Sci Fight: Science/Comedy Debates

🧪🥊 Sci Fight — Pleasure is a false God | Science Comedy Debates

May 21, 2022 04:54 - 1 hour - 83.4 MB

Sci Fight is a quarterly science comedy debate, with your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley (citation needed). Sci Fight brings together science folk and comedy folk, and makes them debate the big issues in a silly way. This round we turn to pleasure. Finally! What is it? Where does it come from, and can I have some please? Pleasure is part of our biological make-up; evolution's way of prodding us to consume calories, procreate, and not freeze to death, so surely seeking pleasure is ...

🧪🥊 Sci Fight — Should we upload our brains to the cloud? | Science Comedy Debates

October 07, 2021 06:10 - 1 hour - 73.6 MB

Sci Fight (www.scifight.com.au/) is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round we turn to pleasure. Finally! What is it? Where does it come from, and can I have some please? Pleasure is part of our biological make-up; evolution's way of prodding us to consume calories, procreate, and not freeze to death, so surely seeking pleasure is only natural? If nothing else, pleasure is a small compensation f...

🧪🥊 Sci Fight — Scientists go to Heaven? | Science Comedy Debates

May 30, 2021 00:54 - 1 hour - 85.1 MB

Sci Fight (www.scifight.com.au/) is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: Scientists go to heaven. Scientists do God's work. They seek truth; divorced from opinion or ambition. They put society's needs ahead of their own. They pursue their research with diligence, patience, and humility. Some of them even do it sober. That's most of the seven Heavenly virtues! Surely that's enough...

🧪🥊 Sci Fight — To Panic or Not To Panic? | Science Comedy Debates

March 13, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 75.9 MB

Sci-Fight hits Kalaide Theatre for this special National Sustainable Living Festival event! Academics, scientists and comedians put forth the case as to whether this is fine or whether it's time to unleash chaos. Come and make your breakdown evidence based! Humans have made it through some pretty tricky times. We survived that ice age 40,000 years ago. The black plague epidemic wasn’t exactly a bundle of laughs. Then there was a world war, AND its sequel, which was even worse than the origi...

🧪🥊 Sci-Fight — To Panic or Not To Panic? | Science Comedy Debates

March 13, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 75.8 MB

Sci-Fight hits Kalaide Theatre for this special National Sustainable Living Festival event! Academics, scientists and comedians put forth the case as to whether this is fine or whether it's time to unleash chaos. Come and make your breakdown evidence based! Humans have made it through some pretty tricky times. We survived that ice age 40,000 years ago. The black plague epidemic wasn’t exactly a bundle of laughs. Then there was a world war, AND its sequel, which was even worse than the origin...

🧪🥊 Sci-Fight — Santa is real. | Science Comedy Debates

December 19, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 99.6 MB

Liking the show? Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here! Support us directly, we'd really appreciate it! Recorded at Howler, December 12th. Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is a bi-monthly science and comedy debate held at Howler Bar, Brunswick in Melbourne. Hosted by science comedian Alanta Colley, it’s almost always a lot of fun and only occasionally results in defamation cases. Now also lives in podcast form at Climactic.fm. This round's topic: Santa Claus is real. We ...

🧪🥊 Sci Fight — Santa is real. | Science Comedy Debates

December 19, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 99.7 MB

Liking the show? Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here! Support us directly, we'd really appreciate it! Recorded at Howler, December 12th. Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is a bi-monthly science and comedy debate held at Howler Bar, Brunswick in Melbourne. Hosted by science comedian Alanta Colley, it’s almost always a lot of fun and only occasionally results in defamation cases. Now also lives in podcast form at Climactic.fm. This round's topic: Santa Claus is real. We a...

🧪🥊 Sci Fight — Does Nature Know Best? | Science Comedy Debates

November 16, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 84.7 MB

Liking the show? Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here! Support us directly on Pozible! Climactic Community Corner Night Terrace Kickstarter Larry Leadbeater Kickstarter The Commons Library Recorded at Howler, October 17th. Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is a bi-monthly science and comedy debate held at Howler Bar, Brunswick in Melbourne. Hosted by science comedian Alanta Colley, it’s almost always a lot of fun and only occasionally results in defamation cases. Now also ...

🧪🥊 Sci-Fight — Does Nature Know Best? | Science Comedy Debates

November 16, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 84.6 MB

Liking the show? Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here! Support us directly on Pozible! Climactic Community Corner Night Terrace Kickstarter Larry Leadbeater Kickstarter The Commons Library Recorded at Howler, October 17th. Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is a bi-monthly science and comedy debate held at Howler Bar, Brunswick in Melbourne. Hosted by science comedian Alanta Colley, it’s almost always a lot of fun and only occasionally results in defamation cases. Now also...

🧪🥊 Sci-Fight — Are Humans Worth Saving? | Science Comedy Debates

October 02, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 67.9 MB

Liking the show? Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here! Support us directly on Pozible! Recorded at Howler, August 21st. This month, Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is partnering with Science Gallery Melbourne to explore their 2019 exhibition theme: Disposable. Are we a disposable species? The 20th Century has seen humanity’s focused on creating inbuilt obsolescence, of single use everything, why should it not apply to the whole human race as well? We turned liquid dinosau...

🧪🥊 Sci Fight — Are Humans Worth Saving? | Science Comedy Debates

October 02, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 68 MB

Recorded at Howler, August 21st. This month, Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is partnering with Science Gallery Melbourne to explore their 2019 exhibition theme: Disposable. Are we a disposable species? The 20th Century has seen humanity's focused on creating inbuilt obsolescence, of single use everything, why should it not apply to the whole human race as well? We turned liquid dinosaur juice into fuel for our cars, we took perfectly happy and inert carbon and flung it into the atmosphere...