Science Updates is a weekly email alert from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
== INDEPTH: WAVE POWER ==
The peaks and troughs of the sea are taking on new dimensions as science and technology turns waves into a source of electricity.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7713/0/
FROM THE VAULT: CLEAN ENERGY QUIZ
We're always told we need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and look for cleaner sources of energy, but how much do you really know about some of Australia's future energy options?
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/5779/0/
== DR KARL: 'TOXIC' PLASTICS BY-PRODUCT OF POISONED PEN ==
In these eco-sensible times of recycling it seems that plastic can't do a thing right. But Dr Karl is a big fan and thinks someone has been bending the truth.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7714/0/
Follow Dr Karl on Twitter: http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7715/0/
See Dr Karl live: 'Science is Golden' public lecture March 11, 2009
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7716/0/
== VIDEO: ACE DAY JOBS: CONSTRUCTION PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR ==
Jeanette Lahood keeps building construction running smoothly. Watch Ace Day Jobs to find out how she got her dream job.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7717/0/
== TOP STORIES FROM NEWS IN SCIENCE == http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/1759/0/
FOSSIL FISH REVEAL PREHISTORIC LOVEMAKING
Fish have been doing it for more than 380 million years and palaeontologists now know how, according to an Australian-led study.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7718/0/
PEANUT ALLERGY RATE DOUBLES DESPITE AVOIDANCE
The incidence of peanut allergy among Australian toddlers has doubled in the past nine years, a new study suggests.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7719/0/
BODY PAINTING HELPS ANATOMY LESSONS
Students learn human anatomy better when they can paint body parts on a real live body, says one Australian expert.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7720/0/
DARK ENERGY TO ERASE BIG BANG'S SIGNAL
When astronomers in the distant future cast their eyes around the cosmos, they may come to the conclusion that our galaxy is alone in the universe, according to a leading US cosmologist.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7721/0/
== ABC GREEN AT WORK == http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/2581/0/
== GREEN GURU: POWER-HUNGRY COMPUTERS ==
When it's all added up, 50 computers left on overnight will cough out as much CO2 as 10 cars.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7722/0/
== IN THE SKY THIS WEEK ==
The first quarter Moon is Wednesday March 4. Venus is very low to the horizon, and by the end of the week is almost lost in the glow of twilight. During this time its crescent will become dramatically bigger and thinner, and visible through good quality 10x50 binoculars. On Saturday February 28 the crescent Moon is just above crescent Venus.
Comet Lulin is easily visible in binoculars as a round, fuzzy ball, on a line between Saturn and the bright star Regulus. Lulin is visible to the unaided eye in dark sky locations, and with binoculars in suburban locations. Saturn is now rising as Venus is setting and can be easily seen as the second brightest object above the north-eastern horizon, about a third of the way between the bright stars Regulus and Spica. Now is a very good time to view this ringed world in a telescope. Its rings are edge on, which will not occur again for another 14 years. On the morning of Monday March 2, Mercury and Mars are close together, with Jupiter above them.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/1764/0/
== STARSTUFF PODCAST: NEW CONTENDER FOR BIGGEST BANG ==
Scientists find most powerful gamma-ray burst yet; new missions to Jupiter and Saturn; and the new Ares 1 booster rocket to launch soon.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/4567/0/
== ABC HEALTH & WELLBEING == http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/1765/0/
== FACT BUSTER: CAN WHAT YOU EAT FOR DINNER AFFECT HOW YOU SLEEP? ==
What foods keep you awake? Which ones help you sleep? Read our expert's answer and have your say.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7723/0/
== CATAPULT == http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/2337/0/
== YOUNG GUNS: EARNING KARMIC CURRENCY ==
Ash Rosshandler created a one-stop shop for charitable gifts. Listen to his story and find out how he set up a not-for-profit website.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7724/0/
== TRANSCRIPTS NOW ONLINE ==
GOING UP, GROWING UP (Future Tense: 19/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7725/0/
SOIL CARBON FARMING (Future Tense: 19/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7726/0/
RAT NAV (Catalyst: 19/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7727/0/
SEA MOUNTS (Catalyst: 19/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7728/0/
EQUITANA (Catalyst: 19/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7729/0/
THE PHILOSOPHY OF GOOD INTENTIONS (All In The Mind: 21/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7730/0/
ANIMALS - THEIR BRAINS AND BEHAVIOUR (Science Show: 21/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7731/0/
WHALES NOT TO BLAME FOR FISH DEPLETION (Science Show: 21/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7732/0/
WHY WE COOK OUR FOOD (Science Show: 21/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7733/0/
AL GORE ON OUR COMMON FUTURE (Science Show: 21/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7734/0/
THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY AND DETECTING COMPLEX ORGANIC MOLECULES IN SPACE (Science Show: 21/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7735/0/
THE SCIENCE OF SWORD SWALLOWING (Science Show: 21/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7736/0/
CLIMATE CONCERN IN THE US AND SCIENCE IN THE NEW OBAMA ADMINISTRATION (Science Show: 21/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7737/0/
TRAMLINES (Ockham's Razor: 22/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7738/0/
DRUG DEPENDENCE - PART TWO (Health Report: 23/02/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7739/0/
== COMING UP ON ABC RADIO == http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/1773/0/
THE SCIENCE SHOW - Neanderthals and the broken collider
Saturday 28 February, 12.05pm & Monday 2 March, 7.05pm RN
The great interest in the Neanderthal genome, just revealed, is how close it is to yours and mine. Lactose intolerance, making milk hard to digest, or facility with language, can be checked on our respective barcodes. And these near relatives, with whom we coexisted 300,000 years ago, may have been cannibals! Meanwhile, in Geneva, when will the severely broken Large Hadron Collider, so hugely hyped in September, actually start working again? Its director, Lyn Evans, hazards a guess.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/902/0/
ALL IN THE MIND - Dreams: the body alive
Saturday 28 February, 1.05pm & Monday 2 March, 1.05pm RN
Jungian analyst and psychotherapist Robert Bosnak is a dream worker. To him dreams are an ecosystem of imaginings - powerful bodily experiences populated by characters with their own intelligences. When you encounter the images of your dreaming mind - do you find one self, or many?
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/903/0/
LIFE & TIMES - Great Travellers Part 5: Alexander von Humboldt
Saturday 28 February, 4pm & Sunday 1 March, 6am RN
Travelling to explore and record the natural world was a great enlightenment project. One of the scientific giants in this endeavour was the German traveller and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/4222/0/
OCKHAM'S RAZOR - A noun in your auricle
Sunday 1 March, 8.45am RN
Dr Rob Morrison from Flinders University discusses how errors of grammar, punctuation and inaccurate scientific terminology can be misleading and complicate important social issues. For example the word 'superbug' often used in the scientific media refers to bacteria but if popular science calls everything a bug it ignores the distinction between bacteria and virus. Bacteria respond to antibiotics, viruses do not, which has led to over-prescription of these medications.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/910/0/
BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Robotic surgery
Sunday 1 March, 9am & Tuesday 3 March, 7pm RN
Robotics is forging ahead, and there are benefits. But the costs are huge, and there's no evidence that (in prostate cancer surgery for instance) the eventual outcome is much better than before. We visit the frontier of modern surgery.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/911/0/
HINDSIGHT - Night parrots and spangled drongos: A history of Australian ornithology
Sunday 1 March, 2pm & Thursday 5 March, 1pm RN
We explore the long history of bird fancying in Australia. It has its roots in the colonial enterprise to know and document the natural world.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/914/0/
THE HEALTH REPORT - Climate change and mosquitoes
Monday 2 March, 8.30am & 8.05pm RN
We hear some disturbing information about how climate change is affecting the mosquitoes which pass on malaria. And new information about the risk of alcohol to women.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/920/0/
FUTURE TENSE - The small things in life
Thursday 5 March, 8.30am & Friday 6 March, 12.30am RN
Nanotechnology - involving the manipulation of extremely minute particles - has surged ahead over the past decade and now universities in China and Australia have signed a new partnership agreement. And we speak to a gathering of Twitter users about the joy of a good tweet, at the first ever Twestival.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7172/0/
INNOVATIONS
Sunday 1 March (0830hrs UT), Monday 2 March (1330 & 1705hrs UT), Wednesday 4 March (0430hrs UT), Radio Australia
A device to detect lymphoedema before the onset of visible symptoms; an innovative project to bring the internet to disadvantaged communities for the first time; and swimwear to keep your young kids afloat.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/1775/0/
== HIGHLIGHTS ON ABC TV ==
WILD CARIBBEAN - HURRICANE HELL
ABC1, 7:30pm Sunday, 01 March 2009
The Caribbean is no stranger to the wild forces of nature. Between June and November, during the hot summer months - Caribbean heaven turns into hurricane hell, as the pristine waters and lush rainforests are hit by the extreme winds, water and rains that accompany a hurricane. With the severity and duration of hurricanes hitting the Caribbean increasing, what long term effects will this have on the inhabitants?
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7740/0/
CATALYST
ABC1, 8:00pm Thursday, 5 March 2009 & ABC2, 5:30pm Friday, 6 March 2009
Discover the world's oldest mummies – in Chile!; look through one of the world's most powerful microscopes; and seals collecting climate change data from beneath the icecaps.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/834/0/
SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE: THE SCRAPPY RACES
ABC2, 6:35pm Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Scrapheap Challenge heads out of the scrap yard and onto the open road with five of Britain's funniest bodging threesomes, veterans of the heap, going head-to-head to build the ultimate all-round vehicle, for a crazy race throughout the UK. In the first race five teams of amateur engineers have just five short weeks and only £1500 to build five awe-inspiring all-terrain roadsters from scratch. Then the Scrappy Racers head out on a gruelling thousand mile journey through the country lanes, leafy suburbs and inner cities of Britain, to face hair-raising challenges at three very special locations. Each week, as the championship unfolds, teams have eight hours on local scrapheaps along the way to adapt their vehicles for the challenges ahead.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7741/0/
EATAHOLICS - ADDICTED TO CHEESE
ABC2, 8:30pm Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Kate Silk is a 37-year-old mother of two from Manchester who loves to travel. Unfortunately Kate's globetrotting is restricted because she starves when abroad. Kate can't stomach local cuisine because the main component of her diet is cheese. Kate has eaten cheese every single day for the last 35 years. Cheese is one of only six food items that don't make her sick and she sees trying new food as a terrifying experience. With her two teenage daughters beginning to follow in Mum's footsteps, Kate is desperate to start setting a better example.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/403830/686964/7742/0/
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