SciComm (ft. Steph Brown, Cat Thompson, & Wayne Du)

We have an exciting episode this week feature not one, not two, but THREE awesome guests from the Science Communication program at Unimelb, ready to chat all about some awesome science! Steph teaches us about aquatic apes and tiny bones in our ears. Cat leads us through the solving of the mystery in the link between vultures, rabies, and Voltaren. Wayne chats about how different animals can camouflage... by changing their smell!Kate then tackle’s this week’s listener question all about IV vitamin treatments… is there science behind the hype?If you loved what our guests had to say you can find Steph (https://twitter.com/ohstephbrown), Cat (https://twitter.com/cat_thomson_), and Wayne (https://twitter.com/WayneDu8) on twitter! As always, you can follow Curiosity Killed the Rat on twitter (https://twitter.com/CuriosityRat), Insta (https://www.instagram.com/curiosityrat/), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/curiosityrat/), and email in your listener questions to curiosityrat@gmail.comReferences:https://www.the-scientist.com/reading-frames/did-human-evolution-include-a-semi-aquatic-phase--67306https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyQFDp1KbbY&ab_channel=PeterRhys-Evanshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5696936/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v0hhmhttps://theconversation.com/sorry-david-attenborough-we-didnt-evolve-from-aquatic-apes-heres-why-65570https://assets.peregrinefund.org/docs/pdf/research-library/2011/2011-Ogada-vultures.pdfhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092180090800178Xhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-vanishing-145631290/https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2014.1887https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2007.1421https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347207004277http://www.altmedrev.com/archive/publications/7/5/389.pdfhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894814/https://www.sciencealert.com/no-vitamin-drips-like-many-other-miracle-cures-do-not-work