Sci Fight is a quarterly science comedy debate, with your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley (citation needed). Sci Fight brings together science folk and comedy folk, and makes them debate the big issues in a silly way.
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Regret Labs Podcast: Science | Comedy | Humility
Aric McKeown, Levi Weinhagen, and Maggie Ryan Sandford: Comedians
Did you study hard in science class? Neither did comics Aric and Levi. Regret Labs is their attempt to make up for lost time. In each episode they attempt to explain a scientific concept and then invite a guest expert to join them and tell them how very wrong they are. There’s learning, laughing, science, and redemption. You may get a better understanding of the world or you may just get entertained. But you wont regret listening.
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What is love? Who invented dinosaurs? How did life begin? What's the best lighting system for a football game played by snakes? Science asks big questions but only The Pop Test answers them in a comedy quiz format. Andy and Al ask some frankly impossible questions. It's up to a panel of scientists and comedians to give their funniest or most enlightening answer for Team Science.
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This podcast takes a young upcoming fan of stand-up comedy and discusses everything about the topic ranging from living comedy legends such as Dave Chapelle, all the way to the techniques and, topics used.
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Neuralink will bring us closer together
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Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: Neuralink will bring us closer together Elon Musk recently announced the first results from an in-human clinical trial of Neuralink; a brain-computer interface that decodes brain waves allo…
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Natural Selection is Over
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Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: Natural Selection is over. Biotechnology and genetic research are barrelling ahead 100 miles an hour. It may soon be possible to produce babies from just one person, or six, or more. Scient…
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Sydney — We Are Living in a Simulation
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Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: We are living in a simulation Simulation theory posits the notion that if humanity doesn’t wipe itself out shortly, humans of the future will have massive computers. This seems legit. But i…
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Newcastle — We Should Fear AI
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Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate brings together comedians and scientists to debate serious issues in a ridiculous way. Proceedings are loosely held together by your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley [citation needed]. Sci Fight has been described as a nerdy, silly, and only occasionally litigious romp into what it even means to be alive. Thi…
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We Are Living in a Simulation
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Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: We are living in a simulation Simulation theory posits the notion that if humanity doesn’t wipe itself out shortly, humans of the future will have massive computers. This seems legit. But i…
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Wollongong — We Should Fear AI
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Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate brings together comedians and scientists to debate serious issues in a ridiculous way. Proceedings are loosely held together by your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley [citation needed]. Sci Fight has been described as a nerdy, silly, and only occasionally litigious romp into what it even means to be alive. Thi…
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We Should Embrace our Animal Nature (Science Week from Science Gallery)
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Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. Thrilled to celebrate National Science Week 2023 in partnership with the Science Gallery Melbourne! This rounds’ topic: We should embrace our animal nature. We are animals. We may have pulled ourselves out of the primordial mu…
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We should search for life out there
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Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: We should search for life out there. Since humanity became conscious of a universe stretching out far beyond our own little turquoise home, we’ve repeatedly wondered, are we really alone? O…
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We should fear AI
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Sci Fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: We should fear AI. AI is all up in your business. It knows when you’ve been sleeping. It knows when you’re awake. It knows things about you that would bring a family bingo night to an awkwa…
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We should live forever!
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Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: We should live forever! One thing we know to be true - when something is good, more of it is better! Like coffee, sun and heroin. Ergo this precious gift of life must be all the more valuab…
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Bodies are horrible
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Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: Bodies are horrible Bodies. You’ve probably got one. Unless you’re a concept. Or an algorithm. Or a sentient shade of purple. Either way, this is an inclusive space. Trapped within this pro…
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Sci Fight is a quarterly science comedy debate, with your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley. Sci Fight brings together science folk and comedy folk, and makes them debate the big issues in a silly way. Drugs. You’ve probably heard of them. Not welcomed in your luggage; your blood test results or the Olympics. They’ve had wars against them, t…
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Pleasure is a false God
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Sci Fight is a quarterly science comedy debate, with your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley (citation needed). Sci Fight brings together science folk and comedy folk, and makes them debate the big issues in a silly way. This round we turn to pleasure. Finally! What is it? Where does it come from, and can I have some please? Pleasure is part …
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Plastics - A comedy science quiz
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The best things about plastic, it’s durability and usefulness, are also the worst things, which makes plastic the perfect material for manufacturing double edged swords. Comedians Claire Hooper, Kirsty Webeck and science journalist Jacinta Bowler help us smother the ocean of ignorance with the plastic flotsam of knowledge.…
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Reproduction - A comedy science quiz
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To make sex unsexy, reproduction is just copying. That’s why it’s not allowed during exams. To understand how life has continued since the first single celled organism got a bit frisky we talk to comedian Lloyd Langford, broadcaster Beverly Wang and Dr Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist at Zoos Victoria.…
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Time - A comedy science quiz
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How can you stop time? What machine can’t move and only works half the time? Where on earth does time travel the slowest? Find out the answers in the 25 so-called ‘minutes’ of this mind-bending episode of the best science comedy podcast of all time Featuring Shaun Micallef, Claire Hooper and Astrophysics lecturer Katie Auchettl…
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Marie Curie - A comedy science quiz
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What convinced the Nobel judges to give her the first Nobel Prize? What's a little curie? What did she hoard in her youthful life of crime? It's time to laboriously stir our mix of pitchblende to find the uranium of truth. Featuring comedians Vidya Rajan, Alanta Colley and writer Laura ElveryVon Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Dinosaurs - A comedy science quiz
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Who invented dinosaurs? What would a T Rex have tasted like? Who sells sea shells by the sea shore? It's time to dig through some rocks, carefully reveal the fossils and then extract the DNA inside to create an exciting but lethal theme park. Featuring comedians Cal Wilson, Matt Stewart and science communicator Jacinta Bowler.…
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Electricity - A comedy science quiz
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History, like electricity, illuminates the darkness and it's expensive to get a specialist in it to come to your house on a public holiday. Find out more about the science and the history behind you turning on a light switch. Featuring comedians Kirsty Webeck, broadcaster Beverly Wang and Jamie Evans, Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineer…
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Origin of Life - A comedy science quiz
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How did life start? Was it a warm pond of foul smelling water, deep sea underwater vents or the divine work of the Lord God? Comedians Sami Shah, Jude Perl and cell Biologist Dr. Bianca Le attempt to answer (and be funny about) the most fundamental question of all time.Von Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Elements - A comedy science quiz
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Like nachos, burritos and tacos, the elements are unique in themselves, but are all made of the building blocks of Tex-Mex cuisine, just rearranged in different proportions. And also they can be organised neatly on a table. Featuring comedians Greg Larsen, Kirsty Webeck and Professor Mark Quigley from the University of Melbourne.…
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Heating - A comedy science quiz
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Are you too cold or too hot right now? There’s a very high chance that both are to do with heating. The Pop Test returns to give heating the grilling it deserves and to ask why is it so hot right now? Featuring science communicator Prof Jenny Martin and comedians Sammy J, Craig QuartermaineVon Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Should we upload our brains to the cloud?
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Sci Fight (www.scifight.com.au/) is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round we turn to pleasure. Finally! What is it? Where does it come from, and can I have some please? Pleasure is part of our biological make-up; evolution's way of prodding us to co…
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Flight - A comedy science quiz
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What role did old boots and horse manure play in the history of flight? What should you do if your helicopter fails 12,000 metres up? How should you pronounce helicopter? Andy and Al ask these and many other questions as part of a one off special, to celebrate National Science Week. Featuring comedians Naomi Higgins, Ben Russell and Professor Alan …
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Scientists go to Heaven?
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Sci Fight (www.scifight.com.au/) is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: Scientists go to heaven. Scientists do God's work. They seek truth; divorced from opinion or ambition. They put society's needs ahead of their own. They pursue their …
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When the moon hits your eye like a regular pie that’s a metaphoré from the liquid hot core of our series finale with comedians Greg Larsen and Alex Lee and Professor Mark Quigley on a journey to the centre of the Earth. .Von Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Brains! Like a zombie neurologist we can't get enough of the stuff. Join us as comedians Laura Davis, Josh Earl and science communicator Dr Jenny Martin try, somewhat tautologically, try to get their heads around the human brain.Von Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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We catch up with the fastest thing in the universe, light, and ask it why it’s in such a hurry. Featuring comedians Danielle Walker, Jack Druce and Physicist Suzie Sheehy.Von Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Death comes to us all…so this episode should be very relatable! Join our grim reapers/comedians Nazeem Hussain, Vidya Rajan & cancer researcher Tane Hunter as they walk towards the light and answer questions about the final destination.Von Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Who gives a monkey’s about evolution? Well, comedians Ross Noble, Alex Lee and Dr Jenny Martin of University of Melbourne do! Let's hope they are up for Dar-win.Von Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Are we alone? Will we ever travel to the stars? What is a rocket? These and many other questions will be asked but not necessarily answered by Kate McLennan, Kate McCartney (The Katering Show/Get Krack’n) and Dr Alan Duffy.Von Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Germs account for millions of death each year and frankly have had it too good for too long. But how will they react to the antimicrobial properties of our guests comedian Kirsty Webeck, science communicator Alanta Colley & the ABC's Doctor to the nation, Norman Swan?Von Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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