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Non-coding RNA Puppets

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') From 2014: Turn another human into your hand puppet by Ian Woolf Leonard Lipovich explains non-coding RNA, ENCODE and CHARGE, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Leonard Lipovich Genome database and browser ENCODE...

Posted by Ian Woolf on September 11, 2023 4:37 PM

Fly Singularity

MP3 From 2010, Ian Woolf explains how Gregory Benford uses flies and artificial intelligence for a healthy old age. News of Gummi hacking, chatbots argue on Twitter and weeds evolve. News by Ian Woolf Presented by Marc West, Discussion from...

Posted by Ian Woolf on January 26, 2023 1:45 PM

Tardigrades to the Moon!

MP3 A deep dive into the science of tardigrades - the tiny water bears or moss piglets that can withstand extremes of cold, heat, dryness, pressure, and vacuum, by going into suspended animation and then revitalising when its safe again...

Posted by Ian Woolf on November 21, 2022 12:29 PM

2022 Nobel Prizes

MP3 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, for discoveries about the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution, Nobel Prize for Chemistry for a new type of chemical engineering or "functional chemistry" called "click chemistry", Nobel Prize for Physics for...

Posted by Ian Woolf on October 10, 2022 6:00 PM

Summon Pompeo - banish EBV

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

The Public Goods game

download MP3 This episode was first broadcast in 2011: Mic Cavazzini chats with Professor Simon Gaechter from the University of Nottingham about why we humans just can't co-operate with one another- before putting our panelists through Gaechter's Public Goods Game...

Posted by Ian Woolf on April 18, 2022 3:20 PM

Plagued - part 2 revisited

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 3, 2022 1:48 PM

Plagued - part 1 revisited

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 27, 2021 1:15 PM

Plagued - part 1

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 12, 2021 9:28 PM

Home synthetic biology lab

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 8, 2019 2:44 PM

Fizzy ice cream and musical planes

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 29, 2018 4:42 PM

Pupils Pulse at Parkes

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 4, 2017 7:01 PM

Open Source Science Accelerates

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 12, 2016 8:02 PM

DNA bitcoin Virtual Astronomy

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Bitcoin encoded DNA by Ian Woolf, Kai Polsterer and Andre Schaaff talk about astronomical visualisation with Google cardboard at the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems conference - ADASS, Better by Jonathan Coulton....

Posted by Ian Woolf on November 16, 2015 11:36 AM

Synthetic Biology De-extinction

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 27, 2015 1:06 PM

Solar powered racing cars

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 6, 2015 10:59 AM

Non-coding RNA and hand puppets

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 10, 2014 12:16 PM

Space law and Bee decisions

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 9, 2014 2:16 PM

Young blood RoboWars

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 20, 2013 12:12 PM

Meat, and 200 million year old art

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 21, 2011 8:29 PM

Let's talk about X... and exits

MP3 Victoria Bond speaks to Dr. Jacqui McPhee about her experiences in ICU and palliative care, and end of life care, Ian Woolf and Julianne Popple discuss Terry Pratchet's endorsement of euthanasia, Mic Cavazzini speaks to Professor Jenny Graves of...

Posted by Ian Woolf on June 20, 2011 10:58 PM

BSD Sex and Beady-Eyed Agents

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 20, 2010 8:40 PM

21st October 2002

Presented by Amanda Hamilton. News by Chris Stewart. Amanda interviews Professor Jenny Grace from ANU who is sequencing the genome of the kangaroo. Lachlan Whatmore explains anthropomorphism. Produced by Lock, with technical support from Adam Mark....

Posted by Ian Woolf on October 21, 2002 2:52 PM

21st October 2002

Presented by Amanda Hamilton. News by Chris Stewart. Amanda interviews Professor Jenny Grace from ANU who is sequencing the genome of the kangaroo. Lachlan Whatmore explains anthropomorphism. Produced by Lock, with technical support from Adam Mark....

Posted by Ian Woolf on October 21, 2002 12:39 AM