Diffusion Science radio

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

Transhuman and Transhumanitarian

MP3 download From 2011: A history of Transhumanism, From 2013: My Transhumanitarian vision by Ian Woolf Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Humanity + Transhumanism Australia...

Posted by Ian Woolf on November 15, 2021 12:32 PM

Quick Tests and Cognitive Biases

MP3 download Quicker COVID19 tests by Ian Woolf, From 2011, Peter Bowditch, of ratbags.com, discusses "Confirmation bias, denialism and Morton's Demon". The Ig Nobel 24/7 lectures. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Peter Bowditch - Ratsbags.com Annals of Improbable Research...

Posted by Ian Woolf on September 20, 2021 2:45 PM

Dave Sings Sight Scan Science

MP3 download This show was first broadcast on January 5th 2009: Ian Woolf looks inside the minds eye to see what you see - with a scanner, commentary by Charles Willock, Patrick Rubie zaps cheap wine into the good stuff,...

Posted by Ian Woolf on January 25, 2021 11:21 AM

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

Canada in Space & Google listens

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 22, 2015 11:47 AM

Megaphones and Microfluidics

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 4, 2014 10:52 AM

Diffusion 2nd July 2002

Play Now Presented by Chris Stewart. Tim Baynes interviews Dr Virgina Shepherd about Fungi. Gina Sartore reports on research on methamphetamines and the immune system of cats, and the effect on the researcher, and then opens the microphone to...

Posted by Ian Woolf on September 2, 2002 9:00 AM