Fuzzy Logic - 23 Dec 07

Presenter: Eamon

Newsy Bits:
NT helping E Timor establish first Marine Park, Russian railways seek help from dancing robots and researcher seeks toad sightings on state borders.

Feature Articles:
Dark energy a furphy, says new paper, tyre warns of looming flat, Neanderthals sewed too little, too late.

Guest Interviews:
Patrick Lambe on knowledge management (with Intro by Simon Kravis), Mike Watson from ATSB on air crash investigations and Tim Baynes on drinking and mining.

'Sláinte!'
'Nollaig faoi shéan is faoi shonas duit.'
(A prosperous and happy Christmas to you).

Eamon

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Fuzzy Logic - 23 Sep 07

Presenters: Dean and Kat


News:

• Rare river dolphin now 'functionally extinct'.
• Meteorite hits Peru.
• Dinosaur creche discovered.
• Planet survives red giant transformation.
  

Feature:

• Interview with Dr John Magee on megafauna.

Music:

• Private Universe - Crowded House

Podcast Audio:

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Fuzzy Logic - 02 Sep 07

News:

• Ancient Orchids
• Whale Fossil Damaged
  
• Pseudoarcheology
• Age differences in couples
• Heroin-addicted Elephant
• Zero-emission powerplants
• Origami Optics

Feature:

CSIROPod interview with Dr Linfa Wang on the Melaka virus

Musical Guest:

Sydney-based singer/songwriter Santhi with Sunshower and Anymore from her album Sunshower.

Podcast:


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Fuzzy Logic - 26 Aug 07

Mike & Liz bring you science news and an interview with Richard Wiseman during the Australian Science Festival 2007.

News:

• A (w)hole lot of nothing
• Starving snakes eat their own hearts
• Stone-age chewing gum found

Feature:

• An interview with Richard Wiseman. Check out his tricks on YouTube.

Plugs:

• Angry Young Scientists at King O'Malley's

Music:

• Psychopump by The Tea Party from Transmission
• Beautiful World by Devo
• Checkered Floor by Silversun Pickups

Podcast Audio:

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Fuzzy Logic - 19 Aug 07

News:

• Firefighting Robots
• Putting Moths into the Closet
  
• How Sea Slugs Find Love
  
• Cicada Love Songs Cause Grief in Osaka
• Brains learn better at night
• Weird Life
  
• Frozen smoke / Aerogel
• Aussie's learn about city collapse from Angkor Wat
  

Features:

• Australian fusion research
  
• Australian Science Festival 2007 - get amongst it!

Plugs:

• Science Between The Sheets at Academy
• Angry Young Scientists at King O'Malley's
  
• 2XXfm's Facebook Group
  

Music:

• Distant Sun (Live) by Crowded House from Farewell to the World
• Modulate by Kid Confucius from Kid Confucius
  

Coming Up on next week's show:

• An interview with Richard Wiseman. Watch some of his tricks on Youtube.
  

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Fuzzy Logic - 05 Aug 07

News:

• Slime conquers a maze
• Australia's syncotron
• The Hydra and the Lamb with 7 limbs
• Obvious research

Feature:

• Interview with an epidemiologist

More News:

• Celebrities in science
• Left handedness

Music:

• Hold the Line - Kid Confucius
• Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
• Make Up Your Mind - Kid Confucius

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Producer's Report 4 Mar 07

Producer: Dean
Contributors: Jacinta, Mike & newcomer Kat

News:

Improved predictions of warming-induced extinctions sought

A hidden twist in the black hole information paradox

Virtual-Reality Video Game Helps Link Depression To Specific Brain Area


Weather Feature:

Unintended consequences in road de-icing.

[Audio] Jacinta interviews Kenn Batt from the Canberra BOM about Tuesday's supercell storm.


Station Promo:

2XX suffered significant damage during Tuesday's storm and needs help. The music library and broadcast equipment have been badly water-damaged, as have the studios (the high water mark is a good foot and a half up the wall). Subscriptions will help, as always, but a major challenge will be rebuilding, so if you're a subscriber/volunteer please get in touch with station management (they've temporarily set up on the first floor of the Griffin Centre) and find out how you can help; from what I saw today they're really going to need people with building & technical skills to rebuild the office, reception & studios.


More Features:

Female koalas captive behaviours.

This day in science

1675 - John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England.
1774 - First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.
1877 - Emile Berliner invents the microphone.
1954 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
1955 - First radio facsimile transmission is sent across the continent of America.
1977 - The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
1979 - U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings.

featuring birthday call-out to the little fat kid from Hey Dad! and John Lennon's 1966 quip which led nicely to...

"Jesus in a box".

And while we're on ancient history... Laxatives kept Pharaohs on the throne.


This week's science event:

Mr Toad comes to Darwin: An evolutionary perspective on the cane toad invasion

Speaker: Professor Rick Shine FAA
ARC Federation Fellow
School of Biological Sciences
University of Sydney

When: Tuesday 6 March 2007
Drinks and refreshments 5.30pm, lecture 6–7pm

Where: Shine Dome, Gordon Street, Canberra

Cost: Free entry and parking

Bookings are recommended.
To reserve a place, please contact Susie.
Email: susie.barratt@science.org.au
Phone: 02 6201 9400
Fax: 02 6201 9494

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The Food Show 26th November 2006

Fuzzy Logic Producer’s Report for 26th November 2006

The Food Themed show had some tasty science. While veering decidedly towards the cheesy, there was a smorgasbord of food facts and, just to prove it IS possible, we never mentioned chocolate.

News
Waste olive oil put to good use
New strains of wheat provide better nutrition
Edible cotton (seed)

Features:

Cheese in a can! Actually, Dean went about deconstructing the cheese in a can and found that there’s a whole bunch of things other than cheese in those cans. For more information on what the numbers indicating food additives really mean try starting here http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/foodmatters/foodadditives.cfm .

Genes, tolerance and tastebuds. Jeevan delves into the link between your dinner and your DNA: why some people can handle chilli, cow’s milk and alcohol (occasionally at the same time!) while other’s can not. More information in the book “Some Like It Hot” by Gary Paul Nabhan.

Interview with Bruce Chapman from Jones the Grocer in Manuka about cheese making throughout history and throughout the World. Incidentally the Spanish cheese washed in a local red wine that Bruce mentioned in the interview was fantastic. Want to know more? Try http://jonesthegrocer.com/

How to make cheese: The quick and simple way to coagulate milk with vinegar. It doesn’t exactly happen in front of your eyes but it does happen. This was a (first ever?) Fuzzy call out to listeners to actually perform an experiment with instruction over the air. When tried at home I found small lumps of “cheese” did actually drop out of the milk – after some stirring, for some time. A much better bet would be to use rennet as they do in regular milk production. Don’t know what rennet is? Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet .

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Podcasting Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy Logic is now podcasting via Odeo! Our first offering is Tim's interview with Amanda George from the Centre for Mental Health Research at ANU about Ecstasy. This interview was recorded in March 2006.

More (including whole shows) coming soon.

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Fuzzy Logic Producer's report for 31-7-06

Producer: Tim
Contributor: Amy

Aye Up!

Amy and I had ourselves a radio show on the weekend roughly around the theme of astronomy and cosmology.


NEWS

Stimulating wound healing with electrical current

Hot water bottles help with pain – no it’s not placebo!

Lakes of liquid methane on Titan


FEATURES:

Interview with Robert Zubrin on terraforming Mars

How the Moon and other things were formed

Interview with John D. Barrow


AND FINALLY:

New braile writing machine

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Coming Up - Special Interview

Don't miss Fuzzy Logic tomorrow. Eamon has a special interview with Mike Watson from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau on air crash investigations.

Fuzzy Logic - Sunday, 11.30am on Canberra's community station 2XX 98.3FM.

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Show Report - 2 July 06

Producer
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)