a Climate Denier?

Rod Lamberts and Will grant from the Centre for Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) at ANU.  Here looking very wholesome.WholesomeSTEM is our chat with Wholesome Science communicators Will Grant and Rod Lamberts from the ANU Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, CPAS. We talk about Science Communication, facts, jobs and opinions. We even got into some politics and comedy (sometimes those are difficult to distinguish). We've wanted to chat with Rod and Will for a while now and are very glad and happy that we got the chance. It was a lot of fun! Here's a quote from the show that has stayed with me: "The easiest people to persuade are the people who wanna be persuaded...often what we do is not injecting facts, but context" Rod and Will run their own podcast called the wholesome show, a pub event where they interview scientists and other thinkers and ask them tough questions, over a beer. Check it out. You may or may not regret it!! They answered Noel Hanna's question STEM workers of the future and asked their own: "How do you balance your work and life...ya drongo?" http://wholesomeshow.com/ http://cpas.anu.edu.au/

Rod Lamberts and Will grant from the Centre for Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) at ANU.  Here looking very wholesome.WholesomeSTEM is our chat with Wholesome Science communicators Will Grant and Rod Lamberts from the ANU Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, CPAS. We talk about Science Communication, facts, jobs and opinions. We even got into some politics and comedy (sometimes those are difficult to distinguish). We've wanted to chat with Rod and Will for a while now and are very glad and happy that we got the chance. It was a lot of fun! Here's a quote from the show that has stayed with me: "The easiest people to persuade are the people who wanna be persuaded...often what we do is not injecting facts, but context" Rod and Will run their own podcast called the wholesome show, a pub event where they interview scientists and other thinkers and ask them tough questions, over a beer. Check it out. You may or may not regret it!! They answered Noel Hanna's question STEM workers of the future and asked their own: "How do you balance your work and life...ya drongo?" http://wholesomeshow.com/ http://cpas.anu.edu.au/

What does the weather; the French; and the human voice; have in common? In this episode, Shane chats with Dr Noel Hanna.  Noel Hanna has experience in teaching, science communication and research.  He is currently a research associate working in Joe Wolfe’s Acoustic group.  Noel has so far had an interesting and varied career, going from being a linguistic student, a meteorologist, school teacher and now a researcher into the physics of the human voice. Noel answered Dr Sean Farrell's question about combating the rise in trend of distrust in experts?  Noel then asks our next guest this: There are some predictions that STEM workers, particularly programmers, will be the blue-collar workers of the future.  Is this something to look forward to and why? MRI – Cross section of a human head and throat, looking into the physical characteristics that make up the human voice. Noel Hanna:https://www.physics.unsw.edu.au/staff/noel-hanna Joe Wolfe’s research group:http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/ World Voice Dayhttp://2017.world-voice-day.org/ Australian Acoustical Societyhttps://www.acoustics.asn.au/joomla/ Noel’s ‘The Conversation Article’https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-the-human-voice-is-so-versatile-69800 Noel’s Public Talk ‘Understanding the Human Voice’ https://youtu.be/wZpjmqkgEYk

In this special episode, Christie, Shane and Tom sit down together and chat about Global Astronomy Month. We've all been involved with GAM and we wanted to celebrate it by releasing a spacial themed podcast! Global Astronomy Month (GAM), organized each April by Astronomers Without Borders, is the world's largest global celebration of astronomy. Every year GAM brings new ideas and new opportunities, bringing enthusiasts together worldwide to celebrate Astronomers Without Borders' motto One People, One Sky. This episode is sponsored by STEMpunk. For this month (until the end of May) we are offering a discount on our t-shirts. We're giving you 10% off all our shirts from our Redbubble store, So head over to the store and get your discounted STEMpunk wear. GAM 2017  Tom's GAMblog short story - Boundary Conditions Shane's GAMblog post - The Planetarium Experience