What Does That Mean?
What Does That Mean?
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Translating brainwaves into action
Meet the inventor of an amazing implant that delivers some independence to people paralysed by conditions such as Motor Neuron Disease. Also this episode: the cancer-like growth of cyber-squatting and how to protect yourself against it; and a new lighting system in a neo-natal unit that keeps the d…
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What Does That Mean? Episode 6
News media here and abroad have reported – or fretted by way of speculation – that our children, who have spent months remote-learning, have been falling so woefully behind, it’s going to affect them for the rest of their lives. It’s a disaster. Is that true? This episode we're asking three experts…
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What Does That Mean? Episode 5
Most women under 30 think there is a vaccine for ovarian cancer, and there is not. A Melbourne chemistry researcher tells how some energy drinks contain high levels of a carcinogenic agent: it’s turning up by accident as a by-product of the manufacturing process and until now the makers were probab…
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What Does That Mean? Episode 4
In the latest episode of our health and science podcast, we learn why our sun might have a long, lost evil twin. AI technology under development that can predict violent attacks on women. An Australian company's innovative bid to transform heart valve technology. God brought to life as an algorithm…
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What Does That Mean? Episode 3
In the latest episode of our health and science podcast, we learn why seahorses need a big dance floor, how jealousy in our friendships helps keep society together, why drinking water might hold the key to lowering the suicide rate, some vitamin news, why the stockmarket thrives while the real worl…
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What Does That Mean? Episode 2
In the latest episode of our health and science podcast, we meet a scientist experimenting with a kitchen sink COVID-19 vaccine, we find out why dingoes are getting bigger, what teeth have to say about us when we die and more.
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What Does That Mean? Episode 1
Invisibility cloaks for fish, red-light therapy success for declining eyesight, the good news about corona babies, and more.
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Heroes, zeroes and who deserves a statue - The COVID Conversation
Historian Dale Blair gives some context to Captain Cook, and tells of the redemptive story of Confederate General who deserves to be well remembered.
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Where our police go wrong - The COVID Conversation
Criminologist Emma Ryan says Australian police lack oversight in their use of tasers. She says we need a new plan for what minimum force actually means.
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DIY morality - The COVID Conversation
With the decline of religion and the rise of the individual, how do home-made notions of right and wrong make for a good society?
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