This week, Sam Fraser-Baxter joins us while Allan is away overseas. He chats to Ximena about several recent shark attacks, and about why the public is so afraid of this misunderstood creature. He also touches on controversial government policy approaches to sharks in Australia, in particular the Western Australian government’s surprising recent shift in stance.
AUT’s Allan Blackman pops into the studio this week for a bite-sized (ish) episode of Dear Science. Today he tells Ximena & Adam about the legacy of Ernest Rutherford, including what he received a Nobel Prize for (hint: not for splitting the atom), and about how Einstein referred to him as the ‘second Newton’ for his groundbreaking discoveries.
AUT’s Allan Blackman joins Ximena and Adam for Dear Science - this week we talk through some commonly touted scientific myths, namely that water fluoridation is toxic and that alternative medicine is a thing. We also talk to Allan about a recent Netflix series that has prompted controversy around its treatment of suicide.
To match the dark and depressing weather this Wednesday, AUT’s Allan Blackman has a series of grisly & disturbing stories for Adam & Ximena. He talks through some research that looks at how prehistoric cannibalism wasn’t actually a very nutritious practice, and he also looks at ‘Te Kiri Gold’, which is the latest snake oil cancer cure desperate cancer sufferers are being scammed into buying. Finally, in light of last week’s chemical attack in Syria, he touches on the history and uses of chemical weapons, which goes back a lot earlier in history than commonly thought.
AUT’s Allan Blackman joins us again live in the studio for Dear Science. Today he talks to Adam about how butter may not be the bad guy after all, a promising development in development in salt water filtration, and how volunteers for the France’s Space Medical Institute are lying down on the job, and getting paid 16,000 Euros for it.
AUT’s Allan Blackman joins us again live in the studio for Dear Science. Today he talks to Ximena about how scientists have found a way to reverse the ageing process, how scientists in Germany have switched on the world’s largest “artificial Sun” for the first time, and also about how the University of Melbourne has removed the name of a controversial professor from one of its buildings on campus.
AUT’s Allan Blackman joins us again live in the studio for Dear Science. This week, he talks to Ximena about how police have uncovered a new way that methamphetamine is being smuggled into New Zealand, new discoveries in finding the maximum speed of cooling, and also news that researchers in Poland have replicated the infamous Milgram Experiment, where a shockingly high number of participants were found willing to electrocute an innocent person.
AUT’s Allan Blackman joins us again live in the studio for Dear Science. He talks to Ximena about George Olah, a great chemist who passed away this week, and also about rocket scientist Bill Pickering, who died on this day 13 years ago. Allan also touches on a touchy subject, namely how it came out this week that Australia is considering banning unvaccinated children from childcare centres and preschools.
This week on Dear Science, we have AUT’s Allan Blackman joining us to talk about some of the latest in science news. He talks to Ximena about a new test in Canada that reveals how much urine is really in public pools, a false alarm to evacuate a Hastings school earlier this week, and also about the tragic return of New Zealand prime time television show, Sensing Murder.
AUT’s Allan Blackman returns this week for Dear Science. He talks to Ximena about the lethal chemical that was used to kill North Korean leader’s estranged brother, NASA’s recent discovery of seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting a nearby star, and also about a new Canadian investigation that’s found Subway “chicken” contains an alarming low amount of, well, actual chicken.
95bFM 
