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eureka! January/February 2000
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Guests
15 Jan #1
Technology: Plastics that conduct electricity
Technology: Plastics that conduct electricity
Physiology: Vestibular testing
Cynthia Darlington, U. Otago
23 Jan #2
Environment: state of the world’s environment report
Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State and NSF
Ecology: Stream microbial flora
Sue Turner, U. Auckland
“Hands on Science” Summer School
John Tagg, U. Otago
30 Jan #3
Behaviour: wild horses and maternal instinct
Kevin Stafford, Elissa Cameron, Wayne Linklater, Massey U.
Archeology: Easter Island
John Flenley, Massey U.
6 Feb #4
Atmosphere: a new theory on Ball Lightning
John Abrahamson, Canterbury
Antarctica: Cape Roberts Ocean Drilling Project
Peter Barrett, Victoria U.
13 Feb #5
Science in South Africa
Khotso Mokhele, South African NSRF
South African Large Telescope
Peter Cottrell, U. Canterbury
Astronomy: the three ways that stars can die
Brian Warner, U. Cape Town
6 Feb #6
Earth Science: an absolute gravity meter
Roger Bilhan, Tim Niebauer, U. Colorado
Agriculture: Nitrogen in ryegrass on Canterbury Plains
Jacqueline Rowarth, Lincoln
Botany: New Zealand’s dinosaur forests
Mark Large, Massey U.
27 Feb #7
Biotechnology: Future or Frankenfish? - questions about the transgenic fishery:
Paul Steere, Seamus Walker, NZ King Salmon Co.; Elliot Entis, A/F Protein; Anne Kapuscinksi, U. Minnesota; Fred Whoriskey, Atlantic Salmon Federation; Martin Unwin, NIWA; Bill Muir, Purdue U.; Bob Devlin, DFO Canada
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Guests
5 March #8
Medicine: Stroke vaccine
Matt During, U. Auckland
Interview with a Nobel Laureate: laser cooling and religion
Bill Phillips (Physics, 1997)
12 Mar #9
Climate change, part 1: our greenhouse world
IPCC Scientists:Burt Bolin, Sweden; Sir John Houghton, UK; Chris Folland, UK; Michael Oppenheimer, US; David Karoly, Australia; Tim Carter, Finland; Michael Prather, US; John Mitchell, UK
19 Mar #10
Climate change, part 2: the future
Sir John Houghton, UK; Chris Folland, UK; Michael Oppenheimer, US; Tim Carter, Finland; Barbara Managhetti, New Zealand; Tom Stocker, Switzerl; and Kevin Trenberth, UK
26 Mar #11
Tsunamis
James Goff (DoC) and Catherine Chagué-Goff, NIWA, GeoEnvironmental Consultants
Sleep
Phillipa Gander, Sandy Gardner, Wellington School of Medicine (contributed by Veronika Meduna)
2 April #12
Antarctica: polar explorer Scott - bad judgement or bad weather?
Susan Solomon, US NOAA
Physics: Ring lasers
Geoff Stedman, Canterbury U.
9 April #13
Environment: Possum Biocontrol
Phil Cowan, Jeanine Duckworth, Marilea Harris, Landcare Research; Doug Eckery, AgResearch; Graham Hickling, Lincoln U.; Joanne Meers, Darrell Thomson, Massey U.
16 Apr #14
Language: The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker, MIT (Boston)
Did syntax begin with syllables?
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Canterbury U.
23 Apr #15
Medicine: new guide to heart failure treatment
Mark Richards, Canterbury U.
Proteomics: protein folding
Ted Baker, U. Auckland
Paleontology: Fossil whales
Ewan Fordyce, U. Otago Geology Museum
30 Apr #16
Space: NASA and Cassinni space probe
Bob Mitchell, JPL (Pasadena)
Agriculture: Testing an organic farm
Steve Wratten, Lincoln U.
Food: 14th Fungal Foray
Peter Buchanan, Landcare; Geoff Ridley, FRI; Lawre Taylor
May/June 2000
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Guests
7 May #17
Physics: neutrinos at the South Pole
Jenni Adams, RICE project, U. Canterbury
Ecology: Larval fish use sound to find reef
Nick Tolimieri, Leigh Marine Lab, U. Auckland
Statistics: “R” - open source programme
Paul Murrell, U. Auckland
Golden Kiwi: Sir Charles Fleming
14 May #18
Technology: the Love Letter Virus
Jonathan James, teenage Swedish hacker
Physiology: a new way for cells to use oxygen?
Mike Berridge, Malaghan Inst.
Cloning: The Second Creation, (book)
Colin Tudge, author
21 May #19
Biotechnology debate:
Gene technology, againTom Brown (Anglican Bishop); Garth Cooper, U. Auckland; Hugh Campbell, U. Otago; Dan Cohen, HortResearch; Morgan Williams, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment; Bas Walker, CEO, ERMA; Lay persons: Kerry Marshall, Colin Nicol, Alison Kerr
28 May #20
Antioxidants – what do we know?
Karen Silvers, Carolyn Lister, Crop & FoodChristine Winterbourn, ChCh School of MedBoyd Swinburn, NZ Heart FndnNorman Krinsky, Tufts U. and NIH (US)Kelvin Duncan, Stephen Gieseg, Canterbury U. and Enzogenol promoters
4 June #21
Intellectual property: Ownership of genes
Doug Calhoun, AJ Park; Andy Shenk, Genesis Research and Development; John Barlow, Stanford U.; Peter Wills, U. Auckland; Donald Evans, U. Otago; Bevan Tipene-Matua, U. Canterbury and ERMA
11 Jun #22
Earth Sciences: Finding magma beneath the Taupo Volcanic Zone
Hugh Bibby, Stephen Bannister, GNS
Chemistry: NZ is Different (book)
Bryce Williamson, editor (U. Canterbury)
17 Jun #23
Sick Buildings
Robin Phipps, Marie Fleming, Massey U.; Malcolm Cunningham, BRANZ 24 Jun #24
Cloning: current status and future challenges
David Wells, Bjorn Oback, AgResearch
Medicine: leeches then and now
Tristan de Chalain, Middlemore Hosp
Preview: International Science Festival, Dunedin
Caroline Cook – festival director
July/August 2000
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Guests
2 July #25
Shark cartilage: potential anticancer treatment, conservation concerns
Paul Davis, WGN Med school
Malcolm Francis, NIWAPohutakawa whakapapa: causes of its unusual dispersion around the Pacific
Shane Wright, U Auck
9 July #26
Non-genetic forensics
ARGO buoys map oceans
Climate change: biota and human health
16 July #27
3rd International Science Festival, Dunedin, theme: global climate change
David Bellamy - UK botanist,
Douglas Zook - Boston U Microbiologist,
Terry Collins Chemistry prof Pittsburg - Carnegie Melon U,
Dick Hubbard - Business for Social responsibility,
Dave Herard former Chef de mission for NZ Olympic team,
John Campbell - Waikato U social scientist,
Caroline Cook - festival director,
extract from Oz drama group Double Hlix's play "The Trial of Onco
Mouse"23 July #28
Archeology and anthropology: “The kumara show”
-revision of ideas about pre-European Maori diet
-energy use and returns in cultivation of taputine, an ancient kumara varietal
-kumara and the origin of fortified settlements
Janet Davidson, Foss Leach, Te Papa
Graham Harris, Open Polytechnic
Ian Barber, U. Otago30 July #29
Superconductors: new developments
Jeff Tallon, IRL
Kiwifruit and science in China
Huang Hongwen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Seahorse aquaculture
Chris Woods, NIWA
6 Aug #30
Obesity, heart disease and the brain drain
Boyd Swinburn, departing head of NZ Heart Fndn The Invisible World, or Microbe of the Month (1): Staphlycoccus aureus
Gillian Lewis, U. Auck
Royal Commission on Genetic Modification: begins
Sir Thomas Eichelbaum
14 Aug #31
Meningococcal disease in New Zealand
Diana Lennon, U Auckland; Michael Baker, Diana Marten, ESR; Chris Bullen, A+ Health; Lynne Lane, MoH; Olivia James and Kalassa I’unu, Otara Health
20 Aug #32
Hector’s endangered dolphin: science and conservation
Steve Dawson, Liz Slooten, U. OtagoFranz Pichler, Kirsty Russell, U. AucklandMichael Donoghue, DoCMichael Harte, SeaFIC
27 Aug #33
Technology: Manufacture of a toxic molecule
Max Kennedy and others, IRL
Organic chemistry
Tony Woolhouse, IRL
Golden Kiwi: Ernest Rutherford
September/October 2000
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Guests
3 Sept #34
Sports science: Olympic Games show
Duncan Reid, AUT;Patria Hume, Jim Hay, Pete Pfitzinger, UoA;Paul Smith, sports psychologist;Richard Karn, Rikan Aeromarine;Brian Hawthorne (coach) and men’s coxless 4 rowing team
10 Sep #35
Behaviour: Choice and free will
Michael Davison, UoATony Zentall, U Kentucky
Algal bloom (contributed by Veronika Meduna)
Cawthron researchers
17 Sep #36
Advances in cosmology
Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley
The Invisible World, or Microbe of the Month (2): Myxococcus xanthus
Gillian Lewis, U. Auck
24 Sep #37
HIV: viral evolution and evolutionary biology
Allen Rodrigo, U Auck
Chernobyl: long term health effects?
Andrew MacEwan, Australasian Radiation Protection Soc
1 Oct #38
Robotics research and the use of robots in stroke rehabilitation
Lynette Jones, Neville Hogan and others, MIT and Spaulding Rehab Hospital (Boston)
Proposed US national missile defense system
Ted Postol, MIT
8 Oct #39
Physics: discovery of the Higgs particle?
Alison Wright, CERN; Norman Gee, Rutherford-Appleton Labs (UK)
Beagle-2: UK mission to mars
Colin Pillinger, Open University (UK)
Psychology: Music and consumer behaviour
Adrian North, Leicester U. (UK); David Hargreaves,
Stone-age musical instruments?
Ian Cross, Cambridge U. (UK)
The Invisible World, or Microbe of the Month (3): H. pylori
Gillian Lewis, U. Auck
15 Oct #40
Oceans: iron fertilisation in the Southern Ocean
Rob Murdoch, Edward Abraham, NIWA
Interview with Freeman Dyson
Are smarter trout learning to evade capture?
Roger Young, Cawthron Inst.
22 Oct #41
The case against evolutionary psychology
Hillary and Steven Rose
Ecology: Wasp control
Jacqueline Beggs, Roger Young, Landcare Research
29 Oct #42
Evolution: The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Environment: clean-up using bacteria
Anne Glover, U. Aberdeen; Gill Turnbull, Horticulture Research International; Phillip Wright, Heriot-Watt U
November/December 2000
Date
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Guests
5 Nov #43
Proceed with precaution:
the rise of the precautionary principle and what it might meanFormer Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer; Duncan Currie, Greenpeace lawyer; Peter Saunders, King’s College, London; Julian Morris, Institute for Economic Advancement, London; Pattrick Smellie, journalist; Ian Warrington, HortResearch CEO; Bas Walker, Environmental Risk Management Authority CEO; Jan Wright, independent risk analyst
12 Nov #44
Carbon nanotubes
Alan Kaiser, John Spencer, Kirsten Edgar, Victoria U.
The Invisible World, or Microbe of the Month (4): Penicillium
Gillian Lewis, U. Auck
Physics: plasma physics, the sun and nuclear fusion
Les Woods, Oxford U.
19 Nov #45
Medicine: Diagnosis by smell
Murray McEwan, U CanterburyRandall Allardyce, Geoff Shaw, ChCh Med School
Origins: a new geochemical hypothesis on the origin of life
Mike Russell, Scottish Universities and Reactor Centre
Auckland science festival launched
Caroline Cook, festival director
26 Nov #46
Environment: Defining sustanability
Mike Hulme, U. East AngliaKatrina Brown – “Andrew Warren, UC LondonSimon Marvin – U. Salford
Biotechnology debate: Horizontal gene transfer
Jack Heinemann, U. Canterbury
3 Dec#47
Ecology:
-the effect of burning tussock grassland
-the Ins and Outs of birdpoo (and seed germination)
-rat control
Ian Payton, Landcare Research
Amy Trass, Massey U.
Lindsay Wilson, DoC OpotokiThe hippy ecologist: food webs and a theoretical basis for ecology
Neo Martinez, San Francisco State U
10 Dec #48
Ecology:
Bleeding birds: the effect of sampling on hihiIsabel Castro, Massey U.; Dianne Burnett, Auckland U.; David Lambert, Massey U.
Native fauna: a call for public involvement
Neil Mitchell, U. Auckland; Ian Jamieson, U. Otago
The Invisible World, or Microbe of the Month (5): Baculovirus
Gillian Lewis, U. Auck
17 Dec #49
Year-end wrap up
© Copyright Allan Coukell 2002
