A bike tyre is like an air conditioner

• Post published:May 15, 2019
• Post category:Demonstration / physics / video

Pumping up your bike tyre is the same as an air-conditioner , and your fridge…

The latest from my Phil Up On Science YouTube channel

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A Song of Sustainability

• Post published:February 6, 2019
• Post category:Live show / physics in the pub / Science Communication / song / Stand Up Comedy / video

A highlight of my shows is singing the wonderful words of Katie Goodman from Broad Comedy. Here I am doing it in Sustainable Stand Up, Canberra, August 2017. Language warning folks!

It seems to inspire, crowd touch their hearts and set them singing. Will it change the world?

Let’s all be unfuckers!

Original by Katie is here:

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A Sciencey Christmas Jingle

• Post published:December 19, 2018
• Post category:Astronomy / Demonstration / physics / song / video

Y’all have a great christmas and a very merry perihelion!

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Plastic spaghetti cracks 1000!

• Post published:June 15, 2018
• Post category:chemistry / Demonstration / materials / physics / video

Hurrah – 1000 views on my Phil Up On Science YouTube channel for the Plastic Spaghetti video.

 

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Would you let me put drugs in your brain?

• Post published:March 14, 2018
• Post category:biology / materials / nanotech / physics in the pub / poem / video

The amazing Dr Kiara Bruggeman gets all Dr Seuss with her rhyme about her PhD research to develop a bandaid for the brain. Previously she won FameLab people’s choice award with this piece.

 

Filmed at Health and Medical in the Pub at Smiths Alternative in Canberra. Supported by National Science Week ACT, ANU Medical School, Australian Society for Medical Research.

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Using nanoscience to repair the brain’s circuits

• Post published:January 22, 2018
• Post category:biology / materials / nanotech / physics in the pub / video

Nanoscience could be the key to repairing injuries or diseases in the brain, says Dr Vini Gautam in her amazing talk as part of Science in the Pub Canberra.

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Who F&*%ed up the planet?

• Post published:December 22, 2017
• Post category:song / Stand Up Comedy / video

My cover of the amazing Katie Noonan’s song about sustainability and responsibility.  ##LANGUAGE WARNING##

 

The original is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdn3O6aaMNc

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A new diet to save the planet

• Post published:December 11, 2017
• Post category:biology / Stand Up Comedy / video

In August I did a course in Sustainable Stand Up with the marvellous Belina Raffy. Here’s the result. Inappropriate thoughts and bad fart jokes. but we all gotta start somewhere… 🙂

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The nano-satellite revolution

• Post published:December 4, 2017
• Post category:Astronomy / Demonstration / nanotech / physics / physics in the pub / video

Professor Rod Boswell from ANU shows off a nanosatellite and explains how they are revolutionising the space industry.

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Faraday Cage: using a foil Twisties packet to hide from your boss

• Post published:November 28, 2017
• Post category:Demonstration / physics / video

There’s been a lot of news about the electrician who got busted hiding his phone/PDA in a foil Twisties packet to prevent his company from tracking him… so he could go play golf.

So I decided to give it a whirl, in some chocolate wrapper. And then try out the microwave. but that wasn’t so successful!

 

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