Jacinta
Contributors
Brendan, Margot and special guest Stuart Cooney (a real live scientist)
News
- Deadly bird flu ran through Indonesian familiy
- Merino sheep in the southern tablelands
- Mothers make their sons gay (a caller rang in while on air, but didn't call back during the song break so we didn't get to talk to them!)
- Smoking when pregnant can lead to fat children
- A very large asteroid is getting close to Earth (and no, we won't need Bruce Willis to save us)
Stories
- Pica (having an appetite for non-foods) and geophagy - following on from last week's coprophagia (eating pooh!)
- Margot did a fabulous interview with Stuart. He is researching the hooded parrot in the NT (it has a wonderful relationship with termites and a newly discovered species of moth)
- Scientists are too busy to talk to the general public about their work. They're busy applying for grants and doing such crazy research as...
- Shortening and lenghtening (using stilts) ants legs to discover that ants have an inbuilt 'pedometer'
- Drunk people can't tell the difference between a person and an ape
And wacky story to end
- A Russian cosmonaut will hit a golf ball 2 billion miles into space (all sponsored by a golf club manufacturer)
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