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The second last JIOT1 on UMFM. I threw caution to the wind, and basically played a greatest hits show. Really great fast-paced show! All this for the lead up to the big finale next week!

Alex and Rob cast an irreverent eye over local news from their respective home towns.

Listeners can submit stories from their local area to:lapodcast.net@gmail.com

Stories this week include:

• Spurned jockey covers ex-girlfriend's car in horse manure.
• Gang of burglars dressed as landscape gardeners target homes. 
• Locals call news story about cat barred from pub 'cat-astrophic'.
• Fire brigade defends seagull rescue by making outlandish claim that 'highly evolved' bird dialled 999. 

Also revealed: Alex's paranormal celebrity sighting. 

This week on the show the guys talk about one of the Very Special Episode classics. The season 2 Mr. Belvedere episode "Wesley's Friend". Can Aids in the 80s be funny? How can't you get Aids? Will Kevin get that easy A in home ec class? What obstacles can't a childhood friendship overcome? These topics plus bucket list trailblazing. Please enjoy the show. This is Very Special Episode!

Cole, Vanessa and the wryly funny Brice Beckham (Wesley from "Mr. Belvedere") talk the San Diego Chicken, Lady GaGa vs. Weird Al, Game of Thrones, Robert Goulet, debunking Belvedere myths, Brocktune, Drama 3/4 Productions, Dune characters, humorless Prince, being too dark for Spike & Mike, unusual musicals, pranking the Pres, Leon Redbone, molestisodes, and the [...]

Ireland's Maths Problem; Shape-shifting implants; Mobile defibrillator IMAGE: A smartphone, such as this iphone, could be converted into a mobile defibrillator, according to Belvedere College science students [Credit: Gizmodo] What's it all about? Electroactive Polymers, or EAPs, are materials that change shape in response to electricity. These have potential for use as futuristic medical devices, for use, for example, in people with cardiovascular disease. Frank Stam of the Tyndall National Institute tells us more.  The question is?  The latest OECD report on maths standards shows Ireland has slipped into the bottom half of the league table when it comes to maths standards among developed nations. We ask Dr Sara McMurry, a retired physicist from TCD, and the author of a new book called 'Mathematics as a language' where she thinks we are going wrong.  Inventive minds We talk this week to two Belvedere College students, Owen Killian and Lucas Grange, that will be exhibiting their idea for a smartphone defibrillator at the upcoming BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition  To contact the show with comments, suggestions or suggests, email: sciencespinning@dublincityfm.ie To SUBSCRIBE to receive a podcast of the show each week, simply email the word 'SUBSCRIBE' to sciencespinning@dublincityfm.ie Thanks for listening Sean Duke, Presenter & Producer, Science Spinning on 103.2 Dublin City FM.

An exhibition on the statesman and art patron Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carignan is currently open at Vienna’s Belvedere gallery.

Wherein lies "The Power of Ornaments"? The curator Sabine B. Vogel and the artist Parastou Forouhar answer at the Orangery, Lower Belvedere.