Ockham’s Razor

It's a story familiar to many families. A loved one is in aged care, and it's only after you visit them that you discover things are going wrong.

Tens of thousands of fans watching on. The weight of a country's hopes on your shoulders. And a leather ball speeding towards you at 140 kilometres per hour.

When life gives you fire, you don't need more coal. This talk was first broadcast on 26 April, 2020.

When Kylie Soanes bounced out of her graduation ceremony with a newly-minted PhD, she thought she knew what she was in for. This talk was originally broadcast on August 6, 2017.

Every day we make hundreds of choices, big and small, that build to become the story of our lives – the friends we make, the careers we choose, our partners and our purpose.

It might be the ultimate dream for preppers and Trekkies: life in a Dyson sphere. Astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker takes us to a possible distant future via the physics of continuous economic growth. This talk was first broadcast on October 27, 2019.

It's one thing to big note yourself. But the founder of the Church of Scientology is guilty of scientific fraud, explains author and investigative journalist Steve Cannane. This program was first broadcast on September 8, 2019.

Can kids understand relativity and quantum physics? This program was first broadcast on 8 December, 2019.

What happens to communities when a company wants to put in a wind turbine farm? This program first aired on November 12, 2017.

Cross disciplinary research, undergraduate study, postgraduate study, double degrees! This program first aired on February 4, 2018.