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Dr Karl’s a curious optimist – a great combination for a science lover. Join him and his guests for weird facts, amazing conversation and remember, it’s never too late for a happy childhood.
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Professor Richard Scolyer is the 2024 joint Australian of the Year. Dr Karl probes skin cancer therapies and immunotherapies with a researcher who has put his life on the line. drkarl.com https://twitter.com/ProfRScolyerMIA https://www.facebook.com/ProfRScolyer https://www.instagram.com/profrscolyer/?hl=en
Phones made today are super smart. Fast and versatile they can be so powerful to be spooky. Dr Matt joins Dr Karl to peel back the AI layers for a set of rules for the future.
Mining Engineer, Reality TV star, Astrophysicist, Author - What's left for Dr Matt?
1If we need to fully understand space we need more time - lots of it. Beyond the Hubble sphere things gets lumpy. drkarl.com
Dr Karl asks a fellow physicist for the telltale signs when powerful people spread untruths. They are easy to spot and nasty. DrKarl
The graph points skywards. A thousand of years of data says "stop burning carbon". Prof Mann tells Dr Karl of how the USA responded to his articles in the early 1990s. DrKarl
Dr Karl interviews Dr Bloom in NYC on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. If AI delivers misinformation, how could we tell? Dr. Karl
At the moment there are two G's in AI. Dr Karl gets the 360 tour of both with Dr Jessica Bloom in New York City. DrKarl
Edwin Hubble is world famous. What about Henrietta Swan Leavitt? She found a way to measure and classify the universe. In Dava's book "The Glass Universe" she references the half million glass slides Henrietta and other women used to document both the northern and southern skies.
Observe, Ask, Explain, Predict , Test. These are the steps scientists use to improve our knowledge. Dr. Suzie Sheehy is a particle physicist. She talks with Dr Karl about twelve significant experiments that changed the modern world. https://drkarl.com https://suziesheehy.com
Data is omnipresent and society is very connected Thirty years ago futurists said tech "convergence" would deliver us seamless digital lives So are we there yet?. Dr Karl gets a fact check from "Converge" author Associate Professor Catherine Ball. drkarl.com
Bird Brains are different. Professor Irene Pepperberg has been probing their psychology for decades. She is the author of the NY Times bestseller 'Alex and Me', the story of her 30-year experiment with a grey parrot. Alex the parrot
Auroras, fireballs and space junk. They are all visible. Prof Lisa and Dr Karl discuss how and where you might spot them. Also, how you can get your name into space. drKarl.com lisaharveysmith.com
There is a family of chemicals that has drug companies popping corks. Obesity researcher Dr Nick Fuller explains to Dr Karl how they work and why they sometimes fail. Healthy Parents Healthy Kids with Dr Nick Fuller DrKarl
Dr Karl (former father of the year) talks with Dr Nick Fuller (recent dad) about teaching children how to eat. The good habits learned early lead to healthy lives. Healthy Parents Healthy Kids by Nick Fuller DrKarl
Dr Tom Crawford explains to Dr Karl how using fluid density might improve your sporting performance. Listen out for duelling and marathon running references. TomRocksMaths drKarl.com
Playing sport on a rotating planet has advantages. Dr Tom Crawford gives Dr Karl tips on using Maths to score more goals and break records. TomRocksMaths Drkarl.com
When degenerate electrons meet 0.47 of a solar mass what happens? This is the start of Dr Kirsten Banks' PhD thesis. Dr Karl investigates the secret behaviour of Red Giants in the Milky Way and their Helium flashes. Kirsten Banks (astrokirsten.com.au) DrKarl.com
The bird family tree may need pruning. Geneticists have made new connections that take us back to the great extinction event. Professor Ho explains to Dr Karl how this is changing our views on dinosaurs and chickens. Prof Simon Ho DrKarl.com
Dr Karl learns a new German word 'dunkelflaute'. Rare in Australia yet it plays havoc in colder countries. Yet another reason why atomic reactors are a poor choice for Australia as Dr Barnes explains. Dr Barnes drkarl.com
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Lately the sound quality is atrocious, like he's recording it on a potato stuck in his back pocket.
If dinosaurs evolved into birds, explain how reptilian scales skin (which is shed all at once as a skin layer) evolved into complex feathers which grow out of follicles and which shed in pairs gradually, to maintain flight balance while feathers are replaced.
If dinosaurs evolved into birds, explain how they change step by step from cold blooded to warm blooded creatures, and from heavy solid boned creatures to ones with lightweight hollow bones, again without becoming less fit at any step along the way.
If dinosaurs evolved into birds, explain how the dinosaur's bellows type lung evolved step by tiny step into the flow-thru lung of birds without the creature becoming less fit throughout that journey. Alternatively, explain how a plane with piston engine and propeller can change bit by bit into a plane with a jet engine, without becoming less able to fly throughout that metamorphosis.
just found doctor Carl again. haven't heard him for years. looking forward to listening to him again
It's odd that after discussing the features that make life on Earth possible for us, with all the fine tuning etc, that Dr Karl and Dr Lewis can't see that it looks like someone took great care to design a safe and stable habitat for us. And when asked how life could have got started, Dr Lewis spoke about environmental conditions but never even touched upon the biochemical hurdles, such as needing numerous molecular machines in place and functioning to get self-replication, which the allows...
OMG this is insanity! Prof Lewis claims that we rarely see a smashed glass come back together and reassemble itself! (RARELY...? Has anyone in all of history EVER seen this?!) But he claims it is possible! All this nonsense (non-science!) just to avoid the implication that evolution is impossible because natural forces cannot create ordered complexity. Only an intelligent mind can do that. For much better explanations, search for articles about entropy on www.creation.com
OMG what drugs is this prof Gisela Kaplan taking?! She said "You never get anything in evolution unless it's absolutely necessary for the survival of the species." So how does painting beautiful pictures help us survive? Or composing music? Or playing the violin? Or performing a dance routine? Or ride a unicycle? Or work out abstract mathematics? Or how does a peacock's tail plumage help it survive? (The females don't choose mates based on tail plumage.) These evolutionists are mad!
His female guest made the comment that wherever on Earth we find water we find life, then makes the leap to wherever in the universe we find water we're likely to find life. Wrong! Finding life on Earth always in the presence of water shows that water is NECESSARY to SUSTAIN life, but it doesn't mean that the presence of water is SUFFICIENT to ORIGINATE life. The molecular machinery in living cells shows clear signs of very clever design, pointing to a very clever Designer.
"Mother Nature is the best chemist..." said by Karl's guest after marveling over molecular machines and such. So "nature" is ascribed anthropomorphic qualities such as knowledge, wisdom, foresight, and planning, to produce all this marvellous biochemistry. Yet they're blind to the much more sensible notion of an intelligent Creator God, a BEING with a mind, an intellect, knowledge, wisdom,and ability to plan and create the entire biosphere. (as well as the universe in which it resides.)
Dr Karl's guest made a comment that's illogical and unscientific. He said that the fact that all living things speak the same language of DNA proves that all life evolved from a single primordial cell. That's like saying that since all cars use the same set of metric threaded bolts proves they're all made at a single factory somewhere. Not logical, as there could be other explanations for this. The common DNA language can equally be explained by a common DESIGNER, also known as the CREATOR GOD.
this guy is wrong, the instant asset write off is specifically for tradies and utes, it's for any eligible asset. I know a number of people who have specifically obtained the instant write off on electric vehicles.
Please could Dr Claire take us through the basics of calcium and phosphorus metabolism?
This is the worst podcast I've listened to in a long time, lots of out dated views straight out of the 80's. Very disapointing Dr Karl, I thought u would have followed the science instead of this rot.
So entertaining to listen to. Great podcasts Dr Karl. they help to keep me sane in my post covid job. I did just Google Jessica Bloom too. Nothing more I can say!
super interesting & enjoyable
For the first time ever in my 70 year life I now understand why there is also a high tide on the side away from the moon! I have been pondering this for at least 50 years! Now I can visualise it.
In botany eu means " true" stick that in the phrase and see how that makes sense
where did all the episodes go?
I like a lot of the topics on this show but this woman's voice .....I just can't