Episodes

  • The Moodle Story - Martin Dougiamas, Australian Tech Entrepreneur

    The Moodle Story - Martin Dougiamas, Australian Tech Entrepreneur
    Jan 9 2022
    Martin Dougiamas is the founder and lead developer of the Open Source Learning Management System Moodle which exceeds one hundred million users globally, and in every country on the planet. If you have studied or worked in an Academic institution in the past two decades, there is a good chance your online frame work ran off the Moodle Management System.

    Martin was raised in the remote corner of Western Australian outback and was educated in School of Air. Martin is a passionate advocate of education and his devoted work has enabled millions of student to have access to personalized and high quality learning environments.
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    43 mins
  • Secrets in Cryptology - Craig P. Bauer, Mathematician

    Secrets in Cryptology - Craig P. Bauer, Mathematician
    Jan 9 2022
    Craig P. Bauer is an associate professor of mathematics at York College of Pennsylvania and the editor-in-chief of Cryptologia. He was the 2011-2012 Scholar-in-Residence at the National Security Agency (NSA) Center for Cryptologic History, where he wrote several papers for NSA journals, gave numerous lectures, and made substantial progress on a second book focused on unsolved codes and ciphers. He earned a PhD in mathematics at North Carolina State University


    Craig is the author of Unsolved! The History and Mystery of the World’s Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies – solving ciphers and mysteries from mysterious bodies, messages from killers and victims and the series of ciphers used to defeat the Nazi regime in World War II.

    Craigs works can be purchased through this link.
    https://www.amazon.com/Craig-P.-Bauer/e/B00AFCU31Y%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
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    54 mins
  • The Rise of the Mammal - Robert D. Martin, Biological Anthropologist

    The Rise of the Mammal - Robert D. Martin, Biological Anthropologist
    Jan 9 2022
    Robert D. Martin - a British-born biological anthropologist who is currently an Emeritus Curator at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He is also an adjunct professor at University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and University of Illinois Chicago. His research spans the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology and human reproductive biology.

    Martin's research uses a wide range of approaches to identify reliable general principles in human evolution. In order to interpret human origins, he has conducted comprehensive comparisons across primates with studies that cover anatomy of both living and fossil representatives, ecology, behaviour, reproduction and molecular evolution.
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    52 mins
  • Mysterious Beasts of the Deep - Dr. Tracey Sutton, Oceanic Ecologist

    Mysterious Beasts of the Deep - Dr. Tracey Sutton, Oceanic Ecologist
    Dec 26 2021
    Ever wondered about those mysterious creatures of the deep?! Dr. Sutton’s research focuses on the ecology of marine systems, particularly those of the open ocean , with emphasis on the fauna and ecology of the deep-pelagic zone by combining observational, organismal and theoretical approaches to help understand Earth’s largest, but least known ecosystems.


    In Part A we discuss the mysterious catches from a Russian Deep Sea Fisherman - you can find the article below to follow along with the discussion.


    http://gizmodo.com/this-deep-sea-fisherman-posts-his-discoveries-on-twitte-1790323479
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    39 mins
  • Dinosaur Locomotion - Dr. John Hutchinson -Evolutionary Biomechanist

    Dinosaur Locomotion - Dr. John Hutchinson -Evolutionary Biomechanist
    Dec 26 2021
    Dr. John Hutchinson, Evolutionary Biomechanist


    Dinosaur locomotion utilises the fragments of paleontological finds to piece together the mysteries of movement taken by these gigantic lizards. Professor John Hutchinson is a leading expert in the biomechanics and locomotion of large terrestrial creatures.



    John regularly participates in science communication events worldwide, both in person and via the internet. His research has been featured in over 500 online/print news stories since 2002, and his team's work has appeared in 14 major TV documentaries including the BAFTA award-winning original "Inside Nature's Giants" programme, the 2015 hit "T. rex Autopsy" and the 2016 smash "Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur". He was the 2012 winner of the British Science Festival's Charles Darwin Award. John also actively communicates science via social networking such as his personal Twitter account.

    John runs a science-related personal blog, too: What's In John's Freezer? And his team has an anatomy blog/social media accounts for general audiences “Anatomy to You”: http://anatomytoyou.com/, Twitter @AnatomyToYou (started in 2016).


    A free-flowing, free to air conversation discussing the interesting work of the leading minds in the world of academia.
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    35 mins
  • Crime Scene Bugs - Dr. Paola Magni, Forensic Entomologist

    Crime Scene Bugs - Dr. Paola Magni, Forensic Entomologist
    Dec 26 2021
    Dead men tell no tales. But the bugs infesting their corpses sure do. Dr. Paola Magni is a forensic biolost specialising in the application of natural sciences, such as entomology, to crime scene investigations. Educated at the University of Turin in Italy, Dr Magni has worked in a court-of-law and has been instrumental solving keynote cases using her techniques and on television in the Italian crime drama R.I.S.

    Dr. Magni has also developed an app called Smart Insects for assisting Crime Scene Investigators globally which is available on Android and Apple.
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    32 mins
  • Searching for Alien Life - Dr. Seth Shostak, The SETI Institute

    Searching for Alien Life - Dr. Seth Shostak, The SETI Institute
    Dec 26 2021
    Space.. the final frontier - and odds are home to fellow intelligent lifeforms. Dr. Seth Shostak is the Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, an exploratory science institute that seeks evidence of life in the universe.
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    21 mins
  • Spies and Espionage - E.Prof. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

    Spies and Espionage - E.Prof. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
    Dec 26 2021
    Rhodri Jeffries-Jones is the Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Edinburgh and has made a career delving into the history of espionage and secret intelligence agencies around the world.


    He took his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and has been a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor at the Harvard and the University of Toronto.


    Rhodri is the author of more than a dozen books; American Espionage: From Secret Service to CIA, In Spies We Trust and most recently, The American Left which took out the Neustadt Prize and contained an interview with Bernie Sanders. Rhodri also has a new book on the way entitled The Story of Surveillance.


    Rhodri is noted for his cinematic style of writing to present historical events. His publications are available here from the Amazon website.


    http://www.amazon.com/Rhodri-Jeffreys-Jones/e/B000APLTA0
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    56 mins