RTÉ - The Quantum Leap
By RTÉ
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Podcast Description
The series that looks at the latest work done by Irish scientists and reports on science stories from around the world. Listeners will get an understanding of the science that underpins our lives, as well as an insight into what Irish scientists (at home and abroad) are working on. The series will be travelling throughout Ireland to report on scientific work, as well as recommending places to visit, events to attend and interesting new books, films and plays that have a scientific link.
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Quantum Leap: 26 April 2007 | Athlone Institute of Technology Postgraduate student Miriam Kelly on research into ' gender bending' chemicals in water. Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer? Atmospheric chemist Prof Howard Sidebottom of University College Dublin. The mystery disappearance of honey bees: Philip McCabe on the puzzling 'colony collapse disorder'. Fighting liver fluke infection: Prof Grace Mulcahy (UCD Veterinary College) tells reporter Terry Flanagan about a possible new vaccine. And the Burren is in full bloom, 3-4 weeks ahead of its usual time. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 19 April 2007 | This programme is a special programme from the Met Office in Glasnevin. The guests are Evelyn Cusack on the history of the Met service, Michael Cleary on how the daily weather forecast is assembled, Michael McAuliffe on the the raod temperature sensors, Seamus Walsh on forecasting weather for spreading slurry and Conor Daly on the Met archives. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 12 April 2007 | What is happening in science and technology in Ireland and around the world | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 5 April 2007 | Prof Michael Hauser, University College London on putting a switch into the brains of nematode worms. George Reynolds on the strange signals embedded in Tubular Bells Des Traynor of NUI Maynooth on politicians using Bebo. Padraigh Whooley on what whales are off the coast at the moment. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 15 March 2007 | Prof. John Conway of the University of California, Davis on the possibility of finding the Higgs bosum particle and blogging his results. Terry Flanagan reporting from Teagasc in Kinsealy on efforts to develop better sycamore trees. Dr. Ger Manning of the Salk Institute, San Diego, California on sequencing marine bacteria. Stephanie O'Neill of Discover Science on their Green Wave website. Brendan Dunford on spring in the Burren. The caterpillars make clicking noises when disturbed | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 22 March 2007 | What is happening in science and technology in Ireland and around the world | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 8 March 2007 | Mary Bourke of the Planetry Science Institute Tucson Arizona about finding water on Mars. Prof. Carol O'Sullivan on creating virtual Dublin Aileen Fyffe on the history of women in science. Charlotte O'Kelly on what is happening now the seas are warming up for spring. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 1 March 2007 | Interview with James Randerson on the brightest source of light in the universe. Visit to the Alchemist Cafe in Dublin. Review of 'Mismatch' by Niamh Shaw. Gerald Fleming on Spring weather | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 22 February 2007 | This programme is a visit to Armagh Observatory. Guests: Director Prof. Mark Bailey on the history and work of the Observatory Dr. John Butler on the weather records and their importance in understanding climate change. Dr. Tollis Christou and Prakesh Attaya on CCTV cameras recording meteorites Dr.Simon Jeffries on the study of the life of stars. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 15 February 2007 | Interview with Peter Judge on a new quantum computer. Dr. Tom Hayden on a survey of the squirrells in the Phoenix Park Sinead Phelan of Teagasc in Kinsealy researching disease in buddleia Margie McCarthy on the Week of Wonder promoting engineering. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 8 February 2007 | Topics: The new centre at the cliffs of Moher, Mark Leslie designer. Jane Jerry CEO of the new Dublin science centre for children. Numbers: a play at the Abbey about cloning I/V with Damien Walshe about his Darwin Day lecture. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 1 February 2007 | This series looks at the latest work done by Irish scientists and reports on science stories from around the world. The programme will report every week on what is happening in science and technology in Ireland and around the world. It will also be taking the programme out of the studio up into the skies and out on the ocean to visit scientists as they go about their work. The series will also feature debates on the important issues that science is raising for our community. As science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the direction Irish society is going Quantum Leap will be informing listeners of the issues and concerns that effect that change. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 25 January 2007 | This series looks at the latest work done by Irish scientists and reports on science stories from around the world. The programme will report every week on what is happening in science and technology in Ireland and around the world. It will also be taking the programme out of the studio up into the skies and out on the ocean to visit scientists as they go about their work. The series will also feature debates on the important issues that science is raising for our community. As science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the direction Irish society is going Quantum Leap will be informing listeners of the issues and concerns that effect that change. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 18 January 2007 | This series looks at the latest work done by Irish scientists and reports on science stories from around the world. The programme will report every week on what is happening in science and technology in Ireland and around the world. It will also be taking the programme out of the studio up into the skies and out on the ocean to visit scientists as they go about their work. The series will also feature debates on the important issues that science is raising for our community. As science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the direction Irish society is going Quantum Leap will be informing listeners of the issues and concerns that effect that change. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 13 December 2006 | This series looks at the latest work done by Irish scientists and reports on science stories from around the world. The programme will report every week on what is happening in science and technology in Ireland and around the world. It will also be taking the programme out of the studio up into the skies and out on the ocean to visit scientists as they go about their work. The series will also feature debates on the important issues that science is raising for our community. As science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the direction Irish society is going Quantum Leap will be informing listeners of the issues and concerns that effect that change. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 30 November 2006 | This series looks at the latest work done by Irish scientists and reports on science stories from around the world. The programme will report every week on what is happening in science and technology in Ireland and around the world. It will also be taking the programme out of the studio up into the skies and out on the ocean to visit scientists as they go about their work. The series will also feature debates on the important issues that science is raising for our community. As science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the direction Irish society is going Quantum Leap will be informing listeners of the issues and concerns that effect that change. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 23 November 2006 | A visit to Dave McDonald's observatory in Celbridge Co. Kildare, Ireland's first amateur observatory and Kevin Sweeney, who has Ireland's second amateur observatory Interview with Brian Trench on Irish people's attitudes to nano-technology. A visit to the Geocomputational Centre in NUI Maynooth with Prof. Stewart Fothringham and Dr. Martin Charlton. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 16 November 2006 | This series looks at the latest work done by Irish scientists and reports on science stories from around the world. The programme will report every week on what is happening in science and technology in Ireland and around the world. It will also be taking the programme out of the studio up into the skies and out on the ocean to visit scientists as they go about their work. The series will also feature debates on the important issues that science is raising for our community. As science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the direction Irish society is going Quantum Leap will be informing listeners of the issues and concerns that effect that change. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 9 November 2006 | This series looks at the latest work done by Irish scientists and reports on science stories from around the world. The programme will report every week on what is happening in science and technology in Ireland and around the world. It will also be taking the programme out of the studio up into the skies and out on the ocean to visit scientists as they go about their work. The series will also feature debates on the important issues that science is raising for our community. As science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the direction Irish society is going Quantum Leap will be informing listeners of the issues and concerns that effect that change. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 2 November 2006 | This series looks at the latest work done by Irish scientists and reports on science stories from around the world. The programme will report every week on what is happening in science and technology in Ireland and around the world. It will also be taking the programme out of the studio up into the skies and out on the ocean to visit scientists as they go about their work. The series will also feature debates on the important issues that science is raising for our community. As science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the direction Irish society is going Quantum Leap will be informing listeners of the issues and concerns that effect that change. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 26 October 2006 | Prof. Ray Fuller of Trinity College Dublin on the causes of road accidents. Joan O'Connor, architect reviewing two books on Irelands engineering heritage. "Industrial Ireland 1750-1930 - An Archaeology" by Colin Rynne, and "Engineering Ireland" - Editor: Ronald C. Cox. Both by the Collins Press Peter Mooney visits the national Institute for Cellular Biotechnology talking to Prof. Martin Clynes and Dr. Donnchadh O'Driscoll Denis McNulty on the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival Eric Dempsey on the departure of the summer migrants and the arrival of the winter migrants. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 19 October 2006 | This series looks at the latest work done by Irish scientists and reports on science stories from around the world. The programme will report every week on what is happening in science and technology in Ireland and around the world. It will also be taking the programme out of the studio up into the skies and out on the ocean to visit scientists as they go about their work. The series will also feature debates on the important issues that science is raising for our community. As science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the direction Irish society is going Quantum Leap will be informing listeners of the issues and concerns that effect that change. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 12 October 2006 | Programme 6: 12th October 2006 Siobhan Sullivan director of the Council for Bioethics on an up coming conference of the ethics of pandemics. Report from Terry Flanagan on the cryotherapy centre in Wexford I/V with Patrick Wyse Jackson on his new book on the age of the earth "The Chronologers" published by Cambridge University Press Sean Coughlan reporting on what is hot on the web. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 5 October 2006 | The Government Green paper on sustainable energy with Gerry Duggan and Larry Staudt Report on potato blight by Terry Flanagan Gerry Douglas of Teagasc in Kinsealy on project to clone ancient Irish trees Brendan Dunford on the transition from Winter to Summer in the Burren (click here). Nobel prize winners | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 28 September 2006 | Dr. Nancy Gallagher of the School of Tropical Medicine in the College of Surgeons on the reintroduction of DDT in Africa to combat the spread of malaria. Nigel Monaghan Director of the Natural History Museum and Julia Sigworth of UCD on the exhibition and conference on the Blasche glass models in the Museum. Cathy Fitzgerald reviewing the book 'Seen and Unseen' by Martin Kemp, Published by the Oxford University Press. Emer Bruen on the Speed dating event to bring scientists and artists together on October 17th. Evelyn Cusack on winter weather. Emily Duffy on the Winter sky. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Quantum Leap: 21 September 2006 | Rob Edwards of New Scientist on converting carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuel. Terry Flanagan reporting on Junior cert science. Aadrian Weckler of the Sunday Business Post on keeping your voicemail secure. Gerry Fleming on how there is no such thing as equinox storms. Emily Duffy on what is the equinox. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 26 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Interesting science podcast
If you have an interest in science in and about Ireland, then this is the podcast for you. Topics range widely and the magazine format keeps things moving along briskly. Highly recommended.
