Episodes
Tuesday Sep 01, 2015
Lagrange Point Episode 133 - Learning Vaccines From Bees And Milking Jellyfish
Tuesday Sep 01, 2015
Tuesday Sep 01, 2015
How do bees make their own vaccines? How do you milk a jellyfish? Why would you even bother? We push the envelope of biology and medicine by learning from animals across the world.
Tuesday Aug 25, 2015
Tuesday Aug 25, 2015
Can cows be the power source of the future? What can we do to make our 'waste' more efficient? Plus one neat trick to make a new type of magnets out of non magnetic materials.
Tuesday Aug 18, 2015
Tuesday Aug 18, 2015
Can evolution go backwards? Fish are leading the way in adaptation to changing climates, overfishing and warming. Find out about how fish stay cool in the reefs, and the size shifting fish of the great lakes.
Tuesday Aug 11, 2015
Tuesday Aug 11, 2015
How do you explain difficult scientific ideas? Is it okay to simplify or 'dumb it down'? We talk about Feynman, 'Domains of Utility' in science education. We also discuss the challenges of building massive physics experimental machines on earth and in space!
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
Tuesday Aug 04, 2015
What are the biggest challenges in astrophysics? Could we one day know all there is to know about physics or is that a philosophical misstep? How do you even get into researching these big questions? Find out all this and more in Part 2 of our Casual Science Cafe series.