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- 3 min
- Episode 52: Small human in big universeWhat are orbits and eclipses?
- What is an orbit? (NASA)
- What causes an orbit to happen? (Qualitative Reasoning Group)
- What is orbital mechanics? (Rocket & Space Technology)
- Orbital mechanics I (The Physics Hypertextbook)
- Heliocentrism from the Greeks to Copernicus & after (Wikipedia)
- Copernicus (Biography)
- Galileo & the controversy that moons orbited Jupiter (Wikipedia)
- Modern flat Earth societies (Wikipedia)
- The middle ages (History)
- What is the heliocentric model of the universe? (Universe Today)
- From geocentrism to heliocentrism (Futurism)
- Live tracking: Where is Halley's comet now? (The Sky Live)
- Comet trajectories: Where is Halley's comet (The Planets Today)
- Halley's comet completes an elliptical orbit around the sun every ~76 years (Wikipedia)
- Planets & stars orbit around their common centre of mass, the 'barycentre' (NASA)
- Lagrange points: Parking places in space (Space)
- Kepler's laws (One-Minute Astronomer)
- Planetary motion: The history of an idea that launched the scientific revolution (NASA)
- Does our galaxy orbit anything? (Astroquizzical)
- How do gravitational slingshots work? (Universe Today)
- Gravitational slingshot (Math Pages)
- Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft flight paths (Vimeo)
- Voyager 1 slingshot & other probes (Wikipedia)
- Do unmanned spacecraft like Voyager travel in straight lines? (Ask An Astronomer)
- What is a gravity well? (Qualitative Reasoning Group)
- Gravity wells scaled to Earth surface gravity (xkcd)
- Voyagers 1 & 2 do have thrusters (NASA)
- The Farthest: The documentary about the Voyagers we mentioned (IMDb)
- Energy relationships for satellites (The Physics Classroom)
- Why doesn't the Moon fall upon Earth? (Physics Stack Exchange)
- Why the Moon is getting further away from Earth (BBC)
- Is the Moon moving away from Earth? (Ask An Astronomer)
- Outer space is not a perfect vaccuum (Wikipedia)
- How are satellites launched into orbit? (Astronomy WA)
- The different types of orbits of satellites (Wikipedia)
- One of many satellite finder apps (iTunes)
- Does zero gravity exist in space? (Yale Scientific)
- NASA's vomit comet trains astronauts in the ways of weightlessness (Gizmodo)
- Feeling weightless in an elevator if the cable breaks (Hyperphysics)
- What is the difference between weight & mass? (Thought Co.)
- What is an eclipse? (NASA)
- Eclipse (Wikipedia)
- Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 (Wikipedia)
- What science can learn from a total solar eclipse (Cosmos)
- Here's what scientists have learned from total solar eclipses (Space)
- How are total solar eclipses used by scientists? (NASA)
- Why a total solar eclipse is such a big deal (YouTube)
- Two minutes of darkness with 20,000 strangers (FiveThirtyEight)
- 2 July, 2019 is the next total solar eclipse (Time And Date)
- The Moon's orbit & rotation (Windows 2 Universe)
- Diagram showing the Earth-Moon system (Wikipedia)
- Why future Earthlings won't see total eclipses (NPR)
- Perihelion & aphelion (Wikipedia)
- Types of solar eclipse: Partial, annular, total & hybrid (National University of Singapore)
- The diamond ring effect during a toal solar eclipse (Wikipedia)
- Solar eclipse of January 24, 1925 in New York City (Wikipedia)
- What is the umbra? (Time And Date)
- Scientists to take flight for longer views of the eclipse (The New York Times)
- Chasing the total solar eclipse from NASA’s WB-57F jets (NASA)
- When astronomers chased a total eclipse in a Concorde (Motherboard)
- NASA's best photos of the total solar eclipse of 2017 (Space)
- The Sun's diameter is ~1.392 million km (Space)
- The Sun's corona extends millions of kilometres into space (Wikipedia)
- How do computers predict eclipses? (NASA)
- What do Flat-Earthers think is going on during a solar eclipse? (IFL Science)
- Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia
Corrections- Gravity assist owes both Kepler & Newton (The Science Classroom)
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Image credit: NASA
1 hr 3 min - Episode 51: Things starting things starting thingsWhat happens inside computers?
- The cream yellow Volvo 850 T5-R wagon (Pinterest)
- What is a computer? (Computer Hope)
- When women stopped coding (Planet Money, NPR)
- Women computers in World War II (Engineering & Technology History)
- Human computers: The women of NASA (History)
- How do computers work? (Explain That Stuff!)
- How does a computer work? (Computer Hope)
- What does the inside of a computer look like? (Computer Hope)
- What is computer hardware? (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- Turing machine (Wikipedia)
- Turing machines explained (YouTube)
- Central processing unit (Computer Hope)
- Transistors (Explain That Stuff!)
- How transistors work (How Stuff Works, Electronics)
- CSIRAC: The only intact first-generation computer surviving anywhere in the world (Museums Victoria)
- Transistors used to be vacuum tubes: The transistor in a century of electronics (The Nobel Prize)
- Logic gate (Computer Hope)
- Binary (Computer Hope)
- What is silicon & why are computer chips made from it? (Extreme Tech)
- Facts about silicon (livescience)
- Why silicon computers rule (Cosmos)
- Moore's law: The number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every 2 years (Wikipedia)
- The 'doubling of grains of rice on a chess board' fable (The Math Forum)
- The tunnelling transistor (IEEE)
- Deterministic algorithm (Wikipedia)
- Motherboard (Computer Hope)
- Universal serial bus, or USB (Computer Hope)
- How USB ports work (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- Human ingenuity has created a world that the mind cannot master: Have we finally reached our limits?(aeon)
- Raspberry Pi
- Arduino
- Random access memory, or RAM (Computer Hope)
- Read only memory, or ROM (Computer Hope)
- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps (The Phrase Finder)
- Boot (Computer Hope)
- What happens when you switch a computer on? (The Linux Documentation Project)
- How PCs work (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- Power-on self-test, or POST (Computer Hope)
- Boot sector (Computer Hope)
- Kernel (Computer Hope)
- Kernel (Wikipedia)
- What is shut down? (Computer Hope)
- What is actually happening when a Windows computer is shutting down? (How-To Geek)
- How to shut down a computer (Computer Hope)
- Energy efficiency guide for iOS apps & 'batching transactions' (Apple)
- CPU power dissipation (Wikipedia)
- Power efficiency in OS X (Apple)
- Public service announcement: You should not force quit apps on iOS (Daring Fireball, John Gruber)
- Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia
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Image credit: happytrees.org
1 hr 1 min - Episode 50: The fresh fields of hydrogenWhat is the Sun?
- Powers of Ten™: The famous video from 1977 that explains the scale of the universe (YouTube)
- The Sun (Wikipedia)
- Formation of the Sun (Wikipedia)
- The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old: Facts about the Sun’s age, size & history (Space.com)
- How is a star born? (Scientific American)
- How does a star ignite? (Physics Stack Exchange)
- Cosmic dust (Wikipedia)
- All you need is cold gas: The legacy of K. E. Edgeworth (NED)
- Stars form out in the cold & fuel the growth of supermassive black holes (SMH)
- Newton's laws (Hyperphysics)
- Animation of Jupiter seen in the infrared (NASA/JPL Caltech)
- What is fusion (livescience)
- Nuclear fusion (Hyperphysics)
- Nuclear fusion in stars (Wikipedia)
- After 60 years, is nuclear fusion finally poised to deliver? (The Guardian)
- Chain reaction (Wikipedia)
- Diana Ross: Chain Reaction (YouTube)
- The Sun's structure & energy production (Wikipedia)
- National Ignition Facility recreates the interior of heavy stars (ars Technica)
- Naming conventions for our Sun or 'Sol' (Wikipedia)
- Parker Solar Probe: Humanity’s first visit to a star (NASA)
- Sunshine (IMDb)
- It sounds like stars do all seem to start with hydrogen: Star formation (Wikipedia)
- Stars (NASA)
- Main sequence stars (CSIRO)
- Post-main sequence stars (CSIRO)
- There is a minimum mass for stars: ~8% of the mass of the Sun, lower than that & the internal pressure from gravity is too low to trigger the necessary nuclear reactions (NASA)
- The Sun consumes about 600 million tonnes of hydrogen per second (NASA)
- The future of the Sun: After core hydrogen exhaustion (Wikipedia)
- Helium 'burning' & the helium flash: In post-main sequence stars, helium nuclei fuse to eventually form carbon-12 (CSIRO)
- Modelling a star on a computer (Western Michigan University)
- The CNO cycle (Cosmos)
- Will the sun go supernova in six years & destroy Earth? (Ask an Astronomer)
- Iron & nickel are the heaviest elements that can be made in stars like our Sun that don't undergo supernova explosions (NASA)
- Red giant stars (Cosmos)
- Cold dead star may be a giant diamond (Space.com)
- Measuring a white dwarf star (NASA)
- The electromagnetic spectrum (NASA)
- What is Earth's magnetic field? (Universe Today)
- The 11-year cycle of solar minimums & maximums (NASA)
- The sun is so hot it's mostly made of plasma (NASA)
- Convection zone (Wikipedia)
- Structure of stars showing convection zones (ESO)
- Understanding the magnetic sun (NASA)
- The singing sun: Listen to the sound the sun makes! (Stanford Solar Center)
- The corona of the Sun, it's outer atmosphere (NASA)
- Why is the Sun's corona the hottest layer when it's farther from the core than other layers? (Scientific American)
- What are sun spots? (Wikipedia)
- Coronal mass ejection (Wikipedia)
- What is solar wind? (QRG, Northwestern University)
- No more solar wind for Voyager 1 spacecraft (Phys.org)
- The Voyagers have reached an anniversary worth celebrating (ars Technica)
- What is an aurora? (NASA)
- Solar storm & space weather FAQ (NASA)
- Can solar flares hurt astronauts? (Universe Today)
- Fast & slow solar wind (Wikipedia)
- The Carrington Event of 1859 (Wikipedia)
- How are the astronauts in the ISS protected from solar flares? (Space Exploration, Stack Exchange)
- Who's afraid of a solar flare? (NASA)
- What if the biggest solar storm on record happened today? (National Geographic)
- Did a massive solar proton event fry the Earth? (Space Daily)
- 1 in 8 chance of catastrophic solar megastorm by 2020 (Wired)
Corrections- The sun will eventually become a red giant (not a red dwarf) & then a white dwarf (Space.com)
- It sounds like Saturn, not Jupiter, emits infrared radiation from frictional heating - Jupiter's 'glow' is thought to be from cooling left over from its formation (LibreTexts Physics)
- Apparently the sun is only half way through its main sequence lifecycle (Wikipedia)
- The sun won’t die for 5 billion years (The Conversation)
- Estimates vary, but it's agreed it takes a LONG time for a photon to escape the sun (Futurism)
- Why does it take thousands of years for light to escape the Sun? (Ask a Mathematician/Physicist)
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Image credit: NASA
1 hr 2 min - Episode 49: You've invented a method to send angry catsWhat is email?
- Our Patreon site 🤓
- The history of email (Net History)
- Email (Wikipedia)
- The man who invented email (Time)
- How does email work? (How-To Geek)
- How email works (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- How does an email server work? (MUO)
- Handshake (Computer Hope)
- File Transfer Protocol, or FTP (Wikipedia)
- What is the internet? (Computer Hope)
- A timeline of the history of the internet (Computer Hope)
- What is a hyperlink? (Wikipedia)
- Tim Burners-Lee & the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP (Wikipedia)
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP (Wikipedia)
- What is an email client? (Lifewire)
- This is how a raw email with an attachment is formatted behind the scenes - your email program makes it look like an email
- A history of the @ symbol (atsymbol)
- Meet the man who put the @ in your email (Wired)
- What is an IP address & why do all computers need one? (Lifewire)
- Who is the Mailer-Daemon? (Mental Floss)
- What is Post Office Protocol, or POP? (Lifewire)
- Attachment size limits for Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook & WhatsApp (The Windows Club)
- What is data deduplication? (Tech Target)
- The problem with email: A position paper from 2001 noting how it's insecure & delivery is not guaranteed (REBOL)
- Check digits (University of Alberta)
- Why you can’t undo sending an email (& when you can) (How-To Geek)
- Gmail has a feature where you can unsend an email (Google)
- Is your boss reading your email? (Slate)
- Australian employers free to spy on workers’ email, online chats, & smartphones without warning (news.com.au)
- Here's why your email is insecure & likely to stay that way (Digital Trends)
- Email encryption (Wikipedia)
- How to email, text or snail mail credit card information safely (Nerd Wallet)
- Mail for Mac: Sign or encrypt messages for increased security (Apple)
- Yes, the FBI & CIA can read your email. Here's how (ZD Net)
- The Government’s phone, text, & email spying, explained (abc News)
- The triumph of email: Why does one of the world's most reviled technologies keep winning? (The Atlantic)
- Why email will be obsolete by 2020 (Inc.com)
- Is there a replacement for email? (The Guardian)
- 'Don't damage encryption' rights coalition tells global governments (Wired)
- UK government can force encryption removal, but fears losing, experts say (The Guardian)
- What's the carbon footprint of an email? (Phys.org)
- Spare us the email yada-yada: Why footers are legally worthless (The Economist)
- What happens to your email when you die? (news.com.au)
- Johnny uses a paid email service called Fast Mail (FastMail)
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Image credit: The Mary Sue/Grumpy Cat
1 hr 6 min - Episode 48: Tea, Earl Grey, hotWhat is science fiction?
- Science fiction (Wikipedia)
- Hard versus soft science fiction (Wikipedia)
- Why is science fiction so hard to define? (BBC)
- How America's leading science fiction authors are shaping your future (Smithsonian)
- What is science fiction good for? (Huffington Post)
- The underrated universal appeal of science fiction (The Atlantic)
- Philip K. Dick (Wikipedia)
- An article that notes how Philip K. Dick almost starved to death as a premature infant (The Independent)
- Black Mirror (IMDb)
- Johnny's recommended episodes of Black Mirror to start with: The Entire History of You, S01E03; White Bear, S02E02; San Junipero, S03E04 (Wikipedia)
- Star Trek (Wikipedia)
- James T. Kirk (Wikipedia)
- Jean-Luc Picard (Wikipedia)
- The economic lessons of Star Trek's money-free society (Wired)
- List of science fiction universes (Wikipedia)
- Dr Futurity by Philip K. Dick: The story Lucy was talking about where civilisation isn't fussed about death anymore (Wikipedia)
- The Star Trek Prime Directive (Memory Alpha)
- 6 ways reading & watching science fiction makes you a more ethical person (Bustle)
- Driverless trucks: Economic tsunami may swallow one of most common US jobs (The Guardian)
- A plan in case robots take the jobs: Give everyone a pay check (The New York Times)
- Ten inventions inspired by science fiction (Smithsonian)
- Sci-Fi inspires engineers to build our future (NPR)
- Why today's inventors need to read more science fiction (The Atlantic)
- Isaac Asimov (Wikipedia)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Wikipedia)
- 5 books that predicted the internet (Barnes & Noble)
- The telescreen from 1984 by George Orwell (YouTube)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Wikipedia)
- Flawed forecasting – when science fiction gets it wrong (The Guardian)
- Robert A. Heinlein (Wikipedia)
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Wikipedia)
- VALIS by Philip K. Dick (Wikipedia)
- The Turning Wheel by Philip K. Dick: The story Lucy mentioned where he takes a jab at L. Ron Hubbard's dianetics book, the foundation of Scientology (Wikipedia)
- L. Ron Hubbard (Wikipedia)
- When L. Ron Hubbard briefly let down his guard & admitted Scientology was all a con (The Underground Bunker)
- "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion", L. Ron Hubbard (WikiQuote)
- The Star Trek 'PADD': Personal Access Display Device (Memory Alpha)
- Amazon unveils the $230 Echo Show, with a screen for calls, shipping June 28 (TechCrunch)
- Tiger Tiger Chardonnay (Collector Wines)
- Our DNA is 99.9% the same as the person sitting next to us & we're surprisingly similar to a bunch of other living things (Business Insider)
- Plasma aliens could live inside “Black Clouds”: Extraterrestrial life can be stranger than we even dare to imagine (Message To Eagle)
- Iain M. Banks (Wikipedia)
- The Culture series by Iain M. Banks (Wikipedia)
- Elon Musk names SpaceX drone ships in honour of Sci-Fi legend (Space.com)
- Data, the android from Star Trek (Memory Alpha)
- Snowcrash by Neil Stevenson
- Second Life
- The Matrix (IMDb)
- The Holodeck in Star Trek (Memory Alpha)
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 (YouTube)
- Road Work podcast: Dan Benjamin & John Roderick (5by5)
- Roderick on the Line podcast: Merlin Mann & John Roderick (MerlinMann.com)
- Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia
Corrections- Isaac Asimov coined the term 'robotics' & wrote the Laws of Robotics, but apparently the term 'robot' was first used by Czech playwright Karel Capek in the 1920s (Carnegie Mellon University)
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1 hr 2 min - Episode 47: myfavouritedog25What is hacking?Before listening to this podcast
- We recommend changing your email, banking & Apple ID passwords if you use them for anything else. Use a password generator to make unique, random new ones for each login. These accounts are central to unlocking your online life. Ideally never use duplicate passwords. Nothing is perfect, but let's make it as hard as possible for hackers & bots 💪🏻
- We also recommend subscribing to a password manager like 1Password: It remembers all your passwords, generates new ones & automates all your logins...have a read (1Password)
And now to the show notes- WannaCry ransomware: What is it & how to protect yourself (Wired)
- WannaCry ransomware attack (Wikipedia)
- Global ransomware attack makes less than $US60,000 as only 209 victims choose to pay (ABC Australia)
- The hardest part of decrypting your ransomwared files might be figuring out Bitcoin - so hackers are offering 'customer support' (Mashable)
- How does Bitcoin work? (bitcoin)
- What is hacking? (The Conversation)
- Why do people hack computers? (Computer Hope)
- Hacker holds Netflix to ransom over new season of Orange Is The New Black (The Guardian)
- That Orange Is The New Black leak was never going to pay off (Wired)
- Learn how Richard Feynman cracked the safes with atomic secrets at Los Alamos (Open Culture)
- Why hackers learn to pick locks (itnews)
- What is social engineering? (Wikipedia)
- Password cracking (Wikipedia)
- How hackers really crack your passwords (YouTube)
- The 5 most common tactics used to hack passwords (MUO)
- Die Hard: The safe cracking scene (YouTube)
- What is a dictionary attack? (Hacksplaining)
- This site is selling a password cracking dictionary, anyone can download it (CrackStation)
- The 'Anonymous' hacker group (Wikipedia)
- Anonymous
- PlayStation Network hackers access data of 77 million users (The Guardian)
- Here's exactly how much your stolen credit card info is worth to hackers (Business Insider Australia)
- Here’s how much your identity could be worth on the dark web (MUO)
- Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach (have i been pwned)
- Hackers don't have to be human anymore, this bot battle proves it (Wired)
- Ever re-use your passwords? You're a hacker's dream (ABC Australia)
- How Apple & Amazon security flaws led to my epic hacking (Wired)
- Security questions are just passwords (Big Nerd Ranch)
- Time to kill security questions - or answer them with lies (Wired)
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (IMDb)
- War Games (IMDb)
- The Hacker News
- You can now do a 'Master of Cybersecurity' (La Trobe University)
- Phishing (Wikipedia)
Phishing.org
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58 min - Episode 46: Behind the nerd curtainWhy doesn't my computer work?
- What is a server in computer networking? (lifewire)
- What does a server technician do? (wiseGEEK)
- Server (Wikipedia)
- A rack of servers (wiseGEEK)
- A movie starring Johnny and a rack of servers (Vimeo)
- Inside the internet: Google allows first ever look at the eight vast data centres that power the online world (Daily Mail)
- What is server redundancy? (Techopedia)
- What is a hot swap? (TechTarget)
- Hot swapping (Wikipedia)
- What is a firewall? (CISCO)
- Firewall (Wikipedia)
- Bladerunner: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe (YouTube)
- Super-secret Google builds servers in the dark (Wired)
- Google uncloaks once-secret server (C|NET)
- Following Google's lead, Facebook starts building its own networking gear (Wired)
- Like Google & Facebook, Twitter designs its own servers (Wired)
- What is a service-level agreement? (Wikipedia)
- Server room (Wikipedia)
- Why keeping the data centre cool is important (BizTech)
- Microsoft puts cloud in the ocean to help with cooling (Microsoft)
- Some people listen to server room noise to relax (YouTube)
- What is change control? (TechTarget)
- War Games: Turn your key, sir! (You Tube)
- Incident priority (IT Process Maps)
- Incidents versus problems (Concept Solutions Corporation)
- Microsoft Minesweeper (Wikipedia)
- Australian census meltdown to cost $30 million (The Australian)
- Revealed: IBM error caused NAB outage (IT News)
- The Borg Hive Mind (Borg Collective)
- The basics of server monitoring (spiceworks)
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1 hr 4 min - Episode 45: It's not about being rightWhat is critical thinking?
*NB: There's a few cuss words in this episode.
We made a movie!You should really watch this. Because we made it. 🤓
- 'Healthy Thinking' by Strange Attractor (Vimeo, Grovefest)
- 'Healthy Thinking' by Strange Attractor (YouTube)
Show notes- The Skeptics' guide to the Universe podcast (SGU)
- What is critical thinking? (Foundation for Critical Thinking)
- Critical thinking guide (UNSW)
- Health News Review
- What is confirmation bias? (The Skeptic's Dictionary)
- Confirmation bias in science: How to avoid it (arstechnica)
- What is the difference between 'facts' & 'opinions'? (Big Think)
- Is iTunes’ shuffle mode truly random? (lifewire)
- Vaccines & autism (Science-based Medicine)
- Climate change: How do we know? (NASA, Global Climate Change)
- Feeling stuck in your social media bubble? Here’s the latest in a growing class of apps designed to help (The Washington Post)
- How to escape your political bubble for a clearer view (The New York Times)
- The Flat Earth Society
- Overview of homeopathy (Science-based Medicine)
- Understanding science (University of California, Berkeley)
- What is science? (University of California, Berkeley)
- What is the scientific method? (University of California, Berkeley)
- How do you know if a research study is any good? (Elsevier)
- Convince me: How strong is the evidence? (University of California, Berkeley)
- Scientific evidence: What is it & how can we trust it? (The Conversation)
- Clever Hans: The horse that people thought could do maths (Wikipedia)
- Why looking at the sun can make you sneeze (PBS News Hour)
- Storm: An animation of Tim Minchin's beat poem about science & reason (YouTube)
- Cherry picking science (Huff Post)
- Vaccine study's author held related patent, medical journal reports (CNN)
- The crash & burn of an autism guru (The New York Times Magazine)
- How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed (The BMJ)
- Exposed: Andrew Wakefield & the MMR-autism fraud (Brian Deer)
- Malaria kills around 3,000 children per day (UNICEF)
- From a tree: A 'miracle' called aspirin (CNN)
- Is it chemical free? (John Noble)
- Traditional Chinese medicine isn't so ancient (Curiosity)
- Deepak Chopra
- Pete Evans
- Pete Evans (Facebook)
- Blocked By Pete Evans (Facebook)
- The 5 rules of success for highly effective lifestyle gurus (Vox)
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Links from the movie's credits- Dr Karl Kruszelnicki & Professor Clare Collins on the paleo diet (YouTube)
- TED talk by Christina Warinner, Archaeological Scientist & expert on ancient diets, outlining the current evidence for what paleolithic people actually ate (YouTube)
- Dietitian's Association Australia open letter to Channel 7 regarding their ‘Paleo Challenge’ episode (Yahoo)
- Dr Ian Musgrave, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide, on fluoride (Australia's Science Channel)
- NSW Health water fluoridation Q&A report (NSW Health)
- Osteoporosis Australia respond to Pete Evans on calcium & dairy (OA)
- Cancer Council Australia on nanoparticles in sunscreen (CCA)
- Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, La Trobe University, information about autism spectrum disorders (OTARC)
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1 hr - Episode 44: A space elevator held up by a carbon spider webWhat is nanotechnology?
- An invitation to enter a new field of physics: A lecture on nanotechnology that Richard Feynman gave in 1959 (Zyvex)
- Definition of 'nano' (Wikipedia)
- Nanotechnology (Wikipedia)
- The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)
- @NNInanonews: Twitter feed of NNI
- Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN)
- The billion year technology gap (The Daily Galaxy)
- The Fermi death sentence (Nanotechnology Now)
- Explaining nanotechnology to a 5th grader (YouTube)
- Your fingernail grows a nanometre every second (NNCI)
- Bottom-up versus top-down approaches (Wikipedia)
- Meet the nanomachines that could drive a medical revolution (Phys.org)
- Nanoparticles (Wikipedia)
- Scanning electron microscope (Wikipedia)
- How to move an atom (IBM Research)
- 20 years of moving atoms one by one: Including how they made the IBM logo out of 35 xenon atoms (Wired)
- Scientists measure how light affects individual atoms for the first time (nanowerk)
- Current applications of nanotechnology (Wikipedia)
- How nanotechnology is changing the future of medicine (MUO)
- Applications of nanotechnology in medicine (Australian Science)
- Convergence Science Network
- Stentrode (ABC, Catalyst)
- The world's first international race for molecular cars, the Nanocar Race (Phys.org)
- Nanoparticles & sunscreen (Cancer Council Australia)
- Titanium dioxide (Wikipedia)
- Nanoparticles are all around us: Naturally-occurring vs man-made (sustainable nano)
- Nanoparticles in nature: Toxic or harmless? (EarthSky)
- Gold nanoparticles can be red or blue/purple (Wikipedia)
- "Properties such as melting point, fluorescence, electrical conductivity, magnetic permeability, & chemical reactivity change as a function of the size of the particle" (NNI)
- Buckminsterfullerene, or buckyballs (Wikipedia)
- Have buckminsterfullerenes (buckyballs) been put to any practical uses? (Scientific American)
- It doesn't seem that any real use has been found for buckyballs yet (Wikipedia)
- Carbon fibre (Wikpedia)
- Carbon nanofibre (Wikipedia)
- Did Bucky Fuller really design a soccer ball? (treehugger)
- How can graphite & diamond be so different if they are both composed of pure carbon? (Scientific American)
- Spiders sprayed with carbon nanotubes spin superstrong webs (Phys.org)
- Spiders ingest nanotubes, then weave silk reinforced with carbon (MIT Technology Review)
- Space elevator (Wikipedia)
- Sorry Johnny, carbon nanotubes may be too weak to get a space elevator off the ground 🙁 (New Scientist)
- LiquiGlide™: MIT's non-stick coatings leave zero waste behind (YouTube)
- What is soap? (World of Molecules)
- Hydrophobic & hydrophilic: "Better understanding of how surfaces attract or repel water could improve everything from power plants to ketchup bottles" (MIT News)
- Origin of 'philately' (Online Etymology Dictionary)
- Origin of 'haemophilia' (Online Etymology Dictionary)
- Nanotechnology haemostatic gauze stops nosebleeds (nano werk)
- Wrapping sponges in graphene nanoribbons allows for Joule heating to help clean up oil spills (Phys.org)
- Molecular nanotechnology: The next industrial revolution (Foresight Institute)
- Researchers use novel materials to build smallest transistor with 1-nanometer carbon nanotube gate (Phys.org)
- Combating climate change (Nature Nanotechnology)
- 7 ways nanotechnology could provide the solutions to combat climate change (The World Nano Foundation)
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About Strange Attractor
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An unscripted conversation between Johnny Noble and Lucy Butcher about sciencey stuff over a wine/s/s/s. And the occasional wasabi pea.
At least one of us stumbles home having learned something new and interesting. After listening to this podcast, we hope you stumble off with something new too.