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Music for moral equations
download MP3 Love songs aren't universally recognised, Music helps students learn maths, Music preferences predict moral values and vice versa Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Universal interpretations of vocal music Let me make mathematics and music together: A meta-analysis...
Assange, Music and the law
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Australian Computer Museum Society - part 1
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Superworm and fake human meat
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Dorkbot, Putin, Sneezing and Sunlight
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Questioning Science Frontiers - part 2
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The Physics Behind The Internet
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Nuclear diamond batteries by Ian Woolf, Ben Eggleton explains the science behind the internet. Sound and facts checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Rynos Theme by MacLeod (incompetech.com) Centre...
Intellectual Property and Medicine - part 2
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Cyber-pig and Eye-cow
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Climate change health
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The science of podcasts
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Nano-tech train sets
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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...
Little Ice Ages and future housing
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Future of Human Needs past
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Coral reefs in NSW
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Nano 3D Printing
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Science podcast science and FTL patents
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Nano Molecular train sets
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Birds, bees and bots
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Solar cooling, work and housing
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The Future of Human Needs
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Opt out of My Health Record
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Discovery - Women, MindSwitch and Quantum computers
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Axiomatic - Never was a cornflake guy
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Axiomatic weird food and Bronowski
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2018 Ig Nobel Prizes
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Twenty years and Biblical genes
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Full automation and Elvis on the Moon
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Transhumanism engineering Cat-girls
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Asteroid deflection and CRISPR babies
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Planetary Defense and symbiotic drones
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My Health Record Opt Out
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Space Force and Llamas
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Coeliac genes and zombies
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Anti-Encryption
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Meow on Mars
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Whales, drones and bacteria
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Tickets and power in NSW
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Zero Carbon stars align
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Lightbulb terrariums and biobiz
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Hearts, strawberries and water
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Seaweed science week and memory
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Operation Crayweed
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Sick supplements and secret gardens
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Vitamania, woken worms and DNA repair
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Funding ME and CFS research
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Diagnosing ME, and CFS
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Grinding your face
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Wound honey and rhythmotron
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Bacterial love cleavage virtual observatories
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Parasite hacks and computer vision
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Brain upgrades
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Poked plant physics Ant venom
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Honey therapy and emotional helmets
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Why You're Not Dead Yet
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March for Science and Prawn plastic
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Milking spiders and interfacing brains
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Sneaky SpaceBees
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Native bees and Biological computers
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Science communication and Quantum transistors
MP3 News of bacteria engineered with an electronic switch, Naomi Koh Belic and Noushin Nasiri talk about science communication, Michelle Simmonds explores how transistors work at the quantum level in 2002, Sound and facts checked by Charles Willock, Produced and...
Nanotech sensors and Autistic expression
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Women's Day, Stem cells, and Multiple Sclerosis
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Autonomous artificial intelligence algorithms
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Brain hacking and chocolate
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Insulin DISCO crypto-jacking
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Asteroid mining and virtual power
MP3 Giant batteries make a profit, and Virtual power to the people by Ian Woolf, William Crowe talks about mining asteroids that come to Earth, Sound and facts checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf High Earth...
The Forgetting Machine - part 2
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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...
Telegony and guitars
MP3 Dr Angela Crean explains environmental effects on fathers, and non-genetic inheritance. Luke Coffey builds a robotic guitar. Sound checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Dr Angela Crean Sex, flies and sperm count: young scientist's research...
Ig Nobel Prizes 2017
MP3 Ten Ig Nobel prizes condensed from the full 90 minute ceremony for your listening pleasure. Science that first makes you laugh and then makes you think. Didgeridoo therapy, twin cognition, cat liquidity, walking backward while not spilling coffee, vampire...
Ghost of Xmas 2000
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Sound is the next wave
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The Science behind the Internet
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Crooke's radiometer mystery
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The origin of life - inevitable?
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After robots take our jobs
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Biomimicry and coral bones
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Save the carnivorous plants
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Music inspired by Space
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Physics of Music revisited
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3D printed Jewellery baldness cure
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What are you looking at?
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Hyperspectral fleet and Giant robots
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Diet, bacteria, and health
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FundScience, Albatross, LoVid
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Recovering the world's oldest sound recordings, and DIY Flone drones by Ian Woolf. Maria Oh talks about crowd-funding science on FundScience, John August explains how Albatrosses fly, Tali and Kyle discuss artwork involving...
Megaphones and Microfluidics
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Galactic Haloes light walls
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Valves, rockets and Doctor Who
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Physics of Music special
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Sonic Screwdrivers and ingenuity awards
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DIY EMP, Putin and Sunlight
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Trigeneration and Sports networks
MP3 download Aaron Cooke reports on Sydney Council's plan for 85% efficient gas trigeneration power plants for Sydney, Ian Woolf speaks with Lief Hamlin about sports networks from NICTA, News by Marc West - Pacific Islands unihabitable but above water...
Writing News items
News on Diffusion is usually several short science news items. The script for each item should only take about a minute to read. If the story needs a longer amount of time, then it would sound better if it was...
Flores Hobbits and Stinging Jellyfish
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Power-dressing giant frogs with ID cards
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Sound barrier, Virgin green
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Worst sounds ever and cleaning science
Scientific news and views by Matt Clarke. Top ten hideous sounds by Vanessa Gardos. Microfiber cleaning cloths by Celine Steinfeld. Expert commentary by Charles Willock and Patrick Rubie. Presented and produced by Tilly Boleyn....
Diffusion 23rd February 2006
Play Now Rocket cars racing in the suburbs, secret science sounds, and all the latest science news. Rocket cars by Ian Woolf, Secret Sounds by Adam Richardson, News by Matt Francis, Presented by Chris Stewart, Produced by Chris Stewart,...
Using the Panel
The LED Meters In the middle of the vertical part of the consul you will see that there are three LED (Light Emitting Diode) Meters. The Meter on the left corresponds with Channel 1, the channel that you use when...
Bird Pollution
And finally, some nightingales have fallen foul of noise pollution laws in Europe. An ornithologist at the Free University of Berlin in Germany measured the calls of nightingales in busy urban areas and found that they increase the volume of...
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