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Einstein A Go Go - 8 December 2013

Dr Shane, Dr Dyani, Dr Ray and Dr Chris KP

News: Lots of news from PNAS. Is your brain wired like your opposite gendered counterpart? Dr Dyani has all the detail. Are you a Copepod? Holographic fluid flows show how stealthy seahorses are the last thing you’ll see. Dr Ray fills us in. Dr. Chris KP has all the latest with regard to scent glands and the odour produced. Dr Shane presents new findings which show a relationship between autistic mice and bacterial infections. Also, how do you tell if a mouse is anxious? Find out here.

Guest: Jacinta den Besten, Administator of the School Astronomy Pilot Program, tells us all about the Telescopes in Schools program. Madhooshi Senarath from Pascoe Vale Girls College tells us about her award winning photography currently on display at the planetarium in Melbourne. If your school is interested in observing the night sky or taking photos of celestial bodies, get involved here: http://telescopesinschools.wordpress.com/

Dr Ray: Ever wondered what Paris would look like through the eyes of a dog or a cat? Find out about the new virtual reality software offering a very revealing perspective. More here: http://www.alleyesonparis.com/index_en.html

Dr Chris KP: Sit tight folks, Dr Chris KP brings us Wi-Fi through the eye of a singularity.

Science is everywhere. Including:

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Three years ago Bron spoke with Tim Winton about shark conservation and his role as Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. At the end she asked Tim if he'd come back and talk surf culture with her and Dr Surf. He said he would and true to his word, a few weeks ago he did.  Bron and Dr Surf had a long chat with Tim and surf film maker Mick Sowry about the unique relationship of surfers with the sea throughout their lives, the interface of surfing and writing, and the role of surfers as ocean custodians. On Sunday we'll be broadcasting what they all said. Not an interview. More of a couch conversation.

Mick will then give us an overview of what we can expect in the upcoming edition of Great Ocean Quarterly. If the first edition is anything to go by, expect magnificence. 

And in perfect musical interlude, Tash Parker will be in studio with Adam Dunning to play and sing some coastal and sea-inspired tunes - all of our music coming to you live this week!

What a coup! Nobel Prize Laureate Prof Peter Doherty joins the doctors in studio to discuss pandemics. The team also delves into the complexities of assisted reproduction, ths week on Radiotherapy.

On this week's episode aged care support advocate Bryan Lipmann told us about his welfare organisation that is the subject of the new book The Wintringham Story, Rebecca Carland from Museum Victoria touched on the controversy of the Cranbourne Meteorite, Casey Bennetto reflected on the year that was in a stage show, and a discussion erupted about the ill-pairing of mash & salad. 

The December edition of Right Now Radio is jam-packed with interviews, musical treats and Ben's daggy gags, so listen in for your monthly dose of human rights radio.  We chat with Professor Chris Cunneen about a recent report on legal needs for Aboriginal people in Victoria, catch up with Laura Vines about fighting violence against women in PNG (including with a song competition!), and hear from Janet Wight about proposed reforms to Queensland’s criminal justice system and concerns about the impacts on young people.  And, as usual, we find out what’s happening on the Right Now website, as well as upcoming Human Rights Week events.

Zero G #953 PODCO ROSSO

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Historical Radio with Rob Jan. This week: taking flight with the Porco Rosso collector book; more comics than you can poke a Hulk at; gearing up for Summer Wars; solving crime in Singapore with Serangoon Road; and so much more.

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On this week's Byte:

News:

• Spotify is publishing its royalties formula for payouts to rightsholders.
• Amazon Prime Air announces delivery by drones in 4-5 years.
• Node.js sponsor Joyent explicitly calls out and extinguishes sexism in their software dev
• CHOICE reveals size of proposed internet tax - consumers would lose out under knee-jerk GST changes

Guests:

• Ritchie Cyngler is a practitioner of experimental audio-visual arts, while Kit Webster programs and designs digital audio-visual works, to produce captivating and immersive environments that challenge our sensory perceptions. They're both involved in the Media Lab Melbourne Collective.
• Vanessa reports back from the recent ROBOGALS Science Challenge 2013

Events and Opportunities:

• CODE - fundraiser for Media Lab Melbourne
  7pm Saturday 7 December, 524 Flinders Street
• PauseFest 2014 - exploring digital culture - February 13-16, 2014, Federation Square (Early bird tickets available until December 6!).
• Meet the data owners: VicRoads
  Wednesday, December 11 - 6pm-9pm at Horse Bazaar

Presented by Vanessa Toholka and Lachlan Simpson.

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• http://twitter.com/byteintoit

On this week's show Dr Shane, Dr Lauren and Dr Alicia discuss the implications of home genetic testing, controversies around weak data and questionable (published) results and indomitable comets that have (just) survived encounters with our sun.

Special guests for this week include two PhD students and entrants in the MedTech's Got Talent program; Sarah Sawyer (working on a clinical report that uses DNA variant information to provide personalised breast cancer risks) and Alen Keirnan (who is developing tools to better guide a user through the use of auto-injectors for anaphylaxis).

Also on the show is Dr Euan Ritchie who updates us on his crowd sourced project searching for rare and endangered species in darkest PNG.

All this and more on the third last packed show of the year!

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This week Dr Shane, Dr Dyani and Dr Lauren show us once again that science is indeed everywhere.

News items: What are $99 Spit kits? Dr Dyani reveals the ins, the outs and the drama in between! Dr Lauren asks “Do Rats feasting on GM food have a normal life expectancy next to their non-GM fed counterparts?” Comet ISON or half sucked tic-tac? Dr Shane gives us all the details.

First guests: Both are involved in the MedTech’s Got Talent program. Sarah Sawyer from the Familial Cancer Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre talks health IT and using DNA to provide more personalised breast cancer risk assessment. Dr Alen Keirnan faculty of design at Swinburne University, talks about redesigning EPI pens to reduce the incidence of accidents. Remember folks: Save a life, not a thumb. http://www.stcaustralia.org/entrepreneur-challenge/

Dr Euan Ritchie from the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin University is researching in remote PNG using camera trapping. Find out which incredibly endangered species. http://euanritchie.org/2013/11/10/the-conversation-into-the-jungles-of-papua-new-guinea-a-personal-journey/

Dr Lauren brings us the latest from the recent bionic eye conference in Germany. And what’s all this about Dr Lauren in a fellowship? Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with Middle Earth.

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Welcome to Summer Everyone! And a nice hot day for BBQ Day too...
Ummm, however... things are pretty bad at Bastion Point, and for Mallacoota and Victorian coastal management as we know it. The dozers have rolled in, and destruction has begun. We speak with Simon Branigan from the Victorian National Parks Association about how the Mallacootians are travelling, the valiant efforts of the opponents in stopping the destruction, and what's in store over the weeks and months ahead. 

You may recall that in Port Phillip Bay we have our own species of Dolphins. Dr Kate Charlton-Robb found that out and she has been looking at their relatives up and down the coast. Did you know we have Dolphins in Gippsland Lakes? I bet you can't guess how related they are the Port Phillip Bay ones? Wait and hear...

Over the next week, the world's top sailors will be in Melbourne for the second leg of the ISAF World Cup in Sandringham. This is Australia's premier Olympic class sailing event and will feature more than 440 sailing athletes from 22 countries, including Olympians as well as many local sailors competing for championship points and sailing honours. Olympic Gold Medallist and the recently announced Rolex World Sailor of the Year Matt Belcher joins us to talk about this leg of the World Cup, what the title of World Sailor of the Year means, and his experiences in winning Olympic Gold on the water.