In 1966 a group of US Army scientists wanted to find out just how vulnerable the New York Subway system was to a biological attack. The good news? They found it was... pretty vulnerable. The bad news? The way they found this out was... pretty dodgy. Will tells Rod and Hans all about it! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, joined today by Dr Hans Thulstrup, and proudly presented by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener...
Feb 27, 2020•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kant holds that the fundamental principle of our moral duties is a categorical imperative. For people who listen to Heavy Metal, that means categorising music with the most awesome array of sub-categories you can imagine! Rod tells Will (and Hans!) all about the science of Heavy Metal! The Wholesome Show is Rod Lamberts and Will Grant, joined today by Hans Thulstrup! Proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...
Feb 20, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's a sad fact of humanity that people who don't know much about something wildly over estimate how good they are at that thing. Heard about Iran's nuclear program? Then you're basically an expert. Played a video game with a helicopter? You're basically a pilot. This phenomenon is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. But it's not just a reason we should calm down our self-estimation, it has real world consequences. Rod tells Will more! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, pro...
Feb 13, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Can an enslaved person suffering a terrible condition consent to an experimental medical procedure? The short answer is no! The long answer is still no, but with a side order of 'it's complicated'. But can the rest of society benefit? Will tells Rod about the difficult legacy of J Marion Sims! The Wholesome Show is Rod Lamberts and Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 05, 2020•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listener you knew it was coming - if you were going to draw a Venn diagram of Wholesome Show topics (juvenile and science being the key circles), then poo transplants would sit right in the middle! So this episode, Rod tells Will the history and science of Faecal Microbiota Transplants! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 30, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast We all know sugar is bad for our teeth. But... how did we come to know that? Rod tells Will the story of the Vipeholm Hospital sugar experiments! The Wholesome Show is Rod Lamberts and Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 22, 2020•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast What's a pedoscope, and why were they banned? Will tells Rod the weird story of this weird invention from the dark ages of the 20th Century... The Wholesome Show is Rod Lamberts and Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 15, 2020•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listener, are you the type to delay gratification? To study for your test now, and save the night of partying till afterwards? To save your pennies for a sensible purchase only when you have the money? To avoid eating one marshmallow now, to get two later? Or do you need what you need/want right now, and consequences be damned? Either is fine, we're not judging. But for years, perhaps the most famous experiment in cognitive psychology has... Will tells Rod and Hannah the story of the weird marsh...
Jan 01, 2020•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hey listener, what are you going to do with your body when you die? Like most sensible people, you're going to get turned into a diamond and fired into the sun (of course!) - but if that's not quite for you, what's an environmentally and socially responsible solution for your mortal remains? Rod tells Will and Hannah about the science and politics of Big Corpse! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, joined today by Hannah Carle and proudly brought to you by The Australian Nati...
Dec 26, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the early 1960s a team of Harvard researchers... got high. All good, each to their own! But because they were researchers, they decided to become a little more rigorous on what happens when you take psychedelic drugs. Will tells Rod the story of the Harvard Psilocybin Project! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Dec 19, 2019•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1957 a stray dog was rescued from the streets of Moscow - and then strapped to the top of a rocket and sent into space! She died :( But she paved the way for the rest of us to reach the stars, so that's nice! Hannah Carle joins the Wholesome Show today to tell Rod and Will about the animals who've gone to space! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, joined today by Hannah Carle from ANU's Research School of Biology! Proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre f...
Dec 11, 2019•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Supply chain logistics is one of the fastest growing and most innovative industries in the world. In shipping companies around the world scientists and engineers are working on robot factories and drone delivery and ways to get your packages to you faster and faster. And the drug industry is keen on this too! Rod tells Will about the innovative ways drug barons are shipping drugs around the world... The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian...
Dec 04, 2019•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In the late 19th century Marie and Pierre Curie conducted some groundbreaking work on radioactivity. Their results were exciting - so exciting, we went around putting radioactive ingredients in everything! Will tells Rod the story of radioactive snake oil! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 29, 2019•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast What even is money? Is it even really real? Money, as all you wise Wholesome Show listeners know, is a social construct. We made it up and we believe in it because it's useful. And so we know making fake money is naughty... But what if you fake it as an art project? Rod tells Will the story of JSG Boggs and his fake money! The Wholesome Show is Will Grant and Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener fo...
Nov 20, 2019•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast The idea of studying the bumps on people's heads to understand their personality is often held up as one of the dumbest mistakes ever made in science... But the story of phrenology is a little more complicated than that. Will tells Rod why! The Wholesome Show is Rod Lamberts and Will Grant, proudly brought to you by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast The first vaccination was invented in 1796 by Edward Jenner. The first anti-vaccination movement was invented mere moments later - and their ideas then parallel strongly with the ideas you see pushed now. Rod tells Will their story! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 08, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast How did wolves turn into dogs? Dmitri Belyaev wanted to find out, so he launched a secret experiment in the middle of Stalinist Soviet Union to domesticate the fox! The Wholesome Show is Rod Lamberts and Will Grant, joined today by Hannah Carle! Normally brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, today we're also brought to you by the Research School of Biology at ANU as the final Director's Seminar for 2019! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...
Oct 28, 2019•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast PornHub is one of the biggest porn sites on the planet - and every year they release a data dump of what the world watches! Rod tells Will all about it! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 23, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast At the beginning of the 20th Century the French colonisers in Hanoi had a problem with rats. Sure, rats had always been out there in the streets and the Vietnamese neighbourhoods... But something new was happening... The rats were poking their furry noses up in the toilets of the rich and powerful. Ugh! Will tells Rod and Kim Ballestrin how they tried to solve the problem! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, joined today by Kim Ballestrin! Normally brought to you by The Aust...
Oct 16, 2019•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the early 19th Century medical schools in England and Scotland were in a bit of a pickle. They needed a regular supply of bodies to demonstrate anatomy lessons on, but there just weren't enough being produced via 'offical' means... So they turned to some 'grey area' associates to help them out. Will tells Rod their story! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/lis...
Oct 11, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to death on September 11, 1968, for a 1966 quadruple murder. On March 10, 2011, Guinness World Records certified Hakamada as the world's longest-held death row inmate. Cool record huh! (Very very not cool). Today we explore his story with Mai Sato, from the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance! The Wholesome Show is Dr Will Grant and Dr Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio....
Oct 04, 2019•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Isaac Newton had an amazing career as a scientist. But did you know he also had a secret follow up career as an undercover detective chasing bad guys around London? Rod tells Will the story! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 25, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast For nearly 50 years the Stanford Prison Experiment has been held up as the most famous experiment in psychology. Ethically flawed, sure, but at least it told us a whole lot about how bad situations make bad people... But it was bullshit. Will tells Rod why! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! This episode draws on Thibault Le Texier’s Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment, origin...
Sep 20, 2019•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Edgar Allan Poe once declared that 'all we see or seem is but a dream within a dream'. Poetic thoughts, sure. But what if they're true? What if we're actually living in a simulation? I hate to break it to you, but some people think it's more likely than not - and they're trying to break out! Rod tells Will all about it! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast You know dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid - but did you know how horrible it was? Spoiler alert, it was very horrible! Anyway, neither of us want to die that way, so we explored what science is doing to stop it! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 04, 2019•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast A drag racer can accelerate from a dead stop to 160 km/h in 0.86 seconds. That's a horizontal acceleration of 5.3 g. For most of us that would mush our brains to the backs of our skulls and leave us in a state of piddling confusion. But to John Paul Stapp that's baby steps. Rod tells Will about John Paul Stapp's mission to see just how fast the human body can start and stop! The Wholesome Show is Rod Lamberts and Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public...
Aug 28, 2019•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever tried to bring together a grand unified theory of character development, proletarian revolution, alien invasion and orgasms? Well, Wilhelm Reich certainly tried, and this is his story! The Wholesome Show is Rod Lamberts and Will Grant, joined today by Sam Vilkins! Proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 21, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast I hate to break it to you, but the highest mountain in the world is no longer a wilderness. Far from the distant unclimbable of Mallory and Hillary, Mt Everest is now a heaving festival of the best and worst of humanity, and an oversize garbage dump with its own nightclub. Rod tells Will all about it! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
Aug 16, 2019•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Between the 1870s and the 1930s hundreds of zoos in Europe and America included people - yes human people - as part of their display collections. Will tells Rod all about it! The Wholesome Show is Will Grant and Rod Lamberts, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 07, 2019•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast I don't want to - ahem - blow smoke up your arse, but tobacco is not 100% satanically evil. Wait wait, before you shoot us, yes - tobacco is 99.9999% satanically evil, and has caused untold cancers and deaths and other bad things. But... there might be a tiny sliver of a silver lining? We explore! The Wholesome Show is Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant, proudly brought to you by The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...
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