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How do we smell, again? - part 1
MP3 download Chocolate news by Ian Woolf From 2020: James Hayes talks about the science of odour - part 1 Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Dr James Hayes UNSW Odour Laboratory Insights into the Multiscale Lubrication Mechanism of Edible...
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...
Multi-agent AI TV shows
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Douglas Engelbart - Inventing the 21st Century
MP3 download Douglas Engelbart invented the 21st Century! In 1968 his Mother of All Demos showed how together work in social networks, using computer screens with graphic user interface, mouse, word processors, hyperlinks, online document sharing and video-conferencing, as part...
Unsimulated mint longevity
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The Long-Term Threat
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Spinal Fusion
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Superworm and fake human meat
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Plato's Compass
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The Right To Repair - part 2
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The Right To Repair - 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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Earworm throat singing regeneration
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Face COVIDSafe explosion
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Solar Race Suicide Model Virtual Pain
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Quantum dots
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Bio-engineering Innovation Challenge 2019
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The Woolf-Pulfrich Effect
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Absinthe chemistry and Beer froth maths
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Meow on Mars
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Bright Sparks 2017 - part 3 poetry
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Ig Nobel Prizes 2017
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Luna Letters and sub-orbital hops
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NAD+ and ageing
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Two compounds rejuvenate mice - are humans next? by Ian Woolf, Nady Braidy talks about NAD+ , ageing, Alzheimer's and treating dementia, Interview with a marching Diffusion listener, Interview with Taylor Szyzka about...
Surprizing stories and Quantum computers
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Freeze, wait, reanimate?
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Sly Moulds
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Embryonic stem cells and crocodiles again
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Innovation Engineering
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3D printed Jewellery baldness cure
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Heatwave detecting cancer
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Lateral, entropy, and the egg
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Mind controlled brain art and artificial IQ
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Famelab: Bacteria, Labeckia and Wellness
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Good cop/Bad cop: Cholesterol
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Bionic eyes traffic and Do-arama
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Re-using carbon and Biohack Syd
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Powdered alcohol and Money part 2
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Embryonic stem cells and crocodiles
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30 IQ points more, and BitCoin
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') The Bionic Eye is successfully tested, and the new Government closes down the Science Ministry. Trans-humanitarianism - Feeding and educating people to bring about the Singularity. Bitcoin for beginners by Chard Core and...
Plutonium credit and IQ
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Species Invasion and Burritobot
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Malaria vaccine and photosynthesis
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Synthetic organisms and cloud-busting
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Pill's 50th twitter box office hits
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Safflower insulin, and sperm spit protons
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Mystique, pill ills, sin distribution
MP3 Marc West asks Dr Chris Pettigrew how X-men character Mystique's super-powers might really work, Charles Willock reports on the distribution of sin in the USA, Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie discuss the lesser known side effects of the contraceptive...
Greenwich Mean Time, Chookosaur, Bees
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Stargazing, Craniometry and Cricket
Play Now Presented by Tilly Boleyn. Science News by Matt Clarke. Stargazing from Antarctica by Darren Osbourne. Lachlan Whatmore delves in Craniometry. Cricket critique by Marc West. Produced by Tilly Boleyn....
Diffusion 6th October 2005
Play Now Presented by Jacqui Pfeffer, News by Adam Richardson, Book review of "Tasmanian Devil: a unique and threatened animal" by Matt Francis, Discussion of the melting polar ice caps by Chris Stewart, Some startling news of really big...
Faster Than Light, Japanese Encephalitus
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Diffusion 30th January 2001
Play Now Presented by Melissa Hulbert. News by Angelique Hutchison. Communicating Mozarts 40th Symphony Faster Than Light by Ian Woolf. Tony Curtis of CSIRO talks with Dr Williams about a test for Japanese Encephalitis. Late news by Melissa Hulbert...
Peter Watts, Parasitic computers
Presented by Angelique Hutchison. News by Tim Baynes. Ian Woolf speaks with Peter Watts about biologically plausible aliens, First Contact, and alien sex. Parasitic computing explained by Chris Stewart. Produced by Gina Sartore with technical assistance by Lachlan Whatmore....
Diffusion 4th September 2001
Play Now Presented by Angelique Hutchison. News by Tim Baynes. Ian Woolf speaks with Peter Watts about biologically plausible aliens, First Contact, and alien sex. Parasitic computing explained by Chris Stewart. Produced by Gina Sartore with technical assistance by...
5 June 2001
Interview with Dr Simon Dennis about computer understanding of human languages by Ian Woolf. David Blank reviews a book about Eternity and the five ages of the Cosmos. Presented by Tim Baynes. News by Angelique Hutchison. Produced by Angelique Hutchison...
29 May 2001
Report on polymer banknotes by Angelique Hutchison, Ian Woolf talks with Dr Spike Barlow and Dr Bob McKay about AI and military strategy. News by Tim Baynes. Presented by Lachlan Whatmore. Produced by Ian Woolf with technical assistance from...
22 May 2001
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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....
27 march 2001
Feature by Angelique Hutchison. Feature by Deanna Coleman. Feature by Ben Cole. News by Nick Perkins. Presented by Ben Cole. Produced by Gina Sartore and Nick Perkins with technical assistance by Gina Sartore....
Diffusion 20th March 2001
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20 March 2001
Discovery 20th March 2001 (mp3) Feature by Melissa Hulbert. Feature by Nick Perkins. Feature by Gina Sartore. News by Angelique Hutchison. Presented by Adam Mark. Produced by Melissa Hulbert and Chris Brown with technical assistance by Lachlan Whatmore....
30th January 2001
Presented by Melissa Hulbert. News by Angelique Hutchison. Communicating Mozart's 40th Symphony Faster Than Light by Ian Woolf. Tony Curtis of CSIRO talks with Dr Williams about a test for Japanese Encephalitis. Late news by Melissa Hulbert and Angelique...
12 December 2000
Extremophile bacteria feature by Tim Baynes. Feature by Tim Baynes. Core psychology by Deanna Coleman and Gina Sartore. News by Angelique Hutchison. Presented by Gina Sartore. Produced by Ian Woolf with technical assistance from ?...
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