Welcome to part 3 of Life in a Herd! In this series we're journeying with our picnicking epidemiologist upstream to find out who it is who's chucking the bodies of our modern world into the river. In this episode we talk with Summer May Finlay - Yorta Yorta woman, Croakey journalist, Cancer Institute consultant and Phd student at the University of South Australia. Enjoy! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts (@rodl) and Dr Will Grant (@willozap), proudly supported by the Australian National Cent...
May 23, 2018•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to part 2 of Life in a Herd! In this series we're journeying with our picnicking epidemiologist upstream to find out who it is who's chucking the bodies of our modern world into the river. In this episode we talk with Professor Penny Hawe, from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney. Enjoy! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts (@rodl) and Dr Will Grant (@willozap), proudly supported by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (@ANU_CPA...
May 23, 2018•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Three doctors sat down for a picnic by a river. An emergency physician, an intensive care specialist, and an epidemiologist. Suddenly they notice a body in the water! They rush into the current to pull the man ashore, clear his airways and start giving CPR. But then they see another person in the water, face down. They rush out, and drag her in. They clear her airways and do CPR. But then a third body comes floating by! Suddenly the epidemiologist gets up and starts running. “Hey! Come back! Whe...
May 23, 2018•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you believe in the paranormal? In ghosts? In spoon bending? In the ability to move objects with your mind? If you're like most rational science minded folks, then - wait for this - I can read your mind and your answer is 'hell no!' But what if we told you that science itself... might not be so sure... We explore the world of extrasensory perception and the replication crisis! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS! -------------------------- Sources: · https...
May 16, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you experience a salty taste when your elbow touches things? Or the aroma of oysters when you listen to Brahms? If it's not hallucinogenic drugs, then it's probably synaesthesia! We sat down with Dr Stephanie Goodhew to explore all the different flavour and dimension combinations under the sun! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 09, 2018•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Your phone rings. But instead of your normal ringtone*... it's a weird voice saying "The person calling you is dishonest! The person calling you is dishonest!" Welcome to the brave new world of China's rapidly developing Social Credit System - where trustworthy citizens earn points they can convert into free umbrella rental, and the untrustworthy find themselves blocked from flights, loans, houses and decent ringtones. We sat down to explore - also learning about a finance system based on dick p...
May 03, 2018•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Should your boss by you some trainers? Ruthless capitalists probably say no, but they're dickheads and wrong about a lot. Sensible people are starting realise more and more that the answer is probably yes - it'll make you healthier, and make their workplace more productive! We sat down for a workplace health and wellbeing inspection (not an audit) with the awesome Christine and Michael from Healthier Work ACT. As well as the benefits of a running shoe subsidy scheme, we also learned that scoreca...
May 02, 2018•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Does a huge head correlate with intelligence? No listener, of course it doesn't! But people used to think that, and wanted to craft society on that basis... But here's the strange thing. While you might be thinking eugenics is just a historical topic, I hate to break it to you listener, there's still some folk out there who truly believe... Rod and Will sit down for a beer to explore! Also: We explore the problems that occur when your research participants speak to the press! Also economic eugen...
Apr 25, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simple question listener, but would you cut your arm off and add a totally awesome prosthetic snake arm thing instead? Because people are doing that now and that's ***totally radical***! Or a complicated ethical leap for society to take. You know, one of the two. We sat down for a beer with Professor Margrit Shildrick, Professor of Gender and Knowledge Production at Linkoping University, Sweden, to talk all things prostheses! Also: Will admits to feelings that are right but wrong but weird but r...
Apr 18, 2018•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast When I say the word 'hypervisibility', do you think of those awesome t-shirts in the 1980s that changed colour when you sweated? You probably should, but then you should also think of the problems faced by high profile women scientists and science communicators. They're hypervisible, which means trolls, attacks and threats... Kate Hannah of Te Pūnaha Matatini (which means 'The Meeting Place of Many Faces') tells us more... Also: Will pronounces something pretty good for an Australian! This week ...
Apr 06, 2018•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lots of us think of science as a provider of solutions - but you know what? It's also - no matter how careful we might be - a provider of problems too. Professor Maja Horst of the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen is fascinated in this, and the ways tabloid newspapers explore the problems and heroes of science. We had a chat to hear more! This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conf...
Apr 06, 2018•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast I hate to burst your bubble, but it turns out Freud was wrong! Reliving the past is not a universal panacea - particularly if your past involves hyper traumatic conflict situations... Associate Professor Karen Brounéus is a peace and conflict researcher, exploring how the ideas of science communication can help in post conflict situations... This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand - exploring th...
Apr 05, 2018•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey there listener, do you use evidence in your everyday decisions? Of course you do! For some of them at least... But how evidential is your evidence? Do you test it? Or do you actually use your gut a whole lot more than you think?... We had a chat with former bitter journalist - and now naive and happy academic Ayelet Baram-Tsabari from Technion - and here's the evidence! This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in D...
Apr 05, 2018•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast How's your emoji game? Do you know your wild eye face from your eyeroll? Your tears of laughter (straight face) from your tears of laughter (angle face)? Which can you use to communicate science? We sat down for a (coffee cup emoji) with Dr Lulu Mateos from BUAP's Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación in Mexico to talk emoji use in communicating science! This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand...
Apr 05, 2018•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listener, do you know what a doyen is? We don't, but if there's an international doyen of science communication, then that doyen would probably be Professor Alan Irwin of the Copenhagen Business School - Department of Organisation! We had a great chat with doyen Alan at the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conference in Dunedin New Zealand, talking the invention of citizen science, Danish Consensus Conferences and book covers! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, pr...
Apr 04, 2018•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sexism continues to present massive barriers in science. But can science communication training get scientists to think differently about the behaviours and structures that shape our scientific world? We had a chat to Dr Christine O'Connell of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University to explore more... We also found out that American people have never heard of fruit toast! And they have puny electricity! This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Co...
Apr 04, 2018•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey listener, are you one of those people who sits in science fiction movies grumbling about the inaccurate physics, or are you happy with the magical properties of vibranium? Well, if you're one of the first group, it may please you to realise that Hollywood is getting better at science. We talked to someone who studies this, Professor David Kirby of The University of Manchester! This week The Wholesome Show is reporting from the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Network) Conferen...
Apr 04, 2018•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey listener - do you reckon you're easy to persuade or do you resist persuasion? If a totally hot bank teller tries to convince you of a dodgy credit card, are you a total sucker? Well we, dear listener, are probably suckers. But happily, according to Dr Eryn Newman of the Research School of Psychology at ANU, we wouldn't know it! We had a beer to find out more... The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 28, 2018•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Modern slavery eh - you know what the big problem is? There's not enough jokes in it! (No, that's not the problem. The problem is that somewhere between 21 and 44 million people around the world are currently enslaved and we're all potentially contributing to the problem. But what do we do about it? Is it regulation? Is it culture change? We sat down with Associate Professor Jo Ford who knows all about it it find out more!) The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPA...
Mar 22, 2018•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Party drugs - these days, they're all the rave! (Sorry, terrible 1990s joke there). But seriously, party drugs are getting more diverse and more complicated every single year. To deal with the complexity, people like our guest in this episode Associate Professor David Caldicott reckon the best thing to make people safe is to arm them with knowledge. You know, test the drugs, and give them advice on that basis. But conservative types don't agree... We sat down with the dark knight of the emergenc...
Feb 28, 2018•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast What's your thoughts on disability education. Reckon it's great? Or are we just doing minimal compliance education not far from the institutional model of the 1950s? We talk with Vanessa de Kauwe who's finishing up a Phd on bringing science into disability education! We talk frogs, knives and acid, and why it's important to teach people about yellow... The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS. New chiptunes theme song by chriswk210! https://www.fiverr.com/chriswk...
Feb 21, 2018•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ok, explainer challenge: how do you explain social epistemology to a bunch of real estate agents at your neighbourhood barbecue? You know who knows how? Professor Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick, that's who! We talk with Steve about advice for Zuckerberg, the crucial role of the 'we' and when is the best time to throw down the Popper! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS! See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...
Feb 12, 2018•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast You know what? If you ask nicely, it’s amazing the things people will volunteer to do. Or at least that's what some of the world's leading thinkers on citizen science reckon! We took a trip to the Australian Citizen Science Association Conference to find out more, including: Are scientists’ jobs in danger? Can you hide things in easter eggs? Should you stop children licking toads? Why should you take your camera with you when you poo in the woods? Awesome guests in this episode: - Ellie Downing ...
Feb 09, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast They said it couldn't be done. They said it shouldn't be done! But guess what listener - we did it! That's right, your intrepid team at The Wholesome Show went and recorded a podcast inside the thrumming chamber of Australia's biggest supercomputer. And we didn't spill any beer on it! This week we chat with Dr Leaf Lin, Senior High Performance Computer Systems Specialist at Australia's National Computational Infrastructure. We learn about cassette tapes making a comeback, being able to hear the ...
Jan 31, 2018•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hi there international listeners, You may not realise this but Australia has some issues with... how we came to be what we are right now. You know, mass appropriation of indigenous lands, attempted genocide, long centuries of deprivation. The usual colonial lot! Anyway, we're trying to be better! And we at The Wholesome Show are part of that too. So we sat down with Benny Wilson from the National Centre for Indigenous Studies to talk reconciliation, welcomes to country, and how we all can do bet...
Dec 06, 2017•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mundane governance doesn't sound too interesting, huh? But it's actually crazy fascinating! In this week's episode we crashed this Mundane Governance Conference and had not one, but three beers with three interesting people. And look, we admit it we laughed a little at the the conference tite at first, but then we found it was chock full of intriguing people and ideas. Seriously, check this out: First we yacked with Professor Simone Dennis about 'governance of the tongue', how there are rules ab...
Nov 23, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey there listener - personal question, but how many hours do you work each week? Are you one of the 19% (of Australian full time workers, if you're Australian) who work 50 hours or more? Well you should probably stop it, because it's going to make you sad - and Dr Huong Dinh has the research to prove it! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 15, 2017•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Here's a police question for you... How many Superintendents do you reckon it takes to run the Australian Federal Police's: bomb squad dog squad negotiators search and rescue AND water police The answer is one. Seriously, just one woman. Her name is Superintendent Cath Grassick, and she's one impressive policing individual! In our jaw-floppening, eyebrow-bouncing beer with Cath (don't worry, she was off duty), we asked the big questions. You know, like: do Pomeranians make more dextrous police d...
Nov 08, 2017•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast What skillset would you put in charge of a $262 million dollar construction project - an engineer? An architect? A philosopher? We had a chat with Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, a philosopher historian driving a massive construction project... The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willozap, proudly supported by @ANU_CPAS! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 01, 2017•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's time for the Greens Institute conference - but what even are Greens anyway today? We sat down with Tim Hollo, Christine Milne, Robyn Lewis and Samantha Ratnam to find out about what they really reckon they are. Enjoy! The Wholesome Show is @rodl and @willo See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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