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Welcome to the Brains Matter podcast - where brains really do matter. A discussion of science, trivia, history, and general knowledge.
Nov 08 2008

Nov 08 2008
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Dr Richard Stancliffe is a postdoctoral researcher from the UK (Oxford and Cambridge) who is currently working at Monash University, Australia. He is an expert in stellar evolution, and talked to me about First Stellar Generations.
This is the second of a two-part series - if you missed part one, please go back and listen [...]



Oct 29 2008

Oct 29 2008
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Dr Richard Stancliffe is a postdoctoral researcher from the UK (Oxford and Cambridge) who is currently workign at Monash University, Australia. He is an expert in stellar evolution, and talked to me about First Stellar Generations.
What are they? How can we determine what generation a star belongs to? What does it mean? [...]



Oct 16 2008

Oct 16 2008
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In this episode, which is the second part of a 2 part interview, I talk to Professor Roger Short from the University of Melbourne on Asian Elephants. We discuss what evolution is doing to tusks of elephants, what elephants are used for today and what is causing their extinction, some history of elephants [...]



Oct 05 2008

Oct 05 2008
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In this episode, which is the first part of a 2 part interview, I talk to Professor Roger Short from the University of Melbourne on Asian Elephants. We discuss what got Professor Short interested in elephants to start with, his quest on finding out why elephants have a trunk, the evolution of elephants [...]




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2008-11-08
076 - Dr Richard Stancliffe - First Stellar Generations Part 2
2008-10-29
075 - Dr Richard Stancliffe - First Stellar Generations Part 1
2008-10-16
074 - Prof Roger Short - Asian Elephants Part 2
2008-10-05
073 - Prof Roger Short - Asian Elephants Part 1
2008-09-17
072 - Dr Orly Lacham-Kaplan - Stem Cells and infertility
2008-09-04
071 - Prof Mike Sandiford - Geothermal Energy
2008-08-21
070 - Marco Tippmer - Virtual Worlds
2008-08-18
069 - Greatest Olympians
2008-08-12
068 - Marc West - Fictional Scientists
2008-07-14
067 - Dr Pamela Gay - Arms of the Milky Way
2008-06-18
066 - Seth Shostak - The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
2008-06-02
065 - Dr Pilar Gil-Pons - Binary Stars
2008-05-30
Podcasting Public Service Announcement
2008-05-19
064 - Dr Hunter Mulcare - Psycho-oncology - The Psychology of Cancer Patients
2008-05-13
063 - Dr Sarah Maddison - Planetary Formation Part 2
2008-05-06
062 - Dr Sarah Maddison - Planetary Formation Part 1
2008-04-27
061 - Dr Geoff Campbell - Visible Lattice Points
2008-04-21
060 - Dr Hunter Mulcare - Drug&Alcohol Research
2008-03-30
059 - Adam Parker - Robotics and Science Fiction
2008-03-18
058 - Geoff Campbell - The genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan
2008-03-09
057 - Lynne Kelly - Critical Thinking Part 2
2008-03-03
056 - Lynne Kelly - Critical Thinking Part 1
2008-02-29
BMBT009 - Brain Teaser 009
2008-02-22
055 - David Karoly - Climate Change
2008-02-08
054 - Lynne Kelly - Skeptics Guide
2008-01-29
BMBT008 - Brain Teaser 008
2008-01-26
053 - Synthetic Genome
2008-01-24
BMBT007 - Brain Teaser 007
2008-01-17
052 - Dr Todd Lane - Turbulence and Air Travel
2008-01-13
BMBT006 - Brain Teaser 006
2008-01-09
051 - Dr Todd Lane - The Helios Experimental NASA Aircraft
2007-12-28
050 - Fifty years of science
2007-12-27
BMBT005 - Brain Teaser 005
2007-12-21
BMBT004 - Brain Teaser 004
2007-12-10
BMBT003 - Brain Teaser 003
2007-11-28
BMBT002 - Brain Teaser 002
2007-11-25
049 - Dr Pamela Gay - The Big Bang
2007-11-22
BMBT001 - Brain Teaser 001
2007-11-12
048 - Prof. Peter McIntyre - Taste and Pain Part 2
2007-11-06
047 - Prof. Peter McIntyre - Taste and Pain Part 1
2007-11-04
046 - Apple’s Leopard operating system
2007-10-24
045 - Dr Mark Boland - Australian Synchrotron Part 2
2007-10-23
044 - Dr Mark Boland - Australian Synchrotron Part 1
2007-10-16
043 - One Year Anniversary of Brains Matter
2007-10-06
042 - Professor Peter Doherty - Immunology and the Nobel Prize
2007-09-22
041 - Dr Roger Rassool - Interview Part 3 - How Elephants Communicate
2007-09-17
040 - Dr Roger Rassool - Interview Part 2 - Particle Physics and the PSI Research Lab
2007-09-09
039 - Dr Roger Rassool - Interview Part 1 - Physics Outreach Program (MUPPETS)
2007-09-04
038 - Briony Rogers - Engineers Without Borders
2007-08-27
037 - Hole in the Universe
2007-08-04
Flash Player
036 - Dr Adrian Gentle - Regge Calculus continued
2007-07-30
035 - Dr Adrian Gentle - Introduction to Regge Calculus
2007-07-29
034 - Max Planck
2007-07-12
033 - Interview with Dr Adrian Gentle - General Relativity
2007-07-06
032 - Interview with Dr Adrian Gentle - Special Relativity
2007-07-03
Some BM news…
Some BM news…
2007-06-27
031 - Thermodynamics and Blade Runner
2007-06-25
BM Promo
2007-06-22
Resubscription for iTunes listeners
Promo
2007-06-15
030 - Interview with Dr Zachary Moore - Understanding Evolution
2007-06-08
iTunes problems
2007-05-28
029 - Interview with Alan Dorin - Computers, Philosophy and Art
2007-05-23
028 - Listener Requests 2
2007-05-14
027 - Interview with John Lattanzio - Stellar Astrophysics - Part 2
2007-05-07
026 - Interview with John Lattanzio - Stellar Astrophysics Part 1
2007-05-02
025 - Listener Requests
2007-04-18
024 - Indus Valley Civilisation
2007-04-02
023 - Dimitri Mendeleev
2007-03-28
Changes
2007-03-17
022 - Climate and News
2007-03-13
021 - Interview with astrophysicist Professor Duncan Forbes - galaxies and globular clusters
2007-03-07
020 - Armand Fizeau and Fossil Fuels
2007-02-27
019 - Baby Development, and the Cinderella Story
2007-02-18
018 - Interview with Djoymi Baker - Star Trek and Mythology
2007-02-17
017 - Machu Picchu and James Maxwell
2007-02-07
016 - Vista and Valentines
2007-01-30
015 - Moore’s Law
015 - Moore’s Law
2007-01-25
014 - Comet McNaught
2007-01-16
013 - Temperature Scale
2007-01-09
012 - Discovery of Dark Matter
2006-12-20
011 - Scientific theory, and space travel
2006-12-13
010 - Strange Weather
2006-12-05
009 - Brains Matter - Gregorian Calendar
2006-12-04
008 - Brains Matter - Interview with Michael Feller
2006-11-29
007 - Vedic Science - Brains Matter
2006-11-23
Change to podcast format
2006-11-21
Brains Matter - Episode 6 (21/11/2006)
2006-11-13
Brains Matter - Episode 5 (13/11/2006)
2006-11-07
Brains Matter - Episode 4 (7/11/2006)
2006-10-31
Brains Matter - Episode 3 (31/10/2006)
2006-10-25
Brains Matter - Episode 2 (26/10/2006)
2006-10-16
Brains Matter - Episode 1 (16/10/2006)