Have you ever stopped to wonder what ruler rules them all? How we set the standard for height, for weight, for everything around us? What if you weighed one thing one day, and travelled to another country and suddenly gained 5 kgs or had to use an entirely different weight system? What if you weighed one thing this week and more the next? This week we find out the history measurement systems, how we've standardised them and come up with unique and repeatable measures that don't rely on artefacts (real and metaphorically).
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Episode 199 - Animals helping the planet in strange ways
Episode 198 - Learning from robotic blunders
Episode 197 - Surviving Chicago in a zombie outbreak, finding hidden snakes and adapting frogs
Episode 196 - Bacteria helping humans from Acne to Plastics and antibiotics
Episode 194 - Ecology in Frankenstein, Spider Venom and Burn treatments
Episode 193 - Prehistoric dinosaurs and fish, unlocking Australia's history and Jaws
Episode 192 - Nobel Prize Physics 2016 - Topology strikes again
Episode 191 - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2016 - Molecular nanomachines
Episode 190 - Ig Nobel Prizes 2016 - Part 2 - Medicine, Psychology and Perception
Epsiode 189 - Ig Nobel Prizes 2016 - Part 1 - Pants on rats and holidays from humanity
Episode 188 - Precision medicine using stem cells to tailor treatment
Episode 187 - New species in unexpected places
Episode 186 - Stormy weather across the Universe
Episode 185 - Making waves across the world and a whole new reef
Episode 184 - Protecting earth from asteroids, comets and mining in space
Episode 183 - Citizen Science Special to celebrate National Science Week
Episode 182 - Keeping sport fair and clean from performance enhancing drugs
Episode 181 - Moving Australia, keeping GPS accurate to help ships, cars and whales
Episode 180 - Farms under solar panels, sustainable plantation and green zones
Lagrange Point Episode 179 - Evolutionary Journeys And Humans Impact On Biodiversity
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