Peter Hill Explains
573 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -You are welcome to listen in as I "explain things scientific". I have had great fun with lasers, robots and absorbing Quantum Physics. Now as a classroom teacher, laid low by heart surgery its time to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and give it all you've got. "And in the mean time keep on doing science"
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I was surprised by misperceptions1
November 13, 2019 00:00Fleeting matrix glitches need to be appreciated when they come your way MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
The problem with people who are not Leanne3
November 12, 2019 09:20We just need better accountants that is all. Upload problem mysteriously came and went. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Green waste
November 11, 2019 09:47A bale of grass, sticks, leaves a week get taken to a massive compost heap MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Plastic wrap on power lines
November 11, 2019 09:46The miles of separate wire power lines is being replaced with something that looks like heavy duty power cords with massive aluminum cable inners. This doesn't spark but it took years to work out what would survive bird attack. ' MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Fast Periodic Table
November 11, 2019 09:46I have them all but some might be out of order MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
What is the deal with complex ideas
November 11, 2019 09:07The answer is use standard cut to prototyping MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
The problem with people who are not Leanne
November 11, 2019 08:13We just need better accountants that is all MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Fatigue from brain injury
November 10, 2019 09:12Just a warm up podcast, but it is surprising that many people don't know about this aspect of it all. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Maths and not straight forward problems
November 10, 2019 09:11People live in a non maths bubble of problems either being easy or you get rid of them or the people associated with them MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Quantum Mechanics of the Periodic Table
November 10, 2019 09:11There is so much Quantum Mechanics in the Periodic Table it is hard to know where to begin. It is a sources of sorrow, deep sorrow to have people jump in and misdirect people so they can't see the QM in the Table. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
I was surprised by misperceptions
November 08, 2019 07:10Fleeting matrix glitches need to be appreciated when they come your way MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
What's the deal
November 08, 2019 06:23A fabric of strategy gets woven as the day grow long. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Army Tanks
November 06, 2019 06:27I start off reviewing a modest advance in microphone placement after a disastrous episode with an in vehicle directional microphone. I fill the time of the drive talking about the 1980 Leopard tanks from the point of view of a part time soldier. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
New Scientist 2 Nov_1
November 06, 2019 06:27It is great to have fossils unpack as a kind of movie of the rise of mammals as they dusted themselves of and got evolving stepping over the bodies of decimated dinosaurs. The old blood new blood article really didn't get over the line for me with a link theory and it was not much of a leap to oil or Eulan. Venus has lots of Uluru's what do you know. This was not put across as sophisticated science. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support...
Reciting the Periodic Table after a break
November 04, 2019 09:10Join me on the challenge, I almost do it perfectly. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Where are you in the Universe
November 04, 2019 09:09It is freaky I talk of your soul from the point of view of a scientist. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Flint tools maketh the homo sapien
November 04, 2019 09:09People are surprised that flint is just dark glass. Cutting your self on a broken bottle happened millions of years ago an unleashed tool wielding apes MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Choline
November 04, 2019 03:47I like all sorts of molecules, but this is really rather odd in its compact unusual form and it being so essential for life, cell membranes, nerve transmission. I feel it is just a very stable ammonium ion. It is kind of a metal made from organic molecules. The rings of carbon in aromatic compounds are also a bit metalic MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
New Scientist Readings for 26 October
November 04, 2019 03:45I enjoyed reading and memorizing about too much snow in the Arctic, super fast ants and doing a bit of maths there, whale playing ping pong with samon. sounds nice and the amazing way the UK is nowhere near food self sufficient, the stats on Holland are a bit brain numbing though/ MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Packaging of science
November 03, 2019 12:01This computer read paper is getting reasonable. It is better written and some of the new ideas worth thinking about. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Working on my pool
November 03, 2019 11:47I describe the bits and levers and chemicals that go into the crystal clear summer splash in a dry and dusty land. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Dog dies by Snake Bite
November 03, 2019 11:47Our snake polish of pooches at a fairly even rate. Lots of things that can kill you or shoot toxic slime at you out here. I really have never thought too much about it really MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Computer Assisted Essay Writing
November 03, 2019 11:47Putting the sentences in cell by cell into google sheets. Its a tough world out there for me but this is getting the writing down pat, line by line. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Latest Computer Assisted Research Paper
November 01, 2019 10:06Like any programming it is much slower to start with. Here I have converted rules in sentence, paragraph writing and lots of Google sheets code to clean up blank spaces and capitalization. Then a single step to MP3. And yes I am steadily building robot teachers, but it is a slog. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Service to your front door
November 01, 2019 06:35Tim tells it as it was when the street were alive with the calls of trades people, and he relates the story of a runnaway ute MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Early Fire Fighters
November 01, 2019 06:34Another classic story from Tim some pants off action. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
a Random podcast
November 01, 2019 06:34Really a podcast for the sake of it MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Officer or Soldier
November 01, 2019 06:34Whats the difference? On thinks strategically the other executes strategy. The analogy extends to interior decorators. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Chemicals What are they_1
November 01, 2019 06:33A pattern is meaningless until you see it. Once you see quantum mechanics it is hard to unsee it. This is the quantum view of electrons and the mischievous ways they fold themselves to get close to their nuclei. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Prototypes and the People Who Use Them
October 28, 2019 06:38Basically you have to be dreaming to dream up that prototype that unlocks the future. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Chemicals What are they_2
October 28, 2019 06:37A pattern is meaningless until you see it. Once you see quantum mechanics it is hard to unsee it. This is the quantum view of electrons and the mischievous ways they fold themselves to get close to their nuclei. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Dreamworks plus Computer games
October 28, 2019 06:36I went to both these exhibitions whilst in Canberra. It clicked that there was a cultural system of Creativity as the primary product, and this was not central to the education culture where the focus is on credentialing people. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
A walk in Croydon
October 24, 2019 07:51Here the base insights on adapting for solitary research without going mad. As I walk I encounter different people and have a chat. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
universe quiz
October 23, 2019 20:38I have debugged the google sheet and speech have a listen and see what you think. It is really the way of the future. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Automated quiz
October 23, 2019 11:31The last answer is correct, but you will probably think earlier one sound right as they are what most likely you have been taught. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Progress in Rehab
October 23, 2019 11:31Just so little time to Podcast as I take on physical and cognitive rehab. After all this focus I put in a very ordinary showing. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Making a voice to text podcast quiz
October 23, 2019 11:30Running through a quiz does a lot of the heavy lifting and broad coverage to back up the narrow focus of a research paper. It is logical to automate it. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Magnetic Field Quiz
October 23, 2019 06:38The last answer is the correct one orientation quiz. What to do if it is likely most of your audiance has wandered off. Sorry it is a bit scratchy at first, later it is quite listenable to. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Field gradient surprise
October 23, 2019 06:38It is only when you build a large solenoid electromagnet do you discover it is not the field strength but the field gradient that a magnet in the field feels. Bit broken up as I work my way through Glenbrook, but it is basic science so many people fluff about. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
New Plastic Fabrication Technique
October 22, 2019 08:09It feels odd, nutting out a new way of doing something and feeling not emotion. Anyhow, I cut Corflute blanks and layer them cross grain. I glue the layers with flexible shoe glue that I spread by shearing. I then refine the shape with a soldering iron which also seals the edges. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Training Schedule for Computer Training
October 22, 2019 08:08Always two per computer, but having overlap with new people coming in but always with an old hand who has been vetted. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Why is electronics so cheap
October 19, 2019 12:37Surface mounts, chinese clones, volume and learning curve. It is suspiciously cheap in my opinion, but I am an old codger. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Maths of dual rehabilitation
October 19, 2019 12:36It wasn't until I spoke on this podcast, I found that maths sets you free to think. At any rate there are basic mathematical models that help you do two interacting activities and make sense of any progress. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
I discover prototype boards
October 19, 2019 12:36This is the go to solution after the bulky and loopy bread boards. The sound quality is a bit noisy, and I essentially do a poor job of describing them which it turns out was a prelude to a second rate job of using them. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Glenbrook Merry Makers
October 19, 2019 12:35Hear first hand the story of a group of locals and how they kept up the moral of country under siege. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Life before US oil
October 14, 2019 20:44This is a live broadcast of Denis Bainbridges's talk on eye poping mining in late 19th century MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Utter electronics despair
October 14, 2019 20:44Hear the confused mind of someone who has a mystery disease laying low every level of board in the quest to make the ultimate teaching robot. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
My bad_ wire stripping to regret
October 14, 2019 20:43The moral of the story is "don't use' single action wire strippers as they weaken the inner wire causing faults on an epic scale. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Quick insight on magnets
October 07, 2019 22:33I didn't think much when I discovered what I learnt at school was wrong. I am surprised that the ideas of a dipole field having torque and force along a gradient is such a big step. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.
Arduino Dancing Duck
October 07, 2019 22:32Salvaged from the research prototypes I have a rubber duck with a magnet up its rear end that looks possessed as it rap dances to music synced with a magnetic field. MP4 recording MP3 recording Your browser does not support the audio element.