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Fuzzy Logic Science Show
by Fuzzy Logic Science Show
Get your science on Fuzzy Logic Science Show from Canberra’s Radio 2xx, 98.3fm
Episodes
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Curing Democracy
We all know that little surge of delight that comes with the latest purchase. That nifty gizmo that will make your life better. But a week later, it's sitting in your kitchen drawer, forgotten along with the other gizmos. Such are the days of our lives, one purchase after another. But does it...
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Platypus, Rakali, Yabbies
To keep our precious native animals, we need to know where they are. We can focus our efforts on saving their habitats and maybe even restoring degraded ones. ACT government's Natural Resource Management works with energetic people in the commuity who love platypus. We have the beautiful rakali,...
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Syaban Shadikillah - Indonesian Campaigner for Science and Freedom of Expression
Syban has fled persecution in Indonesia for peaceful expression of his beliefs. Seeking safe haven in Australia he has, very disappointingly, continued to experience discrimination with the Queensland Road safety authority ruling his drivers licence invalid due to the fact his photo features him...
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Saving the Western Edge
Under the weight of population growth, cities are spilling their borders. In Canberra, that means spawl, placing pressure on precious habitats. In these interviews we learned that the city now covers an area equivalent to greater London, but with a fraction of the population. It begs the question...
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Landcare
With ever growing pressures on the environment, caring for our land is become urgent. In this interview with Rod, Tom Baker from Landcare gives a sense of the breadth of work that organisation performs. There are a few ways to get involved: Landcareact.org.au the landcare Calendar for activities…
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What makes a radio station?
Did you know Fuzzy Logic is one of Australia's longest running science radio shows? Its heritage is a bit misty, but we do know that 2XX was broadcasting The Science Program in May 1981. In this interview, one of the earliest station technicians, Kimmo Vennon describes those early days. Recorded…
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Remember this
Is your memory like something that can recorded and retrieved on magnetic tape? No. We can discard that as an extremely poor analogy. Our guest on Fuzzy Logic today is an expert on how memories are laid down and recalled. It's a subtle, complex thing with many facets that we don't entirely...
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We love snakes
Snakes are among the creatures most despised in all creation. Unfairly, we suggest. When treated with respect, a snake should inspire wonder more than fear. With some justification, people are afraid of their venom which can be lethal. But if you look at it from the snake's point of view, it's…
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National Science Week 2025
We speak to two event holders from National Science Week in 2025
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National Science Week Preview
Hear from three event holders from 2025 National Science week in Canberra
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Personalised nutrition
Of all the effects of ageing, perhaps the most dreaded, is dementia. It's confronting for the person, their family, and everyone around them. The common perception is that there isn't much that can be done if you get it. That, however, is probably not true. Tara Jewell is studying this question…
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The ancient life story
What was the world like ten, twenty or a hundred thousand years ago? What was the environment, the plants, the animals and the insects? And, importantly, how did these mesh into an ecosystem? To answer these questions about deep time, we need, not just sophisticated techniques, but the skill and...
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The Joy of Soil
Let's start with a big question: what are the pillars of civilisation? There are a few possible answers, but our guests today might argue that the list should include soil. Humble, dirty dirt, crawling with larvae, fungus and bacteria is an under-appreciated champion because, without it, we would...
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Mission of Gravity
Image source: https://physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/?EventID=457 One of the joys of science is delving into the deepest mysteries of the universe. What holds it all together? Part of the answer, of course, is gravity. That's the force that allows us to sit or stand without floating off into…
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Sustainability: deep problem, shallow solutions
What does 'sustainability' really mean and how do we get there? This radio documentary features some of Australia's most eminent thinkers. A wide ranging analysis digs into the fundamental causes of our predicament, based on interviews I recorded for the book with Stephen Williams Sustainability...
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Fifty years of LandSat
This Earth Science Week on Fuzzy Logic we chat with experts from Geoscience Australia about harnessing the power of space technology to tackle our biggest challenges. For fifty years, the partnership between Geoscience Australia and the United States Geological Survey has revolutionized our...
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What goes on below
A triumph of our civilisation are the things that go on under the covers without us even noticing. When you pour stuff down the sink or flush it down the toilet, where does it go? Luckily, we don't need to think about it...until somebody does the wrong thing. That's when we should hail the...
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Sustainability and Spirituality:
A guest podcast from Valerie Albrecht. This podcast offers reflective space to consider the relationship between sustainability and spirituality. Is there one? Could practising sustainability nurture spirituality? Could practising some form of spirituality help us to live more sustainably? Could...
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Exploring Net Zero
The race to net-zero is accelerating. Governments around the world are increasingly committing to achieve net-zero emission targets. But what does that mean and can clean energy help achieve this? Join Broderick as he discusses the move to net zero in Australia with Dr Andrew Feitz, Director Low...
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Science Meets Art
Happy National Science Week! This episode Broderick talks to two event holders for National Science Week. Heather Massie shares her story in bringing the life of Hedy Lamar to the stage through her one-woman play HEDY! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr. Then, Liz Lea and the Chameleon…
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The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation.
How far off 'sustainability' are we today? How did we get here, and where do we go next? These are questions tackled by Rod Taylor at a U3A event in June. This wide ranging talk is based on the book co-authored with Mark Diesendorf, The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation. Other links: Sustainable...
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The Myth of Growth
If you know the term cognitive dissonance, it applies to ability of a person to hold entirely incompatible ideas in their head at the same time. If people can have it, so can a government. Take these two statements: 1) We will work towards a sustainable future 2) We will pursue economic growth…
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Standing on the edge of the climate cliff
How do you cope with the dire trajectory of climate change? It's a tough question that we all now face. In this episode, ACT Greens MLA tells the story of her climate journey.
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Of Violence and Redemption
If there were a single invention of humanity that you remove, what would that be? In this episode we revisit a personal story broadcast on Radio National in 2006. This is part of our series, Rethinking Sustainability.
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'That' conversation
So it's okay to clear the Amazon jungle? Almost certainly you disagree with that statement, but how do you respond when someone says that to you? In this episode we think about 'that' conversation. How do you convince somebody that they're wrong? But first, is it even worth even trying? You'll…
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Fernando's dichotomy
When somebody makes a statement that is foreign to your thinking, how do you react? In this episode, Rod Taylor recounts a conversation with the Brazillian, Fernando. What does it mean to raze the Amazon jungle, why should somebody like him care? Why should anybody care? The answer of course, is...
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Growth and the Parasitic Economy
Today's episode should prompt us to ask, how should we measure the success of our society? Is it the growth, consumption, GDP and the size of our armies? Or perhaps it should be about opportunity, the strength of our communities and how we care for people less well off. Michael Bayliss from...
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Deep Listening to Nature
As Andrew Skeoch says in this episode, there is much we can learn from Nature, if only we sit quietly and listen. Andrew takes that a step further by recording the beautiful songs of birds around the world. And, as he says, it's more than simply enjoying the aesthetics because the birds use their...
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The Joy of Shopping?
On page 2 of the newspaper there's a story about melting icecaps. On page 3 there's a full page ad for this week's bargains. Somewhere here there's a disconnect. Meanwhile, shopping is - literally - sold to us as something we should do more of. But does it really make us feel better? Artist and...
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Coping with Crisis
It seems every day we're hit with more bad news. War in the Ukraine, floods, droughts and melting ice caps. In this episode, Rod Taylor mulls over how we cope. Do we give up and fall into a pit of despair, or do we carry on regardless? This episode is part of the Rethinking Sustainability series.
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Can we afford it?
The standard line is that governments* are always short of money and must balance their budgets. But what if that's not true? It changes everything if government money is not the contraint we're told it is. In this episode, Stephen Williams describes a way of thinking about economics that should...
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Do we need unemployment?
What could happen when people decide to do something about unemployment in their community? In this episode of our new series, Rethinking Sustainability, Robin Krabbe describes an initiative of Live Well Tasmania.
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Intelligence and Wisdom
In 2024 we have smart phones, smart cars and even smart washing machines. We also have climate change. So are we intelligent but not wise? These are questions Sue Ferris ponders as part of our new series Rethinking Sustainability. Sue Ferris is the author of Let’s Not Lose Them
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"Sustainable"... really?
It's a fair bet that if you're listening to this podcast, you care about sustainability. But unfortunately has become grossly abused, almost to the point of meaningless. This podcast marks the start of a new series, Rethinking Sustainability, where each week we'll be broadcasting a new episode.…
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How to destabilise a system: NENA conference 2023
What makes a system fragile? In this short talk, Rod sketches what drives a system towards collapse. Can you see the parallels to our civisliation today? Proceedings from the NENA conference, November 2023 in Canberra. More about the book, The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation here.
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Rethinking Sustainability, Adelaide
The word "sustainability" has become cliché, loaded with myths, half-truths and outright lies that try to convince us that a few tweaks to ‘business as usual’ will be enough. What then, does ‘sustainability’ really mean? A fundamental problem requires fundamental solutions - yet these are often...
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Let’s Not Lose Them
We are fortunate to live on a planet that surrounds us with the wonders of nature. From frogs to koalas and even snakes and sharks. Yet what are we to make of the sixth great extinction now underway, caused by humans? Suzanne Ferris' book Let's Not Lose Them: Endangered Species in Australia...
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One Voice Medicine Conversations with First People Healers
We open today's broadcast with a question: what would you do if you did not have access to your doctor, your GP, a hospital or even a local pharmacy? Without "western medicine", this is what indigenous cultures have been doing for thousands of years. For all its prodigious advances in medical...
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Rocks That Shape Australia
This week Broderick and Camille are joined by geoscientist Dr Verity Normington and science communicator Alice Ryder, both from Geoscience Australia, to discuss their new exhibition Rocks that Shape Australia. The Rocks that Shape Australia exhibition explores how rocks can be valued by…
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The Titanic: economics, neoliberalism and state capture
That our civilisation is unsustainable is abundantly clear. And yet we plough onwards as if business as usual in the faith that somehow the problem will fix itself. In this seminar, authors Dr Mark Diesendorf and Rod Taylor outline the themes in their new book, The Path to a Sustainable...
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The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation
It seems every day, we hear yet more news about the declining world environment. It's not only climate change, and if when we add other threats including loss of biodiversity and depleting resources, it becomes a dangerous brew. These are having impacts on people - and the economy - which are...
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Walking on the Moon
Standing, walking or running is something most of us take for granted. And yet it is a remarkably sophisticated thing we do without even thinking about it. Professor Gordon Waddington and PhD student Ashleigh Marchant walk us through the beautifully synchronised dance that coordinates parts of…
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Healthy waters, healthy lands
If you were to visit a river, it might look beautiful, but is it healthy? Looks may be a good start, but properly assessing a water body takes a bit more and, yes, how it smells is another indicator. And then, why should we care whether a river or stream is in good condition? Leon Metzling was a...
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Tectonic movements and historic biogeography - Octavio Jimenez Robles
What happened to the plants and animals when Africa crashed into Eurasia and when Australia broke apart from Pangea? Find out with Biogeographer Octavio Jimenez Robles. Octavio is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Action postdoctoral fellow who has been based at the Australian National University in...
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They knew but they did it anyway
They knew it then, they know it now, and yet they still do it. Fossil fuel companies are driving the planet - and us along with it - towards climate induced oblivion. While the anti-science tactics of the tobacco industry inflicts death and illness among a huge number of people, climate change is...
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Forest Bathing
On this episode Broderick is joined by Jay Ridgewell from Held Outside as they discuss the scientific value behind nature therapy. Also known as "forest bathing" from its origins in Japan, this episode promises to explore what genuine benefits there are to connecting in a deeper way with nature.…
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The energy transition
For many thousands of years the first humans burned wood to keep ourselves warm and cook food. Then we discovered coal and later, gas. For a while whale oil became an important source of energy - until they they were driven close to extinction and whaling didn't end until the 1960s. By that time,...
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Community and the global challenge
The word "community" has a slightly soft appeal to it, as if it's something nice to have, something we do for a bit of socialising. But that undervalues the vast importance of community and there's no doubt humans would not be remotely as successful without it. Our ability to cooperate is central...
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8 Billion and counting
Business-as-usual will result in collapse of the global system midway through the 21st century. That's the stark warning issued by Graham Turner in 2008 when he reviewed modelling by the Club of Rome in the early 1970s. Can we avoid that in the short time we have left? Professor Ian Lowe and Rod...
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States of denial. A tribute to Dr Haydn Washington.
In this interview Dr Haydn Washington muses on what denial means. We're sad to hear that Haydn died this week and, in his honour, we post this recording from 2013. It's interesting and sobering to reflect on how the world looks now, nearly ten years later. Dr Jane O'Sullivan provides a few…
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