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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 42 minutes
episode 26: NASA Flight Director Matt Abbott
July 2019 marked 50 years since the Apollo moon landing. Days later, Chris Kraft, a visionary behind Mission Control and Nasa's first flight director died aged 95. Dr Karl talks with Matt Abbott - a flight director for 40 shuttle missions. Matt...
episode 28: Sand Talk with Tyson Yunkaporta
Dr Karl embraces Sand Talk. The first Australians have been exchanging complex concepts this way for 60,000 years. Climate Change and the nature of Time can both be discussed (in Sand Talk).Tyson Yunkaporta and Dr Karl share traditional wisdom and...
episode 29: Vaccination Saves us with Dr David Isaacs
Polio, smallpox, measles, whooping cough - the list goes on. Vaccination has saved more human lives than other treatments. Dr David gives Dr Karl the facts on our biggest medical miracle - training our immune system to fight deadly invaders.
episode 30: Life Out There - the new science of AstroBiology with Dr Rachel Brachman and Dr Michel Malaska
2019's Nobel Physics prize was shared by three Astrophysicists: Jim Peebles for his Big Bang cosmology plus Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of exoplanets. To discover life out there, we need Astrobiologists. Rocket propulsion...
episode 31: What and where is Life?
The discovery of a planet beyond our solar system was rewarded with a share of the 2019 Nobel Physics Prize. Thousands more exoplanets have since been discovered but is there life out there? Rocket propulsion Scientist Dr Rachel Brachman and...
episode 32: Fire Tornados - How Jason Sharples uses Maths to predict fire behaviour
Firestorms attacked Australia's Capital City in 2003. Four people died. Dr Karl meets Prof Jason Sharples. His analysis has altered the world's understanding of fire. In certain conditions fires jump, dance and then go their own way . ...
episode 33: Unboiling an Egg with Colin Raston
How do you un-boil an egg? A Professor of Chemistry showed what was possible and won an Ig-Nobel Prize. It's all about the structure of proteins and how you fold them.
episode 34: Space Archaeology with Dr Alice Gorman
Dr Alice Gorman is an internationally recognised leader in the emerging field of space archaeology. So how do you create a job like that? It begins with rubbish. Dr Alice takes Dr Karl back to the fundamentals of preservation and how to sort...
episode 35: The Thai Cave rescue with hero anaesthetist Dr Richard Harris (160)
2019's Australian of the Year Award was most unusual, shared between two extraordinary people - Veterinary Surgeon, Craig Challen and Anaesthetist Richard Harris. They were pivotal in the rescue of a Soccer team trapped in a cave...
episode 36: Dr Karl's Random AR Road Trip with Dr Bernie
Dr Bernie probes the Augmented Realities inside Dr Karl's new book. Are the 3D animations impressive ? Do the walking, talking virtual Karls look amazing on her phone ? Is this the new frontier in science publishing ?