The Science Show

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RN's science flagship: your essential source of what's making news in the complex world of scientific research, scandal and discovery. The Science Show with Robyn Williams is one of the longest running programs on Australian radio.

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Preview last show from Fri Nov 28 08:00:00 CST 2008

Title: Science Show - 2008-11-29

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University enrolments in IT halve in Australia John Harvey says while information technology is ubiquitous its role in industry is not widely appreciated. Unlike law and medicine, education in IT can be used for employment anywhere in the world. Traditional Indian farming encourages biodiversity Tropical forests used to cover large parts of India, especially along the Malabar Coast in Karnataka State. Modern tropical agriculture doesn´t support biodiversity. The human population is predicted to grow to 9 or 10 billion people. So how can food be supplied while maintaining biological life support systems? Gretchen Daily counted birds and found abundance and richness in the Indian countryside, despite dense human population. The secret is complexity to farming rather than monocultures; for example, high palms with lower understorey crops. Conserving Peru´s coastal forests Prosopis pallida or Huarango is a very useful plant. In the dry forests of southern coastal Peru it provides food and forage for many people. Now it is being chopped for charcoal for cooking and the forests are threatened. Only a few tens of hectares of native Huarango forest remain and much of the landscape now resembles a moonscape. Oliver Whaley is part of a team from Kew Gardens assisting local people to conserve their forests. Tribute to Michael Crichton - science in the media Michael Crichton was a doctor who went on to make movies including Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton died November 4, 2008. By way of a tribute, we present an excerpt from an address he made at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in 1999 where he discusses the challenge of having scientists presenting science to the public and the media. Darwin year - 2009 2009 marks 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years since the publication of The Origin of Species. Philip Batterham describes the significance of Darwin´s work, and why so much effort is being put into celebrating Darwin´s life and achievements. The fragile internet and celebrating Milton at Christ´s College The internet is carrying the information for more and more of society´s critical infrastructure but the network is always on the verge of breaking down. Frank Kelly is investigating internet routing whereby multiple routes are used for backup in case of failure. 2008 is the 400th anniversary of poet John Milton´s birth and this will be celebrated at Christ´s College.

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