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Einstein a Go Go
Weird and wonderful science! Discussion and dissection of science ideas made digestible for public consumption.
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Weird and wonderful science!'Einstein a Go Go' can be heard every Sunday @ 11.00am on radio station Triple R FM 102.7 MHz (Melbourne, Australia).
Triple R FM streams live over the internet. Our shows can also be heard via podcast.
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April 14, 2007 at 5:47 pm |
starting using your podcast…..great stuff….wish you can go back into archive to load up some of the shows from early last year……
family of 3 listeners (Dad and 2 teenage kids)
June 22, 2007 at 3:04 pm |
I love these podcasts, as I don’t get the chance to listen to these live anymore due to a time clash. This makes my daily commute to work worth-while! I wish more of the RRR shows were available.
March 15, 2008 at 2:06 am |
Great! I live in Colorado, USA and just stumbled upon this site and the podcast. What I’ve heard has been brilliant!
March 27, 2008 at 7:51 pm |
Hi…this site is so very good and the topics covered and the vibe is so like what is needed in this strange world that we find ourselves in.
eagg deity
July 6, 2008 at 12:28 pm |
You mentioned the importance of using renewable energy to re-heat your
chicken nuggets, but didn’t mention the importance of reducing meat
consumption in the first place. Although chickens don’t produce the
methane emissions that cows do, the factory farms where most
chicken is produced require huge amounts of energy to power.
You also mentioned the impact of land clearing, as well as the impacts
of bio-fuels on corn and soy prices. The UN predicts that global meat
consumption will double by 2050. Farm animals occupy 70% of the
world’s agricultural land and consume one third of the world’s grain.
So when we talk about deforestation in the Amazon as a result of soy
production, we’re really talking about deforestation as a result of
booming demand for animals products such as chicken nuggets.
Closer to home, it could be said the Murray Darling Basin has
effectively been turned into milk, given that the dairy industry is
the biggest water consumer in agriculture.
So the cow is, if you like, the elephant in the room. It’s a crowded
room too, because the other elphant is human over-population.
Celebrity scientists like Tim Flannery and Tanya Ha recommend green
power subscriptions and tomato paste from a jar rather than disposable
sachets. Flannery and Ha have two kids each.
Now, I occasionally use disposable tomato paste sachets, but I have
neither children nor plans to have them. Although I lack the
scientific expertise of Flannery and Ha, I think it’s safe to say that
bringing more consumers into the world is vastly more damaging than
consumption itself.