Episodes
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Energy in the community: success and failure
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
In October 2014, plans for a 600 megawatt wind farm on the King Island were dumped. A major cause was a divided community. Rebecca Colvin tells a compelling story about what went wrong, of how the islanders split into pro and anti groups.
Meanwhile in Canberra, SolarShare is rolling out a community-energy solar farm. Lawrence McIntosh describes how they succeeded in getting their project running.
Dr Rebecca Colvin is from the ANU Climate Change Institute. You can read her paper here.
Brought to you by Rod, with help from Marcus Anderson.
Monday Mar 13, 2017
International Women's Day Special
Monday Mar 13, 2017
Monday Mar 13, 2017
March 8th was International Women's Day, so Mitchell and Eleanor are shining the spotlight on some incredible women who deserve their places in science history.
Tune in to hear Mitchell's Mary-trifecta; one who used maths to get us to the moon, one who was doing alchemy before it was cool, and one who rocked Queensland.
Also featured are Eleanor's picks; a modern day scientist (and Dame) pioneering the technique of mass spectrometry, an astronomer who classified over 300,000 stars in her lifetime, and a quirky Australian botanist with a penchant for passive-agressive tree maintenance.
Join us in celebrating the stories of some excellent scientists this International Women's Day.
Thursday Mar 09, 2017
In for the long game
Thursday Mar 09, 2017
Thursday Mar 09, 2017
In the scheme of things 230 years is a mere blink, but that's all it's taken for Europeans to utterly transform Australia. In another 230 years, what will we say?
Whatever the answer, the word sustainability is important. Dr Kate Auty is ACT Sustainability Commissioner. We talk about what that means for the ACT, and how we meet the forces that oppose it.
Dr Auty shares some life stories from the Kimberleys, and what happened when she held her ground as the Victorian Environment Commissioner.
Interview by Rod
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Energising the Community
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Still waiting for the energy revolution? While the federal government wants to burn coal, the community voice grows.
We visited the Hepburn wind farm, and the Community Energy Congress in Melbourne. The Town Hall was a-buzz with excitement.
At Hepburn, James took a few moments away from his icecream. We talk smart energy systems with Hillary Platt, co-operatives with Anthony Taylor. Then we hear community energy groups from Seymour and Euroa plans for pumped hydro storage.
Rod talks pumped hydro with Prof Andrew Blakers on Radio National.
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Friday Feb 24, 2017
Darwin Day
Friday Feb 24, 2017
Friday Feb 24, 2017
February 12 is Darwin Day, celebrating the anniversary of the birth of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. This show, originally broadcast on Darwin Day, sees Dr Emma Sherratt join Broderick to discuss the life and science of Charles Darwin.
Emma is a postdoctoral researcher from the Research School of Biology at the Australian National Unviersity, Canberra
Tuesday Feb 21, 2017
A Primal Pleasure
Tuesday Feb 21, 2017
Tuesday Feb 21, 2017
We are of course, talking about food! The immense pleasure of tucking into a good meal.
It's the taste, the texture, the shared social experience, and nutrition.
This a topic as rich as a fine meal. Today's conversation is with Dr Nenad Naumovski, Assistant Professor from the University of Canberra, and psychologist Jacqeline Naumovski. Interview by Rod.
You can read Dr Nemovski's Ask Fuzzy columns on tea and pectin.
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Monday Feb 20, 2017
Blood Borne
Monday Feb 20, 2017
Monday Feb 20, 2017
Hepatitis is a tenacious disease, but with basic knowhow, it can be prevented. And with new drugs it can be treated, but the cost is far higher.
Given the people at risk, it's as much a social issue as it is a health issue. It's one of the reasons that Hepatitis ACT Executive Director John Didlick has thrown his energy into the cause.
Interview by Rod at the Multicultural Festival in Canberra.
For more information, go to hepatitisact.com.au
Sunday Feb 05, 2017
The Activist
Sunday Feb 05, 2017
Sunday Feb 05, 2017
At a time when we're facing so many dire threats, it's easy to give up and think we're powerless. In the face of such large forces, how can one person do anything?
It turns out there are lots of ways. Our guest today describes a few.
Simon Sheikh was driving force behind the Getup movement, and in 2013 was the Greens candidate in the ACT federal election. Now, he's founder and manager of Future Super.
Interview by Rod
Wednesday Feb 01, 2017
Women Who Changed Science
Wednesday Feb 01, 2017
Wednesday Feb 01, 2017
Last week, millions of people worldwide participated in Women's Marches to raise awareness, celebrate diversity, and demand equality. Eleanor and Mitchell decided to show their support by discussing their favourite women in science. Tune in to learn about the women who pioneered X-ray crystallography, mapped the ocean floor, and literally wrote the book on bone microstructures.
These are stories of scientists who not only performed world-changing research, but did so when everything was stacked against them.
Note: Eleanor incorrectly states that Sally Ride was the first woman in space. She was the first woman astronaut (1983), but cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova went into space (piloting the Vostok 6) 20 years earlier. My apologies for the mix-up.
Friday Jan 06, 2017
A New Year, A New Cycle
Friday Jan 06, 2017
Friday Jan 06, 2017
Welcome to 2017!
In this week's episode of Fuzzy Logic, Eleanor and Mitchell talk about cycles. Whether it's the 365 day cycle around the sun, complex cycles of precession and tilt that alter Earth's climate, or the Sun's natural cycle through high and low activity periods, these kinds of patterns are all around us.
Tune in to hear Mitchell's "New Years Resolution" and Eleanor try to explain that the Gregorian Calendar was *not* invented by a guy called Gregor.