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Dear Science

The Tuesday Wire's weekly dive into the wide world of science.

Featuring a rotating cast of smart people including Chemist Professor Allan Blackman and Physicist Dr Cushla McGoverin. 

Thanks to MOTAT, the museum inspiring the innovators of tomorrow.

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Dear Science w/ Allan Blackman: December 6, 2022

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Tue 6 Dec 2022

Today on Dear Science, Casper and Milly spoke to Allan about life on Venus, how learning instruments can boost your brain, and how AI is writing science papers that are not necessarily true. 

Dear Science w/ Joel Rindelaub: November 29, 2022

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Tue 29 Nov 2022

Today on Dear Science Milly spoke to Joel regarding strategy board game fun with AI, Homo Erectus cooking fish earlier than thought and all things floating feces.
 

Dear Science w/ Allan Blackman: November 22, 2022

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Tue 22 Nov 2022

Today on Dear Science Casper and Milly talked with Allan Blackman about an Australian legal case where genetic mutations might have a huge role to play, new scientific prefixes, some statistics for football fanatics and our new award winning status. 

Christina's last Dear Science! w/ Joel Rindelaub: November 15, 2022

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Tue 15 Nov 2022

To celebrate Christina's last Dear Science, Joel Rindelaub and Christina decided on an unofficial theme of beer and the end of the world for a rather morbid segment. This week, they discussed how beer hops could help cure Alzheimer's, the amount of emissions released by billionaires compared to us regular folk, and how scientists solved the mystery of a mass extinction event way back in the day.

Dear Science w/ Allan Blackman: November 8, 2022

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Tue 8 Nov 2022

This week on Dear Science, Allan Blackman joined Casper and Christina in studio to chat compostable plastics, how very low frequencies can make you a better (or just more aggressive) dancer, and the anniversary of the X-ray being discovered.

Dear Science Halloween Special w/ Joel Rindelaub: November 1, 2022

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Tue 1 Nov 2022

In true Halloween spirit, this week's Dear Science topics are a real monster mash-up of frightening topics. Dr Joel Rindelaub phoned in from Invercargill to discuss zombie ants, the very real possibility of being scared to death, and something truly terrifying: whether we're living in a simulation. Spooky yet educational - whakorongo mai nei!

Dear Science w/ Allan Blackman: October 25, 2022

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Tue 25 Oct 2022

This week on Dear Science Allan Blackman spoke to Casper and Christina about immunity genes for the black death increasing rates of crohn's disease, the smells that make some people mosquito magnets, and the sucess of Nasa's asteroid diversion experiment.

Dear Science w/ Joel Rindelaub: October 18, 2022

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Tue 18 Oct 2022

This week on Dear Science, Joel chatted with Casper and Christina about the mental health benefits of birdsong, scientists teaching a brain they made to play pong, and the mysterious mass death of frogs 45 million years ago, because you know we can't resist orgy talk.

Dear Science w/ Allan Blackman: October 11, 2022

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Tue 11 Oct 2022

This week on Dear Science Allan talked to Casper and Christina about an N.Y.U organic chemistry professor being fired for student performance and the winners of the chemistry and physics Nobel prizes.

Dear Science - Nobel Prize Special w/ Joel Rindelaub: October 4, 2022

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Tue 4 Oct 2022

With the Nobel Prizes being handed out this week, Dr Joel Rindelaub dropped into the studio for Dear Science to discuss historic Nobel Prize snubs through the years with a common theme - they were all women. Joel and Christina had a kōrero about Rosalind Franklin, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Chien-Shiung Wu, Lise Meitner and Donna DeEtte Elbert, the work they did in their fields, and the men who took credit for it.