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Graphene power

download MP3 Graphene antenna for more efficient solar power, Flanders and Swan, First and Second Law Controversial graphene circuit claims to extract energy from random heat fluctuations. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Doctoral student Ferdinand Harerimana and Professor Paul...

Posted by Ian Woolf on September 4, 2023 3:08 PM

Nuclear Australia - pros and cons

download MP3 From the 2013 Nuclear Energy For Australia? conference: Uranium miner Dr Erica Smyth argues for nuclear power for Australia, Conservationist Professor Ian Lowe argues against nuclear power for Australia Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Dr Erica Smyth...

Posted by Ian Woolf on August 21, 2023 1:26 PM

Gravity Maverick - part 1

MP3 download Listen to Dr Viv Robinson boldly explain why most physicists have misunderstood Einstein's gravity, and what it means for what the Universe is made of. News of impossibly massive galaxies. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf 'We just...

Posted by Ian Woolf on July 3, 2023 2:47 PM

Augment your memory

MP3 download How can we improve our memory? Ian Woolf takes a deep dive into the ancient art of memory systems. News of artificial intelligence finding new drugs Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Discovery of senolytics using machine learning...

Posted by Ian Woolf on June 26, 2023 12:32 PM

Public Trust in Science part 1

MP3 Listen to the first part of Professor Nick Dirks talk about Science, policy and trust with Ian Woolf, with news of AI helping people speak their mind. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Professor Nicholas Dirks New York Academy...

Posted by Ian Woolf on May 1, 2023 5:16 PM

The Long-Term Threat

MP3 The Long-Term Threat - the open letter to pause AI research, and who wrote it, News of plagiarising anti-plagiarism anti-Ai AI by Ian Woolf Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf The Problems With UChicago's Glaze Glaze Glaze is violating...

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

Waluigi Alignment

MP3 The Waluigi Effect and The Alignment Problem, News of AI Copyright Shenanigans by Ian Woolf Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf The Waluigi Effect by Cleo Nardo Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less...

Posted by Ian Woolf on April 17, 2023 5:31 PM

SETI switch

MP3 From 2010, why the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence has been doing it wrong! The discovery of an Earth-like planet 20 light years away, and high resolution tapes of the Moon landing recovered. Marc West, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf....

Posted by Ian Woolf on January 16, 2023 4:34 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

Machines Behaving Badly - part 2

MP3 Artificial Intelligence software used to find a 25000 times faster shortcut for quantum physics by Ian Woolf, Professor Toby Walsh talks about autonomous weapons and rights for machines in Machines Behaving badly part 2, Ian Woolf plays with the...

Posted by Ian Woolf on October 24, 2022 12:51 PM

Machines Behaving Badly - part 1

MP3 Professor Toby Walsh talks about the ethical dilemmas around Artificial Intelligence and how they affect us, and his new book "Machines Behaving Badly" - part 1 Produced and presented by Ian Woolf Toby Walsh...

Posted by Ian Woolf on October 17, 2022 10:00 PM

Expressly Human - part 2

MP3 Computing pioneer Kathleen Booth reaches 100 by Ian Woolf, Dr Mark Changizi talks about how emotional expression evolved - part 2. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf Mark Changizi Expressly Human interview part 1 The Vision Revolution book review...

Posted by Ian Woolf on August 22, 2022 7:52 PM

Expressly Human - part 1

MP3 Pleading the fourth - suing the CIA by Ian Woolf, Dr Mark Chanizi talks about what we said before language was invented - part 1. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf Mark Changizi Expressly Human interview part 2 The...

Posted by Ian Woolf on August 15, 2022 4:11 PM

Vision Revolutions

download MP3 From 2010: Ian Woolf reviews The Vision Revolution by Mark Changizi, about the evolution of human vision and our unrecognised super-powers, with commentary from Aaron Cook and Daniel Keogh, From 2013: Ian Woolf interviews Mark Changizi about his...

Posted by Ian Woolf on June 20, 2022 9:32 PM

Goats, studs and smart beds

download MP3 This episode first broadcast in 2008: Goat sacrifices of the military by Ian Woolf, Wired Beds by Tilly Boleyn and Evan Shapiro, Junk DNA points the way by Patrick Rubie, Female rats prefer males with recent sexual experience...

Posted by Ian Woolf on May 2, 2022 12:02 PM

Electric cars, TB, and mutated whooping cough

MP3 download David Sinclair cures blind mice and makes them young again, Seyedfoad Taghizadeh from Maquarie University designed a intelligent car charger, Elinor Hortle from the Centenary Institute fights Tuberculosis with aspirin, Laurence Luu from University of New South Wales,...

Posted by Ian Woolf on February 10, 2020 4:08 PM

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

Star-seeking robots touch language

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Eye gazing alters minds by Ian Woolf, Nuria Lorente talks about her star bug telescopic robots, Heba Khamis talks about finding the language of touch in the Bright Spark challenge, Production checked by...

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

Singing frogs and spliced mice

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Spliced mice and oral HIV vaccines by Ian Woolf, Dr Jodi Rowley from the Australian Museum Research Institute talks about her search for rare amphibians at Inspiring Science, Gemma Sharp's Three Minute thesis:...

Posted by Ian Woolf on October 20, 2014 1:31 PM

Extremophiles and The Vision Revolution

download MP3 From 2000, Tim Baynes interviews Professor Rick Cavicchioli from UNSW about bacteria that thrive in extreme conditions, Derek Muller sings about electricity, From 2010, Ian Woolf reviews The Vision Revolution by Mark Changizi Presented and produced by Ian...

Posted by Ian Woolf on February 11, 2013 7:24 PM

Colour evolution and Darwin part 6

download MP3 Do fish feel pain? by Ian Woolf Ian Woolf interviews Mark Changizi about the evolution of colour vision, O2Amp and more. The sixth and final part of Natural Selection, a radioplay by Lachlan Whatmore. Presented and produced by...

Posted by Ian Woolf on February 4, 2013 10:47 AM

Labile languages and remembering Steve Jobs

download MP3 Patrick Rubie discusses an immunological breakthrough in organ transplant technology. Victoria Bond commemorates Steve Jobs. Patrick Rubie and Victoria Bond speak to John Olstad, of the University of Newcastle, about his work in the fields of linguistics and...

Posted by Ian Woolf on October 10, 2011 4:05 PM

Travel bugs, Language and Speed dating

Play Now Travel sickness by Marc West, Language and children's brains: interview with Stephen Crain by Brigid Mullane, The science of speed dating by Vanessa Gardos, Marc West, Justin Zeltzer and Ian Woolf News by Justin Zeltzer, Presented by...

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

Maths, language and Giant Spiders

Play Now Presented by Ian Woolf, News by Helen Sims, Tim Baynes talks about paradigm shifts in the evolution of maths and language, Ian Woolf offers an explanation for Alien abductions and Giant spiders, Produced by David Huang....

Posted by Ian Woolf on February 21, 2005 9:00 AM

5 June 2001

Interview with Dr Simon Dennis about computer understanding of human languages by Ian Woolf. David Blank reviews a book about Eternity and the five ages of the Cosmos. Presented by Tim Baynes. News by Angelique Hutchison. Produced by Angelique Hutchison...

Posted by Ian Woolf on June 5, 2001 1:12 AM