Archive for February, 2008

BMBT009 – Brain Teaser 009

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Brains Matter Brain Teaser minicast number 9. In these episodes, I’ll provide you with a brain teaser, and answer them in the following minicast. Send me your answers! Download MP3 of BMBT009 Please vote for this podcast this month at You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by subscribing in iTunes […]

055 – David Karoly – Climate Change

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

In this episode, I talk to Professor David Karoly, Federation Fellow at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne in Australia – and who is also a lead author for the IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) report on global warming. We discusses climate change – what is it, what causes it, […]

Technical issues resolved

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Hi all, The issues with downloading the mp3’s of the episodes should be resolved now. Please let me know if you still have difficulties. OG

Technical issues

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Hi all, Some of you may have noticed problems in getting the audio files for the show as of today (21/2). We’re currently experiencing some problems with the mp3 hosting server, hopefully it won’t be too long until it comes back up. Thanks OG

054 – Lynne Kelly – Skeptics Guide

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

In this episode I talk to Lynne Kelly, author and educator, about her book “The Skeptics Guide to the Paranormal”, and some of the anecdotes she had about the reality behind some so-called paranormal events. Download MP3 of Ep 54 Please vote for this podcast this month at You can donate by clicking on the […]

Happy Chinese New Year

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

As many of you know, today is the first day of the lunar Chinese New Year, so happy new year to you all! It’s the Chinese Year of the Rat. The most recent Rat years are 1996, 1984, 1972 and 1960 – those born in the year of the Rat are considered hard working and […]