In a post-truth world how do we bring scientific discussions to a public audience?
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Science communication – the Renaissance touch
The Agtech revolution is here
Science fiction and futurists visions (e.g. Brian D. Colwell) commonly depict robots running agricultural production, for example, automated farm harvest machinery in the film Interstellar.
Food waste is a big global issue
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has estimated that a third of all food produced globally is wasted, that’s 1.3B tonnes.
To put that in context, the Great Pyramid at Giza weighs about 5 million tonnes. If that were food waste it would weigh about 1.4 million tonnes (because food is less dense than stone), so the amount of food waste produced globally is equivalent to just less than 1000 Great Pyramids of Giza.
That’s a lot of food.
DNA’s role in timber tracking
In this public lecture, Prof Andy Lowe speaks about the use of DNA to potentially solve conservation problems, particularly with regards to timber tracking.
Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference
Prof Andy Lowe celebrates the success of the Fourth International Barcord of Life Conference in 2011, and the implementation of barcoding technologies across industries in Australia.
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TEDxAdelaide – DNA Barcoding for Biodiversity
Biodiversity and ecosystems provide us with clean air, water, and access to food.
However we don’t really know much about the basic building blocks of biodiversity.
How many species are there on earth? 10 million? What does this mean for humans? Over 250 years we’ve probably found and named approximately 1 million species, approx 10% of the biodiversity on earth.
At the same time the rate of intinction is increasing.
We’re going to need some help.
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Following trend
Prof Andy Lowe officially launches Trend at the 2011 WOMAD Earth Station Festival.
