Summer heat waves are increasing - so AC or fan, what is best? The answer becomes unclear when air temperatures are in the high 30s. Professor Jay takes Dr Karl inside your sweat glands to discover the physics of keeping cool. DrKarl.com Prof Ollie Jay...
Mar 09, 2025•19 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Physics on both galactic and personal scales are explored and answered with Dr Jessica Bloom and Dr Karl. drkarl.com .
Mar 05, 2025•20 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast A shameless piece of cross promotion for ABC podcast 'What the Duck' with Dr Ann Jones about plant and animal reproduction. Contains names of body parts, fluids, graphic descriptions and one swear word. drkarl.com What the duck podcasts...
Mar 05, 2025•29 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast We are so lucky to be alive. Dr Sara Webb's 'The Little book of Cosmic Catastrophes' looks at dangerous galactic neighbours. So what are the chances of finding Earth 2.0 ? drkarl.com dr sara webb
Mar 04, 2025•23 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Karl consults with circular economy expert, experienced waste manager, change maker and garbologist Belinda Chellingworth. Waste is expensive so well-designed product cycles makes it better for us all. drkarl.com BC Consulting
Feb 16, 2025•26 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Global Warming is caused by burning fossil fuels. "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship With Big Oil " is journalist Royce Kurmelovs' account of our role. Dr Karl and Royce and explore how the science was silenced Down Under. drkarl.com
Feb 02, 2025•24 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Karl talks with the Australian working on the surface of Mars, Dr Adrian Brown from NASA. Hear how AI saved "Percy" the Rover, what those leopard-spotted rocks could mean and Dust devil strategies. drkarl.com Dr Adrian J Brown
Jan 26, 2025•22 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Frederic Bertley is a leading educator, President and CEO of the Center for Science and Industry ( COSI ), one of America’s top-ranked science museums. Dr Karl explores tactics in the war on Pseudo and Anti-science. drkarl.com Cosi.org...
Jan 19, 2025•26 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Feelings live in our brain. Some are painful like anxiety and addiction and can ruin lives. So why aren't hypnotherapy treatments more widely used? Dr Karl asks Stanford University psychiatrist and leading researcher on hypnosis Dr David Spiegel with 50 year's experience. drkarl.com Dr Spiegel...
Jan 12, 2025•27 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast What will our human space colonies look like? Dr Karl checks with research spanning more than 10,000 years. Meet University of Sydney's Professor Roland Fletcher. drkarl.com Prof Fletcher
Jan 05, 2025•30 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Stand-up comedian, ex-maths teacher and author Matt Parker chats about his bestselling book on three-sided figures called Love Triangle. Dr Karl explores what fascinates us about trigonometry. drkarl.com matt parker
Dec 29, 2024•26 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast When Artificial Intelligence is everywhere what should be the rules? Dr Karl and Natasha Blycha test Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics and find they need updating. drkarl.com
Dec 22, 2024•32 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast Author and astrophysicist Marcus Chown tells of the forgotten Australian female astronomer who helped discover the first black hole. Dr Karl digs deeper into Marcus' latest book on black holes "A Crack in Everything". DrKarl.com @marcuschown
Dec 15, 2024•21 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast Author and astrophysicist Marcus Chown is a great explainer. A British stargazer, he studied under Richard Feynman in California. Dr Karl puts him to the test talking about Marcus' latest book on black holes "A Crack in Everything". DrKarl.com @marcuschown
Dec 08, 2024•24 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast Prof Puckett from the US explains how America lost its fire ant war and Jess Ward-Jones on the struggle to learn what is killing our Alpine Eucalypts (Snow Gums). drkarl.com
Nov 24, 2024•26 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast Professor Richard Scolyer is the 2024 joint Australian of the Year. Dr Karl probes skin cancer therapies and immunotherapies with a researcher who has put his life on the line. drkarl.com https://twitter.com/ ProfRScolyerMIA https://www.facebook.com/ ProfRScolyer https://www.instagram.com/ profrscolyer/?hl=en...
Nov 17, 2024•31 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast Phones made today are super smart. Fast and versatile they can be so powerful to be spooky. Dr Matt joins Dr Karl to peel back the AI layers for a set of rules for the future.
Nov 10, 2024•25 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast Mining Engineer, Reality TV star, Astrophysicist, Author - What's left for Dr Matt?
Nov 03, 2024•18 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast If we need to fully understand space we need more time - lots of it. Beyond the Hubble sphere things gets lumpy. drkarl.com
Oct 27, 2024•28 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Karl asks a fellow physicist for the telltale signs when powerful people spread untruths. They are easy to spot and nasty. DrKarl
Oct 20, 2024•22 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast The graph points skywards. A thousand of years of data says "stop burning carbon". Prof Mann tells Dr Karl of how the USA responded to his articles in the early 1990s. DrKarl
Oct 13, 2024•16 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Karl interviews Dr Bloom in NYC on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. If AI delivers misinformation, how could we tell? Dr. Karl
Oct 06, 2024•25 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast At the moment there are two G's in AI. Dr Karl gets the 360 tour of both with Dr Jessica Bloom in New York City. DrKarl
Sep 29, 2024•20 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Edwin Hubble is world famous. What about Henrietta Swan Leavitt? She found a way to measure and classify the universe. In Dava's book "The Glass Universe" she references the half million glass slides Henrietta and other women used to document both the northern and southern skies.
Sep 22, 2024•20 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Observe, Ask, Explain, Predict , Test. These are the steps scientists use to improve our knowledge. Dr. Suzie Sheehy is a particle physicist. She talks with Dr Karl about twelve significant experiments that changed the modern world. https://drkarl.com https://suziesheehy.com...
Sep 15, 2024•34 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Data is omnipresent and society is very connected Thirty years ago futurists said tech "convergence" would deliver us seamless digital lives So are we there yet?. Dr Karl gets a fact check from "Converge" author Associate Professor Catherine Ball. drkarl.com
Sep 08, 2024•30 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Bird Brains are different. Professor Irene Pepperberg has been probing their psychology for decades. She is the author of the NY Times bestseller 'Alex and Me', the story of her 30-year experiment with a grey parrot. Alex the parrot
Sep 01, 2024•32 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast Auroras, fireballs and space junk. They are all visible. Prof Lisa and Dr Karl discuss how and where you might spot them. Also, how you can get your name into space. drKarl.com lisaharveysmith.com
Aug 25, 2024•22 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast There is a family of chemicals that has drug companies popping corks. Obesity researcher Dr Nick Fuller explains to Dr Karl how they work and why they sometimes fail. Healthy Parents Healthy Kids with Dr Nick Fuller DrKarl...
Aug 18, 2024•20 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast