Ockham’s Razor
ABC listen
This program is no longer in production. Ockham’s Razor is a soap box for all things scientific, with short talks about research, industry and policy from people with something thoughtful to say about science.
Episodes
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Apr 17, 2021 • 9min
Soil your undies!
What do your undies have to do with the health of Australian soils?
Apr 10, 2021 • 9min
Breaking open big data
What did you do when you woke up this morning? Social media on the mobile, checking the weather on your speaker or your heartrate and sleep patterns on your smart watch?
Apr 3, 2021 • 11min
A fossil mystery
If the numbers of TV shows on the topic are anything to go by, everyone loves a cold case – trying to crack a mysterious death from the past.
Mar 27, 2021 • 12min
The mental health seesaw
What makes someone who cruises through life relatively happily different to someone who struggles with mental health issues?
Mar 20, 2021 • 11min
Garden hose, acrobatic ants and a piece of string
What if our entire universe, including you and I, could be boiled down to one object: a vibrating string?
Mar 13, 2021 • 11min
The handsome beast — and other enigmatica
520 million years ago, the oceans teemed with some of the most bizarre animals ever to have lived.
Mar 6, 2021 • 12min
Salami smuggling in Papua New Guinea
What do boiled bandicoot, smuggled salami and an invisibility cloak have in common?
Feb 27, 2021 • 11min
Disappearing sea snakes
They breathe air but live underwater, and like their land-dwelling counterparts their bites are venomous.
Feb 20, 2021 • 11min
Finding kindness on the backroads of Bangladesh
Nathan Brooks-English usually studies the geological processes that make mountains but on one particular field trip, the thing he learned most about was human connection.
Feb 13, 2021 • 12min
Tiny but mighty
Microbes are critically important to the health of a coral reef.
