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The Long-Term Threat

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 24, 2023 10:33 AM

Summon Pompeo - banish EBV

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 6, 2022 4:48 PM

Creating the Future

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Posted by Ian Woolf on March 14, 2022 3:51 PM

Deception and Proteomics

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 13, 2021 7:57 PM

Cyber-pig and Eye-cow

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 31, 2020 9:31 PM

Technology and social justice

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 11, 2019 9:32 PM

DNA origami kills cancer

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 27, 2019 5:50 PM

Autism and oxytocin

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 13, 2019 5:19 PM

The Woolf-Pulfrich Effect

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

Zero Carbon stars align

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 10, 2018 4:44 PM

Support

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Posted by Ian Woolf on February 14, 2018 12:10 AM

Singing Astronaut Again

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 16, 2017 8:33 PM

The Internet of Hackable Things & OzSpace part 2

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

Oz Space law and 2016 in review

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 19, 2016 9:33 PM

Heat shock for longer life and Physics poetry

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 20, 2016 1:36 PM

Plasma rocket science

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 18, 2016 1:05 PM

Singing Astronaut Special

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 17, 2015 7:49 PM

Biological art and killer robots

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 10, 2015 8:05 PM

Infinity and Money part 3

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 12, 2014 11:31 AM

Plasticised brains, tea, and pain

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 6, 2014 8:16 PM

Sexy Smells and parasite overlords

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 14, 2011 8:11 PM

Phone cancer and giant cuttlefish

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 6, 2011 11:31 PM

Full attention and half-sunglasses

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

Addict detention and child enhancement

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 22, 2010 1:15 PM

Bats and sharks, correlated?

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Posted by Ian Woolf on March 16, 2009 6:26 PM

Proteomics and close relatives

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 6, 2008 6:30 PM

Vaccination and Autism?

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Posted by Diffusion on July 28, 2008 12:09 AM

Grassroots OLPC and Martian red skies

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Posted by Diffusion on June 5, 2008 12:09 AM

Space probes Borderless housing

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Posted by Ian Woolf on March 20, 2008 9:00 AM

Peruvians online and exercising flab

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Posted by Diffusion on January 3, 2008 12:09 AM

Travel bugs, Language and Speed dating

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

Sibling Saviours

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 6, 2004 9:34 PM

Laterality and Left Handedness - By Adam Mark

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Posted by Ian Woolf on March 1, 2004 12:40 PM

9th September 2002

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 9, 2002 12:48 AM