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Gut bugs!

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 22, 2021 6:15 PM

20 years of Bug-bots

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 5, 2021 3:20 PM

Tales from feathers and quills

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

The Woolf-Pulfrich Effect

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

Absinthe chemistry and Beer froth maths

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 22, 2018 2:41 PM

Coeliac genes and zombies

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 15, 2018 8:19 PM

Whales, drones and bacteria

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 24, 2018 12:23 PM

Why You're Not Dead Yet

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 23, 2018 9:09 PM

Bright Sparks 2017 - part 3 poetry

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 8, 2018 12:05 PM

What good is consciousness?

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 7, 2017 3:52 PM

The Internet of Hackable Things & OzSpace part 2

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 10, 2017 4:28 PM

Diamonds and milk

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 28, 2016 3:21 PM

Music inspired by Space

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 11, 2016 12:27 PM

Star-seeking robots touch language

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 11, 2016 4:57 PM

Canada in Space & Google listens

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 22, 2015 11:47 AM

Megaphones and Microfluidics

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 4, 2014 10:52 AM

Shadow profiles and eating babies

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 1, 2013 4:32 PM

E-Cat, bionic bugs and 3 parents

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Posted by Ian Woolf on February 13, 2012 1:43 PM

Artificial Intelligence and windy assassins

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 19, 2011 3:05 PM

Expanding Universe, Zombie ladybugs

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 11, 2011 1:47 PM

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 24, 2011 5:01 PM

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Posted by Diffusion on December 13, 2007 12:09 AM

Travel bugs, Language and Speed dating

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 12, 2006 9:00 AM

Diffusion 11th September 2001

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 11, 2001 9:00 AM