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Douglas Engelbart - Inventing the 21st Century

MP3 download Douglas Engelbart invented the 21st Century! In 1968 his Mother of All Demos showed how together work in social networks, using computer screens with graphic user interface, mouse, word processors, hyperlinks, online document sharing and video-conferencing, as part...

Posted by Ian Woolf on June 19, 2023 5:45 PM

Nikola Tesla and Doc Oc

download MP3 This episode was first broadcast in 2010: Aaron Cook reports on Element 117-- Ununseptium Marc West speaks with "Doctor Boob" about how to become the super-villain Doc Oc Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf discuss the life and legend...

Posted by Ian Woolf on May 30, 2022 3:14 PM

Fanny Macleay and Flying Saucers

MP3 download Electric flying saucers, Personal networks sewn into clothes, Fake urine used by miners by Patrick Rubie Nineteenth Century naturalist Fanny Macleay by Lachlan Whatmore, Discussion of news, staying young by staying with the young, and the portable hug...

Posted by Ian Woolf on June 21, 2021 5:22 PM

Brainwave generation

MP3 download Microsoft body mining, Seeing what you see, by Ian Woolf, R Douglas Fields talks about how the brain generates brainwaves, Catherine Beehag talks about Brainwave fingerprinting, with panel discussion from Lachlan Whatmore, Marc West and Ian Woolf. Produced...

Posted by Ian Woolf on May 11, 2020 2:02 PM

Steve Mann, qBits, and goodbye 2SER

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Ian Woolf showcases the wearable computers of Steve Mann. Ed Pollitt reports on the invention of silicon quantum bits. Ian Woolf delves into the history of Diffusion as told by our theme music...

Posted by Ian Woolf on April 22, 2013 4:41 PM

Gigabit wires and 3D Printers

download MP3 In the news: Wikileaks on trial without charges, Fan Ng tells Ian Woolf how his invention makes plain old telephone wires carry gigabit broadband, Bruce Jackson and Dale Nichols from 3D Printer Systems talk with Ian Woolf about...

Posted by Ian Woolf on May 28, 2012 8:08 PM

Artificial Intelligence and windy assassins

download MP3 Dr Julie-Anne Popple reports on the assassin bug's windy tricks, Ian Woolf discusses a 13 year old boy's solar invention with Victoria Bond, and the release of genetically modified mosquitoes with Dr Julie-Anne Popple Ian Woolf interviews Dr...

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

Lung flutes, leg growing and Science circuses

MP3 download Pahia Cooper picks her favourite inventions of 2009: the Lung flute, greensulate mushroom packaging, and the Mindflex; Aaron Cook interviews Pahia Cooper about her experiences travelling in the Questacon Science Circus; News by Aaron Cook - how to...

Posted by Ian Woolf on December 21, 2009 6:39 PM

'Popular and polarising science'

play now'Rock radar and solar cells' (The ATSE Clunies Ross Awards: part 1) - Amy Bullen interviews two award-winning scientists, David Noon and Stuart Wenham on their inventions'A tribute to David Attenborough' by Victoria Bond and Martin FaciniDiscussion forum...

Posted by Diffusion on May 22, 2008 12:09 AM

Da Vinci, Climate-Fried Fish, the Pope

play now Discover Da Vinci's workshop full of flying machines, theatrical contraptions and submarines. Take a splash with the frenzied fish that are migrating across our warming ocean. But where does the Pope fit into all this? Find out...

Posted by Diffusion on April 19, 2007 9:00 AM

UnDiscovered 26th January 2006

Play Now Science in Summer Mode, celebrating Australia Day with Australian science and inventions. Produced and presented by Chris Stewart, with Jacqui Pfeffer, Jacqui Hayes and Matt Clarke....

Posted by Ian Woolf on January 26, 2006 9:00 AM