Tagged: podcast

Four homegrown science media projects worth checking out - Griffin's Gadgets

Peter Griffin • Dec 03, 2015 •

• cartoon,
• new media,
• podcast,
• science media,
• video,
• webisode

The Science Communicator’s conference was held in Wellington earlier this week and saw a diverse and impressive range of presentations from New Zealand and Australian science communicators.  I gave a session on the second day of the SCANZ conference showcasing four projects that involve scientists exploring innovative ways to communicate science. All of these projects are only really getting off the … Read More

Climate Show New Year podcast special: where it’s at and where it’s going - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jan 05, 2013 •

• AR5,
• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• co2,
• Doha,
• extremes,
• IPCC,
• Obama,
• podcast,
• Sandy,
• The Climate Show

Here’s the podcast you’ve all been waiting for — The Climate Show New Year special. Glenn and Gareth review the big climate stories of 2012, discuss at the big picture post Doha, and peek into their transcontinental Skype-powered crystal ball to prognosticate on the next 12 months. The three sections were recorded shortly before Christmas [...] … Read More

Cranks in court: sciblogs podcast plug - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jul 23, 2012 •

• Barry Brill,
• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• Jim Renwick,
• NIWA,
• nz,
• NZCSET,
• podcast,
• Sciblogs

This week’s Sciblogs podcast is something of a climate special. The Science Media Centre’s Peter Griffin opens the show by talking to me about the High Court hearing of the case brought against NIWA by Barry Brill and his boys, and then discusses what we know about the state of the climate with Jim Renwick, [...] … Read More

Podcast: Science on trial - The Sciblogs Podcast

Peter Griffin • Jul 20, 2012 •

• climate change,
• podcast,
• Sciblogs

On the Sciblogs podcast this week, we head to the High Court where climate sceptics have this week been seeking a judicial review of NIWA’s climate records. We catch up with Sciblogger Gareth Renowden about the case and we talk to former NIWA climate scientist Jim Renwick about the current state of climate science and what it is telling us … Read More

Podcast: The fight for the Net - The Sciblogs Podcast

Peter Griffin • Jul 13, 2012 •

• podcast,
• Sciblogs,
• Science

I’ve been at Nethui catching up on the state of all things internet-related and came away rather disconcerted about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement currently being negotiated in secret on our behalf and which could have major implications for how intellectual property is treated under the law. Will those TPPA chickens come home to roost? Click below to listen to … Read More

Podcast: Higgs, I think we have it! - The Sciblogs Podcast

Peter Griffin • Jul 06, 2012 •

• Higgs boson,
• podcast,
• Sciblogs

EPISODE 35: This week’s podcast looks at how the news out of CERN about the discovery of a Higgs-like boson was received by the world. How did the media do in describing what the Higgs Boson actually is and did what’s the future for the Large Hadron Collider. We hear from an experimental physicist about the potential for quantum … Read More

What has science ever done for us? - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • May 02, 2012 •

• Guardian,
• philosophy,
• podcast,
• Sciblogs,
• Science Weekly,
• Sense About Science

Well, according to Richard Taverne it is at least partly responsible for making our society more democratic, more tolerant and more compassionate. Lord Taverne is founding chair of Sense About Science and former Labour minister. He gave this year’s Sense … Continue reading → … Read More

TOSP Episode 25: March 19th 2012 - The Sciblogs Podcast

Aimee Whitcroft • Mar 20, 2012 •

• aimee whitcroft,
• chiasma,
• Elf Eldridge,
• goodbye,
• just so science,
• Lemur Attack Force,
• misc.ience,
• Mongol Rally,
• nerd nite,
• nerd nite Wellington,
• podcast,
• Science,
• Science Media Centre,
• SMC,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• TOSP

This is a very special, and slightly sad, edition of TOSP. In this episode, Elf and aimee bid farewell as hosts of TOSP. However, do not fear!  We’re passing it into the capable hands of Sciblogs Editor Peter Griffin, who will take it forward proudly from here. We wanted to … Read More

TOSP Episode 24: March 12th 2012 - The Sciblogs Podcast

Aimee Whitcroft • Mar 15, 2012 •

• aimee whitcroft,
• anit-matter,
• atom,
• Centre for Brain Research,
• Donna Rose Addis,
• efficiency,
• electron scattering,
• Elf Eldridge,
• events,
• fMRI,
• guestwork,
• Higgs boson,
• just so science,
• Karyn O'Keeffe,
• led,
• lie,
• lie detection,
• linguistics,
• misc.ience,
• molecule,
• podcast,
• QWERTY effect,
• Science,
• sleep,
• sleep on it,
• solar storm,
• spectroscopy,
• tevatron,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• TOSP,
• truth,
• typing

Greetings again, fine TOSPers! Apologies for the delay – a host of computer and time-related issues have delayed us a little. But here we are! This week, Elf and aimee talk many things atom/molecule-related, and some other pretty cool stuff, too 🙂 Specifically, we look at anti-atoms and the new science of … Read More

TOSP Episode 23: March 5th 2012 - The Sciblogs Podcast

Aimee Whitcroft • Mar 06, 2012 •

• aimee whitcroft,
• Alison Campbell,
• bacteria,
• BioBlog,
• bioluminescence,
• biomaterial,
• brain,
• cellphone,
• Christchurch,
• conversation,
• Data,
• disaster,
• Elf Eldridge,
• fish,
• frequency,
• Griffin's Gadgets,
• Haiti,
• Infectious Thoughts,
• IQ,
• just so science,
• livestock,
• marine science,
• Mars,
• meetings,
• misc.ience,
• mobile photo,
• NASA,
• neurons,
• oxygen generation,
• Peter Griffin,
• podcast,
• radiowaves,
• Schmallenberg virus,
• Science,
• signal,
• Siouxsie Wiles,
• speechjammer,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• TOSP,
• twist,
• virus,
• zooplankton

Episode 23 of TOSP is _out_, yo! This week, aimee and Elf talk Mars, twisted radiowaves, a new livestock virus, the new number of neurons in a human brain (clue: it’s less than you might think), oxygen-generating biomaterial, SpeechJamming, meetings and IQ, using cellphone data following disasters, and the survival of the brightest. Read More