And of course it did. The Australian Skeptics Prize for Critical Thinking includes a physicist, two philosophers and two psychologists. Jason Mattingley and Anina Rich are researching the strange world of synaesthesia. So for instance someone who has colour hearing synaesthesia experiences vivid colours when they hear particular sounds. The people I've been working with, they have colours for letters of the alphabet, numbers and often most words.
Some people have multiple synaesthesia.
So for instance someone may have colours for music, for words. We have one lady for whom music elicits odours, so she avoids middle 'C' because that gives her a very earthy musky odour that she doesn't like, and as a jazz pianist she just avoids it. He's been looking at the ecology of the wetlands of eastern Australia. But as all that water drained away it brought new life downstream. The mighty Murray is running into the sea once again in South Australia, just when the entrance looked like closing up for only the second time in recorded history.