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Wednesday 12th August 2026
9:30 am - 10:00 amWednesday 12th August 2026
10:30 am - 11:00 amDr Karl joins Susan Graham-Ryan on ABC Townsville
Wednesday 12th August 2026
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmDr Karl joins Kelly Higgins-Devine on ABC Brisbane/Queensland
Thursday 13th August 2026
9:30 am - 10:00 amDr Karl joins Rory McClaren on ABC Adelaide
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Australian Geographic The Science Behind the Tides
There are about 120 different possible tides each day. There are tides that happen once a day, twice a day, three times a day, four times a day, and so on. THE TOWN OF Karumba – at the Gulf of Carpentaria’s bottom right-hand corner – experiences only one high tide and one low tide each […]
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In the Eye of the Fly
Looking into a fly’s eyes with Dr Karl… THE FLY AND THE EYE! One of the first things that I learnt as an engineer was the old saying “never reinvent the wheel”, which means don’t change something that already works well, like some things in nature, for example. Biomimetics refers to human-made processes, devices and […]
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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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Evil crows, bird funerals, swooping magpies
Ever wondered whether birds are evil? Plus do birds have funerals like humans do?
