Science Updates is a weekly email alert from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
== ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION SPECIAL ==
INDEPTH: EXPLORING ANTARCTICA
Much has changed in the hundred years since Australian explorer Sir Douglas Mawson first located the South Magnetic Pole, yet Antarctica still holds challenges for modern scientists.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8121/0/
PHOTO GALLERY: JOURNEY TO THE FINAL FRONTIER
Over a hundred years ago, the first Australian explorers set foot on Antarctica's icy shores, lured by the quest to find the geographic South Pole. We trace the history of Antarctic discovery and the challenges that are posed by this beautiful, but hostile land.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8122/0/
FROM THE VAULT: INGRID ON ICE
Discover what it's like to live in Antarctica by reading Ingrid McGaughey's blog of a year spent working as a medical officer at Mawson Station in 1998.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8123/0/
COMING UP: FLIGHT CELEBRATES SOUTH POLE CENTENARY (The Science Show 14/03/2009)
Listen to the Science Show 12.05pm Saturday as Nicky Phillips joins a flight to the South Pole to celebrate the centenary of the trip by explorers Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson and Alistair Forbes-Mackay when the magnetic South Pole was discovered.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/902/0/
== DR KARL: WE ARE MORE MICROBE THAN MAN ==
It is said 'you are what you eat'. But Dr Karl says that when you eat you are feeding more than your appetite.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8124/0/
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== VIDEO: ACE DAY JOBS: NATIONAL PARK RANGER ==
Natasha Funke manages and maintains our national parks. Watch Ace Day Jobs to find out what makes it such a great job, and how you too could become a park ranger.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8125/0/
== TOP STORIES FROM NEWS IN SCIENCE == http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/1759/0/
AUSSIE TURTLES 'RIDE THE EAC' TO PERU
A marine biologist has helped fill in the so-called lost years of Australia's loggerhead turtles by discovering they are using ocean currents to undertake a 20,000-kilometre, round trip across the Pacific Ocean.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8126/0/
STUDY SUGGESTS BABY IS 'BETTER OUT THAN IN'
A study that shows the use of drugs to delay preterm labour may be harmful, challenges the current view that "keeping the baby inside longer must be a good thing", say Australian experts.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8105/0/
SEA LEVEL RISE UNDERESTIMATED:SCIENTISTS
The UN's climate change panel may have severely underestimated the sea level rise caused by global warming, say a group of climate scientists.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8127/0/
PEKING MAN MUCH OLDER THAN FIRST THOUGHT
A new and more accurate dating method shows Peking Man may be 200,000 years older than what experts previously thought, researchers in China say.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8128/0/
== IN THE SKY THIS WEEK ==
The last quarter Moon is Thursday March 19. Venus is now lost in the glow of twilight, and will become the 'Morning Star' next month. Saturn is visible the entire night and can be easily seen as the second brightest object above the north-eastern horizon. It is about a third of the way between the bright stars Regulus and Spica, just under the star beta Leonis. Saturn is now just past opposition, but this is still a very good time to view this ringed world in a telescope. If you don't have a telescope, see if a friend has one, or go to your local planetarium or astronomical societies' open nights. Saturn's rings are edge on, which will not occur again for another 14 years. In the morning Jupiter dominates the early twilight, with Mars below it.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/1764/0/
== STARSTUFF PODCAST: CLOSE CALL AS ASTEROID MISSES EARTH (AGAIN) ==
Near miss as asteroid passes Earth; more evidence of water flows on Mars; and discovery of a supermassive black hole duo.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/4567/0/
== ABC HEALTH & WELLBEING == http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/1765/0/
== YOUR STORY: GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME - A LUCKY STORY ==
Grammy Award winning musician and ABC Radio National presenter Lucky Oceans takes us on his frightening journey to paralysis and back.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8091/0/
== CATAPULT == http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/2337/0/
== YOUNG GUNS: A WASTE-EATING GIANT ==
Chris O'Brien is turning polystyrene waste into a giant of a business. Listen to his story to discover how it became successful.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8129/0/
== TRANSCRIPTS NOW ONLINE ==
THE SMALL THINGS IN LIFE (Future Tense: 05/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8117/0/
TWESTIVAL (Future Tense: 05/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8130/0/
ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (Catalyst: 05/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8131/0/
CLIMATE SEALS (Catalyst: 05/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8132/0/
WORLD'S OLDEST MUMMIES (Catalyst: 05/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8133/0/
DREAMS: THE STUFF MEMORIES ARE MADE OF? (PART 2 OF 2) (All In The Mind: 07/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8116/0/
INFLATION MODEL FOR THE UNIVERSE (Science Show: 07/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8134/0/
EXPANDING UNIVERSE LEAVES US ALL ALONE (Science Show: 07/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8135/0/
ATTACKING HIV (Science Show: 07/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8115/0/
LUNAR CRATERS NAMED AFTER SCIENCE HIGH FLIERS (Science Show: 07/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8136/0/
DECODING THE HEAVENS - THE ANTIKYTHERA ANCIENT COMPUTER (Science Show: 07/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8137/0/
THE WADDI TREE (Ockham's Razor: 08/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8138/0/
THE OTHER CLIMATE DEBATE (Background Briefing: 08/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8139/0/
GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME (Health Report: 09/03/2009)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8092/0/
== COMING UP ON ABC RADIO ==
THE SCIENCE SHOW - Very hot and very cold
Saturday 14 March, 12.05pm & Monday 16 March, 7.05pm RN
Can there be a connection between bush fires and drought? Kimberley Prather, Professor of Chemistry at UC San Diego, is convinced there is. She can identify the tiniest component of smoke and track its origins. But she also can reveal how these particles seed clouds and how such clouds must not be overburdened. Otherwise they fail to yield rain. Meanwhile, in Antarctica, Nicky Phillips joins a group of young Australians over the South Pole to celebrate a special anniversary.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/902/0/
ALL IN THE MIND - Ancient brains: Rare finds and past lives
Saturday 14 March, 1.05pm & Monday 16 March, 1.05pm RN
Archaeologists in Yorkshire have dug up a 2000 year old human skull, incredibly with brain tissue still intact. When this brain last saw the world, the Romans were yet to invade Britain and tribes occupied the North. And another stunning find - the first ever fossilised brain - that of a 300 million year old fish, last alive in the Late Paleozoic.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/903/0/
THE PHILOSOPHER'S ZONE - Talking to the animals
Saturday 14 March, 1.30pm & Monday 16 March, 1.35pm RN
You can talk to the animals till the cows come home but will they talk back? Perhaps they do and you just don't get the message. Either way, the fact that animals don't seem to possess language has, since ancient Greek times, encouraged the view that they're not capable of being rational and therefore not fit to be members of the community. This week, the Dutch philosopher René ten Bos questions our time-honoured views of animals and how to behave towards them.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/904/0/
OCKHAM'S RAZOR - The Manhattan Project for climate change
Sunday 15 March, 8.45am RN
The Manhattan Project was established to develop nuclear bombs and today computer programmer Geoffrey Hudson from Melbourne suggests that a similar program should be introduced to combat climate change. He lists several objectives that would minimise the release of carbon dioxide; if each country, having signed the Kyoto protocol, picked one or two and ran with them it would drastically reduce greenhouse gas production.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/910/0/
THE HEALTH REPORT - Participation in medical research
Monday 16 March, 8.30am & 8.05pm RN
People participate in medical research usually out of the goodness of their hearts. But what should happen if the researchers find something about you that you might not want to know about or which could be a harbinger of doom? Should they tell you? You might be surprised what some researchers have done in the past. Plus the latest on gene research into your bowels and pancreas.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/920/0/
FUTURE TENSE - Keeping Australia safe
Thursday 19 March, 8.30am & Friday 20 March, 12.30am RN
This week Future Tense looks at issues relating to the future of national security in Australia. Among them, the need for a new cross-discipline national security university or college, and the role and effectiveness of the newly created position of National Security Advisor.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/7172/0/
== HIGHLIGHTS ON ABC TV ==
CATALYST
ABC1, 8:00pm Thursday, 19 March 2009 & ABC2, 5:30pm Friday, 20 March 2009
Catalyst explores a condition giving people a memory that won't forget; why flashy male butterflies have more fun; how diamonds can protect us from fraudsters; and filmmaker Kristian Lang.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/834/0/
BODY HITS - SENSORY OVERLOAD
ABC2, 8:00pm Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Explores what goes on in our bodies when we party, how much damage our excessive habits are doing, and whether the effects of bad living can be reversed by dieting and detox.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/416261/686964/8118/0/
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