Science Friction
Science, culture and everything in between. Feel the heat. All species welcome.
- Website
- https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/
- Description
- Science, culture and everything in between. Feel the heat. All species welcome.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-19 20:52
- last episode published
- 2025-02-19 11:30
- publication frequency
- 3.53 days
- Contributors
- ABC Radio
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 815
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-19 | Why did a group of anonymous strangers on the internet try to eat almost nothing but potatoes for a month? On Cooked this week, an unusual experiment and the possibilities and perils of a mono-diet.Guests:Andrew TaylorMelbourne, AustraliaSlime Mold Tim... |
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| 2025-02-12 | It was one of the world's biggest nutrition trials. A study of thousands of people which found that following a Mediterranean diet could meaningfully reduce someone's risk of heart disease and stroke.But as data detectives began to comb through the res... |
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| 2025-02-05 | Diets like carnivore have been popping up all over the place. People who go carnivore aim to eat nothing but a select few animal products, like meat and eggs.So why are some people turning to an all-meat diet? And why do they say they feel good doing s... |
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| 2025-01-29 | Two decades ago, nutritional epidemiologists made a startling finding – that people eating more ice cream were less likely to develop diabetes.In the years since, various groups have tried to account for this peculiar scientific signal — with limited s... |
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| 2025-01-28 | For Science Friction, a new series — Cooked!On Cooked, we dig into the nuance of nutrition. Why are studies showing that ice cream could be good for you? Do we really need as many electrolytes as the internet says? And why are people feeling good on th... |
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| 2023-11-29 | Behind the rise of AI there's big questions about where this technology is going.Is it going to be super intelligent — and if that happens — is it going to kill us all?In our final episode, we're diving into the future and unpacking the full spectrum o... |
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| 2023-11-22 | 2023 was the year powerful new AI technology went mainstream, with image generators and tools like ChatGPT.And people quickly started wondering where these advances were taking them.This is the story of 2023 in three chapters: the first contact, the ba... |
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| 2023-11-15 | AI is often portrayed as being all about technology. But it is also about money and control. Because those who control AI, may control the world. In the AI world, there are two names that keep coming up: OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and its CEO... |
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| 2023-11-08 |
03 | The bumpy history of driverless cars and their AI brains When you think about a driverless car future, perhaps your mind goes to being driven around, watching movies from the backseat and drinking martinis. For over a decade, perfect driverless cars have seemed only a few years away. But in reality, they we... |
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