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   S2 · E9 · 2 Jan 2025 · 51 min

   S2 E9: Archaeology with Phoebe Barnes

   To kick off 2025, we bring you a fascinating episode on archaeology and pop culture, featuring special guest and budding archaeologist Phoebe Barnes!🏺⛏️🦴 Do you love Tomb Raider? 🪦🧩 Indiana Jones? 🤠🛕 Jurassic Park? 🦖🦕 Then this episode is for you. We touch on archaeogaming 👾, representations of archaeologists on screen vs archaeologists irl 🗿📜, and the mix and bleed of scientific thinking and the humanities. We hope you enjoy it!

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   S2 · E8 · 2 Dec 2024 · 59 min

   S2 E8: SciComm for Kids with Dr Chloe Lim

   What do ballon art and storytelling have in common? They are both great avenues for Science Communication AND are skills of this episode's guest: Dr Chloe Lim. Join us as we enter the amazing world that is SciComm for Kids! We're talking DIY science kits, STEM themed books, and even baking. This feel good episode also touches on being a business babe and a shining light for CALD voices in STEM. So press play and enjoy :)

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   S2 · E4 · 2 Nov 2024 · 1 hr 13 min

   S2 E7: Teaching Maths with Will Roberts

   Does thinking of maths make you spiral? Don't worry! This episode we are joined by teacher-in-training and maths enthusiast Will Roberts to talk to us about maths anxiety across reality and fiction! Struggling to think of maths teachers in your favourite high school tv show? Scarred by maths classrooms? The two may be more related than you think! Join us as we look for the beauty in mathematics, and have hope in the future of maths classrooms with empathetic and passionate teachers like Will. All this & more, just press play >> Add to the conversation! Let us know your thoughts on our…

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   S2 · E6 · 2 Oct 2024 · 57 min

   S2 E6: Protoscience with Lilia Walsh

   Why do science labs look like *that* ? What is alchemy? What came before the science we know today? And what does spiderman have to do with all of this? Our guest Lilia deep dives with us into the history of science talking about alchemy, astrology, greek myths, spiderman, star trek and so much more. If you've ever wanted to know why evil/mad/genius science labs look like *that* in fiction - you've come to the right place! Add to the conversation! Let us know your thoughts on our socials @sci_burst or via our gmail [email protected] ✨ Stay nerdy and we'll see you in the next episode.

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   S2 · E5 · 2 Sep 2024 · 1 hr 11 min

   S2 E5: Movie Music with Professor Kenneth Lampl

   In this cinematic episode of Sci_Burst our special guest Professor Kenneth Lampl from the ANU School of Music joins to talk about the history of music in movies. From John William's handwritten music to Hans Zimmer's film score digital revolution, learn with us how technology, cinema, people, and sound, continue to influence each other throughout time. Curious to know how King Kong and Star Wars changed how we listen to movies forever? You need only to press play! Add to the conversation! Let us know your thoughts on our socials @sci_burst or via our gmail [email protected] ✨ Stay…

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   S2 · E3 · 2 Jul 2024 · 58 min

   S2 E3: Fables with Professor Chris Danta

   Did someone say episode 3?! Join us and our special guest Professor Chris Danta from the ANU School of Cybernetics for a deep dive on fables and science, literary anthropology, animals and machines in literature, and even fridge music! 🐷🦊📚🤖 Add to the conversation! Let us know your thoughts on our socials @sci_burst or via our gmail [email protected] ✨ Stay nerdy and we'll see you in the next episode.

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   S2 · E2 · 2 Jun 2024 · 1 hr 1 min

   S2 E2: AI PANIC with Adrian Schmidt

   Don't PANIC ! 😎✨It's Sci_Burst time Join us and our very special guest Adrian Schmidt in this episode as we explore Artificial Intelligence (AI). Together we dive into AI's recent surge in popularity, its appearances in popular culture, and its use in art installations across the globe. Add to the conversation! Let us know your thoughts on our socials @sci_burst or via our gmail [email protected] ✨ Stay nerdy and we’ll see you in the next episode of Season 2!

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   S2 · E1 · 2 May 2024 · 50 min

   S2 E1: Science Goes Pop with Dr Anna-Sophie Jurgens

   Welcome to Sci_Burst Season 2! We're kicking off this season by talking all things popular culture, science, and how the two combine in weird, wacky and wonderful ways! Our very first guest Dr Anna-Sophie Jurgens from the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science joins us to talk about circus, clowns, and even science tattoos... We hope you come away from this episode with curiosity for the unexpected places that science appears inside and outside academia. Add to the conversation! Let us know your thoughts on our socials @sci_burst or via our gmail…

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   S1 · E16 · 30 Nov 2023 · 58 min

   16. Solarpunk - Radical Sustainability

   For our final episode of Season 1, we’re ending on an uplifting note with a sustainable and optimistic vision of the future 💖 This one’s a little intro to the emerging sci-fi subgenre, aesthetic, and movement that is ☀️ Solarpunk ☀️ Join us in exploring solarpunk worlds in pop culture, where we might see them in the near future, and what a harmonious relationship between nature, community, and technology can look like. As always, let us know your thoughts on our socials @sci_burst or via our gmail [email protected] ✨ And while we are taking a break from releasing episodes for a…

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    S1 · E15 · 30 Oct 2023 · 1 hr 1 min

    15. What Makes a Hero? - Science in Comic Characters

    Our penultimate episode of season 1 is now here! Listen to learn all about the (science and technology) formulas that make superheroes and supervillains in popular comic universes 🦸‍♀️🦹‍♀️ This episode is being released as part of the National Film and Sound Archives’ science and film night on the 1997 adaptation “Batman & Robin” — an event featuring yours truly!