Brains Matter © - 169 – Dr Charley Lineweaver – The Birth, Life, and Death of our Planet… and the Universe

169 – Dr Charley Lineweaver – The Birth, Life, and Death of our Planet… and the Universe

08/06/13 • -1 min

The following recording is of the 2013 Astronomical Society of Australia’s Harley Wood Lecture, hosted by the Monash Centre for Astrophysics.

People, planets, stars, and even universes are born, they live for a while, and then die. Associate Professor Charles Lineweaver reviews what we now about the origin of the Earth and the origin of the life on it – the coming extinction of this life and the death of the Earth and Sun. The second law of thermodynamics is relevant to the birth and death of the universe.

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This episode is supported by the Monash Centre for Astrophysics

The following recording is of the 2013 Astronomical Society of Australia’s Harley Wood Lecture, hosted by the Monash Centre for Astrophysics.

Download MP3 of Ep 169

This episode is supported by the Monash Centre for Astrophysics

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In today’s episode, I talk to Matthew Witkowski, a PhD student at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, on his research into the relationship between the Ikaros Gene and Leukemia.

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– Matt’s background
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– Matt’s work in his PhD
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– What are the possible outcomes from this research?

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