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Ian Woolf gives a brief history of the world wide web,
and reports on faces sculpted from DNA data.
Gina Sartore tells us about 19th Century astronomer Maria Mitchell.
Dr Uté Vollmer-Conna from the University of New South Wales spoke to Marian Curruthers about why Baby Talk is so strange.
Michael Archer from the University of NSW spoke with Ian Woolf and Marian Curruthers about gene sharing between species.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Stranger Visions
Creepy or cool
The Mother of All Demos 1968 highlights

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Ian Woolf reports on Harvard University flies robot bees.
Janine Cahill speaks with Ian Woolf about improving the future with games.
Silkmoths ride robot tricycles cruising for sexy females in Japan, for science! Ian Woolf explains.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

Odour-tracking capability of a silkmoth driving a mobile robot with turning bias and time delay
Remote control of a cyborg moth using carbon nanotube-enhanced flexible neuroprosthetic probe
Steering control of a mobile robot using insect antennae
Cockroaches Transcend
Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot:
Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by
Garnet Hertz
Researchers create robot exoskeleton that is controlled by a moth running on a trackball
Moth takes the driver's seat in smell-tracking robot
Moths That Drive Cars (Really)
Living robotic tongue installation

CSI: Creative Science Investigation game
FISH@6 Xmas giving game
FutureJourneys Game Lab
Game Jam Third Life
Gameworlds as learning space

Harvard Mirco-robotics Lab

Cyborg moth driving a helium balloon


Siamese fighting fish controlling robot arms to move through space

Science Channel (USA, 2008) Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot v3 from Garnet Hertz on Vimeo.

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Ian Woolf reports on Wind powered nuclear weapons, Google Glass, and turtle freezing genomes.
Angus Deveson spoke with Ian Woolf about RoboWars Sydney,
Glowing mouse draculas return to heal aged hearts - Ian Woolf explains.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

RoboWars
RoboWars Sydney 2013 Pozible crowd-funding
The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage
NNSA Awards Contract for Largest Federal Wind Farm to Siemens Government Technologies, Inc.
Growth Differentiation Factor 11 Is a Circulating Factor that Reverses Age-Related Cardiac Hypertrophy
Skin hunger and mouse draculas
Blood protein Rejuvenates Aging Heart
Heterochronic parabiosis: historical perspective and methodological considerations for studies of aging and longevity

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Angus Deveson spoke with Ian Woolf about Microfactories and 3D printing
Ian Woolf explores synthetic food, from lab grown hamburgers, to food printers, and the man who is just a social eater.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf


Sydney 3D Printers Meetup
uFactory - Micro scale Manufacturing in the Heart of Sydney

Cultured meat:
Fake meat: is science fiction on the verge of becoming fact?
Use of Fetal calf serum
Can Designer Foods Sell The Public On Lab-Grown Meat?
Lab Grown Meat
In-Vitro meat: $325,000 lab-grown hamburger 'tastes reasonably good'
Would you eat a burger grown in a laboratory?
Building a $325, 000 Burger
Modern Meadow
Laboratory Leather: Company to Mass Produce Tissue-Engineered Animal Hides within Five Years
Modern Meadow aims to print raw meat using bioprinter
Lab meat Limerick
3D food printers
3D Printing: Food in Space
The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food
NASA Bites On 3D-Printed Food: Automatic Pizza Assembly Machine Could Fuel Astronauts To Mars
How 3D Printers Could Reinvent NASA Space Food
Soylent
Soylent - Free Your Body
What's in Soylent?
In Defense of New Food
Soylent Corporation prepares to DEFEAT FOOD