Science Updates is a weekly email alert from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
== DR KARL: FLIPPER FONDNESS DOWN TO PR PRANKS ==
Dolphins get amazingly good press because of their cheery image. But don't you believe it — dolphins are just another wild animal, albeit with a cute smile.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4013/0/
== SURFING SCIENTIST: FRUITY PAPER CRITTER ==
Grab a lemon and a paper towel and discover yet another way to waste some of your valuable time. Remarkably simple, slightly scientific and surprisingly amusing.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4014/0/
== GREEN AT WORK: http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/2581/0/ ==
GREEN AT WORK SUCCESS STORIES: MERRYLANDS EAST PUBLIC SCHOOL
The ABC's gateway to greening the workplace is back, with new stories and answers to your questions on everything green at work! From leaky waterless urinals to choosing disposable cups and copier paper, discover weekly tips to keep you on the green track. Check out our updated Success Stories - including some power-crazed Carbon Cops at Merrylands East Public School. http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4015/0/
TUNGUSKA: 100 YEARS OF WONDERING
One hundred years ago, an explosion bigger than an atomic bomb blasted Tunguska, Siberia. We still don't know what caused it, but there are plenty of theories!
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4011/0/
== TOP STORIES FROM NEWS IN SCIENCE == http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/1759/0/
SPIRITUAL EFFECTS OF 'MUSHIES' LINGER
The effects of psilocybin from so-called magic mushrooms last for more than a year, and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4016/0/
TEEN YEARS OFFICIALLY A PAIN IN THE NECK
Australian researchers have proven what high school students have long suspected, being a teenager can be a real pain in the neck.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4017/0/
EXTINCTION RISKS 'UNDERESTIMATED'
Some endangered species may face an extinction risk that is up to a hundred times greater than previously thought, according to a new study.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4018/0/
SCIENTISTS PUT COCOA UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
Scientists are launching a five-year project aimed at safeguarding the world's chocolate supply by dissecting the genome of the cocoa bean.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4019/0/
== IN THE SKY THIS WEEK ==
The First Quarter Moon is Thursday 10 July. Mars and Saturn are above the north-west horizon in the early evening forming a line with the bright star Regulus. During the week Mars moves closer towards Saturn. On 6 and 7 July the crescent Moon joins the lineup for a fantastic sight. By 10 June Mars and Saturn are very close. Jupiter can be seen as the brightest object above the eastern horizon in the evening and its moons look great in binoculars. Jupiter is at its biggest and brightest on Wednesday 9 July. 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 in the early morning, just underneath Alderbaran and the Hyades cluster, with Orion and the Pleiades close by. Comet Boattini is now easily visible in binoculars in the morning sky, above the Hyades.
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== ABC HEALTH & WELLBEING == http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/1765/0/
== HEALTHY LIVING VIDEO: Do glasses weaken your eyes? ==
Nearly everyone will need glasses eventually, but don't worry, the popular belief they'll weaken your eyes is a myth.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/3988/0/
== TRANSCRIPTS NOW ONLINE
THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS (Catalyst: 26/06/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4020/0/
THE LATE GREAT PHYSICIST RICHARD FEYNMAN (In Conversation: 26/06/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4021/0/
BRAIN HIJINKS: OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES AND OTHER TRICKS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
(All In The Mind: 28/06/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4009/0/
THE DNA FILES - REWRITING HEREDITY: ENVIRONMENT AND THE GENOME (Science Show: 28/06/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4022/0/
== COMING UP ON ABC RADIO == http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/1773/0/
SCIENCE SHOW - Music to the brain
Saturday 5 July, 12.05pm & Monday 7 July, 7.05pm RN
It has become known as the universal language - but why is it that music - from Chopin to heavy metal - beguiles us so much? Brain scientist Oliver Sacks explores the origins of our love of music through cases he's written about in his latest book called Musicophilia. We also hear from brain biologist from Perth Alan Harvey who has also written about what connects our passion for music with our biology.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/902/0/
ALL IN THE MIND – Apes, legal personhood and the plight of Nim Chimpsky
Saturday 5 July, 1.05pm, & Monday 7 July, 1.05pm RN
In Austria, animal activists have taken the case of a chimp called Matthew as far as the European Court of Human Rights. Controversially, they're fighting for his right to legal personhood. And the incredible saga of Nim Chimpsky. A landmark effort to teach a chimp sign language and raise him like a human child. Project Nim, became a scientific soap opera of epic proportions.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/903/0/
THE PHILOSOPHER'S ZONE - Utopia and the second coming
Saturday 5 July, 1.30pm & Monday 7 July, 1.35pm RN
In the second part of a conversation recorded at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival, the celebrated British philosopher and political theorist John Gray discusses the ways in which the Utopian aspirations of the secular left and right reflect the Christian heritage of Western political thought. From Stalinist Russia to contemporary Iraq, he argues, the road to perfection is built over the bodies of the innocent.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/904/0/
OCKHAM'S RAZOR - Speed cleaning for your soul
Sunday 6 July, 8.45am RN
Can science teach us anything about morality?
Are we born with a sense of good and evil? Science writer Tim Dean reports on findings made by an increasing number of scientists from fields as diverse as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology and even economics that we are born with an innate sense of morality. He also looks at how evolution has played a part in so many aspects of our behaviour.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/910/0/
INNOVATIONS
Sunday 6 July (0830hrs UT), Monday 7 July (1330 & 1705hrs UT), Wednesday 9 July (0430hrs UT), Radio Australia
Computer animation that revolutionises the way education messages are delivered goes worldwide; a tracking device for snow-bunnies and a major step forward in the global battle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/1775/0/
HEALTH REPORT – Wheeze in preschool children
Monday 7 July, 8.30am and 8.05pm RN
Wheeze is an increasingly common symptom in preschool children. Researchers in England followed a group of preschool children over a period of 6-11 years to determine long term prognosis for these kids.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/920/0/
IN CONVERSATION - Is the ice melting in Greenland?
Thursday 10 July, 7.35pm
As a child Wilhelm Germander dreamt of living in the far north of the planet. He's now a long-time resident of Ilulissat, a town 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle in the north west of Greenland. His home is on the edge of the World Heritage listed Ilulissat ice fjord and near the biggest glacier in the northern hemisphere. Wilhelm says it is not unusual to see an iceberg one hundred metres high stuck in the harbour. So is the ice melting in Greenland? Are the ice fjords disappearing? This week Pauline Davies is In Conversation with Wilhelm Germander.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/1468/0/
== HIGHLIGHTS ON ABC TV == http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/1773/0/
CATALYST: DON'T DIE YOUNG: THE LIVER
ABC 1, 8:00PM THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
In episode three, Dr Alice looks at the ticking time bomb which is the liver. With liver disease on the increase both from alcohol and other causes, it's estimated that within 30 years obesity will overtake alcohol as the primary cause of cirrhosis. http://abcmail.net.au/t/190322/686964/4023/0/
MEDICAL MAVERICKS: THE HISTORY OF SELF-EXPERIMENTATION - BEATING INFECTION
ABC1, 8:35PM TUESDAY, 08 JUL 2008
This week on Medical Mavericks: Beating Infection, host Michael Mosley shows how, by infecting themselves with syphilis, yellow fever and cholera, doctors transformed our understanding of disease. He ends with Australian researcher Dr Barry Marshall, who recently won a Nobel Prize, thanks to a particularly courageous act of self-experimentation.
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BIG CAT DIARY
ABC 1, 8:00PM TUESDAY, 08 JUL 2008
Toto the tiny cheetah goes missing for 24 hours. Never has a search and its conclusion been so heart-rending.
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