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Sleep learning and smell-o-vision - part 3
MP3 download From 2020: Synthetic smells and Sleep smelling memories by Ian Woolf James Hayes talks about the science of odour, part 3, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Dr James Hayes UNSW Odour Laboratory Manipulating synthetic optogenetic odors reveals...
Apps for Brain-Computer-Interfaces - part 1
MP3 Listen to Sam Hosovsky explain to Ian Woolf how uCat is building apps to help paralysed people with Brain-Computer-Interfaces learn to speak using virtual reality and artificial intelligence - part 1 Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Sam Hosovsky,...
After AI takes jobs
download MP3 Listen to part 2 of Ian Woolf's chat with Transhumanist Brendan Clarke on how AI gets smarter, and how to change society to help people who lose their jobs as a result. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf...
Face transplant and spice for life
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Brain Writing
download MP3 Brain writing with bidirectional Brain-Computer-Interfaces, with news of spots before your eyes mapped at Monash, and stimulated in Toronto. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Spatial Resolution of Phosphenes within the VisualField using Non-Invasive Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulations...
Don't ignore your symptoms
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') New protein causing post-exertional malaise hints at new diagnostic tests and drugs for ME/CFS, Flaws found by critics in the PACE Trials and Cochrane Review recommending graded exercise therapy and Cognitive behavioural therapy...
Neurofeedback virtual learning
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Listen to Luke Turner talk about his project to use Neurofeedback and virtual reality to help people learn more things, more easily. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf Luke Turner (right) Luke Turner's...
WorldCoin and Rejuventation by dilution
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Unsimulated mint longevity
MP3 Listen to the quantum experiment that proves we're not in a computer simulation, news of Mint for Minds, and Slowing the ageing clocks, with Ian Woolf Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Improvement of cognitive function in wild-type and...
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...
Stable Diffusion?
MP3 How does AI art software work? Ian Woolf attempts a clear explanation in plain English. News of AI software showing what your brain saw. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Reconstructed movie showing animal view of world proves scientists...
Dishbrain puppeting drones in VR
MP3 Drones puppetting people in the metaverse, Dishbrain plays Pong by Ian Woolf, From 2007: Retocausality by Tim Baynes, Killer toys by a panel of Ian Woolf, Marc West, Lachlan Whatmore, Catherine Beehag, and Celine Steinfeld, Produced and hosted by...
Zwicky Dating Deja Vu
MP3 From 2001, David Blank tells the story of astronomer ahead of his time, Fritz Zwicky, From 2009, once again, Patrick Rubie explains to Ian Woolf the feeling that we've seen this before, from 2009, Patrick Rubie and I discuss...
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...
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...
New year new behaviour
MP3 download From the Singularity University Summit 2019: Shelley Laslett talks about the neuroscience of changing your behaviour, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Shelley Laslett Vitae Singularity University Australia Summit 2019...
The Right To Repair - part 1
MP3 download Guts repair brains by Ian Woolf, Samantha Floreani from Digital Rights Watch, and Erin Turner from Choice magazine discuss the Right To Repair - part 1. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Samantha Floreani from Digital Rights Watch...
Census and Privacy 2021 - part 2
MP3 download Fruit fights Parkinson's disease, Magnetic brains by Ian Woolf, Tom Sulston from Digital Rights Watch discusses privacy and security concerns with the Australian 2021 Census - part 2 Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Tom Sulston, Deputy Chair...
Strange Geometry in Antiquity - part 2
MP3 download Muscle regeneration, Facebook goes nuclear by Ian Woolf, Dr Daniel Mansfield speaks with Ian Woolf about the strange geometry used by the Babylonians 4000 years ago - part 2. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Dr Daniel Mansfield...
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,...
Developing brains
MP3 download What is your brain made of? A day in the life of a neuroscientist by Silvia Vicenzi Silvia Vicenzi talks with Ian Woolf about National Science Week, studying neurobiology, and how the brain develops. Hosted and produced by...
Solar explosions and insect minds
MP3 download From the 2001 archives: Falling penguins, shifting Earth, neurological optimism, by Deanna Coleman, Tim Baynes talks about explosions on the Sun, Nick Perkins speaks with Professor Srinivasan about insect minds, Ecstasy may damage your sex life, Protests threatened...
Smell-o-vision and explosive bees
MP3 download Synthetic smells and Sleep smelling memories by Ian Woolf James Hayes talks about the science of odour, part 3, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Dr James Hayes UNSW Odour Laboratory Manipulating synthetic optogenetic odors reveals the coding...
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...
COVIDSafe Brainwaves
MP3 download The broken promises of COVIDSafe by Ian Woolf R Douglas Fields talks about the Electric Brain part 1, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf R. Douglas Fields Tracing the challenges of COVIDSafe Interactive COVIDSafe simulator (Digital Rights Watch)...
Climate change health
MP3 download Elderberry retraction, Brain reading, Furry faces, and viral music by Ian Woolf, Melanie Zeppel talks about climate change and the health of humans and forests. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Melanie Zeppel SCOPUS Awards Flu vaccines yes,...
Birds and the bees and the bots
MP3 download This show first broadcast in February 2019: Professor Srinivasan talks about how flying animals navigate, and applying their methods to aircraft. Sound checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Professor Srinivasan The Poladian Project Neuroscience...
Neuromorphic social impact
MP3 download Face recognition through stealing photos used by police, by Ian Woolf, Yesh Bethi demonstrates neuromorphic cameras on foosball tables, Nic Ralph uses neuromorphic cameras on satellites, Hervé Harvard and Sophie Ritchie bridge academic engineering to real world problems...
Changing behaviour
MP3 download From the Singularity University Summit 2019: Shelley Laslett talks about the neuroscience of changing your behaviour, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Shelley Laslett Vitae Singularity University Australia Summit 2019...
Junk DNA extreme weather aphasia
MP3 download Baby teeth worth more by Chris Stewart, Baby teeth update by Ian Woolf, Amanda Hamilton spoke with Professor Malcom Simons about his patent of the "junk" DNA that makes up ninety-five percent of our genetic inheritence, The impact...
Brain Stimulation
MP3 download The God helmet by Ian Woolf, Peter Simson-Young talks about personalising transcranial direct current stimulation using 3D printing. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf The controversial device that might make you feel the presence of a higher power...
Birds, bees and bots
MP3 download Professor Srinivasan talks about how flying animals navigate, and applying their methods to aircraft. Sound checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Professor Srinivasan The Poladian Project Neuroscience of vision and aerial robotics Youtube channel...
Seaweed science week and memory
MP3 download Lana Kajlich reports on her seaweed Science Week activities, Dana Leidl talks about memory and amnesia, Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Restoring crayweed Phyllospora comosa to South Bondi photo credit...
Why You're Not Dead Yet
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Powerless cameras by Ian Woolf, Dr David Farmer and comedian Jackson Vaarhoor explain Why You're Not Dead Yet, Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Towards Battery-Free...
Nanotech sensors and Autistic expression
MP3 Neurotypical people shun autistic people by Ian Woolf, Noushin Nasiri talks about detecting diabetes in your breath with nanotech sensors. Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Noushin Nasiri FameLab 2016 - Noushin...
Brain hacking and chocolate
MP3 Addictive apps by Ian Woolf, Galit Segev explains the science of chocolate. Sound and facts checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Galit Segev Connect your app to our Persuasive AI Meet the tech company that...
The Forgetting Machine - part 2
MP3 Driver-less crash, Military plants and Crypto loyalty by Ian Woolf, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga on the brain as a forgetting machine, part 2. Sound and facts checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga...
The Forgetting Machine - part 1
MP3 Slow ice cream, drone rescue and shocking work conditions by Ian Woolf, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga talks about our brain as The Forgetting Machine - part 1 Professor Aleksandra Przegalinska's 24/7 lecture on the topic: Bots. Sound checked by Charles...
Head transplant HEAVEN?
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Stephen Juan talks with Lachlan Whatmore and Ian Woolf about keeping a severed head alive , Head transplants - HEAVEN? by Ian Woolf, RE: Your brains by Jonathan Coulton. Production checked by Charles...
Head transplant HEAVEN
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Stephen Juan talks with Lachlan Whatmore and Ian Woolf about keeping a severed head alive , Head transplants - HEAVEN? by Ian Woolf, RE: Your brains by Jonathan Coulton. Production checked by Charles...
NAD+ and Ciguatera Fish Poison
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Rosmarinic acid for your spinal injury, and aged brain by Ian Woolf, Nady Braidy talks about Ciguatera, Chronic Faqtigue Syndrome and NAD+, Ian Woolf reports the latest from the Louis Mallard Institute's research...
Environmental toxins and civil society
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Smart burgers, salt, juice, and diapers by Ian Woolf Nady Braidy talks about envrionmental neurotoxins, Eva Cox speaks about science and civil society, Friends of CSIRO interview, Angela Maharaj interview, Production checked by...
Voice, micro-algae and CFS
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers found to have damaged calcium ion channels and energy generation, by Ian Woolf, Noel Hanna talks about what we know about the voice, George Pappou talks about innovations for...
Digging dinosaurs
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Antibody to blood factor prevents brain ageing, Stem cell genes rejuvenate by Ian Woolf, Mitchell Seymour talks to Barry McKay about digging dinsosaurs, Put it To The test by They Might Be Giants,...
Savannasaurus and teenage blood
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Mice fed human blood get younger by Ian Woolf, Dr Stephen Poropat talks about Savannasaurus to Barry McKay. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Australian Age of Dinosaurs...
Biomimicry and coral bones
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Ultrasound for younger brains by Ian Woolf, Krishneel Singh talks about making bone out of stem cells from fat using inspiration from coral. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian...
Photobiomodulation and bees
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Bees teach pulling strings, Bees count to four, Fruit fly brain brain ageing reversed with spermadine by Ian Woolf. Daniel Johnstone uses photobiomodulation to treat neuro-degenerative diseases. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced...
Music inspired by Space
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Brains scan bugs by Ian Woolf, Keyna Wilkins talks about creating music inspired by Astronomy, Paul Francis has transcoded radio astronomy signals into haunting sounds. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted...
Heat shock for longer life and Physics poetry
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Autism treated with good guts by Ian Woolf, Mark Febbraio talks about heat shock proteins and longer life, Heather Catchpole recites physics poems in the pub. Production checked by Charles Willock. Produced and...
Cellf - making a musician
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') The science policies of seven parties competing in the Australian Federal Election by Ian Woolf, Guy Ben-Ary talks about Cellf - a dish of living neurons that jams with human musicians. Celff in...
Pursuing pulsars, part 1
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Thought texting in development by Ian Woolf, Part 1 of Jim Palfreyman talking about his research into the Vela pulsar. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf The 'glitching'...
Space Psychology Array
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Electric brains by Ian Woolf, Adena Silverstein on the psychology of space travel, Matthew Whiting on processing Big Data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array pathfinder telescope. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced...
Virtual Observatory defeating salt
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Asthma drug rejuvenates brains by Ian Woolf, Yeshe Fenner talks about Virtual Observatories, Natalie Lister talks about eating potassium to defeat harmful effects of salt in your diet. Nemeses by Jonathan Coulton. Production...
Change your genes
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Self-control or memory? by Ian Woolf Professor Steve Cole explains the influence of personal experience on the regulation of your genes (part 1), Chris from Create UNSW talks about live Pac man. Put...
Hyperspectral fleet and Giant robots
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Mind controlled cockroaches and giant battling robots by Ian Woolf, Brian Lim talks about tracking pollution from his fleet of hyperspectral satellites, Todd the T1000 by Jonathan Coulton. Production checked by Charles Willock,...
Brain nets and Broccoli
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Brain nets to catch your thoughts by Ian Woolf, Astha Singh talks about Glucosinulates in Broccoli Checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Inspiring Australia Syringe-injectable electronics Injectable device delivers...
Good cop/Bad cop: Cholesterol
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Magnetic nanoparticles stimulate the brain by Ian Woolf, Good Cop/Bad Cop: Cholesterol talk by Blake Cochran, Cholesterol interview with Blake Cochran by Ian Woolf. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by...
Aussie Rockets Worm Lego
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Worms uploaded to Lego by Ian Woolf, Kerrie Dougherty tells tales of Rockets in Australia before Woomera. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Kerrie Dougherty, courtesy of Valentin...
3D Printing for Everyone
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Brain inflammation and abnormalities in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Ian Woolf, What do you do after you buy a 3D printer? with Shane Morris, Ksenia Gnevsheva's 3 Minute Thesis: "Non-native English accents -...
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:...
Makers of every generation
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Machine telepathy? by Ian Woolf From the Sydney Mini Maker Faire: Makers Empire with a system for 5 year olds to make toys with 3D Printers, Three teen roboticists from First Australia with...
Neural Knitworks
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Writing beats typing for lecture notes by Ian Woolf, Pat Pillai yarns about knitting neurons for brain health. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf The Pen Is Mightier Than The Keyboard To remember...
Re-using carbon and Biohack Syd
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Sydney Mini Maker Faire returns, and NASA's mission to Charon by Ian Woolf, Mouse vampire retractions by Ian Woolf, Matt speaks with Ian Woolf about Biohack Syd, Ken Richards talks about his Consensus...
Aging brains and Ciguatera
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Fukushima reactor spills radioactive water yet again by Ian Woolf, Dr Nady Braidy talks about toxins causing neuro-degenerative age-related brain diseases, and Ciguatera Fish Poison. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf How ciguatoxins...
Building Biosensors to detect disease
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Placebos for sleep, exercise and vision by Ian Woolf, Dr Olivier Laczka speaks with Ian Woolf about designing biosensors for marine pathogens, Indigo V open source science, and detecting HIV. Presented and produced...
Stem cells fight HIV and Biohacking
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') News of Fibromyalgic pain explained, and Dream images identified by computer, by Ian Woolf. Associate Professor Geoff Symonds talks with Ian Woolf about using HIV to modify stem cells to fight HIV, From...
Stem Cell Revolutions and HIV protein
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Hearing restored to deaf mice, and Breast milk protects against HIV by Ian Woolf Clare Blackburn speaks to Ian Woolf about the film "Stem Cell Revolutions", Kate Doherty spoke to Ian Woolf about...
Shadow profiles and eating babies
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Why you want to eat babies by Ian Woolf, Facebook shadow profiles by Ian Woolf The Singularity by Paul Rhodes, The Placebo effect and faith by Ian Woolf, Presented and produced by Ian...
Thorium Trans-Tasman 3MT competition
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Poverty uses up more brain power by Ian Woolf Thorium SkeptiCamp presentation by Ian Woolf, Ian Woolf attended the Trans-Tasman 3 minute thesis competition and spoke to" Kelsey Kennedy about winning the Trans-Tasman...
Future silkmoth tricycle games
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Ian Woolf reports on Harvard University flies robot bees. Janine Cahill speaks with Ian Woolf about improving the future with games. Silkmoths ride robot tricycles cruising for sexy females in Japan, for science!...
Pond scum and ALS
download MP3 In a Brain Awareness week special, Dr Rachel Dunlop explains her research exploring the connection between blue-green algae and motor neurone disease, and how Gulf War veterans are coming down with ALS. Therese Chen reports on glue that...
Higgs tastes dark tendrils
download MP3 Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf discuss the discovery by the team at the large hadron Collider, Victoria Bond reports on Dark Tendrils, Ian Woolf reports on how taste affects judgements, the speechjammer, and activating your immune system to...
Disgusting politics and drought resistance
download MP3 Ian Woolf explains the neuropolitics of left and right wing brains, Mic Cavazzini interviews Professor Jim Hasselof about the consequences of genetically engineering drought resistant crops, News by Ian Woolf: - red plumage vanishing from Chernobyl - Global...
Protein, penicillin and parasites
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Death by Chocolate!
MP3 download What is the lethal dose of chocolate? Prayer and the neurology of scepticism, Seduction while you sleep, Caffeine makes you suggestible, DNA altered by the mind, Elderly made young by accident, Does a duck's quack echo? Presented and...
Holistic medicine and ancient engines
play nowLachlan Whatmore looks at waterwheels and other ancient machines,Patrick Rubie talks to the president of the Sydney University Holistic Society,News by Ian Woolf, - solar powered solar power - neurology of cinema - erasable printing paperproduced by Lachlan...
Sea grass neurological morals
play now Sea Grass by Lachlan Whatmore, Neurology of Ethics interview by John August, News by Patrick Rubie Presented by Lachlan Whatmore Produced by Ian Woolf and Lachlan Whatmore...
Asperger's adventure Nuclear shutdown
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Hall of Mirror Neurons, and Tiger Moths
Play Now Reading minds and self-knowledge by Ian Woolf, History of the Tiger Moth by Lachlan Whatmore, Presented by Marc West, Science news by Vanessa Gardos, Produced by Tilly Boleyn. Music this week - A Minha Menina - The...
Laterality and Left Handedness - By Adam Mark
Pop Quiz: What do Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton, have in common? Apart from having the same superannuation policies, all three ex-presidents are left handed. In fact they join the 13% of the population that prefers to...
5th August 2002
Lachlan Whatmore interviews Dr Bill Halford about Herpes. Presented by Lachlan. Chris Stewart reviews "In Code" by Sarah Flannery. Gina Sartore talks about the neurology of trust. News by Branwen Morgan and Amanda Hamilton. Produced by Chris with technical assistance...
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