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Who is Joanne?

Speaking

Joanne has given keynote addresses and dinner speeches at national conferences and launches, for groups like CPA’s (Certified Practicing Accountants), Transplant Nurses Association, Aged Care Australia, BDS Accounting, The Australian Science Teachers Association, The Australian Science Festival, ACTEW (ACT Electricity and Water), and Amnesty International.

She’s a specialist on anti-aging, genetics and the future of medicine, as well as on the science of using humour and images to get a message across. Joanne has also performed for over 50,000 students around Australia. The science shows got rave reviews.

On Radio

For two years Joanne talked each week on 2CN in Canberra as well as other stations in country WA, Geelong, Brisbane. In the five minute prime-time spot she discussed the news and science of things like sperm, cooking, health and sleep. Joanne once filled in for the ever popular Dr Karl Kruszelnicki on ABC stations around Australia.

“I always dread any of our regulars going away… If you’re keen to come back it means we can now rest a bit easier next time Karl takes the family back of Bourke. You really excelled at a tough gig.”
Jen Oldershaw, Triple J

“Should the big fella ever fall under a bus, we’ll be knockin’ at your door….”
Craig, Jen’s producer

On Television

Joanne hosted the first series of Y?, a children’s science program. The 65 episodes of ‘Y?’ screened on Channel 9 at 4 p.m. each day from Nov 1999 to Feb 2000. In the studio Joanne did everything from popping lids off tins, to making slime with laundry cleaners, as well as research and scripting. Joanne has also been a guest on Good News Week, and worked for a while on TV1’s Space Cadets — Foxtel’s sci-fi lovers show. She has been a guest on Midday and 11AM.

Qualifications

Joanne Nova finished her Bachelor of Science degree with first class honours, A+ grades and both the FH Faulding, and The Swan Brewery Prizes, at the University of Western Australia. She majored in Microbiology, Molecular Biology and doing honours research into DNA markers for use in Muscular Dystrophy trials. She also has a Graduate Certificate in Science Communication from the ANU, and worked for three years as an Associate Lecturer for the Graduate Diploma in Science Communication program at the Australian National University.

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A freelance science presenter & writer, professional speaker and former TV host; author of The Skeptics Handbook (over 200,000 copies distributed & available in ten languages).

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The Chilling Stars, Henrik Svensmark & Nigel Calder. The puzzle pieces come together despite the resistance.

The Great Global Warming Blunder, Roy Spencer

Climatism, Steve Goreham

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Fred Singer

Climategate The CRUTape Letters, Steven Mosher

The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud, And those who are too fearful to do so, Lawrence Solomon.

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science, Ian Plimer

The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? Christopher Booker

CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs, Craig Idso. The science of CO2 and the oceans. It's an intense review with 23 pages of references. Many mythical fears debunked.

Red Hot Lies, Christopher Horner

The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them, Iain Murray

Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them, Steven Milloy

Eat the Rich, PJ O Rourke. It's old, but it's one of the funniest books I ever read. Sure beats learning economics from text-books.

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (Paperback), Amity Shlaes. Economic and political history, well told.

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. Ahead of it's time in 1995, if you haven't read Thomas Sowell, it's a good place to start.

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (Paperback), G Edward Griffin. Possibly the most chilling book I ever read.

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