Microphone myths leave you speechless

Great Moments in Science "Tcheck, tcheck. One, two...Is this thing on?!" Dr Karl is used to microphones, but the things people do as they come to grips with a microphone has him baffled. read more 'Microphone myths leave you speechless'

Food bowl to dustbowl?

Indepth Feature The Murray-Darling Basin grows more than one fifth of all the food produced in Australia, but how will it respond to dwindling water supplies? read more 'Food bowl to dustbowl?'

The ABC Inventors: then and now

Photo gallery Revisit some of the inventions from The Inventors and The New Inventors and visit the exhibition in the foyer of the ABC's Ultimo Centre during the Ultimo Science Festival. read more 'The ABC Inventors: then and now'

Murray-Darling Basin Quiz

Murray-Darling Basin Quiz It's Australia's best known river system and our nation's food bowl but how well do you really know the Murray-Darling Basin? Take our quiz and find out. read more 'Murray-Darling Basin Quiz'

Archaeologist

Ace Day Jobs Erin McGowan conserves ancient artefacts. Watch Ace Day Jobs to find out how she got her dream job travelling the world as an archaeologist. read more 'Archaeologist'

Young geeks on video

Eureka Schools Prize Watch the best videos made by young Sleek Geeks who entered this year's Science Eureka Schools prize. read more 'Young geeks on video'

ABC1

Wednesday, 20 August

More science on ABC1
11:05am	Time Team - Bawsey Farm Time Team unearth soemthing very exciting from the ruins of the church at Bawsey St James.
8:00pm	The New Inventors Watch preview of 'The New Inventors' Hosted by the ebullient James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors highlights the brightest new inventions in Australia. New Inventors video (mp4) podcast

ABC2

Wednesday, 20 August

More science on ABC2
8:00am rpt	Landline Extra Australia's national rural program, with reports from around the country on rural and urban issues. Presented by Anne Kruger.
4:35pm	Naked Science - Death Of The Sun
5:35pm	Time Team: Raunds
6:35pm	Scrapheap Challenge - Fire Engines This Emmy-nominated hit entertainment program features two opposing teams who have just one day to build incredible machines using only the materials they find on a scrap heap.

ABC Radio

Coming up, Thursday 21 August

More ABC Radio science
Triple J
9.00am	Science on Mornings with Zan Rowe Science Talkback, featuring Dr Karl LIVE! An hour devoted to the collective exploration of some of the great mysteries of life, such as 'why does the water in the shower slow down just when it gets hot?' Science on Mornings audio podcast
ABC Radio National
7:35pm	In Conversation with Robyn Williams Tropical Brains The (relatively) new Vice Chancellor at James Cook University in Townsville is a scientist turned to business. Prof Sandra Harding reminds us that over one third of Australia is tropical and yet only one major university (apart from Charles Darwin in the NT) in this country is properly equipped to handle the range of topics so important to the north of our region. And, unlike some, they also have a successful campus in Singapore. In Conversation audio podcast

Self-Service Science

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Scribbly Gum

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Tech Talk

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All in the Mind

Life through the mind's eye

• Goodna asylum...revisited
  This week's All in the Mind continues with the series Up the Line to Goodna -for which I gathered a host of interviews with residents and staff, past and present, from what became Australia's largest (Queensland's oldest) asylum
  Posted 2008-07-18T22:28:26+10:00
• Up close and personal...
  Two fabulous audiovisual documentaries with an All in the Mind bent for you to sample: “It Ain’t Television
  Posted 2008-07-13T09:30:00+10:00
• Inside Australia's oldest, largest asylum...Goodna
  Revealing the history of an asylum isn't easy, as Jo Besley, curator with the Museum of Brisbane, discovered when she developed the exhibition, Remembering Goodna: Stories from a Queensland mental hospital
  Posted 2008-07-11T20:51:55+10:00
• In the salon: science + culture...science is culture
  Two editions of SEED Magazine's Salon sessions to check out: Novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe in conversation with neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, taking on human nature, free will etc - read or watch Evolutionary psycholoigst Marc Hauser in coversation with film-maker
  Posted 2008-07-10T08:34:57+10:00
• Music on my mind
  The world's most famous neurologist, Oliver Sacks, was feature guest on my colleague Robyn Williams' Science Show this week
  Posted 2008-07-08T08:02:35+10:00
• Blog Extra! The saga of Nim Chimpsky - extended interview
  On All in the Mind this week: Apes, legal personhood and the extraordinary saga of Nim Chimpsky In Austria, animal activists have taken the case of a chimp called Matthew as far as the European Court of Human Rights
  Posted 2008-07-05T13:00:00+10:00
• Free will possesses will of own
  An interesting discussion has unfolded on the blog in response to some of Gazzaniga's comments on free will on the show
  Posted 2008-07-01T23:50:34+10:00
• Coming back to earth: Brain scan hyperbole revisited
  Dr Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks has penned an excellent post predicting "the fMRI smackdown cometh"
  Posted 2008-06-28T11:16:12+10:00
• Head hi-jinx - Out of Body Experiences and other tricks of consciousness!
  What happens when your brain sees the world not as it really is? This weekend's edition of All in the Mind features the scientific effort to simulate out-of-body experiences (OBEs) to probe the limits and construction of the Self
  Posted 2008-06-28T09:09:14+10:00
• Chuffed! New York Radio Festival wins for All in the Mind
  All in the Mind has been honoured with the Grand Award at the 2008 New York Radio Festivals for best entry across all categories, as well as a Gold World Medal in the Health/Medical category
  Posted 2008-06-25T15:59:09+10:00

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The Green Room

Latest on the ABC”s greenover

• Win a timer switch for your office equipment!
  Wouldn't it be great if your photocopier and printer automatically switched off at the end the day, and back on again the next morning?
  Posted Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:16:11 +1000
• Co-mingling is not a dirty word
  Learned incompetence has finally paid off for Sydney ABC staff who never got the hang of sorting their recyclables.
  Posted Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:45:20 +1000
• Recycling: not quite as easy as ABC...
  After years of stashing flat batteries, dead phones and spare CDs in our drawers, ABC's Sydney staff have now got recycling bins for all three.
  Posted Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:40:53 +1000
• Waterless urinal springs a leak
  The 10 waterless urinals being trialled by the ABC are saving water all right.
  Posted Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:24:12 +1000
• The Little Broadcaster That Could
  The ABC just scored a prize that didn't involve The Chaser, Chris Lilley or Denton - we got a Silver Star for Corporate Strategy in the 2007 Corporate Responsibility Index!
  Posted Wed, 21 May 2008 21:14:12 +1000
• Recycling for beginners: printer cartridges
  When NSW State Director Mike McCluskey looked into getting printer cartridges recycled at Ultimo, he got a bit of a surprise.
  Posted Wed, 07 May 2008 16:48:36 +1000
• Nice Loo, Shame about the Studio
  Hooking up the rainwater tank to the office loo got a mixed reception at ABC Longreach.
  Posted Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:00:55 +1000
• Is paying extra for mugs for mugs?
  The most burning environmental issue for ABC Sydney staff isn't how to reduce flights or where to cut waste - it's why they have to pay more for coffee if they bring their own mug.
  Posted Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:32:23 +1000
• Executive Hot Tub goes Solar
  At least that's what we thought was going on - why else would a bunch of blokes be installing solar hot water systems on top of the library roof?
  Posted Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:30:22 +1000
• I've got Prius Envy ...
  666 ABC Canberra just took hold of their swanky new hybrid work car, and they're being obscenely smug about it - splashing this pic all over the place.
  Posted Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:46:16 +1000
• Let there be light switches
  It was a dark day in our office yesterday.
  Posted Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:11:40 +1100

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