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March 1, 2011

Nuclear medicine and the Singularity


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What is the technological Singularity?
I'm Atoms by Derek Muller
Can medical radioisotopes be made without reactors and without Uranium?
Singularitarian by Charlie Cam
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf



March 7, 2011

Smart Bras and cheesey pickup lines


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Smart Bras and cheesey pickup lines

Phillipe Perez interviews Dr Timothy C. Nielsen about the Smart Bra
News by Ian Woolf
-BBC saved by Bit Torrent,
-Electro-shock body armour,
-Mulchable PC cases,
-Solar roads,
-Singularity Summit Australia 2011,
-Jurassic Lounge,
-Cheesey pickup lines have a purpose
Gravity by Derek Muller,
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

March 14, 2011

First computers and Radio mashups


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Peter Bowditch describes Australia's first computer science,
Smooth by Derek Muller,
Ian Woolf talks with Balint Seeber about radio-frequency mashups,
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

Balint's main website: http://spench.net/
Balint's Radio-frequency map: http://maps.spench.net/rf/



March 21, 2011

TB Day and CSIRO Vacations


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Kate Barnard speaks to students in the CSIRO Vacation Scholarship Program,
Victoria Bond talks about World Tuberculosis Day,
Ian Woolf interviews Professor Geoff Smith about the importance of Nanophotonics to environmental energy flows,
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf



Bryan Huang (pics at http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/mediarelease/mr11-08.html):
Follow that blimp! Bryan Huang has built a doughnut shaped blimp to guide people from reception to meeting rooms in the CSIRO building in Pullenvale, Queensland. Check out this YouTube video to see how it works.

Nice to tweet you! Cassie Hill has been working on finding communities within groups of Twitter users.


Tarek Elgindy is working on a computer program that automatically analyses mammogram images to classify breast density; women with higher density breasts are at a higher risk of breast cancer and are also more prone to misdiagnosis.


Some of the Sydney-based CSIRO vacation students can’t contain their enthusiasm for all things technological, astronomical and mathematical

March 28, 2011

Smart Windows and Morton's Demon


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Peter Bowditch, of ratbags.com, discusses "Confirmation bias, denialism and
Morton's Demon".
Professor Geoff Smith spoke to Ian Woolf about how nano-photonics
can be used for smart clothes and smart windows.

Presented by Ian Woolf,
Produced by Victoria Bond


Geoff Smith

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