SoT 230: Meat Ants
Science On Top
English - June 18, 2016 12:43 - 38 minutes - 27.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Health & Fitness Medicine news astronomy biology chemistry education geology maths microbiology physics science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
00:00:52 Michelle Franklin joins us to discuss invasive species control - from giving herpes to carp, to the moth that nearly wiped out the prickly pear.
00:16:57 Scientists have trained archerfish to recognise - and spit at - specific human faces.
00:22:46 A woman in Pennsylvania recently tested positive to an E. coli "superbug" that's resistant to most antibiotics. That's scary enough, but it also points to a worrisome lack of testing and reporting with urinary tract infections.
Michelle Franklin is a wildlife biologist and a founder of the Darwin Skeptics.
Phil Kent is an aquaculture specialist and secretary of the Brisbane Skeptics. Brisbane Skeptics have a Skepticamp coming up. Phil can be found on Facebook, Twitter and at the Brisbane Skeptics' Facebook page.
This episode contains traces of Stephen Colbert talking about a new study of frog sex positions.