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Know Idea with Max, Jay, Peta, Vi, Issy & Gabe
Know Idea is your weekly dose of science on 4ZZZ for over 10 years! All things space & time, environment, health, tech, psychology plus everything else in-between.
Recorded live at 4ZZZ on Wednesday 10-12 in Meanjin/Brisbane.

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Yesterday · 1 hr 1 min
DOOM, Draculas, and The Colour Purple.
REWIND: Flamingo Feeding Fashion, Purple Is The New Black, Finding Vegan Dracula x3, REWIND: Waving at Cuttlefish, MotoRap, QuakeCon and Doom on EVERYTHING: What's NeXT?, and Space News
August 21 · 1 hr 5 min
Seeding Science for National Science Week 2026
Sextilis BC, Training Asymmetry and Emotion Recognition in Canines, Unlikely Seed Spreaders, Shark Dandruff for Science, STEM Increase - Correlation or Causation, MotoRap, Aging Achilles, Crashing After Release, and Space News
August 14 · 1 hr 22 min
Fiercely Independent Science - Targeted Wiping
#712 Can-Am, N.E.U.SLee.P., The Red Back Somersaulting Mating Ritual, What is Kenough?, Coordinated Humpback Hunting, MotoRap, Ninajirachi Aside, Wanna Cry, Fermenting Finesse in Cocoa, and Space News
August 7 · 1 hr 9 min
Muppets Jump on Science and eSafety Outcomes
Eucalyptus Domination, Predicting Melody, 'PA.RA.C.H.U.T.E.': A Randomised Controlled Trial, Marine Muppet Minotaur MPREG, MotoRap, Night Vision Upgrades to Multicolour, eSafety Results of Social Media Ban, and Space News
July 31 · 1 hr 9 min
Hitting The Fish for Orca Excitement
PREX 710, Viral Sunfish Piñata, Diving Deep into Phantom Midges, Barista Approved Bio-Diesel, Bubbles Key for Floating on Junk, Learning About The Likweli, AusAlert 'Success', and Space News
July 24 · 1 hr
Getting 🧠'y
REWIND: Rusty Runoff, Vitamin [C]ortex. REWIND: Sharky Threesome, P.A.D.ding Brain Scans, MotoRap, Fable of Mythos, Indigenous Smallpox Epidemic, and Space News
July 17 · 1 hr 9 min
Uncanny and Uncancellable Listening
US708, How Great Can A Greater Glider Glide?, Uncanny Macaque, Listening to Pinnipeds, MotoRap, Benefits of Being Culturally Picky, Listener Query, Fermenting Uranium Contaminated Wastewater, and Space News
July 10 · 1 hr 8 min
Unconscious Listening: Shiny Legs, Math Brains, and Hovering Wings.
Missing Boeing 707, Unconscious Predictions, Long Necked and Simple Addition, Seafood Source of CMNV, MotoRap, Storing Waves, Shiny New Frog, Wind Stability in Kestrels, and Space News
July 3 · 1 hr 16 min
Placebo Backpacks
706 Ships, Placebo History: Outcomes, Deception, and Expectation, SCUBA Cockroach, Overheating Mesotherms, MotoRap, QS Rankings, Rounding Up in The World Cup, and Space News
June 26 · 1 hr 11 min
Snaring Scientific Discoveries
705′ of Icy Climate Records, The Origin of Laughter, Ballista Spider: A Speedy Snare, Diamantinic Miocene Necropolis, H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b in Australia, AI Designed Vaccinations, and Space News.
June 19 · 1 hr 13 min
Your Brain on World Cup
A Kepler Year, Cleaning with Fire(whirl), Finch Calls: Summer is Coming, Octo-Mirror-Mapping, MotoRap, Mythos and Fable 5, Supercomputer Simulation Predictions, Turning to Science, and Space News. Octopus mirror soccer ball
June 12 · 1 hr 11 min
Swell Melbourne Buoys
Picking Our Brain: 703 Times, BridgeMaxxing, Putting the Right Paw Forward, RoboRoach, Swell Melbourne Buoys, MotoRap, SpiderCam, Tool Use: Bee Edition, and Space News
June 5 · 1 hr 3 min
Correlating Behaviour
Inhibition in 702 old people, Standing for Cerebral Handed, Shocking Eyes Into Shape, Fishy Zoomer Screen Time, MotoRap, Effects of Influencers, and Space News
May 29 · 59 min
The Kimchi Smoothy Experience
CBA3656, BananaBerry Controversy, REWIND: Seals Are Picky Eaters, Oldest Tool, MotoRap, Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak, Guava's Iron Studies, Space News, and The State of Origin Address
May 22 · 58 min
Charged Papers and Sceptics
700 Million Years Ago, Drinking Grape Kool Aid, Paper Batteries, Need for Speed, Microplastic Wins, Diving into K'gari, MotoRap, Winging It, and Space News
May 15 · 1 hr 1 min
Piss Me Off Science
699 Pages of Notes, Getting Psily with Fishy, "Self Protection" in Insect Pain, Eggs on the Brain, Aquatic Mammals: Yell Louder, MotoRap, Giant Dragonflies Back?, Metabolising the Cysts of PMOS, and Space News
May 8 · 1 hr 8 min
Brain Washing
Tropoelastine, Sideways Carcinisation, Fleeing From Birds, Crunching for a Clean Cerebelum, Wiped Out Seals, MotoRap, Yawning over Brain Cleaning, and Space Cardboard News.
May 1 · 1 hr 7 min
Four Rings, One Goal
Conducting Caffeinated Chemistry, On This Day: Roget's Thesaurus, Wooly Bones, AI Accuracy in Passive Acoutics, MotoRap, A Journey Through Imagination, Controlling Ear Rumbling, and Space News
April 24 · 1 hr 1 min
Guesstimating Science
Perception Guesstimation, Smooth Boned Deepfakes, Nature’s NBN, Cocaine Salmon, MotoRap, 大蟇, and Space News.
April 17 · 1 hr 14 min
Swiping, Screaming, and Sniffing Sticks
Counting Creatures, Triggering Hyposmia, The Chimp Empire War, Clicking with the Author, The Effort Swiping Left, MotoRap, The Psyche of Claude Mythos, Klepto Fish Wish, April Atonement, and Space News.

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