For Science!

For Science!


Episode 27 - Rubber Ducky

July 30, 2014

One day we'll be organised, promise!


This episode we talk about:


Rubber ducky shaped comets - http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/07/18/4048841.htm


The spread of tropical species as the oceans warm - http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/07/09/4041782.htm


Flapdoodle and the plight of the Redhead - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/10/redheads-die-out-extinction-ginger-gene-bad-science-red-hair


Someone left smallpox in an old samples fridge - http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/08/smallpox-vials-found-cardboard-box-maryland-laboratory


CSIRO is cutting funding to education resources - http://cpsu-csiro.org.au/2014/07/25/csiro-cuts-hit-the-classroom/


And for good measure here's the Act that gives the CSIRO its reason for existing - http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/saira1949279/s9.html


Let us know what you think of the episode in the comments below.