Science Updates is a weekly email alert from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
== QUIZ: AUSSIE DINOSAURS ==
Calling all dinosaur enthusiasts - can you tell a Muttaburrasaurus from a Austrosaurus? Do you know where the Ozraptor was discovered? Test you knowledge on our Aussie Dinosaurs quiz.
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== ASK AN EXPERT: HOT ROCK ENERGY ==
What exactly is geothermal energy? Could it really provide an alternative source of electricity?
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== DR KARL: DRUGS GET JUICED-UP WITH GRAPEFRUIT ==
We are regularly encouraged to include a decent portion of fruit in our daily diet. But Dr Karl warns those on certain medications to choose their fruit...carefully.
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BIG BUBS AT HIGHER RISK OF BREAST CANCER
Baby girls who are born longer and bigger than average are more likely to develop breast cancer later in life, an international study of more than 600,000 women shows.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/270549/686964/5400/0/
EATING ROO MAY COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING
Eating kangaroo instead of cattle and sheep has been given a scientific stamp of approval by the government's top climate change adviser.
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AUSTRALIAN KIDS START THE WEEK ON EMPTY
Bob Geldof was right - we don't like Mondays, and Australian researchers believe they've found the reason why.
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AUSSIE TECHNOLOGY TO BEAM MARS LANDING
When humans set foot on the planet Mars, the world will be treated to a live telecast of stunning clarity and colour - a far cry from the blurry, grainy images of the first lunar landing four decades ago.
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== GREEN AT WORK: RECYCLING CDS AND DVDS ==
Large companies chuck out thousands of CDs and DVDs each year, and why not? They're so cheap! But is there a better way to deal with unwanted disks?
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== STARSTUFF PODCAST: CHINA TAKES GREAT LEAP IN SPACE ==
This week on StarStuff: China's first space walk; the Large Hadron Collider to restart in early 2009; and one more mission for a Mars rover.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/270549/686964/4567/0/
== ABC HEALTH & WELLBEING == http://abcmail.net.au/t/270549/686964/1765/0/
== FEATURE: BOOST YOUR BONE BANK ==
Osteoporosis may seem like a disease of the old, but prevention starts young. Are you doing the right things to keep your kids' bones - and your own - in top condition?
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== TRANSCRIPTS NOW ONLINE ==
JAMES PITTS (In Conversation: 25/09/2008)
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THE BIGGEST SQUID (Catalyst: 25/09/2008)
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DR NORMAN SWAN'S CHOLESTEROL CHECK (Catalyst: 25/09/2008)
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METHANE - THE FORGOTTEN GAS (Catalyst: 25/09/2008)
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'IT'S ALIVE!' FRANKENSTEIN, SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (Philosophers Zone: 27/09/2008)
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SKEPTICS ON SKEPTICAL THINKING (All In The Mind: 27/09/2008)
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LAWRENCE KRAUSS – THE LHC, GOING TO MARS, AND THE US PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN (Science Show: 27/09/2008)
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MEASURING SEA LEVEL AND THE EARTH (Science Show: 27/09/2008)
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MAGIC HELPS CHILDREN'S CONFIDENCE (Science Show: 27/09/2008)
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BIRDS – USE OF TOOLS AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN FLIGHT (Science Show: 27/09/2008)
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STONEHENGE - A SITE FOR PEOPLE FROM FAR AWAY (Science Show: 27/09/2008)
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== COMING UP ON ABC RADIO == http://abcmail.net.au/t/270549/686964/1773/0/
THE SCIENCE SHOW - A third of our energy needs from waves?
Saturday 4 October, 12.05pm & Monday 6 October, 7.05pm RN
A wave power facility was launched in Fremantle, Western Australia on Monday. If the technology performs as promised it could give us a third of Australia's energy needs. How will it work and is the rest of this country aware of what could be a power revolution? Also: energy from a 'fourth food source' other than protein carbohydrates and fats. Can it really keep soldiers going for five days with no other sustenance? An Australian scientist at Oxford is behind this extraordinary idea.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/270549/686964/902/0/
ALL IN THE MIND - 'Wakey, wakey!' - The many lives of amphetamine
Saturday 4 October, 1.05pm & Monday 6 October, 1.05pm RN
The 1929 discovery of amphetamine heralded the dawn of the age of Speed - a drug with an extraordinary and triumphant career. The first modern antidepressant, a powerful prop in warfare, a diet pill, a devastating illicit drug – now reincarnated as a treatment for ADHD. Historian of science, Nicolas Rasmussen, unearths the making of modern medicine, Big Pharma, and a humble stimulant.
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OCKHAM'S RAZOR - Good bugs gone bad
Sunday 5 October, 8.45am RN
Journalist Dr Peter Lavelle from ABC Health Online in Sydney looks at the history of disease and some of the terrible epidemics that have swept through societies from the beginning of recorded time. Many have been eradicated but there are new ones just waiting for a chance to cross over to humans. Now as the earth's population tops 6.7 billion people are the conditions ideal for pathogens to spread further and faster?
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INNOVATIONS
Sunday 5 October (0830hrs UT), Monday 6 October (1330 & 1705hrs UT), Wednesday 8 October (0430hrs UT), Radio Australia
A revolutionary new concept in playground swing equipment for people with disabilities and we meet four winners of Australia's most prestigious scientific prize.
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THE HEALTH REPORT - Paracetamol plus ibuprofen for treating fever in children
Monday 6 October, 8.30am & 8.05pm RN
Fever is a normal part of childhood illness and affects a large number of pre-school children every year. Researchers in the UK have investigated the effect of paracetamol plus ibuprofen in treating childhood fever.
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IN CONVERSATION - A romantic scientist?
Thursday 9 October, 7.35pm RN
After the heyday of science in the seventeenth century starring Isaac Newton, there came another involving 'natural philosophers' who were both creative artists and 'scientists'. This two generation explosion of creativity before Charles Darwin stole the stage, has long been the fascination of biographer Richard Holmes. He portrays some of the heroes of the era from Michael Faraday and Mary Shelley, to Humphry Davy and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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== HIGHLIGHTS ON ABC TV == http://abcmail.net.au/t/270549/686964/1773/0/
CATALYST
ABC1, 8:00pm Thursday, 9 October 2008
In this episode gambling addiction – what makes someone think they can beat the odds?; discover the technology bringing part of the Tasmanian Tiger back to life; and Dr Norman Swan reports on our multi-million dollar vitamins industry and warns buyer beware.
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