Sci Fight: Science/Comedy Debates

At Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate, scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: Psychology is a Freud Featuring award winning comedian Jude Perl, Martin Dunlop, magician and doctor Vyom Sharma, psychologist Kathryn Kallady, neuroscientist Elyas Arvell, and writer/editor extraordinaire Elizabeth Flux, and hosted by Alanta Colley, t...

Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: Neuralink will bring us closer together Elon Musk recently announced the first results from an in-human clinical trial of Neuralink; a brain-computer interface that decodes brain waves allowing humans to control anything from a computer, p...

Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: Natural Selection is over. Biotechnology and genetic research are barrelling ahead 100 miles an hour. It may soon be possible to produce babies from just one person, or six, or more. Scientists speak of a future where babies may be brought...

Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: We are living in a simulation Simulation theory posits the notion that if humanity doesn’t wipe itself out shortly, humans of the future will have massive computers. This seems legit. But if they have massive computers; several annoying co...

Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate brings together comedians and scientists to debate serious issues in a ridiculous way. Proceedings are loosely held together by your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley [citation needed]. Sci Fight has been described as a nerdy, silly, and only occasionally litigious romp into what it even means to be alive. This round, we debate: should we fear AI? Just this y...

Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: We are living in a simulation Simulation theory posits the notion that if humanity doesn’t wipe itself out shortly, humans of the future will have massive computers. This seems legit. But if they have massive computers; several annoying co...

Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate brings together comedians and scientists to debate serious issues in a ridiculous way. Proceedings are loosely held together by your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley [citation needed]. Sci Fight has been described as a nerdy, silly, and only occasionally litigious romp into what it even means to be alive. This round, we debate: should we fear AI? Just this y...

Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. Thrilled to celebrate National Science Week 2023 in partnership with the Science Gallery Melbourne! This rounds’ topic: We should embrace our animal nature. We are animals. We may have pulled ourselves out of the primordial muck by our bootstraps. We may have invented sophist...

Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: We should search for life out there. Since humanity became conscious of a universe stretching out far beyond our own little turquoise home, we’ve repeatedly wondered, are we really alone? Or is there life out there? And; have we offended i...

Sci Fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: We should fear AI. AI is all up in your business. It knows when you’ve been sleeping. It knows when you’re awake. It knows things about you that would bring a family bingo night to an awkward halt. And there’s new ways it's being used ever...

Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: We should live forever! One thing we know to be true - when something is good, more of it is better! Like coffee, sun and heroin. Ergo this precious gift of life must be all the more valuable if we could live forever! As scientists get sca...

Sci fight is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: Bodies are horrible Bodies. You’ve probably got one. Unless you’re a concept. Or an algorithm. Or a sentient shade of purple. Either way, this is an inclusive space. Trapped within this profusion of soggy tubes and various humors, we stumb...

Sci Fight is a quarterly science comedy debate, with your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley. Sci Fight brings together science folk and comedy folk, and makes them debate the big issues in a silly way. Drugs. You’ve probably heard of them. Not welcomed in your luggage; your blood test results or the Olympics.  They’ve had wars against them, they’ve founded Empires, and are administered by d...

Sci Fight is a quarterly science comedy debate, with your definitely qualified host, Alanta Colley (citation needed). Sci Fight brings together science folk and comedy folk, and makes them debate the big issues in a silly way. This round we turn to pleasure. Finally! What is it? Where does it come from, and can I have some please? Pleasure is part of our biological make-up; evolution's way of prod...

Sci Fight ( www.scifight.com.au/ ) is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round we turn to pleasure. Finally! What is it? Where does it come from, and can I have some please? Pleasure is part of our biological make-up; evolution's way of prodding us to consume calories, procreate, and not freeze to dea...

Sci Fight ( www.scifight.com.au/ ) is a quarterly Science Comedy Debate where scientists and comedians come together to debate serious issues in a ridiculous manner. This round's topic: Scientists go to heaven. Scientists do God's work. They seek truth; divorced from opinion or ambition. They put society's needs ahead of their own. They pursue their research with diligence, patience, and humility....

Sci-Fight hits Kalaide Theatre for this special National Sustainable Living Festival event! Academics, scientists and comedians put forth the case as to whether this is fine or whether it's time to unleash chaos. Come and make your breakdown evidence based! Humans have made it through some pretty tricky times. We survived that ice age 40,000 years ago. The black plague epidemic wasn’t exactly a bu...

Liking the show? Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here! Support us directly, we'd really appreciate it! Recorded at Howler, December 12th. Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is a bi-monthly science and comedy debate held at Howler Bar, Brunswick in Melbourne. Hosted by science comedian Alanta Colley, it’s almost always a lot of fun and only occasionally results in defamation cases. Now...

Liking the show? Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here! Support us directly on Pozible! Climactic Community Corner Night Terrace Kickstarter Larry Leadbeater Kickstarter The Commons Library Recorded at Howler, October 17th. Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is a bi-monthly science and comedy debate held at Howler Bar, Brunswick in Melbourne. Hosted by science comedian Alanta Colley, it...

Recorded at Howler, August 21st. This month, Sci Fight Science Comedy Debate is partnering with Science Gallery Melbourne to explore their 2019 exhibition theme: Disposable. Are we a disposable species? The 20th Century has seen humanity's focused on creating inbuilt obsolescence, of single use everything, why should it not apply to the whole human race as well? We turned liquid dinosaur juice int...