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Festivals, curves, core-gasms

When can we go to music festivals again? Can you store a fart in a jar? Can exercising make you orgasm? Dr Karl answers these questions and more on triple j Mornings, with host Lucy Smith and Dr Norman Swan from the ABC’s Coronacast podcast,

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Muscle memory, buttery sweat and our robot overlords

Where does the wind come from? Can we affect other peoples dreams? Why do some people smell like butter when they sweat?


National Geographic Kids

How Do Birds Flock?

We still don’t understand how birds fly in flocks and make patterns that look so obviously organised.  After all, they don’t get together beforehand to agree on a series of manoeuvres once they reach altitude!   Nevertheless, this collective behaviour emerges from the combined actions of thousands of independent creatures. How? The birds follow three simple […]

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Coconut oil, inhaling smoke, tiredness

Coconut oil, inhaling smoke and why you might feel tired when you’re doing nothing?