The Mr Science Show

Terence Tao is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, UCLA and one of Australia's most acclaimed mathematicians. Indeed, he is arguably the world's greatest living mathematician...

October 15 is Blog Action Day 2009 and this year's topic is Climate Change. The idea is to raise awareness of the topic, so I thought I'd get in on the act - it is still October 15 in some parts of the world... Climate Change is arguably our most pressing human concern...

Somehow we are already near the end of 2009, and therefore it's time to start reflecting on the year that was. Each year we run a competition in which you, dear readers and listeners, can write in and let us know what science events turned you on throughout the year...

The 2009 Podcast Awards are now open for nominations. If you would like to nominate The Mr Science Show in the science and technology section, then that would be lovely! Check out the rules - essentially, don't be dodgy or game the system. And make sure you vote in the other sections too...

The Peoples Choice Podcast Awards

The dust is finally starting to clear from Sydney, leaving a ruddy orange layer of muck all over the city. This podcast goes with our previous article Red Sydney, and as well as being a description of the science involved, is a video slide show of photos of the dust-storm...

Waking this morning was a very eerie experience. Blood-red light peaked through the sides of my blinds, and given I was half asleep at the time, I thought the four horsemen of the apocalypse had come to Earth. When I shook the haziness from my head and peaked outside, the view was astonishing...

This week saw the publication of a story that "more than half of all Britons have been injured by biscuits." The story received plenty of coverage in the British national press, and if true, is surely one of the UK’s most pressing Occupational Health and Safety concerns. ...

Following on the heels of our Science of Cocktails podcast, we have an episode for the morning after – The Science of Coffee. ...

Manuel Terron is a celebrity chef with the Lifestyle Channel program Mixing with the Best - he is described as a Mixologist, writer and bar consultant, and has been working in the bar/cocktail industry for 17 years...

Here at The Mr Science Show, we are devotees of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, if for no other reason than His brilliant insight that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct result of the shrinking number of Pirates since the 1800s...

I love to see statistics in the media. This week there were a couple of stories that caught my eye: Town hall bans staff from using Facebook after they each waste 572 hours in ONE month.I found this article courtesy of the excellent science blog, The Lay Scientist...

Jon Lomberg is one of the world's most distinguished space-artists. Lomberg was Carl Sagan's principal artistic collaborator for more than twenty years and in 1998, the International Astronomical Union officially named Asteroid Lomberg in his honour...

This week's podcast celebrates the start of the Ultimo Science Festival - ten days and nights of science fun for families, schools, and people of all ages. The festival is presented by the Powerhouse Museum, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The University of Technology Sydney and TAFE NSW...