My week of Monday 14 to Sunday 20 September 2020 was both productive and not productive. I spent many hours working, but only a podcast emerged. That’s why the feature image is from last week. Still, it’s an excellent podcast, even if I do say so myself.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 538: So much work, so little output”The 9pm Excess Garlic Biosupremacy with Upulie Divisekera

Upulie Divisekera joins me for the third episode in the Spring Series 2020. She’s a molecular biologist, nanotechnologist, science communicator, and dinosaur evangelist.
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Warmer than average spring weather continued during my week of Monday 6 to Sunday 13 September 2020 — a week with some cybers and some fraud and a podcast about space.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 537: Plodding through spring in the Quarantimes”Talking about the seed brushing scam on ABC RN Breakfast


In recent weeks Australians have started receiving unsolicited packages from China containing seeds, as have random people in other countries. It’s part of a scam called “brushing” and it’s not quite what it seems.
Continue reading “Talking about the seed brushing scam on ABC RN Breakfast”The 9pm Moon Magic Communism on Venus with Dr Space Junk

Space archaeologist Dr Space Junk aka Dr Alice Gorman joins me for the second episode in the Spring Series 2020.
Continue reading “The 9pm Moon Magic Communism on Venus with Dr Space Junk”Weekly Wrap 536: Cybers and a chat at the start of spring
Spring was well under way in my week of Monday 31 August to Sunday 6 September 2020. The wattle was flowering. Birds of so many species were doing what birds do. And my mood improved and productivity rose as the sunlight hours lengthened.
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