A Little Bit Of Science
Episodes
Summer camp for military bioethics! A beer with military bioethicistist Rev. Dr. Nikki Coleman!
24 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Should soldiers obey every command? It depends on if they're about to kill Hitler, or clean out the inside of a fuel tank... We explore the world of m...
Like a book club for climate change! A beer with The Neighbourhood Effect's Lily Dempster
18 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lily Dempster's got an idea for fixing climate change - yay! But you've got to talk to your neighbours to make it work (sad face). We sat down for a b...
Co-parenting a river! We have a beer with river-person-whisperer Julia Talbot-Jones
10 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In New Zealand there is now a river (the Whanganui) that's a person - that means technically it can sue and be sued, even though it's only water! But ...
Looking for Plu-two! A beer with citizen astronomer wrangler Dr Brad Tucker!
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ok we all have to know the names of the 8 planets. There's like Earth and Jupiter and the one that sounds like your bottbott. But do you know the name...
Not The Arch Nerd of Wizardville - a beer with Australian Quidditch Captain James Mortensen
26 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you cross rugby with basketball with ice hockey with American football with dodgeball with wrestling with Harry Potter? You get the ...
LIVE SHOW! Post Fact Alternative Truthiness
20 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's a LIVE SHOW! We're discussing everything POST FACTY ALTY TRUTHY with this awesome panel of Brian Schmidt (Nobel prize winner and ANU VC), Kathari...
Hugging the curtain - a beer with Dr Sara Quinn, developmental psychologist
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ok sometimes as a legit researcher you're required to hide behind a curtain and watch while kids play! We sat down with Dr Sara Quinn who did just tha...
The Chi of the Insect Hunter - a beer with Dr Bryan Lessard
05 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I don't mean to alarm you, but some insect hunting entomologists (in the 1960s mind you) hunted horseflies with 10m long bug nets in the nude. Yep, bu...
A cloud of laser cooled atoms on a skateboard - a beer with Dr Nick Robins
29 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever seen a fat physicist? It's ok if you have, but geez some of the physicists we've seen know their way around a sledgehammer. We had a bee...
Bicycles are a feminist instrument! A beer with our local Commissioner for Sustainability Kate Auty
22 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We sat down for a beer with our local commissioner for sustainability and the environment, and learnt that bicycles are a feminist instrument, foldabl...
Coming Out As An Alien! A Beer With CEO Of Science Technology Australia, Kylie Walker
15 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down for a beer with CEO of Science Technology Australia Kylie Walker to talk science advocacy, if prayer works for cancer treatment (spoiler i...
Can You Actually Kinda Speak Bird? A Beer With Ornithologist Professor Rob Magrath
08 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you could talk to an animal, what would you say? Well, we sat down for a beer with Professor Rob Magrath, who kinda actually can talk back to birds...
Like an atom after six beers - a beer with Professor Daniel Shaddock
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down for a beer with Professor Daniel Shaddock, one of the team that discovered gravitational waves, and also now CEO of a start up that measur...
Racist Theme Tune? A Beer With ANU School of Music Director Ken Lampl
22 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is our theme song racist? We sit down for a beer to find out with total music expert Professor Ken Lampl!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...
Infinity, get over it - a beer with Matthew Colless
15 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How good are you at infinity? We talk infinity, space, launching satellites and Hilbert's Hotel with Director of the Research School of Astronomy and ...
Sailing To Antarctica with Merryn McKinnon
08 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been to Antarctica? Rod and Will haven't, but they spoke to Merryn McKinnon, who's just back! Also, we talk women and leadership in scie...
Introducing The Wholesome Detective Agency
01 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Wholesome Show is back, and we've got a ... strange thing to announce!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Is the rhythm gunna get ya? With Tim Hollo!
24 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1 of our live show 'Is the rhythm gunna get ya?', we sit down and explore the world of classical music with Tim Hollo. An environmentalist and mu...
Live show: Hey America, what just happened?
17 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Presidential Election is over, but OH BOY IS THERE A LOT TO DISCUSS.We sit down for an intelligent beer with Professor William H Chafe, Dr Christi...
Live show: Can You Handle The Truth?
28 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve probably already worked out that we at Team Wholesome have a lot of time to wonder about things. As independently mega-wealthy gentlefolk-of-...
Live show: What's The Worst That Could Happen?
23 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
At The Wholesome Show, we refuse to just sit around and not find out everything we can about how bad things can get. So we've spoken to the clued-up p...