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Comedy in his DNA
MP3 Sam Dyer talks about doing science stand-up comedy about DNA sequencing at the Adelaide Fringe Festival Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf >...
Face transplant and spice for life
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Don't ignore your symptoms
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') New protein causing post-exertional malaise hints at new diagnostic tests and drugs for ME/CFS, Flaws found by critics in the PACE Trials and Cochrane Review recommending graded exercise therapy and Cognitive behavioural therapy...
Graphene power
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Assange, Music and the law
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WorldCoin and Rejuventation by dilution
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Douglas Engelbart - Inventing the 21st Century
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Waluigi Alignment
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Robert Booy - Infectious Diseases
MP3 Professor Robert Booy talks about infectious diseases, vaccines, epidemics and pandemics. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf \ Professor Robert Booy Infectious diseases doctor’s message as ATAGI changes COVID-19 vaccine advice Infectious diseases expert weighs in on school mask...
Stable Diffusion Litigation
MP3 The AI Art controversy and lawsuits. Can you sue for what someone might be able to do in the future? Can images be compressed to half a byte and reproduced at will? Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf In...
SETI and Alien archaeology
MP3 Water world discovered, The Drake Equation, The Silurian Hypothesis, Produced and presented by Ian Woolf TOI-1452 b: SPIRou and TESS Reveal a Super-Earth in a Temperate Orbit Transiting an M4 Dwarf Scientists discover colossal ocean may completely cover this...
Balancing Medical Censorship
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Core asthma steam spies
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Summon Pompeo - banish EBV
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Nikola Tesla and Doc Oc
download MP3 This episode was first broadcast in 2010: Aaron Cook reports on Element 117-- Ununseptium Marc West speaks with "Doctor Boob" about how to become the super-villain Doc Oc Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf discuss the life and legend...
Creating the Future
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Environment Minister Susan Ley wins her appeal against duty to refrain from hurting children, Environment Minister Ley announces new loophole to exempt coal mines from envrionmental legislation, Asteroid explodes near Iceland, Damon Gameau...
Desiderosmia
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Precognition Revolution
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Vaccination explanation
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The Pais Effect
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Assange Extradition Decision
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In vitro meat ventriloquism
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Insect passion and extradition
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Landing on Mars
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Face COVIDSafe explosion
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COVIDSafe Brainwaves
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Editing genetic disease and sports injuries
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Technology and social justice
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Kinder gentler transhumanism
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Launching Arlula
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Nuclear dump Australia
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Superlative hydrogen
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Scientific journalism and extreme biology
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Robots Recycle Rags
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Gravitational wave generators
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The Woolf-Pulfrich Effect
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Funding ME and CFS research
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Diagnosing ME, and CFS
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March for Science and Prawn plastic
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Crooke's radiometer mystery
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The origin of life - inevitable?
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Dinosaurs and CSIRO
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Biohacking longevity and driver-less heroics
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Weird pets, possums and blood vessels
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Save the carnivorous plants
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#Censusfail or Privacy?
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') How has privacy been endangered by the Australian Census? by Ian Woolf Dr Bernard Robertson-Dunn from the Australian Privacy Foundation talks about the Australian Census 2016. Honest Australian Census advert by The Juice...
Cellf - making a musician
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Solar racing and women's ageing part 2
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STEAM through space bubbles
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Plasma rocket science
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Dark matter anyon computing
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Warp drive and Antigravity
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Biological art and killer robots
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Falling cats and Stem cell tourism
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Bionic eyes traffic and Do-arama
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Breakfast robots and TECHmyway
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Zoomable contact lenses by Ian Woolf, Cameron Clarke explains the connection between robots and breakfast, Rosie Menzies and Jim Cook talk about innovation, and virtual reality at TECHmyWay. Production checked by Charles Willock,...
TV spying and Biohacker stimulation
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Carotenoids - why vegetables are good for you
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Re-using carbon and Biohack Syd
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3D Printing way out West
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Phish tales and Zapping mosquito bites
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Valves, rockets and Doctor Who
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Nuclear power for Australia? part 1
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Trolling science and throat singing
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Sonic Screwdrivers and ingenuity awards
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Real Doctors eat Breakfast
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Doc Oc, Element 117, and Nikola Tesla
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Nanotech, doctoral dancing and pubs
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Dino-bird, Scientists miscast, Sputnik
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Slippery Ice, Misdirected Science
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Diffusion 30th March 2006
Play Now WMAP Space probes give big bang for the buck, and the rise and rise of Hepatitus-C . Presented by Jacqui Pfeffer, News by Chris Stewart, Matt Francis talks WMAP, Tilly Boleyn documents Hepatitus-C, Produced by Matt Clarke...
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...
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