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eureka! January/February 2001
Date
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Guests
21 Jan #1
Ecology: Mistletoe and mutualism
Dave Kelly, U. Canterbury; Alistair Robertson, Massey U.
Biotech medicine
Gillian Woollett, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (US)
28 Jan #2
Biotechnology: the Human Genome
Craig Venter, Celera Genomics
4 Feb #3
Controversy: Depleted uranium and health
Andrew McEwan, National Radiation Laboratory
Philosophy of Science (1): Richard Feynman and the scientific method
Andy Pratt, U Canterbury
11 Feb #4
Antarctica I: Into the Ice
Weddell seal mating and communication,
Springtails
Life in Antarctic soil
…and poems by Bill ManhireJoe Waas, Waikato U; Mark Hindell, U. Tasmania
Brent Sinclair, U Otago
Jackie Aislabie, Landcare Res
Jim Smith, U. Montana; John Lisle, NASA18 Feb #5
Antarctica II: The Base
Ozone monitoring
Human impact and effluent
Studies of fish
…and poems by Bill Manhire
Herme Binney, Stephen Wood, NIWA
Emma Wood, Antarctica New Zealand
Michael Taler, AUT25 Feb #6
Antarctica III: Deep Field
Geology and drilling
Antarctic ice and patterned ground
Sea ice
The plants of Botany Bay
…and poems by Bill Manhire
Alex Pyne, Warren Dickinson, Victoria U
Pat Langhorne, Inga Smith, U Otago
Allan Green, Waikato U.
Date
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Guests
4 March #7
DNA, moa and the breakup of Gondwana
Alan Cooper, Oxford U.
Philosophy of Science (2): Karl Popper and John Eccles
Andy Pratt
11 Mar #8
Society: The Global Burden of Disease and the effectiveness of healthcare systems
Alan Lopez and Chris Murray, WHO (Geneva)
Soil science and society
Roger Swift, U. Queensland
18 Mar #9
Astronomy: dusty visitors from outside our solar system
Jack Baggaley, U Canterbury
The Future of Nuclear Power
Sir Eric Ash, Royal Society (UK); Mike Hassard; , Mary Archer - Imperial College of Science and Technology (UK)
25 Mar #10
Earth Science: A day in the life of Pukaki Crater
Jamie Schulmeister, Warren Dickinson, John Carter, Victoria U; Phil Shane, U Auckland; Paul Hessey, Macquarie U (Australia)
1 Apr #11
Voodoo Science (book)
Bob Park, author
Philosophy of Science (3): Genius or Crank, how to distinguish?
Andy Pratt
8 Apr #12
Archeology: Angkor civilisation
Charles Higham, U Otago
Astronomy: Gamma ray bursts
Nicholas Rattenbury, U. of Auckland
Earth Science: Dick Walcott, NZ geologist
Tony Watts, Oxford U.
15 Apr#13
Weta… …ecology, evolution, climate change... and preserving tissues for organ transplants
John Leader, Ian Jamieson, Brent Sinclair, U.Otago
22 Apr #14
Cities on Volcanoes
Ian Smith, U Auckland; Stephen Smith, U Bristol; Jan Lindsay, U West Indies, Trinidad; Bruce Houghton, U Hawaii; Michelle Daly, Auckland Regional Council
Technology: New wind tunnel
Richard Flay, U Auckland
29 Apr #15
Human origins: Mungo man
Alan Thorne, ANU
Between brain and mind
Igor Aleksander
May/June 2001
Date
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Guests
6 May #16
Climate change
Bob Watson, IPCC
Philosophy of Science (4): on new theories
Andy Pratt
13 May #17
Bletchley Park code breaking
Peter Hilton, SUNY Binghamton (New York)
Agriculture: Is an organic apple a better apple?
John Regnold, Washington State U.
20 May #18
Technology: History of computing
Jack Copeland, U Canterbury
Sleepiness and car crashes
Jennie Connor, U Auckland
27 May #19
Climate change: Forest canopy research
Matthew Turnbull, CanterburyDavid Whitehead, Jackie Townsend, Frank Kelleher, Landcare ResearchKevin Griffin, Columbia U.David Tissue, Texas Tech U.
3 Jun #20
Blooming research on roses
Michelle Williams, HortResearch
Philosophy of Science (5): peer review
Andy Pratt
10 Jun #21
Factors shaping NZ vegetation
Matt McGlone, Landcare Res.
Environment: Oil dispersant research
Leigh Stevens, Cawthron
The Neptune controversy
Dennis Rawlins, publisher of Dio
17 Jun #22
Health: Chitosan and obesity prevention
Cliona Ni Mhurchu, U Auckland; Annthea McGill, obesity physician
Environment: Conservation and the freemarket
Ian Swingland
Inside wool research
Warren Bryson, WRONZ
24 Jun #23
Technology: Seaweed farming in New Zealand
Ruth Falshaw, IRL; Lesley Rhodes, Henry Kaspar, Dough Mountfort, Wendy Gibbs, Cawthron Inst.
Atmosphere: Red sprites
Craig Rodger, Low Frequency Electromagnetic Research
July/August 2001
Date
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Guests
1 July #24
Penguins: -climate change and counting penguins
Peter Wilson, Kerry Barton, Landcare Research
-speaking penguinese
Emma Marks, U Auckland
Philosophy of Science (6): science publishing Andy Pratt 8 July #25
Art: Tissot’s painting restored with electron microscopy
Bryony James, U. Auckland; Sarah Hillary, Auckland Art Gallery
Art fraud and Raman microscopy
Robin Clark, U. College London
15 July #26
Interview with a Nobel Laureate
Alan MacDiarmid (Chemistry, 2000)
Climate change: Inside Biosphere-2 - not crazy after all these years
Kevin Griffin, Columbia U.
22 July #27
“All About Insects”
(produced by Anne Blair Gould for Radio Netherlands International)
29 July #28
Genomics: Agriculture and the origins of malaria
Dyann Wirth, Harvard School of Public Health
Technology: Hi tech water quality monitoring water for New Zealand shellfish industry
Ken Grange, NIWA
Philosophy of science (7): do scientific theories represent reality?
Andy Pratt
5 Aug #29
Biotechnology:
Report of the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
Donald Evans, U.Otago; Bevan Tipene Matua, U Canterbury; Dan Cohen, HortResearch; Annette Cotter, Greenpeace; William Rolleston, Life Sciences Network
12 Aug #30
Mathematics: Optimisation, or “the travelling salesman, the cheese factory and the electricity market”
Andrew Philpott, U. Auckland
Society: science in the media
Robert, Lord Winston, presenter of The Human Body
19 Aug #31
Biotechnology and agriculture: the Inverdale gene and the future of sheep farming
Allan Crawford, Sue Galloway, AgResearch
Technology: Innovation in the corporate sector
John Seely Brown, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation
26 Aug #32
Physics: Quasars and the fine structure constant – are the laws of the Universe changing with time?
John K Webb, U New South Wales
“E = mc^2: a biography of the world’s most famous equation” (book)
David Bodanis, author
September/October 2001
Date
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Guests
2 Sept #33
Human history:Guns, Germs and Steel (book)
Jared Diamond, author
9 Sept #34
Biotechnology:The Royal Commission on Genetic Modificaiton
Jean Fleming, Commissioner
Philosophy of science (8): Semiotics of the Gene
Andy Pratt
16 Sept #35
Physiology: Highlights from the International Union of Physiological Sciences conference
-Is diabetes caused by prions?
Garth Cooper, U. of Auckland; Amira Klip, Sick Kids Hosp, Toronto
-Molecular motors
Ron Vale, UCSF; Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Teikyo U., Japan
-brain and vision
Michael Stryker, UCSF
-How the elephant got its lungs
John West, UCSD
23 Sept #36
The Great Divarication Debate: was an unusual feature of NZ plants caused by hungry moas?
Matthew Turnbull, Colin Burrows, U Canterbury; Matt McGlone, Dave Kelly, Bill Lee - Landcare Research; Ian Atkinson, Ecological Reseach Associates; William Bond, U Cape Town, SA
30 Sep t#37
The Brain: advances in understanding
-How we recognise bodies
Nancy Kanwisher, MIT
-Hardwired for mom’s voice
Evan Balaban, CUNY (NY)
-How the the brain handles repetition
Jan McAllister, U Auckland
-Mental rotation
Michael Corballis, Zoe Thayer, U Auckland
7 Oct #38
Earth Science:A new way to detect stress under Mt Ruapehu
Martha Savage and Vicki Millier, Victoria U.
Philosophy of science (9):
Alfred Wegener and the success of theoriesAndy Pratt
14 Oct #39
Computers and biology: Modelling the human body
Peter Hunter, U. Auckland; Jim Bassingthwaite, U Washington; Denis Noble, U Oxford & Physiome Sciences
Biodiversity: Explaining Costa Rica’s dry forest
Jon Sullivan, Landcare Res.
21 Oct#40
Mathematics: How language shapes math
Bill Barton, U Auckland
Cancer: the future of treatment
Murray Brennan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Hosp, NY
28 Oct #41
Earth Science: The Alpine fault
Genetics: alcohol metabolism
Fisheries: accuracy of fish stock assessmentsTim Stern, Martha Savage, Victoria U
Geoff Chambers, Victoria U
Allan Hart, NIWA
(contributed by Veronika Meduna)
November/December 2001
Date
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Guests
4 Nov #42
Cosmology: The Accelerating Universe
Brian Schmidt, Australian National U.
Philosophy of science (10): Organic chemistry and the New Experimentalism
Andy Pratt
11 Nov #43
Ecology: why some introduced species succeed
Richard Duncan, Lincoln U.
Society: evidence-based social policy
Richard Lilford, U Birmingham
18 Nov #44
Biotechnology: an update on salt-resistant plants
Eduardo Blumwald, UCSD
Technology: software company of the year
Orion Software
Astronomy: Black Holes
Roger Feasey, Auckland Astronomical Society
Measurement: the Legal Metrology Forum
John Birch, Asia Pacific Legal Metrology Forum; Jean-Francois Magana, Intl. Bureau of Legal Metrology; John Barker, Ministry of Consumer Affairs (NZ)
25 Nov #45
Environment: the long term effects of Bt insecticide
Jared Gribben, U. Auckland and Biodiscovery NZ
KT Boundary When the dinosaurs disappeared in New Zealand
Chris Hollis, Inst. Geological and Nuclear Sciences
Osteoporosis: bone research
Jill Cornish, U Auckland
2 Dec #46
Evolution: Lynn Margulis, symbiosis and Gaia
Lynn Margulis, U Massachusetts, Amherst
Philosophy of science (11): On Lynn Margulis
Andy Pratt
9 Dec #47
A cure for diabetes?Amylin, research funding and science
Garth Cooper, U. of Auckland
16 Dec #48
Barker Hypothesis:the science and controversy around the foetal orgins of adult disease
David Leon, London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine; John Newnham, U Western Australia; Rachel Huxley, U Oxford; Robert Scragg, U. Auckland; Peter Gluckman, Jane Harding, Laura Bennett, Liggins Inst; Sheila Williams, U Otago
23 Dec #49
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