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AE 1439 - 5-Minute News: You Could Once Walk Across the Great Barrier Reef!
20,000 years ago you could have walked across parts of the Great Barrier Reef. Pete explains how scientists on the RV Investigator, working with Darumbal and Woppaburra traditional owners, are mapping this lost underwater landscape.
AE 1436 - 5-Minute News: Why Do These Computers Need To Be Fed?
Imagine a computer that needs to be fed. Pete explores Melbourne-based Cortical Labs' biological computers in Singapore — machines combining silicon chips with 200,000 lab-grown human neurons that need oxygen and sugar to survive.
AE 1434 - Why Are These Galah's Cracking Tinnies? | Does Dad Know It Ep 4
Ever wondered why Aussies call someone a "galah" or what it means to "give it a burl"? Pete and his dad Ian crack open ten classic Aussie slang terms — from why our native birds act like clowns to whether "muzz" is real local lingo or just a tech glitch.
AE 1433 - The Goss: Why Do Aussies Love Camping?
Why are Aussies so obsessed with packing up the car and heading into the bush? Pete and Ian have a proper yarn about Australian camping — canvas tents in torrential downpours at Wilsons Prom, pushy wombats, and why our wildlife gets a worse rap than it deserves.
AE 1432 - 5-Minute News: Why Is Australia Vaccinating 5,000 Penguins?
How do you vaccinate over 5,000 completely wild penguins — not once, but twice? In this debut Five Minute News episode, Pete breaks down Australia's effort to protect the world's largest little penguin colony from H5N1 bird flu, and teaches the expression "worst-case scenario".
AE 1431 - Aussie Childhoods Were Epic! What Do We Miss Most?
Pete and his dad have a good old-fashioned yarn about the little things that made growing up in Australia so magical — mixed lolly bags at the milk bar, footy in the street until the streetlights came on, trading Tazos, and why being bored as a kid was the best thing ever.
AE 1430 - Dead Horses & Flat Lizards - Does Dad Know It? Ep 3
Pete and Ian put ten iconic Aussie slang terms to the test — decoding rhyming slang like "dead horse" and "Captain Cook", why a snag is a "mystery bag", and why tone is everything when you're slinging a "good on you".
AE 1429 - Do Aussies Actually Use These 10 Slang Terms? - Does Dad Know It? Ep 2
Episode two of Does Dad Know It? Pete and his old man decode outrageous sayings like "the duck's guts" and "Barry Crocker", and work out why rich city folks drive "Toorak tractors" — with plenty of laughs and cultural context.
AE 1428 - 10 Australian Slang Terms & Expressions - Does Dad Know It? Ep 1
Ever wondered if true-blue Aussies actually use words like drongo or bin chicken in everyday chat? Pete sits down with his dad to put ten classic Aussie slang terms to the ultimate test — from chucking a sickie to what "yeah, nah" really means.
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