The Official Sciblogs Podcast
By aimee whitcroft & Elf Eldridge
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Podcast Description
Each week, aimee whitcroft and Elf Eldridge discuss some of their favourite science/technology news and research, and then go on to talk about some of the week's most interesting Sciblogs posts. They finish off by pointing to any science-related events happening in New Zealand.
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TOSP Episode 21: February 21st 2012 | We’re back! And with a minimum of difficulties this week :) This week, Elf and aimee talk of a new soft motor, ROBOBEES, a teeeeeensy chameleon (squee!), hacking yoghurt, some very ancient art, ROBOBEES, investing in yourself, knitting needles and water bubbles and space, quantum computing for beginners, sequencing genomes on a USB stick-sized device (!!!!) [...] | 19 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TOSP Episode 20: February 14th 2012 | Greetings, TOSP listeners! This week’s podcast is a teensy bit late (heh), and a little different to usual as it was the first we’ve done and edited ‘On the Road’. We (well, Elf – aimee was driving like a loon between Auckland and Wellington as practice for the Rally) travelled to Christchurch to chat to some of [...] | 14 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TOSP Episode 19: January 30th 2012 | Greetings, podcast audience of ours! This week’s podcast was supposed to be slightly shorter than usual, but then Elf and aimee got into a Discussion or two. There may have been some slight ranting :) We cover the human brain connectome (peeeerdy), awesome urchin-like nanospheres, a NZ critter app, the world’s first iridescent mammal, a medical/bioinformative challenge, [...] | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TOSP Episode 18: January 23rd 2012 | Hello and welcome, once again, to another episode of TOSP. This week was anniversary weekend in Wellington, so Elf and aimee recorded the ‘cast on Monday instead of Sunday. Because it was, well, a long weekend :) And what an interesting ‘cast we think it is! This week, we feature viewing the Milky Way’s central supermassive black [...] | 23 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TOSP Episode 17: January 16th 2012 | Greetings, listeners! This week, aimee was away in Melbourne at the inagural AdaCamp barcamp. So Elf brought in his good friend Haritina Mogosanu, who works with KiwiSpace and World Space Week, to co-host with him. They talked about the number of planets in our galaxy, molecular time travel, calculating what’s in the universe, ‘getting’ science (or not), [...] | 15 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TOSP Episode 16: January 9th 2012 | Happy New Year! May 2012 be a wonderful year to you all. To start off the new year, aimee and Elf discuss last week’s announcement of the successful build of a temporal cloak, thorium’s potential as an alternative nuclear energy source and zombie bees! Also, we talk to fellow Sciblogger, and penner of The Atavism David Winter – [...] | 8 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TOSP Episode 15: December 19th 2011 | The last TOSP before Christmas! And, because we’re daring, it _isn’t_ Christmas-themed. Just to give y’all a break. Instead, Elf and aimee cover the winners of the Prime Minister’s Science Prize(s), how bees reach consensus (warning: headbutting), a very special new crab, Jupiter’s heart-cannibalisation, the race to create the bionic eye, and the effect that Foo Fighters [...] | 18 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TOSP Episode 14: December 12th 2011 | This week’s a little special. In addition to aimee and Elf discussing how our brains process syntax and vocabulary (differently, it turns out!), the biggest black holes yet discovered and a 17 year old who’s made huge strides in the fight against cancer, Elf also sits down with a panel of our bloggers for a discussion! Panelists [...] | 13 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TOSP Episode 13: December 5th 2011 | Another week, another collection of brilliant stuff to talk about. This week, Elf and aimee talk about groups. Well, mostly groups, but also weta, astronomy, learning and why we don’t have a cure for AIDS. As for groups – we look into how StarCraft 2 is contributing to cognitive science, how we can help the science [...] | 6 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TOSP Episode 12: November 28th 2011 | Welcome back to a very icy, buggy TOSP! This week, Elf and aimee talk about ice. Well, mostly ice. Brinicles, ice on Europa and even ice-related geoengineering in Mongolia. And undersea silk. Excitingly, however, they also talk with their first guest, Sciblogger Siouxsie Wiles of Infectious Thoughts, and her post this week on (illegal) chickenpox lollipops. [...] | 27 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
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