Six Months of Sundays
This is a list of Ockham's Razor talks I have given over the years. The more recent talks are on the ABC's Web site, but all the ones I could find are listed here, and the older ones are stored on this site. In all, I think I have done 32, which goes some way to explaining the heading, which began some years back, when the count was less. It is an enjoyable little format, so there will be another one some time soon.
- An Australian Christmas, 1993
- Can you trust statistics?, 1991 (double)
- Charles Wilkes and the US Exploring Expedition, 1989
- Climbing Mount Exmouth, October 29, 2006
- Compulsive froggers, 1996
- Devonian billabong, about 1995 (double)
- Edward Davy's telegraph, about 1991 (double)
- Entrepreneurs for good, February 27, 2005
- Eucalyptus oil, August 1997
- Fraudo the frog, about 1985
- Girls, mathematics and science, about 1990
- Is the book as we know it dead?, February 3, 2008.
- Jenner and smallpox, November 1997
- Keeping savages in a cage, about 1995
- Looking for Gaia, about 1991
- Scientific inference July 16, 2000
- Seven types of science, (double), in a revised version, originally broadcast about 1993.
- Significant figures, about 1990
- Space and us, January 4, 2004
- The History of Sugar September 29, 2002
- The Internet and Education May 6, 2001
- The second microbial revolution April 2, 2000
- Trams, about 1989
- Why is the sky blue?, about 1988
- Where did Darwin get its name?, about 1988
- Why do seagulls follow boats?, about 1989
There are at least two missing at the moment: "asking the right questions", and "a computer in every classroom". These will be added when I can find them.
I also talk very occasionally on the ABC Science Show on ABC Radio National. Here are two of the more recent pieces:
When I am not doing stuff like this, I am either writing or else I may be working on ideas for projects or designing simple experiments to play with at home.
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This file is http://members.ozemail.com.au/~macinnis/ockhams/ocklist.htm, last revised March 17, 2008.