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Marta's Micro-Market Mirth - part 2

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Marta's Micro-Market Mirth - part 1

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Brain Fog Therapy

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Nuclear Australia - pros and cons

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Tardigrades to the Moon!

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The Talking Dead

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Spinal Fusion

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Superworm and fake human meat

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Variants, printed livers and woven TVs

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Desiderosmia

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Precognition Revolution

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Witness Against Assange Lied

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In vitro meat ventriloquism

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SETI giant spiders

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Cystic fibrosis advocacy wins

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Future of Human Needs past

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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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Superlative hydrogen

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Robots Recycle Rags

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Nano 3D Printing

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Brain Stimulation

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The Future of Human Needs

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The Woolf-Pulfrich Effect

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Hearts, strawberries and water

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Operation Crayweed

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Poked plant physics Ant venom

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Science communication and Quantum transistors

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Women's Day, Stem cells, and Multiple Sclerosis

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Insulin DISCO crypto-jacking

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Face recognition and civil rights

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Pupils Pulse at Parkes

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Create UNSW, MakerSpace and Repair Cafe - DIY Day part 2

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What good is consciousness?

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Robonomics, Hyperloop and Autonomous cars

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Robots and Voxels at CeBIT

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Equal Reality for social intelligence

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NAD+ and ageing

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Environmental toxins and civil society

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Save the carnivorous plants

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Science Party Australian Election bonus edition

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Solar racing and women's ageing part 2

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Slowing women's ageing

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Kids 3D print Internet Barbie

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Science Poetry Slam rewind

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Innovation Engineering

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3D printed Jewellery baldness cure

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Life and death of Stars

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Crowd-funding Galaxy Exploration

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Black holes, worm holes and time machines

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Virtual, Augmented and Robot Reality

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Future Day with Aubrey de Grey

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TV spying and Biohacker stimulation

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Maker's Place Think Differently

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Solidifier, Ozberry Pi and RoboDojo

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3D Printing for Everyone

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Wildlife Forensics and Water Divining

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Makers of every generation

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FundScience, Albatross, LoVid

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Semaphore and legal Biohacking

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Play sub-atomic games in Space!

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3D Printing way out West

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Mapping Robots and printed houses

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Spiderman 2 and Money

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Valves, rockets and Doctor Who

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Mini Maker Faire and Google You

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Thorium Trans-Tasman 3MT competition

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SkeptiCamp, Life and HackerSpace

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BitCoin mining and Panspermia

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4D printing and Caring for carers

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Asteroids, Nanowires and Llamas

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3D Paper and Identity theft

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Gambling addiction and Big Data

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Science Spoken Word Spectacular

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Sexual ecology and Pirate privacy

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Magnetic bacteria and chilli

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Chocolate robots

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Microfactories and synthetic food

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Octopus bush and Darwin part2

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Roulette, Nobels, Rocking Science

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Gigabit wires and 3D Printers

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The Seven Deadly Things

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Corpse power and blood pressure genes

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Stelarc and Artificial Brains

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Full attention and half-sunglasses

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Mating dance, Vitamin C and Coal

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Genescient Healthy old age

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Sex Evolution and Technological Art

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Rising seas and the oil crises

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Quolls, laser planes, anosmic flies

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Doc Oc, Element 117, and Nikola Tesla

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Australian Pirate Party, and LHC restarted

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Inside the Earth, pharmacogenomics

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Solar Gem, and Wolverine bones

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GAY MUMS, TELOMERES, TRANSSEXUAL CLOWNFISH

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G-spot, wealth and nanotechnology

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Dr Rachie vs anti-vax, and DSM psycho

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Safflower insulin, and sperm spit protons

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Wolverine, snails of steel, and you

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Housework, sex and comedy

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Cancer alternative and Santa's role

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The ghost of Diffusion past - Xmas 2000

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Lung flutes, leg growing and Science circuses

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ET, choice mathematics and farts on Mars

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Portable forensics, and ET in the pub

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Global Warming's Evil Twin

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Rad Cooling, SETI and Augmented Reality

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Mars, Myopia, Mesoglea, Mildred Cohn

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Hot Maths and Disintermediation

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Mystique, pill ills, sin distribution

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Primes, codes and entanglement

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Deadly worms and pig orgasms

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Vaccination special!

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Dating science, brains and bacterial art

MP3 What are the seven secrets of successful online dating? Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf unravel the mysteries; 'Brain spindles that minds are made of' Nija Dalal talks to Charles Siebert about our brains; And Patrick Rubie reveals bacterial artists...

Dust, smart dogs and rats on twitter

MP3 Marc West explains the new dust storms that have hit Australia, Marc and Ian Woolf discuss whether the internet is addictive, and just how smart are dogs really? Presented and produced by Ian Woolf...

Dark Energy, Vacuum and Casimir forces

MP3 Ian Woolf reports on Lawrence Karuss's talk on Dark Energy at the Powerhouse Museum, Marc West and Ian Woolf discuss the expansion of the Universe, and harnessing Casimir forces from quantum vacuum energy. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf...

Music and Viruses

MP3 Fighting HIV' Patrick Rubie interviews Andrew Low from the Centre for Excellence in Medical Research, the University of British Columbia about the newest weapons to fight HIV. Lachlan Whatmore presents Part 2 of his tribute to Les Paul, honouring...

Coffee and Guitar science

MP3 We get you up with the science of coffee, take you on a journey of musical genius with guitarist Les Paul, and generally squeeze so much science out of your stomach that you'll need a gastric bi-pass. Lachlan Whatmore...

Power, art and cocktails

MP3 Marc West talks with Jon Lomberg about sending art to aliens on the Voyager space probe, Ian Woolf speaks with Brian Lennon about smal, cheap and locally owned Geothermal Power plants and the Emissions Trading Scheme, Marc West drinks...

10daysofscience and marijuana science

MP3 Caitlin Howlett interviews Kate Hennessy, editor of www.10daysofscience.com about the Ultimo Science Festival, Victoria Bond celebrates 400 years of Galilean astronomy, Dan Keogh and Caitlin Howlett lead a discussion on the science of marijuana with Celine Steinfield, Victoria Bond,...

Emailing aliens, and Future Festivals

MP3 Marc West talks with Jacqui Hayes about the HelloFromEarth.net project, From the Live Futures Festival, Dr Zheng asks us about what it should be like to live in cities in the future, Natalie Rowland talks to Ian Woolf about...

The Diffusion Science Show Trivia Special!

MP3 Join Marc West, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf as we tackle questions in mathematics, biology, popular science and chemistry. Can you do better than the team? Produced and Panelled by Marc West Also starring Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf...

Karaoke science, stock superstitions

MP3 Australian uranium, the weapons makers who own it, and the new weapons in our region by Ian Woolf, Karaoke therapy to help sufferers of mild aphasia regain their voice by Ian Woolf, Superstition and the stock market by Marc...

Designer thinking and coral reefs 101

MP3 Ian Woolf speaks to Deborah Kneeshaw about using Design thinking to solve the world's problems, Lachaln Whatmore explains the nature of coral reefs to Marc West, News by Ian Woolf - unseen giant object crashes into Jupiter - circumcising...

Moon landings and Whalesong

MP3 Ian Woolf informs us on 10 Apollo 11 facts that will surprise you, Ian and Marc West chat the science and politics of moon landings, and we feature some out-of-this-world music. And just for balance, we come back to...

Newly possible futures

MP3 Futurist Janine Cahill interviewed by Ian Woolf about how we are living in an era where the impossible is becoming possible, News by Ian Woolf - Photographic memory pills, - Caffeine may reverse Alzheimers - zapping brains - Urine...

Ritzian physics and imaginary friends

MP3 Did you have an imaginary friend? Do you think the scientific establishment is suppressing alternative theories? Caitlin Howlett discusses giraffe evolution and Saturn's moons, and the benefits of imaginary conversations. John August debates the Ritzian alternative to Einstein's relativity...

Future Fab Labs and Fish and Chip cars

play now In this special edition from the Live Futures 2020 Festival, Brian Lennon speaks to Ian Woolf about the Fab Lab that could make anything with 3D printers and cars that run on used vegetable oil left over...

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