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Sleep learning and smell-o-vision - part 3
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How do we smell, again? - part 1
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Small Modular Nuclear Reactors AGAIN
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Brain spindle dating tips
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Choice Blindness
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2023 Ig Nobel Prizes - part 2
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2023 Ig Nobel Prizes - part 1
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AI has a human alignment problem
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Are earthquakes affected by climate change?
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Don't ignore your symptoms
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Graphene power
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Brain Fog Therapy
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WorldCoin and Rejuventation by dilution
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Gravity Maverick - part 2
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Augment your memory
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Killer AI and 2010 Ignobels
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Unsimulated mint longevity
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Categorification, Not A Crime
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Analysing chemicals and Synthesizing text
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Modelling to Mars!
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2022 Ig Nobel Prizes
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Tardigrades to the Moon!
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Spinal Fusion
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Machines Behaving Badly - part 2
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Machines Behaving Badly - part 1
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Fuctional Super Food
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SETI and Alien archaeology
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Small Modular Reactors
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Expressly Human - part 1
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Superworm and fake human meat
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Balancing Medical Censorship
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Autonomous algorithms
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Plants to eat, and plants that eat
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Summon Pompeo - banish EBV
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What Science Policy?
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Creating the Future
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Tiny targeted plastic
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When viruses collude
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Desiderosmia
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Nuclear waste storage
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Gut bugs!
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Quick Tests and Cognitive Biases
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Horizontal Memory Transfer
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The Right To Repair - part 1
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Census and Privacy 2021 - part 1
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Vaccines and surveillance
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20 years of Bug-bots
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Intellectual Property and Medicine - part 1
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Strange Geometry in Antiquity - part 2
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Strange geometry in Antiquity - part 1
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Cyber-pig and Eye-cow
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Life on Mars
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Smell-o-vision and explosive bees
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COVIDFree without COVIDSafe
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Birds and the bees and the bots
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Emerging technology and gender
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Solar Race Suicide Model Virtual Pain
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Little Ice Ages and future housing
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Ig Nobel Prizes Awards 2019
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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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Ignoble Artilect War
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Nano 3D Printing
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Birds, bees and bots
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2018 Ig Nobel Prizes
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Mathematically impossible legislation
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Parasite hacks and computer vision
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Women's Day, Stem cells, and Multiple Sclerosis
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Autonomous artificial intelligence algorithms
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Brain hacking and chocolate
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Asteroid mining and virtual power
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The Forgetting Machine - part 1
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Ig Nobel Prizes 2017
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Terminal decline and Zero emissions
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Face recognition and civil rights
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Pupils Pulse at Parkes
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The five pillars of biohacking
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Bioethics and the Narcissome
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Equal Reality for social intelligence
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NAD+ and Ciguatera Fish Poison
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NAD+ and ageing
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The origin of life - inevitable?
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Mixed Shared Augmented Virtual Reality
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Freeze, wait, reanimate?
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After robots take our jobs
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Identity cards for Australia again?
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Sexual ecology and Pirate privacy again
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2016 Ig Nobel Prizes
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Space Law and blood money
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Savannasaurus and teenage blood
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Longevity policy undetectable faces
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Biohacking longevity and driver-less heroics
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Oz nuclear dump and virtual biohacking
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Diamonds and milk
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Biomimicry and coral bones
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Photobiomodulation and bees
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Weird pets, possums and blood vessels
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Open Source Malaria
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Retro trivia special
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Fine tuning for Life
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Music inspired by Space
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Oz in High Earth Orbit
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Cellf - making a musician
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RobotX Carp telepresence
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Sly Moulds
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STEAM through space bubbles
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Embryonic stem cells and crocodiles again
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Blockchain Citizen Science
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Plasma rocket science
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Ig Nobel Prizes 2015 special edition
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3D printed Jewellery baldness cure
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Dark matter anyon computing
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Gene repair, eggs and entropy
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Inclusion soothes your genes
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Falling cats and Stem cell tourism
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What are you looking at?
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Hyperspectral fleet and Giant robots
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Canada in Space & Google listens
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Brainwaves and Photonics
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Space Biz, Orbital Art and Horses
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DIY EEG and Rocket Scientist networking
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Synthetic Biology De-extinction
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Diet, bacteria, and health
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DIY Space Exploration
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TV spying and Biohacker stimulation
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Transition waves rideable multicopters
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Vaping Freematics
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Carotenoids - why vegetables are good for you
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Singing frogs and spliced mice
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Koalas, robots, and brains
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Mood Dress and the End of the World
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Fact or Fiction Implants
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Giant echidnas drive air conditioned thorium cars
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Re-using carbon and Biohack Syd
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Space law and Bee decisions
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Mission to Earth
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Mapping Robots and printed houses
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Powdered alcohol and Money part 2
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Spiderman 2 and Money
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Pet CSI, treasure maps and cartilage
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Aging brains and Ciguatera
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Embryonic stem cells and crocodiles
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Phish tales and Zapping mosquito bites
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Where is Ciguatera? Ritalin for CFS
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Artificial arguments and alcohol messages
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Healing corneas and building robots
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Stem Cell Revolutions and HIV protein
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Shadow profiles and eating babies
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SkeptiCamp, Life and HackerSpace
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RbutR rebuttals and mosquito fans
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Sexual ecology and Pirate privacy
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Hypercolour vision and soap
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Magnetic bacteria and chilli
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Chocolate robots
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Ian Woolf reports on asteroids with moons, and squeezing breast cancer. At CeBIT 2013 Ian Woolf spoke to Fred Pauling about Telepresence robots, to Cindy Huang about ThunderDownUnder's robot trophy, to Dalton Tandulka...
Kid-friendly science and emulsions
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Head, heart and galaxy
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Pond scum and ALS
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Meteors and publishing
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Voyager 1 and the Multiverses
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Misleading science and carnivorous pineapples
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Sick prawns and sleep rehearsal
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Pokemon thrips, and Night at the disease museum
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Super Vaccines, Meat Ice-cream & Bees!
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Coral Art Life Science TV Eyes
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Pigs in Cyberspace!
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Brain magnets, junk DNA and nymphomania
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Grave chemistry, anti-gravity, attractive armpits and rising sap!
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People puppets and molecular synthesis
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Cricket balls and Climate Fix Flicks
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Corpse power and blood pressure genes
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Cockroaches, crabs and kindness
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Sunstones, chocolate and rain-making
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Disgusting politics and drought resistance
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Protein, penicillin and parasites
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Labile languages and remembering Steve Jobs
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Stelarc and Artificial Brains
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Axis of eating and Secrets of Chocolate
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Artificial Intelligence and windy assassins
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Synthetic organisms and cloud-busting
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Seagrasses, Art and Maggots
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Hormoned beef and fracked farming
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A Social Experiment
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Bones, Devils and Mind Control
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Lizard babies and exploding stars
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Enquiry based learning and Hendra
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I love that word, Meltdown
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Lactating insects and handy fish
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Anatomical anomalies and Cane toads
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Birds and the bees and mint
MP3 Julie-Anne Popple, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf speak with Botanist Dr Trevor Wilson about pollenation and mint, Julie-Anne Popple reports the news: - Cervical cancer vaccination - Greenhouse data shared by CSIRO online - new CSIRO solar hot air...
Let's talk about X... and exits
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Terminal Decline and Zero Emissions
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Phone cancer and giant cuttlefish
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Darwinius and Zombie Fish
MP3 Everyone on the team was either sick or away this week, so we bring you the May 25th show from 2009: Ian Woolf interviews Associate Professor Graham Nicholson about Ciguatera zombie fish poison, Darwinius, science and the media by...
Fear pathways and vampire allergies
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HIV vaccine, Sponge music, casual sex
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Circadian rhythms and sperm teasing
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Bionic Eyes and Synthetic Biology
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Driver Fatigue and Ury's Night
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Protect Research Rally and 3 blind mice
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Fukushima special!
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Handwashing, meltdown and nanocooling
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Smart Windows and Morton's Demon
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TB Day and CSIRO Vacations
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First computers and Radio mashups
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Smart Bras and cheesey pickup lines
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Nuclear medicine and the Singularity
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Unfair reporting and DNA Poetry
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Fire and Transhumanism
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Death by Chocolate!
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Science of Romance special
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Skin hunger and mouse Draculas
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Tsunami warning and Greentech awards
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Younger mice and spider invasions
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Real Doctors eat Breakfast
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Addict detention and child enhancement
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Genescient Healthy old age
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Oxytocin, love and sex
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Ig Nobels 2010 and Artilects 3
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Plankton and the Artilect War
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Gene modified salmon and Sexy dancing
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BSD Sex and Beady-Eyed Agents
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Sports at altitude and Jacob Bronowski
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Wave energy and the Coming Famine
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Photic sneezing and a naked scientist
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Science Week special 2010
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Brown science, Solar cells, horse tale
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Power tool orchestra, self attraction?
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Rare Earth, Horses, Nano-wires
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Female physicists and belly button dynamics
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Beauty and the Geek, and Homeopathy
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Sexual selection and the bionic eye
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Sex Evolution and Technological Art
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Cognitive Load and Vision Revolution
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Solar racing and toxoplasma
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Trigeneration and Sports networks
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R.I.P. Martin Gardner and Rover Phoenix
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Sexy Greys and Super-planes
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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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Dr Rachie vs anti-vax, and DSM psycho
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Safflower insulin, and sperm spit protons
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Earworms and cultured meat
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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
MP3 achlan Whatmore gets squishy on ya with immortal jellyfish. Victoria Bond eulogises the Mars rovers, Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf discuss new understandings about short-sightedness, Ian Woolf and Pat Rubie collide with bread and hadrons Lachlan Whatmore eulogises mighty...
Hot Maths and Disintermediation
MP3 Brigid Mullane interviews Dr Michael Cavanagh about new software to help teach Maths at school, Ian Woolf talks with Futurist Janine Cahill about the paradigm shift from Traditional to New Media, Mobile Banking, Serious Games and Disintermediation. The future...
Mystique, pill ills, sin distribution
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Primes, codes and entanglement
MP3 Prime numbers, secret messages and quantum teleportation! Marc West explore prime numbers and speaks to Terrance Tao. Ian Woolf and Marc West discuss Quantum technology - quantum entanglement, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation. News by Marc West -Mobile phones...
Deadly worms and pig orgasms
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Vaccination special!
MP3 All you need to know about vaccinations! Marc West, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf talk about how vaccines are made, how they work, the biochemistry behind vaccines, the controversies, and even a little maths! Hosted by Ian Woolf Produced...
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
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Power, art and cocktails
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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...
Zombie fish and evolving Darwinius
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LOLcat censorship and Future Journeys
MP3 Futurist Janine Cahill tells Ian Woolf what "gentle whispers" from the Future are telling us about future trends, Ian Woolf reports from Saturday's March in March protest against internet censorship in Australia: - Google Guru Jim Stewart discusses the...
2008 Kisses, tantrums and infections
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Censorship, broken and fixed hearts
MP3 Ian Woolf interviews Crikey tech writer Stilgherrian about the Australian Government's plan to censor the internet. Patrick Rubie tells about heart-powered pacemakers, and why looks matter more at speed dating sessions, Caitlin Howlett pleads the case of whales versus...
Tasmanian Tiger bosses spy syphilis
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Echinoderms, illusions and your brain
MP3 Lachlan Whatmore explores the mysterious world of echinoderms, Ian Woolf reveals the illusion of scarcity, and the panel discusses the latest brain research: gaming gadgets, memory goggles, brain entrainers, happy genes, and why puberty is so difficult. Presented...
Nuclear Waste: Safe for 240,000 years?
play now A Diffusion Science Nuclear Special. We look at the breakdown of nuclear waste storage materials with time, and the problems associated with cleanup of the Maralinga nuclear test site. Dr Ian Farnan, University of Cambridge, talks to...
Sea grass neurological morals
play now Sea Grass by Lachlan Whatmore, Neurology of Ethics interview by John August, News by Patrick Rubie Presented by Lachlan Whatmore Produced by Ian Woolf and Lachlan Whatmore...
International Womens Day Special
Medicating Mr Faithful, Green Senator Kerry Nettle and the Women behind Science Let's celebrate all those XX chromosomes out there! On Diffusion this week, we will have a chat with the Greens Senator and environmental scientist, Kerry Nettle. We...
ID Card - Is Big Brother Stalking You?
This is a special edition of the Diffusion Science Radio show looking at a controversial application of science and technology: the proposed card to identify everyone accessing Australian government services. Go directly to Podcasts: --> Download/listen, 64kbs MP3 (13.4...
Evolution, retrocausality, sperm wars
Play Now Produced and presented by Tilly Boleyn. Science News by Ian Woolf. Human evolution by Marc West. Retrocausality by Tim Baynes. Sperm wars by Darren Osbourne. Science in 2007 predictions. Tantalising tidbits from Lachlan Whatmore, Catherine Beehag and...
Gift giving and genetic engineering
Play Now We sum up the science that defined 2006 with Jacqui Hayes and Sacha Stelzer, Ian Woolf reveals a plan to create bearded babies and hairless men, Gifts for your scientist by Chris Stewart, and a morbid look...
Marc West
Read Marc at The Mr Science Show which is also broadcast over China Radio International. The Mr Science Podcast The Mr Science Show Feed...
Vegemite-gate, Largest Nuclear Bomb
Play Now Presented by Marc West. Science news by Vanessa Gardos. Vegemite scandal questioned by Ian Woolf. The World's Largest Nuclear Bomb by Charles Willock. Also contains wise words from Jacqui Pfeffer and Tilly Boleyn. Produced by Tilly Boleyn....
Brain Fingerprinting and Electric Cars
Play Now Reading Minds and Catching Criminals with Catherine Beehag, "Fast, green and cheap to run - Cruising the electric hotrod" by Ian Woolf, Presented by Lachlan Whatmore, News by Marc West, Produced by Jacqui Hayes with technical support...
Pluto's demotion and an inconvenient truth
Play Now Pluto's demotion and an inconvenient truth are debated in this weeks show. Presented by Jacqui Pfeffer, Science news by Ian Woolf, Jacqui Hayes reveals an inconvenient truth, Marc West give us all the low down on Pluto,...
Nuclear power and its alternatives
(right-click and choose 'save as' to download) Play Now how Nuclear power is generated, how it's waste is managed and also a few alternatives. On board: Jacqui Hayes, Marc West, David Harcourt, and Matthew Clarke. Produced by Matthew Clarke...
Diffusion 20th Apr 2006
Play Now Substance use and mental health, Tim Baynes interviews Amanda George from the Centre for Mental Health Research, March of the Penguins, a review by Phil Dooley A substitute for alcohol? Hunting animals over the internet? by Matt...
Diffusion 12th May 2005
Play Now Produced, panelled and presented by Chris Stewart, News by Brigid Mullane, Australian Innovator haikus and limericks supplied by David Huang, Catherine Beehag reveals Stanley Millgram proved 60% of people are nasty, Helen Sims reads Clone poetry, Phil...
Simulated Nightclubs
Remember when American soldiers given amphetamine "GO pills" accidentally dropped a laser-guided bomb on Canadian and British soldiers during the invasion of Afghanistan? Now American soldiers traumatised by their war experiences are being asked to volunteer for simulated nightclubs, where...
NEWS: dodgy space suits from NASA; dangerous neckties in the hospital ward & spiders with garbage in their webs.
NEWS: dodgy space suits from NASA; dangerous neckties in the hospital ward & spiders with garbage in their webs. NASA crew at the International Space Station are finding problems with their space suits, or so reports New Scientist magazine this...
Laterality and Left Handedness - By Adam Mark
Pop Quiz: What do Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton, have in common? Apart from having the same superannuation policies, all three ex-presidents are left handed. In fact they join the 13% of the population that prefers to...
25th November 2002
Presented by Ian Woolf. News by David Leung. Chris Stewart completes his conversation with herpetologist Professor Rick Shine. Lachlan Whatmore talks about addiction. Produced by Lachlan, who also pushed the buttons....
4th November 2002
Presented by Lachlan Whatmore. News by Ian Woolf. Chris Stewart explores the dual worlds of Matter and Anti-Matter. Lachlan explains how spiders spin their webs. Produced by Lachlan Whatmore who also pushed the buttons....
16th September 2002
Presented by Adam Mark. News by Chris Stewart. Adam reports on the latest in ejaculation research. Chris presents part 1 of What's Up With Gravity. Produced by Lachlan Whatmore who also pushed the buttons....
Diffusion 9th October 2001
Play Now Presented by Gina Sartore. News by Ian Woolf. Chris Stewart investigates the 2001 Noble and Ig-noble Awards. Gina Sartore reviews Kim Stelrony: Dawkins versus Gould - survival of the fittest, about the big debatesin evolutionary science. Produced...
14 August 2001
Radiothon show with panel discussion about Privacy in the 21st Century with Gina Sartore, Tim Baynes, Lachlan Whatmore, Chris Stewart and Ian Woolf. Produced by Lachlan Whatmore who also punched the buttons....
Diffusion 1st May 2001
Play Now Presented by Angelique Hutchison. News by Ian Woolf. Tim Baynes interviews Robert Walsh about the Sun. Clean nuclear power using lithium fusion by Ian Woolf. Produced by Tim Baynes with technical assistance from Lachlan Whatmore....
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