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In Conversation |
In Conversation features leading science writer and broadcaster Robyn Williams talking one-on-one with science professionals and other leading figures who have an interest in the field. The program´s wide-ranging interviews explore a diverse array of scientific topics that engage Robyn´s local and international guests. In Conversation is published every Thursday.
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- 2009-01-01 Dr Stephanie SnowDecember 31 2008
- We are not very good at putting up with pain. Little more than a hundred years ago people had no choice. Legs, breasts and teeth were removed with no relief beyond a stiff drink. But then, as author Stephanie Snow tells Nicky Phillips, scientists groped their way towards effective anaesthetics. But why wasn't the process of discovery more straightforward? Dr Snow's book is Blessed Days Of Anaesthesia.
- 2008-12-25 John HarveyDecember 24 2008
- One day we shall not need all the bulk of a computer on a desk -- just a keyboard. The rest would be virtual, like the internet. John Harvey, executive director of IBM Australia, looks to the future of computing.
- 2008-12-18 Freeman DysonDecember 17 2008
- Prof Freeman Dyson of Princeton has long been a critic of climate change orthodoxies. Here he talks of his life as a daring proposer of ideas - such as the genetically modified trees to soak up carbon dioxide and kites flying in Antarctica to cause more snowfall and abate sea level rise.
- 2008-12-11 Dr Stuart KhanDecember 10 2008
- What, finally, does science offer in this continuing saga? As Queensland alternates like a berserk pendulum between accepting or rejecting recycling, Dr Stuart Khan from the Water Research Centre at the University of NSW tells Nicky Phillips what works and what doesn't.