Science Updates is a weekly email alert from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
== SCRIBBLY GUM - SUNFISH SEEKERS ==
While southern Australia shivers through winter one of our strangest marine neighbours heads north like any other sensible sun seeker. At this time of year, Bali is one of the few places in the world where you can swim with the elusive sunfish.
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== GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE - ON BOARD WEDDINGS LEAVE MARRIAGE ALL AT SEA
Someone who's achieved the distinguished post of ship's captain has usually risen through the sailor's ranks. But Dr Karl wonders if they have the authority to assist in 'tying the knot'.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4243/0/
== SURFING SCIENTIST - A MISSING THING ==
At first, this paragraph looks totally normal, but it isn't! Can you solve this conundrum
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== GREEN AT WORK: http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/2581/0/ ==
GREEN YOUR EMAILS
Save water and trees - put this at the bottom of your emails: "It takes 1L of water to make 3 sheets of A4 paper. Do you really need to print this?"
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4245/0/
== TOP STORIES FROM NEWS IN SCIENCE == http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/1759/0/
SEXES NEED DIFFERENT DINNERS, SAYS STUDY
The wisdom of feeding the man meat has been thrown into question by a study that shows the secret to a long reproductive life in males is carbohydrates.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4246/0/
SCIENTISTS FIND PEARS AIN'T APPLES
Pears spoil quicker than apples because they're out of breath, according to European researchers.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4247/0/
NANOTECH REGULATION UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
A lack of scientific knowledge means Australian regulators could be unable to adequately protect humans and the environment from possible risks of nanotechnology.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4248/0/
SLEEPINESS CAN MAKE YOU SOUND DRUNK
A lack of sleep alters the brain to such a degree that a person sounds drunk when they speak, according to a US study.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4249/0/
== IN THE SKY THIS WEEK ==
Full Moon Friday 18 July. The keen eyed can see Venus peeking up above the eastern horizon in the early twilight, and during the week it rises higher in the sky, heading towards Regulus, Mars and Saturn. Jupiter can be seen as the brightest object above the eastern horizon in the evening, and its moons look great in binoculars. On Thursday 17 July the Moon is just near Jupiter. This is an excellent time to look at this giant world through a small telescope. If you don't have a telescope, go to one of your local astronomical societies open days. Mercury is visible just above the eastern horizon in the early twilight, but is lost in the Sun's glow by the end of the week.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/1764/0/
== ABC HEALTH & WELLBEING == http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/1765/0/
== HEALTHY LIVING VIDEO: ALCOHOL: A HEALTH DRINK? ==
Drinking alcohol can be good for you, but don't kid yourself: it's only beneficial in small amounts, and benefits need to be weighed against the risks.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4250/0/
== TRANSCRIPTS NOW ONLINE
THE LIVER (Catalyst: 10/07/2008) http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4251/0/
THE MELTING OF THE GREAT ICE FIELDS? (In Conversation: 10/07/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4252/0/
PHYSICS WEBSITE WINS AWARD (Science Show: 12/07/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4253/0/
THE EXPRESSIVE SIDE OF THE FACE (Science Show: 12/07/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4254/0/
TRINIDAD'S PITCH LAKE (Science Show: 12/07/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4255/0/
FLACCO – GEORGE PELL (Science Show: 12/07/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4256/0/
THE EDEN PROJECT (Science Show: 12/07/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4257/0/
MARS PHOENIX UPDATE (Science Show: 12/07/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4258/0/
== COMING UP ON ABC RADIO == http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/1773/0/
SCIENCE SHOW - Solar revolution: The European model
Saturday 19 July, 12.05pm & Monday 21 July, 7.05pm RN
Using the sun as an energy source is well-known. But what if you concentrated its rays? Used this way it turns out that an area of only 35 square kilometres in the desert would provide all of Australia's needs. Experiments in Europe have shown the potential of this approach and Naomi Fowler, based in Sicily, reports how fast this technique is developing. Also: new materials for clothes which change colour in the sunshine and repel stains and Professor Wolfgang Ketterle of MIT on the basis for the revolution in superconductivity.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/902/0/
ALL IN THE MIND – Up the line to Goodna (Part 2) - sanity, straightjackets and silent movies
Saturday 19 July, 1.05pm, & Monday 21 July, 1.05pm RN
As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia's largest and oldest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime. In this series All in the Mind unearths stories from people who lived and worked there. A nurse reflects on life in the asylum during World War II before the dramatic arrival of modern medications, and two sisters reminisce on growing up at Goodna with their matron aunt in the 1930s. Very different insights from opposite sides of the ward walls.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/903/0/
THE PHILOSOPHER'S ZONE - Damned if you do and damned if you don't
Saturday 19 July, 1.30pm & Monday 21 July, 1.35pm RN
What happens if you're in one of those situations where you're faced with a choice and whatever you choose, it's going to be a bad choice? This is what's known as a moral dilemma, but do moral dilemmas actually occur in real life? Moral philosophers tend to say they don't - if you think you've got a dilemma, you haven't understood the situation - but can life really be that easy?
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/904/0/
OCKHAM'S RAZOR - Dr W G Grace – Medicine's greatest gift to cricket
Sunday 20 July, 8.45am RN
Medical historian from Western Australia Dr Jim Leavesley pays homage to Dr W G Grace on the 160th anniversary of his birth. His last first class game was in 1908 when he was 59, just four months before the birth of our own Sir Donald Bradman. W.G. came from a medical family background; his father and three brothers were all doctors but it soon became apparent that he was a much better cricketer although he did eventually pass his exams. His sporting fame made him the most recognizable man in England playing first class cricket for 44 seasons during which time he scored just under 55,000 runs.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/910/0/
INNOVATIONS
Sunday 20 July (0830hrs UT), Monday 21 July (1330 & 1705hrs UT), Wednesday 23 July (0430hrs UT), Radio Australia
An innovative building product set to revolutionise world-wide construction; Australian and international researchers strive to produce a working bionic eye and, discovery of the gender-bending brain gene.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/1775/0/
HEALTH REPORT – Prostate cancer research
Monday 21 July, 8.30am and 8.05pm RN
Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death among men. In this programme we take a look at some recent research into prostate cancer and talk to the researchers about their work looking at new treatment options for the disease.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/920/0/
IN CONVERSATION - Sisters and babies
Thursday 24 July, 7.35pm .
Why do humans, of all the primates, have so many babies? And what happens when sisters offer to carry babies for other members of their family? What happens to kinship? Professor Marilyn Strathern is a social anthropologist at Cambridge and head of Girton College; Karen Kramer, another anthropologist at Harvard - have been tracking the complexities of motherhood and babies across many cultures, with surprising results.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/1468/0/
== HIGHLIGHTS ON ABC TV == http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/1773/0/
CATALYST: DON'T DIE YOUNG: THE EARS, NOSE AND THROAT
ABC1, 8:00pm Thursday, 24 Jul 2008
Dr Alice dons a pair of specially designed headphones to simulate deafness, and attempts to carry on daily life as normal - discovering just how difficult it is to live with hearing loss as she struggles to order a drink at a bar and do some clothes shopping.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/201117/686964/4259/0/
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