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Women in Science and Gender-bending

MP3 International Womens' Day 2009 with Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf, Gender bending stories: - phthalates feminise boys - half boy half girl bird brain - sixth sense switches mice gender - gender gene identified - Gender and sex identity...

Posted by Ian Woolf on September 12, 2022 12:50 PM

Print spies dolphin terrorists

MP3 download Male Mobile phone lekking by Tim Baynes, The Laserprinter conspiracy by Matt Clarke, Nano-cars with Chris Stewart, Dolphin terrorists by Ian Woolf, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Mobile phones as lekking devices among human males Why printers...

Posted by Ian Woolf on November 21, 2020 10:50 AM

Birds and the bees and the bots

MP3 download This show first broadcast in February 2019: Professor Srinivasan talks about how flying animals navigate, and applying their methods to aircraft. Sound checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Professor Srinivasan The Poladian Project Neuroscience...

Posted by Ian Woolf on March 11, 2020 4:42 PM

Launching Arlula

MP3 download Aftermath of the big radioactive explosion in Russia, Singing fish by Ian Woolf, Sebastian Chaoui and Arran Salerno talk about their space image business Arlula, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Arlula Global network's nuclear sensors in Russia...

Posted by Ian Woolf on August 19, 2019 4:51 PM

Tales from feathers and quills

MP3 download Big radioactive explosion in Russia by Ian Woolf, Kate Brandis talk how wetland bird feathers tell tales, Gina Sartore's The Daughter of Time about Grace Hopper, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Scientists in the Bookshop: Tales from...

Posted by Ian Woolf on August 12, 2019 12:40 PM

Birds, bees and bots

MP3 download Professor Srinivasan talks about how flying animals navigate, and applying their methods to aircraft. Sound checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Professor Srinivasan The Poladian Project Neuroscience of vision and aerial robotics Youtube channel...

Posted by Ian Woolf on February 18, 2019 11:07 AM

The Woolf-Pulfrich Effect

MP3 download From 24th January 2011: Whistling caterpillars, bug zappers powered by the bugs they zap, fluoridated water can hurt children's teeth, Gotham partners announce they will profile EVERYBODY, Peer Review by the Peer Review Players, Paying attention can lose...

Posted by Ian Woolf on January 28, 2019 1:37 PM

After robots take our jobs

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Vampires switch to human blood by Ian Woolf, Paul Mason talks about advancing technology and the future of society. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Paul Mason What...

Posted by Ian Woolf on February 7, 2017 5:56 PM

2016 Ig Nobel Prizes

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') The 2016 IgNobel prizes condensed from 2 hours down to 27 minutes: REPRODUCTION PRIZE [EGYPT] — The effects of wearing polyester, cotton, or wool trousers on the sex life of rats, and humans,...

Posted by Ian Woolf on December 26, 2016 9:59 AM

#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...

Posted by Ian Woolf on August 1, 2016 1:26 PM

Hypercolour vision and soap

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Do GM crops upset pigs? by Ian Woolf Hypercolour vision by Ian Woolf Scurvy by Chris Stewart Soap Science by Ian Woolf produced and presented by Ian Woolf A long-term toxicology study on...

Posted by Ian Woolf on June 17, 2013 10:20 PM

The Tassie Devil's Dilemma and the Big Chill!

download MP3 In this week's science news: singing gibbons, (nearly) toothles rats, mars curiousity in space and angry birds! Dr Beata Ujvari speaks to Julie-Anne Popple about the plight of the tasmanian devil. Therese Chen reports on the Big Chill...

Posted by Ian Woolf on September 3, 2012 7:54 PM

Pigs in Cyberspace!

download MP3 Ian Woolf and Therese Chen discuss: Pigs and humans collaborating in the virtual world, Birds eaving illusions, Robot farmers, Google memory disorders, Chocolate nuteceuticals, Solar storms blow a good wind, Pills to give you the benefits of strict...

Posted by Ian Woolf on January 30, 2012 11:45 AM

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...

Posted by Ian Woolf on June 27, 2011 10:44 PM

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...

Posted by Ian Woolf on May 30, 2011 11:24 PM

Beauty and the Geek, and Homeopathy

MP3 download Victoria Bond and Lachlan Whatmore speak to the Australian Beauty and the Geek reality TV show, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf discuss the UK de-funding of Homeopathic hospitals, News By Victoria Bond - bird brains are like ours...

Posted by Ian Woolf on July 12, 2010 1:07 AM

Zombie fish and evolving Darwinius

MP3 Ian Woolf interviews Associate Professor Graham Nicholson about Ciguatera zombie fish poison, Darwinius, science and the media by Victoria Bond, with discussion from Kalvin Ng and Ian Woolf, News by Kalvin Ng - territory disputes over underwater minerals -...

Posted by Ian Woolf on May 25, 2009 6:30 PM

Gender, Curie, Franklin, and Carson

MP3 International Women's Day 2009 with Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf, Gender bending stories: - phthalates feminise boys - half boy half girl bird brain - sixth sense switches mice gender - gender gene identified - Gender and sex identity...

Posted by Ian Woolf on March 9, 2009 6:30 PM

Forest water, PhD dances, bird flu

MP3 Associate Professor Kendal McGuffie from the Physics department at UTS, tells Ian Woolf about tracking the movement of water by weight to find out how forests use water and effect the climate. Marc West phones Dr Christopher Pettigrew from...

Posted by Ian Woolf on November 10, 2008 6:30 PM

Robots, baby birds and free internet

play now Jacqui Pfeffer discusses Robot Relationships with Hugh Durrant White Ian Woolf interviews Lachlan Hardy about freeing the net http://lachstock.com.au Charles Willock looks at the life of baby birds News by Ian Woolf Presented by Lara Davis Produced...

Posted by Diffusion on November 8, 2007 12:09 AM

Dino-bird, Scientists miscast, Sputnik

play nowNews by Emily Fearn and Jo Dessman - Velociraptor possibly had feathers - Hearing problems in the classroom - Scientists angry at being miscast in doco 50th Anniversary of Sputnik by Lachlan Whatmore Presented and Produced by Ed...

Posted by Diffusion on October 4, 2007 12:09 AM

Icelandic Science, Heart Brain, Robots

play now News by Patrick Rubie - Hubble sees new stars - energy generator using vibrations - rat-brained robot - Aesop's fable tested - gut parasites from the ocean - largest bird's secret of flight Science of Iceland by...

Posted by Diffusion on July 12, 2007 9:00 AM

Adopting Microbes Missing Reptile link

Play Now Link between Dinosaurs and Birds - Lachlan Whatmore Adopt a Microbe - Daz Chandler News - Marc West Presenter - Jacqui Pfeffer Producer - Matt Clarke...

Posted by Diffusion on November 30, 2006 12:00 AM

Parrot Environment, Rutherford part 2

Play Now Part 2 of the life of the amazing Kiwi scientist Ernest Rutherford, who made possible nuclear "fussion" and silican "chups". The two latest media love birds are the Environment Minister Ian Campbell and the orange-bellied parrot -...

Posted by Ian Woolf on May 18, 2006 9:00 AM

Common colds, and chimps

Play Now The Common Cold -- not so cold, and not so common -- could save us all from bird flu; what makes us so different from chimps?; and all the latest science news. Presented by Jacqui Hayes, News...

Posted by Ian Woolf on March 16, 2006 9:00 AM

Not Discovery 16th February 2006

Play Now Superstring unstrung, Lost Worlds and forensic songbirds, Presented by Chris Stewart, News by Adam Richardson, String theory by Chris Stewart, Lost Worlds by Matt Francis, CSI 2SER by Adam Richardson, Produced by Ian Woolf, with technical support...

Posted by Ian Woolf on February 16, 2006 9:00 AM

Bird Pollution

And finally, some nightingales have fallen foul of noise pollution laws in Europe. An ornithologist at the Free University of Berlin in Germany measured the calls of nightingales in busy urban areas and found that they increase the volume of...

Posted by Ian Woolf on May 6, 2004 8:41 PM