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29 January 202529 January 2025

The 9pm Medical Semiotics of Bow Ties, Long Covid, and Poo with Dr Trent Yarwood

Dr Trent Yarwood does not wear a white coat because they are a Bad Thing. (Photo: Brisbane Times. Digital processing: Stilgherrian)

The summer series continues, and it’s more science. Today’s special guest is infectious diseases physician Dr Trent Yarwood.

27 January 202530 January 2025

Weekly Wrap 765: Feed me, said the magpie

Close-up of the head and chest of a juvenile Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen), still in its lighter grey feathers rather than black, its orange eyes staring straight into the camera. In the background, way out of focus, sunlit scrubland.

My week of Monday 20 to Sunday 26 January 2025 was both productive and enjoyable, because I’m a hero. Yes, the music podcast thing is starting to happen. And the younger magpies are starting to get quite insistent.

19 January 202525 January 2025

Weekly Wrap 764: The purple fan-flower of productivity

A rich purple flower with five petals is covered in scattered raindrops. Behind it, out of focus, is forest leaf litter.

It’s been a rainy week, this week of Monday 12 to Sunday 19 January 2025. But despite the weather, I made a podcast, planned the structure of another, and produced a newsletter — though that still didn’t include everything that needed doing.

14 January 202514 January 2025

The 9pm Colonisation of Mars and the Universe with Dr Alice Gorman and Rami Mandow

Plotting the overthrow of the space colonies! Left: Dr Alice Gorman. (Photo: Simon Royal/ABC) Right: Rami Mandow. (Photo: Supplied; Post-processing: Stilgherrian)

Happy New Year. It’s time for another look at space news, I reckon, so once more my special guests are space archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman aka Dr Space Junk from Flinders University, and astrophysicist and founder of SpaceAustralia.com Rami Mandow.

12 January 202514 January 2025

Weekly Wrap 763: Getting to the heart of the matter

In the middle distance, across a floodlit concrete area, is a brightly lit suburban railway station. On the left, people are waiting for rail replacement buses. A temporary yellow sign with black lettering lists the destinations. In the centre, a man in hi-viz and a white safety helmet stands watching it all, his hands clasped behind his back. In the distance, cross the tracks and behind the station, stand several modern apartment buildings. The tallest rises around 20 storeys, and to its left against the deep blue dusk sky is the Moon, three days from full.

My week of Monday 6 to Sunday 12 January 2025 was less productive than I’d hoped, but at least I got some planning done. That and I saw a very nice cardiologist.

05 January 202509 January 2025

Weekly Wrap 762: Starting a new year by looking at a century-old building

A six-storey art deco building, with a commercial ground floor, two floors of offices with bay windows, and two floors of residential apartments. It's painted an unassuming olive green, and kinda needs repainting again soon. It's a bright sunny day, and the streets around it are almost deserted.

My week of Monday 30 December 2024 to Sunday 5 January 2025 represented a transition from a shit year to a year which may be more shit or may be less shit. Either way, we made a podcast about the year that has been, and a bingo card for the year which is to come.