A Little Bit Of Science

Temnothorax albipennis - or rock ant - has a unique ability in the tiny animal world: to act like a SUPERORGANISM!Here's a description from our friends O'shea-Wheller, Sendova-Franks and Franks:"...removing [Temnothorax albipennis] individuals from directly within the nest causes an evacuation response, while removing ants at the periphery of scouting activity causes the colony to withdraw back into the nest. This suggests that colonies react differentially, but in a coordinated fashion, to these differing types of predation. Our findings lend support to the SUPERORGANISM concept, as the whole society reacts much like a single organism would in response to attacks on different parts of its body." (Emphasis added to cool word).This episode we explore the magical (scientific) world of ants! ***Please note we made no jokes about the name of the Temnothorax albipennis, we apologise for this astonishing lapse in judgement.The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Everyone's using Artificial Intelligence these days! Why if you aren't machine learning your police stats, generative adversarial networking your shark spotting, or automating your video game design, you're just not with it!But not all artificial intelligence is as good as its boosters might argue... and in fact, we should probably start to think about regulating the machine, before it decides to regulate us. We explore!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tiny messages, hidden in screens... Backwards lyrics, instructing you to worship Satan... (rate us 5 stars in the iTunes store)Subliminal messages! Do you think you're immune to them? Or are you deeply worried that the devil is going to get in through a backwards bit of music? (rate us 5 stars in the iTunes store)Whether they work or not, they've certainly made some people stupid - so we explore! (rate us 5 stars in the iTunes store)The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU! (rate us 5 stars in the iTunes store)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's great to be number one at some things - who wouldn't want to have the world's longest toes, the world's fastest pet fish, or the world's grandest collection of wood? For countries it can be great too - the world's craziest TV game shows, the world's most efficient beetroot growing system, or the world's coolest academics!But sometimes being number one sucks... No one wants to have the most murders, the most unhappiness, or the most car crashes... Well guess what Australia: we're number one at something that sucks too. Problem gambling. Even worse - there's daylight between us and number two. We investigate why Australia gambles so damn much!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the Australian National University!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most people think there's just one use for sperm - making babies, taking part in the miracle of life! But guess what listener, those most people are wrong! There's actually hundreds of weird uses for sperm, including as an awesome suit of armour wearing delivery mechanism for cancer drugs!We investigate these uses, and the weird scientists who are so fascinated by the stuff...The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's an odd thing, but modern scientific medicine depends on doctors occasionally - just occasionally - lying to your face. In this episode we explore the bizarre world of the placebo effect, and its crucial role in modern medicine... The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the Australian National University!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

OMG it's a Tarantula Hawk Wasp! Quick question, what body part would you get stung on, for science? Or if you're a little terrified of the Tarantula Hawk Wasp, which other stinging thing would you let sting you? Now sensible people would say 'nowhere' and 'none of them', but Justin O. Schmidt ain't sensible people... Instead, he's a hero of science, happy to get stung by every stinging thing that nature can throw at him! We explore the Schmidt Pain Index!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the Australian National University!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the 1920s something like 2000 men (and at least two women) undertook a bizarre operation to enhance their vigour and vitality. This is their story!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I hate to break it to you, but if we're going to keep this world even vaguely liveable, we not only need to stop pumping carbon into the atmosphere (though we should definitely do that), we're going to need to suck it back out. We explore how, with 'the grandfather' of negative emissions solutions to climate change, Professor Klaus Lackner!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the Australian National University!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener, have you had the best years of your life - or are your best years still ahead of you? Sure, our language learning peak (when we were 7 or 8) or our strength peak (25) might be behind many of us, but it turns out no matter what age you are, there's still good things to come... For many of us, we're still going to get better at arithmetic!Want to know when you're going to peak? We explore!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the Australian National University!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I hate to break it to you, but in the world of science and research there are some... bad apples. Folk who'll bend the rules to get ahead, get their research out there, make a stellar career.Well, some of them get caught - and we investigate those villains out there giving good hard working academics a bad name!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the Australian National University!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Just wondering: at the end of your long glorious life, would you store your brain in a freezer with the hope of being thawed out - or uploaded to the cloud - in future centuries? Well we've explored the science... and this weird world is getting closer!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Something happened in 2015," he says, "...it was then that many people on the internet became flat earth adherents."I don't mean to alarm you listener - you are, after all, a lover of science, a lover of sensible, well produced knowledge - but flat eartherism (or globular denialism, if you want to flip it around) is SO HOT RIGHT NOW. If there was a chart tracking weird anti-scientific beliefs,* it'd be number one with a bullet. What we want to know is do people actually believe it? And if they do, why is it growing so fast?Enjoy!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science.*there should beSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here in the Southern half of the universe it's coming up to spring - and you know what that means: lambs frolicking in meadows, teenagers frolicking in meadows, people with hay fever sneezing! To celebrate the oncoming season of the sneeze, we explore the world of pollen with ThatPollenGuy, Professor Simon Haberle - we talk ancient roadways, 3d printing, huge sneezes and excellent pollen collections! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Back in the olden days we beard stroking eggheads used to sit around in our ivory towers, picking buttercups of wisdom, musing deep thoughts about the nature of the cosmos. Profound, but a little bit... useless. But that's all gone now! These days, we're creators of impact - making a difference to the world - changing lives for the better! Well, maybe. Or at least, we're trying to... So to help make The Wholesome Show the highest impact podcast it can possibly be, we sat down for a chat with the world leading expert of impact, Professor Mark Reed of Newcastle University. Listen in to hear Mark's *one word* strategy on how to have high impact. One word!Enjoy.The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's a jungle out there in the academic world... and stalking in the midst of that jungle is a threat - to knowledge, to trust, to our very lives! That's right, it's the PREDATOR! (Predatory journals that is). We explore!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener, we love selfies at The Wholesome Show - we've taken photos with every z grade celebrity we can get our hands on!... But I have to confess, I didn't know they were so dangerous...That's right, 10 times as many people die of selfies every year as die of shark attack! It's terrible, so to save you from a terrible selfie related death, we've explored...The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Imagine dancing through the forest, barefoot and fancy free. But shoeless, your foot lands... on a slug... and the slug squelches like jelly between your toes.Disgusted?Well it turns out, this is not only objectively gross, but it can make you more politically conservative! We explore the political psychology of disgust!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How's your yoga game listener? Do you have a pretty wicked warrior two? A solid downward dog? A blissful savasana? You may be pretty awesome... But could you hold your lotus pose UNTIL DEATH?That's right listener, this week we explore the Sokushinbutsu - Buddhist monks who took their asceticism to the point of death, even becoming mummified while STILL ALIVE...The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In July 1518, Frau Troffea stepped out into the streets of Strasbourg and began to dance a fervent dance. She danced through the day - and through the night. In fact, she wouldn't stop dancing for somewhere between four and six days - and during that time 34 other people would join her. Over the course of the month, some 400 people would dance in the streets of Strasbourg.But this wasn't fun. They couldn't stop. They writhed in pain, they screamed for help, they begged for mercy. But still, they danced.We explore the Dance Plague of 1518, and the wider world of Mass Psychogenic Illness! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science.--------------https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania#cite_ref-Marks_6-0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteriahttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lod/vol3/dancing_mania.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20121013075434/http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/01/dancing-death-mystery.htmlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932708000379?via%3Dihubhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_(fairy_tale) http://hca.gilead.org.il/red_shoe.html http://thewisdomdaily.com/a-twisted-tale-of-a-town-that-was-whipped-into-a-fatal-dance-frenzy/ http://www.thepostmortempost.com/tag/frau-troffea/ https://listverse.com/2016/11/07/10-twisted-facts-about-the-dancing-plagues/ http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161028-the-town-the-nearly-danced-itself-to-deathhttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=6QQEBAAAQBAJ&pg=PP6&dq=dancing+plague&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=dancing%20plague&f=falseSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You can't go anywhere on the internet these days without someone launching something new on the blockchain - a new social network, a currency based on selfies, or a way to fund a trip to the moon! Is the blockchain the greatest new technology since podcasts? Or just the latest crazy snake oil to come out of the fevered imagination of the techno-mafia...? We explore!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Should we be worried about the coming world of artificial intelligence? Some people (ie Will) worry about Skynet and doombots like Roko's Basilisk, but Professor Genevieve Bell from the Autonomy, Agency and Assurance Institute reckons there's far more concrete things here in the now that we should be paying attention to...The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The phrase NUCLEAR RADIATION conjures up pretty fearful images these days - reactor meltdowns at Chernobyl and Fukushima, the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the three-eyed fish of The Simpsons.But for a brief window in the 1950s a movement of people sought to harness the power of the atom not for weapons or energy - but for ever better... garden crops! We explore the Atomic Gardening Society!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts (@rodl) and Dr Will Grant (@willozap), proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (@ANU_CPAS)---------------------References:http://pruned.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/atomic-gardens.htmlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0734151032000123936?needAccess=true“Safeguarding the atom: the nuclear enthusiasm of Muriel Howorth”[1]The British J for the History of science Volume 45, Issue 4 (Special Issue: British Nuclear Culture), December 2012 , pp. 551-571 http://www.atomicgardening.com/1950/02/18/isotopia-an-exposition-on-atomic-structure-by-muriel-howorth/http://www.atomicgardening.com/1959/02/19/atomic-peanuts/http://www.atomicgardening.com/1960/02/21/the-atomic-gardening-society/http://www.atomicgardening.com/1966/03/01/whatever-happened-to-the-atomic-garden/http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/03/atomic-gardening-breeding-plants-with.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to part 7 of Life in a Herd! In this series we're journeying with our picnicking epidemiologist upstream to find out who it is who's chucking the bodies of our modern world into the river. In this episode we wrap up - what does it all mean, what do we do from here?Enjoy!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts (@rodl) and Dr Will Grant (@willozap), proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (@ANU_CPAS)! This series has been produced with some research funding for a studentship from The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to part 6 of Life in a Herd! In this series we're journeying with our picnicking epidemiologist upstream to find out who it is who's chucking the bodies of our modern world into the river. In this episode we talk with Professor Don Nutbeam, Professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney.Enjoy!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts (@rodl) and Dr Will Grant (@willozap), proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (@ANU_CPAS)! This series has been produced with some research funding for a studentship from The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to part 5 of Life in a Herd! In this series we're journeying with our picnicking epidemiologist upstream to find out who it is who's chucking the bodies of our modern world into the river. In this episode we talk with Associate Professor Cynthia Webster, from the Department of Marketing and Management at Macquarie University.Enjoy!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts (@rodl) and Dr Will Grant (@willozap), proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (@ANU_CPAS)! This series has been produced with some research funding for a studentship from The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to part 4 of Life in a Herd! In this series we're journeying with our picnicking epidemiologist upstream to find out who it is who's chucking the bodies of our modern world into the river. In this episode we talk with Professor Sharon Friel, Professor of Health Equity at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University.Enjoy!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts (@rodl) and Dr Will Grant (@willozap), proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (@ANU_CPAS)! This series has been produced with some research funding for a studentship from The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to part 3 of Life in a Herd! In this series we're journeying with our picnicking epidemiologist upstream to find out who it is who's chucking the bodies of our modern world into the river. In this episode we talk with Summer May Finlay - Yorta Yorta woman, Croakey journalist, Cancer Institute consultant and Phd student at the University of South Australia.Enjoy!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts (@rodl) and Dr Will Grant (@willozap), proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (@ANU_CPAS)! This series has been produced with some research funding for a studentship from The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to part 2 of Life in a Herd! In this series we're journeying with our picnicking epidemiologist upstream to find out who it is who's chucking the bodies of our modern world into the river. In this episode we talk with Professor Penny Hawe, from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney.Enjoy!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts (@rodl) and Dr Will Grant (@willozap), proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (@ANU_CPAS)! This series has been produced with some research funding for a studentship from The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Three doctors sat down for a picnic by a river. An emergency physician, an intensive care specialist, and an epidemiologist. Suddenly they notice a body in the water! They rush into the current to pull the man ashore, clear his airways and start giving CPR. But then they see another person in the water, face down. They rush out, and drag her in. They clear her airways and do CPR. But then a third body comes floating by! Suddenly the epidemiologist gets up and starts running. “Hey! Come back! Where are you going?” the others scream out to her. Looking over her shoulder she yell back: “I’m going upstream to see who’s throwing all these people in!”Welcome to a series of episodes we're calling Life in a Herd! In this series we're journeying with that epidemiologist upstream to find out who it is who's chucking the bodies of our modern world into the river. Over the next 7 episodes we'll talk to a range of key voices in the field of population health science, and reflect on what it all means. Enjoy!The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts (@rodl) and Dr Will Grant (@willozap), proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (@ANU_CPAS)! This series has been produced with some research funding for a studentship from The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you believe in the paranormal? In ghosts? In spoon bending? In the ability to move objects with your mind?If you're like most rational science minded folks, then - wait for this - I can read your mind and your answer is 'hell no!'But what if we told you that science itself... might not be so sure... We explore the world of extrasensory perception and the replication crisis!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!--------------------------Sources:· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Bem· http://www.cornell.edu/search/?q=BEM&submit-search=· https://psychology.cornell.edu/daryl-bem· http://dbem.org/bem_bio.htm· http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/12/study-looks-brains-ability-see-future· https://slate.com/health-and-science/2017/06/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real-showed-science-is-broken.html· https://www.csicop.org/si/show/failure_to_replicate_results_of_bem_parapsychology_experiments_published_by· https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/my-email-correspondence-with-daryl-j-bem-about-the-data-for-his-2011-article-feeling-the-future/· https://www.wired.com/2010/11/feeling-the-future-is-precognition-possible/· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Alpha· https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html· http://andrewgelman.com/2017/04/04/study-showing-humans-psychic-powers-caps-daryl-bems-career/· http://dbem.org/· http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/Chronicle_Jan_1_17.pdf· https://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2012/05/15/daryl-bem-the-psychologist-who-proved-esp-exists/· http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/09-paranormal-circumstances-scientist-mission-espSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you experience a salty taste when your elbow touches things? Or the aroma of oysters when you listen to Brahms? If it's not hallucinogenic drugs, then it's probably synaesthesia! We sat down with Dr Stephanie Goodhew to explore all the different flavour and dimension combinations under the sun!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Your phone rings. But instead of your normal ringtone*... it's a weird voice saying "The person calling you is dishonest! The person calling you is dishonest!"Welcome to the brave new world of China's rapidly developing Social Credit System - where trustworthy citizens earn points they can convert into free umbrella rental, and the untrustworthy find themselves blocked from flights, loans, houses and decent ringtones. We sat down to explore - also learning about a finance system based on dick pics! A hacker website called FraudBoom! And government vetoed trips to Bunnings!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS*A chiptunes version of Shooting Stars oh yeah Team Wholesome know how to party!References here!https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/planning-outline-for-the-construction-of-a-social-credit-system-2014-2020/https://www.businessinsider.com.au/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4?r=US&IR=Thttps://theconversation.com/chinas-social-credit-system-puts-its-people-under-pressure-to-be-model-citizens-89963http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-31/chinas-social-credit-system-punishes-untrustworthy-citizens/9596204http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/china-deploys-ai-cameras-to-tackle-jaywalkers-in-shenzhen/9567430https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/china-using-big-data-to-detain-people-in-re-education-before-crime-committed-report/article38126551/ort located by the rights organization.https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2018/04/no-china-isn-t-black-mirror-social-credit-scores-are-more-complex-and-sinisterhttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/12/chinas-chilling-social-credit-blacklisthttp://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2543/pdf/ch06_forum_loubere.pdfhttp://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/unprecedented-reach-of-chinas-surveillance-statehttps://www.merics.org/en/microsite/china-monitor/chinas-social-credit-systemhttps://www.merics.org/sites/default/files/2017-09/China%20Monitor_39_SOCS_EN.pdfhttps://www.merics.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/171212_China_Monitor_43_Social_Credit_System_Implementation.pdfhttps://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sohu.com%2Fa%2F155992905_380621&edit-text=http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/03/life-inside-chinas-social-credit-laboratory/http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/24/chinese-citizens-want-the-government-to-rank-them/https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-youSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Should your boss by you some trainers? Ruthless capitalists probably say no, but they're dickheads and wrong about a lot. Sensible people are starting realise more and more that the answer is probably yes - it'll make you healthier, and make their workplace more productive!We sat down for a workplace health and wellbeing inspection (not an audit) with the awesome Christine and Michael from Healthier Work ACT.As well as the benefits of a running shoe subsidy scheme, we also learned that scorecards are better than audits, you shouldn't sit on maggot farms, and cinema advertising works!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Does a huge head correlate with intelligence? No listener, of course it doesn't! But people used to think that, and wanted to craft society on that basis...But here's the strange thing. While you might be thinking eugenics is just a historical topic, I hate to break it to you listener, there's still some folk out there who truly believe... Rod and Will sit down for a beer to explore!Also: We explore the problems that occur when your research participants speak to the press! Also economic eugenics! And finally, nine other words that start with Eu: Euphemism! Euthanize! Euphorbia! Euphonium! Euthyroid! Eutrophic! Eukaryote! Eutectoid!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Simple question listener, but would you cut your arm off and add a totally awesome prosthetic snake arm thing instead? Because people are doing that now and that's ***totally radical***!Or a complicated ethical leap for society to take.You know, one of the two.We sat down for a beer with Professor Margrit Shildrick, Professor of Gender and Knowledge Production at Linkoping University, Sweden, to talk all things prostheses!Also: Will admits to feelings that are right but wrong but weird but right! Don't explore them or judge them please. The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPASSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When I say the word 'hypervisibility', do you think of those awesome t-shirts in the 1980s that changed colour when you sweated? You probably should, but then you should also think of the problems faced by high profile women scientists and science communicators. They're hypervisible, which means trolls, attacks and threats...Kate Hannah of Te Pūnaha Matatini (which means 'The Meeting Place of Many Faces') tells us more...Also: Will pronounces something pretty good for an Australian!This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lots of us think of science as a provider of solutions - but you know what? It's also - no matter how careful we might be - a provider of problems too. Professor Maja Horst of the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen is fascinated in this, and the ways tabloid newspapers explore the problems and heroes of science. We had a chat to hear more!This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I hate to burst your bubble, but it turns out Freud was wrong! Reliving the past is not a universal panacea - particularly if your past involves hyper traumatic conflict situations...Associate Professor Karen Brounéus is a peace and conflict researcher, exploring how the ideas of science communication can help in post conflict situations...This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPASSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey there listener, do you use evidence in your everyday decisions? Of course you do! For some of them at least... But how evidential is your evidence? Do you test it? Or do you actually use your gut a whole lot more than you think?... We had a chat with former bitter journalist - and now naive and happy academic Ayelet Baram-Tsabari from Technion - and here's the evidence!This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How's your emoji game? Do you know your wild eye face from your eyeroll? Your tears of laughter (straight face) from your tears of laughter (angle face)? Which can you use to communicate science?We sat down for a (coffee cup emoji) with Dr Lulu Mateos from BUAP's Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación in Mexico to talk emoji use in communicating science!This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPASSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listener, do you know what a doyen is? We don't, but if there's an international doyen of science communication, then that doyen would probably be Professor Alan Irwin of the Copenhagen Business School - Department of Organisation!We had a great chat with doyen Alan at the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand, talking the invention of citizen science, Danish Consensus Conferences and book covers!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPASSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sexism continues to present massive barriers in science. But can science communication training get scientists to think differently about the behaviours and structures that shape our scientific world? We had a chat to Dr Christine O'Connell of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University to explore more...We also found out that American people have never heard of fruit toast! And they have puny electricity!This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey listener, are you one of those people who sits in science fiction movies grumbling about the inaccurate physics, or are you happy with the magical properties of vibranium? Well, if you're one of the first group, it may please you to realise that Hollywood is getting better at science. We talked to someone who studies this, Professor David Kirby of The University of Manchester!This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring the cutting edge of communicating science!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPASSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey listener - do you reckon you're easy to persuade or do you resist persuasion? If a totally hot bank teller tries to convince you of a dodgy credit card, are you a total sucker?Well we, dear listener, are probably suckers. But happily, according to Dr Eryn Newman of the Research School of Psychology at ANU, we wouldn't know it! We had a beer to find out more...The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Modern slavery eh - you know what the big problem is? There's not enough jokes in it! (No, that's not the problem. The problem is that somewhere between 21 and 44 million people around the world are currently enslaved and we're all potentially contributing to the problem. But what do we do about it? Is it regulation? Is it culture change? We sat down with Associate Professor Jo Ford who knows all about it it find out more!)The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPASSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Party drugs - these days, they're all the rave! (Sorry, terrible 1990s joke there).But seriously, party drugs are getting more diverse and more complicated every single year. To deal with the complexity, people like our guest in this episode Associate Professor David Caldicott reckon the best thing to make people safe is to arm them with knowledge. You know, test the drugs, and give them advice on that basis. But conservative types don't agree...We sat down with the dark knight of the emergency room to talk chemistry, partying, giving advice and politician morals...The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's your thoughts on disability education. Reckon it's great? Or are we just doing minimal compliance education not far from the institutional model of the 1950s?We talk with Vanessa de Kauwe who's finishing up a Phd on bringing science into disability education! We talk frogs, knives and acid, and why it's important to teach people about yellow...The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS. New chiptunes theme song by chriswk210! https://www.fiverr.com/chriswk210See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ok, explainer challenge: how do you explain social epistemology to a bunch of real estate agents at your neighbourhood barbecue? You know who knows how? Professor Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick, that's who!We talk with Steve about advice for Zuckerberg, the crucial role of the 'we' and when is the best time to throw down the Popper!The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You know what? If you ask nicely, it’s amazing the things people will volunteer to do. Or at least that's what some of the world's leading thinkers on citizen science reckon! We took a trip to the Australian Citizen Science Association Conference to find out more, including: Are scientists’ jobs in danger? Can you hide things in easter eggs? Should you stop children licking toads? Why should you take your camera with you when you poo in the woods?Awesome guests in this episode: - Ellie Downing (Secretary of the Australian Citizen Science Association), - Mendel Wong (Co-founder of CitizenScience.Asia and the Zikathon), - Stuart Harris (discoverer of the Peacock Spider!) and - Associate Professor Caren Cooper (author of Citizen Science: How Ordinary People Are Changing the Face of Discovery, and founder and moderator of @IamCitSci)The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, very proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.