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Are earthquakes affected by climate change?

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Assange, Music and the law

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WorldCoin and Rejuventation by dilution

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Edward Teller, Isaac Newton and military Robots

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Multi-agent AI TV shows

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Cute Beard Slime

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Douglas Engelbart - Inventing the 21st Century

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Killer AI and 2010 Ignobels

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The Long-Term Threat

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Categorification, Not A Crime

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Stable Diffusion Litigation

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Superworm and fake human meat

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Autonomous algorithms

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Creating the Future

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Plagued - part 1 revisited

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Precognition Revolution

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The Five Forces That Change Everything - part 2

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Contraceptives and cocktails

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Plagued - part 1

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Print spies dolphin terrorists

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Nano-tech train sets

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Trauma, pain, and fish

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Little Ice Ages and future housing

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Future of Human Needs past

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Future Low Energy Electronic Technology

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Synthetic biology and Future Science

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AI - replace, destroy or enhance

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Kinder gentler transhumanism

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Nuclear dump Australia

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Ignoble Artilect War

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Artilect war and plankton

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Superlative hydrogen

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Home synthetic biology lab

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Investing in the Future

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Gravitational wave generators

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Nano Molecular train sets

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Solar cooling, work and housing

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The Future of Human Needs

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Women's Day, Stem cells, and Multiple Sclerosis

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Face recognition and civil rights

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Robonomics, Hyperloop and Autonomous cars

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After robots take our jobs

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Longevity policy undetectable faces

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Diamonds and milk

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Cellf - making a musician

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Science Poetry Slam rewind

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IdeasBoom Educating for the Future

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Gene repair, eggs and entropy

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Dynamics of expectation

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Warp drive and Antigravity

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Future work, farmbot and Chiptunes

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Biological art and killer robots

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Brain nets and Broccoli

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Brainwaves and Photonics

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DIY EEG and Rocket Scientist networking

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Synthetic Biology De-extinction

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Diet, bacteria, and health

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Future Day with Aubrey de Grey

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TV spying and Biohacker stimulation

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Transition waves rideable multicopters

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Bitcoin rules soliton waves

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Koalas, robots, and brains

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Giant echidnas drive air conditioned thorium cars

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Rat Park and Chromatic Composer

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4D printing and Caring for carers

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Science Spoken Word Spectacular

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Future silkmoth tricycle games

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Freeze, wait, reanimate!

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Lizard babies and exploding stars

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Sexual selection and the bionic eye

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Hot Maths and Disintermediation

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Emailing aliens, and Future Festivals

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Newly possible futures

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LOLcat censorship and Future Journeys

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Vampire moth, ghosts, and vasty deeps

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Bionic soldiers and unlimited power

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Future Fab Labs and Fish and Chip cars

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Invisible illness and exploding spacecraft

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Oil free, Low fat cows, Green goes red

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Ultimo Science Festival, and nuclear waste

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Invisibility and Whale Hunting

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No Petrol, Nose Picking and Asteroids

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Diffusion 10th November 2005

Play Now The Optical Future of Super-fast Broadband, and The Ins and Outs of Podcasting. Presented by Matt Francis, Science News by Noel Hanna, Super-broadband by Chris Stewart, Podcasting by Ian Woolf. Production and technical support by Jacqui Pfeffer....

25th August 2002

Adam Mark interviews Stephanie Moore about the future of Estuaries. Ian Woolf explains how Grapefruit juice might get you pregnant. Presented by Amanda Hamilton. News by Ian Woolf. Produced by Chris Stewart with technical support by Gina Sartore....

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