Mar 30, 2010
It may be an apocryphal tale, but here's an interesting story about how sailors of yore determined if a potential suitor had syphilis.
As demonstrated by Victoria Bond and myself, Victoria is feeling my right elbow whilst shaking my hand. The epitrochlear lymph nodes in the elbow get swollen with syphilis. The story...
Mar 17, 2010
This video is not particularly sciencey - but is bonus material for my lovely iPhone app subscribers.
The vid from 1995 aptly portrays why I followed science and I never went into acting. We made this video about the crime fighters Brad and VD when in Year 11. Those involved have ended up being quite creative - director...
Mar 16, 2010
Liberals, atheists, intelligence, cocaine deaths and the temperature? What do these things have in common?
The answer? Correlation of the Week of course.
This podcast concerns our two most recent Correlations of the Week:
Mar 4, 2010
Wadeye is a remote town in Australia's Northern Territory. It has a population of roughly 2500 people, 2200 of whom are Indigenous Australians, and as such is one of Australia's largest indigenous communities. The town is over 200 km southwest of Darwin, and during the wet season the only way in and out of the town is...