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 every day; AI may soon be used in judicial sentencing, in medical diagnoses and to care for the elderly. AI is able to be programmed out of the subjectivities and biases of us fallible humans, and it eats ..read more

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 scarily good at herding stem cells, lengthening telomeres, and hacking DNA, this messy business of death looks more and more negotiable. Why go through the indignity of decrepitude if one might not have ..read more

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 drug lords, drug barons, though conspicuously few Drug Earls (except Grey).  They’re generally used as a bi-word for criminals and seen as the scourge of the streets. Addiction reaks havoc fo ..read more

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 prodding us to consume calories, procreate, and not freeze to death, so surely seeking pleasure is only natural? If nothing else, pleasure is a small compensation for all the suffering we endure simply by ..read more

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 death, so surely seeking pleasure is only natural? If nothing else, pleasure is a small compensation for all the suffering we endure simply by being trapped in these ridiculous meat vehicles, what with all ..read more

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 bundle of laughs. Then there was a world war, AND its sequel, which was even worse than the original. We even soldiered through the Boy Band fad of the 90s. Which girl were they all even singing about ..read more

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 also lives in podcast form at Climactic.fm. This round's topic: Santa Claus is real. We all know him. On a first name basis. This man, with an unorthodox method of entering your living abode and leavi ..read more

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’s almost always a lot of fun and only occasionally results in defamation cases. Now also lives in podcast form at Climactic.fm. *This round's topic: Nature Knows Best. * We are born of nature. We str ..read more

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 into fuel for our cars, we took perfectly happy and inert carbon and flung it into the atmosphere, and we built an entire economy on moving bits of plastic from one place to another, and then back again ..read more