Dr Phil Dooley’s science communication exploits are kept in a large backpack called Phil Up On Science.
As well as the entertainment projects you see on this site, he’s a writer, trainer and pub gigger.
Find out more and put him to work on your science via his website philuponscience.com.au.
A science version of Oh When the Saints! I’m singing the hopes and dreams of every scientist
Minister for Vaccines is an amusing look at one man’s path to educate the vaccine hesitant!
Phil tells the story of the search for Gravitational Waves, and one of his earliest lecturers, now a much lauded professor
Dr Phil’s education clip about the revolution in astronomy in the 1920s that predicted our future
As a young girl in India, Madhu Bhaskaran was encouraged to do well in maths by her grandmother, who cooked her the vegetable okra before every maths exam, “to sharpen her brain.”
I wrote this as a writing test in a job interview for CSIRO. Thought it was OK – but i didn’t get the job…. Have you ever wondered what would happen if a shooting star collided […]
It’s a peaceful starry night, but Pete Kuzma has found the remains of a grisly murder in the sky – a dismembered dwarf. galaxy. Part of the Physics in the Pub 2016 with Australian Institute of Physics […]
Bawdy, scientifically accurate limericks about duck sex. Dedicated to For Patricia Brennan, duck copulation and penis researcher from University of Massachusetts.
OK, I admit, there actually is no yoghurt in this video. But the explosion is fun – try this at home, kids!
