Sunday 2 July 2006

Show Report - 2 July 06

Producer
Jacinta

Contributors
Brendan, Margot and special guest Stuart Cooney (a real live scientist)

News

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

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