Science Show

December 1998

Saturday 26

• An Afternoon with Oliver Sacks
• Profile:Dr Peter Macdonald

Saturday 19

• Antarctic Preservation
• Interactive Houses
• Deconstructing Santa Claus
• The Star of Bethlehem
• What Remains to be Discovered
• Scientific Portraits

Saturday 12

• Ancient Bones
• Ebola
• What Remains to be Discovered
• 'An Experiment with an Air Pump'
• Pulse 10

Saturday 05

• The Book of Kells
• Rheumatoid Arthritis Research
• Meteorites & Mars Rock
• Celt Genetics
• Biodiversity in Thailand
• Profile: Prof. S. Ross Taylor

November 1998

Saturday 28

• Bower Bird Dialects
• Termites
• Dinosaur discoveries
• Development of Language
• Science Awards
• Profile: Professor Rhys Jones 2 of 2
• International Space Station Launch

Saturday 21

• Howard Florey
• Profile: Prof Rhys Jones 1 of 2

Saturday 14

• Leonid Meteorite Shower
• Zoonoses
• Synaesthesia
• Stem Cell Research
• Tsunami
• Zoonoses

Saturday 07

• Profile: Prof. Roger Needham
• New Museum Appointments

October 1998

Saturday 31

• Finding the Clitoris

July 1998

Saturday 25

• Tsunami
• Earth Wobble
• Eureka Prizes
• Australia's Carnivores
• Fossil Kangaroo Teeth
• Profile: Ron Johnston

Saturday 18

• Jupiter Update
• Science Reports
• Superantigens
• Plasmids. Alien molecules?
• Interleukin 11
• Life and Death Under The Pharaohs
• Profile:Sir Clive Sinclair

Saturday 11

• World Science Report
• Technological revolutions
• Hidden galaxies
• 'Copenhagen'
• Towards National Poetry Week
• Profile: James Randi

Saturday 04

• A Portrait of Sir Karl Popper
• Profile: Dr Glen Denning

June 1998

Saturday 27

• Human Genome Project
• Social History of Medicine

Saturday 20

• It's All In a Grain of Rice
• Profile: Terence Measham

Saturday 13

• Genomics Research
• Repairing Nerve Damage with Polymers
• Small World Networks
• Forensic Maggots
• MOPITT
• Alcohol in Australian Wine
• Profile: Dr David Dearborn

Saturday 06

• CSIRO Survey
• The First Italian Dinosaur
• Where Do Birds Come From?
• Malthus - a prophet without honour
• The Dragons of Galapagos
• Sunken Treasure
• Science Show Profile

May 1998

Saturday 30

• Medical Research
• Star Wobbles
• SOHO
• Dating Jinmium
• The Code of Kings
• Super Mouse
• Science Show Profile

Saturday 23

• Birth of a new breed
• New species of Antechinus
• Handedness in primates
• Herpetology
• Sticknest Rat
• Monster Exhibition
• Science Show Profile
• Poems by Ronald Strahan

Saturday 16

• Budget Report '98
• Science NOW!
• Ciguatera
• Birth of a Black Hole
• Colliding Galaxies
• Science Show Profile

Saturday 09

• Science Festival Forum
• Profile: Brian Anderson

Saturday 02

• 1998 Australia Prize: Dr Grant Sutherland
• 1998 Australia Prize: Dr Suzanne Cory
• 1998 Australia Prize: Sir Alec Jeffries
• 1998 Australia Prize: Prof E Blackburn
• The medical history of mankind
• Profile: Margaret Wertheim

April 1998

Saturday 25

• Superconductor Power
• The Power of Light
• scienceNOW!
• A preview of the 21st century
• All about computers
• The metaphysics of Startrek
• Profile: Dr Les Woods

Saturday 18

• Dinosaurs on Ice
• Pulitzer Prize winning author
• The rise of language
• The search for our origins in China
• New Zealand's late arrivals
• Tracing the Moa
• Moas in Toronto
• Profile: Professor James Watson

Saturday 11

• The hole in my head has gone
• Profile: Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus

Saturday 04

• Research into brain development
• Profile: Dr Peter Latz
• Hybrid Cattle
• The Cloning of Dolly
• The Fingerprints of Sheep
• The Bull's Penis in Ancient Egypt.
• This little piggy went to market

March 1998

Saturday 28

• The Importance of Smell
• Deep Ocean Oases
• Genetic Divergence Among Dogs
• Science Show Profile Interview
• Bonobo Communication

Saturday 21

• What's on in the Universe
• El Nino
• Forecasting El Nino events
• Remember Halabja?
• Early Homos on Flores
• Bullshit! A very expensive line
• Profile: Prof Jared Diamond

Saturday 14

• Ancient Mariners
• The Grandmother Hypothesis
• Science School of the Year Award
• The end of Science
• The end of science - absolutely not!
• Ignobel Prizes
• Profile: Professor Max Charlesworth

Saturday 07

• 1998 Meeting of AAAS in Philadelphia
• Profile: Emeritus Professor John Mulvaney

February 1998

Saturday 28

• 1998 AAAS Meeting, Philadelphia
• Profile: Prof Bryan Gould

Saturday 21

• Profile: Prof Tony Barnett
• Isn't Science Wonderful? Part 3 - Logical Struggles in a Nonscientific

Saturday 14

• Profile: Amanda Barnier
• Isn't Science Wonderful? Part 2 : Fashion in Fantasies

Saturday 07

• Isn't Science Wonderful?
• Profile: Richard Fortey

January 1998

Saturday 31

• A paradoxical view of climate change
• Raise the Titanic!
• The Aussie bee
• Honey, the miracle cure?
• A little of what you fancy does you good
• Profile: Charles Allen

Saturday 24

• Sex Education
• What is Science?
• Young Scientist of the Year
• Science and the Environment
• Digging for dinosaurs
• Artificial Intelligence
• Children and Science
• Profile: Richard Lewontin

Saturday 17

• Bonobos make love, not war
• Portrait of a Frogologist
• My Dear Spencer
• Profile: Professor John Gurdon

Saturday 10

• Dr Oliver Sacks (Transcript attached)
• Profile: Tom Forgan

Saturday 03

• SS Summer - Journey to the Galapagos Islands
• Profile:Prof. Sue Serjeantson
• Ockham's Razor Repeat: New Reactor a Missed Opportunity?