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Brain spindle dating tips
MP3 From 2009: What are the seven secrets of successful online dating? Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf unravel the mysteries; 'Brain spindles that minds are made of' Nija Dalal talks to Charles Siebert about our brains; And Patrick Rubie reveals...
Choice Blindness
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Music for moral equations
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Don't ignore your symptoms
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Assange, Music and the law
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WorldCoin and Rejuventation by dilution
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Multi-agent AI TV shows
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Unsimulated mint longevity
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The Long-Term Threat
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The Talking Dead
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Machines Behaving Badly - part 2
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Fuctional Super Food
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Women in Science and Gender-bending
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How safe is your seafood from Ciguatera?
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Balancing Medical Censorship
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Summon Pompeo - banish EBV
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The Public Goods game
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Questioning Science Frontiers - part 2
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Variants, printed livers and woven TVs
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When viruses collude
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Nuclear waste storage
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Quick Tests and Cognitive Biases
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20 years of Bug-bots
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Witness Against Assange Lied
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Intellectual Property and Medicine - part 2
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Intellectual Property and Medicine - part 1
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Retro Robot love
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The Pais Effect
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In vitro meat ventriloquism
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Print spies dolphin terrorists
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Food microbiology
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COVIDFree without COVIDSafe
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Face recognition antagonism
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Neuromorphic social impact
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Nuclear dump Australia
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Investigating Sight
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Twenty years and Biblical genes
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Hearts, strawberries and water
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Milking spiders and interfacing brains
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Women's Day, Stem cells, and Multiple Sclerosis
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Head transplant HEAVEN?
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Terminal decline and Zero emissions
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Head transplant HEAVEN
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Create UNSW, MakerSpace and Repair Cafe - DIY Day part 2
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Robots and Voxels at CeBIT
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NAD+ and Ciguatera Fish Poison
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NAD+ and ageing
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Environmental toxins and civil society
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More colours and March for Science part 2
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March for Science part 1
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Digging dinosaurs
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Zap your genes into space
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Sexual ecology and Pirate privacy again
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') (This show was first broadcast on the 8th of July 2013) In Pitt St Mall, Ian Woolf talks to David W Campbell, Pirate Party Senate candidate about the PRISMbreak privacy protest. At Nerd...
2016 Ig Nobel Prizes
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Oz nuclear dump and virtual biohacking
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Open Source Malaria
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My Health Records -private?
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Heat shock for longer life and Physics poetry
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Slowing women's ageing
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Sly Moulds
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STEAM through space bubbles
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AI, smart watches and augmented reality
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Innovation Engineering
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Heatwave detecting cancer
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Gene repair, eggs and entropy
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Change your genes
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Mind controlled brain art and artificial IQ
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Space Biz, Orbital Art and Horses
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Vaping Freematics
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Singing frogs and spliced mice
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Koalas, robots, and brains
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Semaphore and legal Biohacking
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Neural Knitworks
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Spiderman 2 and Money
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Space Beer, OrbitOz and Launchbox
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Mechanical stem cells and Origin catalysts
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BrainChips and artificial intelligence
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Thorium Trans-Tasman 3MT competition
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30 IQ points more, and BitCoin
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Sexual ecology and Pirate privacy
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Red Cross Blood Science Special
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Cognitive Reserve and Solar max
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Plutonium credit and IQ
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Teleportation and Quack Physics!
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Exercise, censorship and mobiles
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People puppets and molecular synthesis
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Cricket balls and Climate Fix Flicks
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A Social Experiment
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Bones, Devils and Mind Control
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I love that word, Meltdown
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Terminal Decline and Zero Emissions
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HIV vaccine, Sponge music, casual sex
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Protect Research Rally and 3 blind mice
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Wave energy and the Coming Famine
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Sexual selection and the bionic eye
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Trigeneration and Sports networks
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Cancer alternative and Santa's role
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Dating science, brains and bacterial art
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LOLcat censorship and Future Journeys
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Gender, Curie, Franklin, and Carson
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Cassowary are you?
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Internet censorship protest special
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Forest water, PhD dances, bird flu
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Blood and Space Volcanoes
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Invisible illness and exploding spacecraft
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Echinoderms, illusions and your brain
MP3 Lachlan Whatmore explores the mysterious world of echinoderms, Ian Woolf reveals the illusion of scarcity, and the panel discusses the latest brain research: gaming gadgets, memory goggles, brain entrainers, happy genes, and why puberty is so difficult. Presented...
Nuclear Waste: Safe for 240,000 years?
play now A Diffusion Science Nuclear Special. We look at the breakdown of nuclear waste storage materials with time, and the problems associated with cleanup of the Maralinga nuclear test site. Dr Ian Farnan, University of Cambridge, talks to...
Brain music and Smelly science
play now Mind Listening to the Mind Listening by Ian Woolf, Smells like Science by Patrick Rubie, News by Patrick Rubie - taking the urine, - holograph testing - synthetic life - jellyfish cosmetics - ancient chilli Presented by...
Icelandic Science, Heart Brain, Robots
play now News by Patrick Rubie - Hubble sees new stars - energy generator using vibrations - rat-brained robot - Aesop's fable tested - gut parasites from the ocean - largest bird's secret of flight Science of Iceland by...
Turbulent mile high chemical cocktails
MP3 Ever wanted to join the mile high club? Want to put strange things into your body? This week, the Diffusion Team tackles the science of things that go bump in the air - well turbulence anyway - and what...
Diffusion Christmas Quiz 2006
Play Now The Diffusion Christmas Quiz: Schrodinger's Cats vs Pavlov's Dogs in a Winner-Takes-All contest. Hosted by Chris Stewart, with Tilly Boleyn, Vanessa Gardos, Shona Blair, Catherine Beehag, Celine Steinfeld, Jacqui Pfeffer, Jacqui Hayes, Ian Woolf, Darren Osbourne, Derek...
Parrot Environment, Rutherford part 2
Play Now Part 2 of the life of the amazing Kiwi scientist Ernest Rutherford, who made possible nuclear "fussion" and silican "chups". The two latest media love birds are the Environment Minister Ian Campbell and the orange-bellied parrot -...
Common colds, and chimps
Play Now The Common Cold -- not so cold, and not so common -- could save us all from bird flu; what makes us so different from chimps?; and all the latest science news. Presented by Jacqui Hayes, News...
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,...
Diffusion 8th December 2005
Play Now How to search for ETs: an Interview with SETI Master Dr Jill Tarter, death by online gaming and all the latest science news. Presented by Chris Stewart, News by Adam Richardson, SETI by Chris Stewart, Gaming Death...
Diffusion 17th November 2005
Play Now The painful world of non-lethal weapons, the Universe's ultimate perpetual motion machine, and all the latest science news. Produced by Chris Stewart, presented by Matt Clarke, 'Perpetual Motion' by Matt Francis, 'Non-Lethal Weapons' by Matt Clarke, News...
NEWS: dodgy space suits from NASA; dangerous neckties in the hospital ward & spiders with garbage in their webs.
NEWS: dodgy space suits from NASA; dangerous neckties in the hospital ward & spiders with garbage in their webs. NASA crew at the International Space Station are finding problems with their space suits, or so reports New Scientist magazine this...
Sibling Saviours
Move over designer babies, five saviour siblings have been born in the United States, in a special IVF program/. The babies were carefully chosen so they would provide stem cells to treat older siblings with diseases such as leukaemia. Using...
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...
16th September 2002
Presented by Adam Mark. News by Chris Stewart. Adam reports on the latest in ejaculation research. Chris presents part 1 of What's Up With Gravity. Produced by Lachlan Whatmore who also pushed the buttons....
12th August 2002
Radiothon edition presented by Chris Stewart. News by Tim Baynes and Chris. Ian Woolf reports on computers made from soybeans and chicken feathers. Tim interviews Dr Eugenie Shepherd about her latest research into algae and the movement of plants. Open...
Diffusion 25th June 2002
Play Now News by Dr Branwen Morgan. Presented by Gina Sartore. Adam Mark talk about the latest on Spina Bifida. Tim Baynes discusses the scientific debate on Global warming, and talks with people in Katoomba street at the Blue...
Diffusion 4th June 2002
Play Now Presented by Tim Baynes. News by Gina Sartore. Tim explains Bioluminescence. Lachlan Whatmore talks about the military uses of bioluminescence, and the latest global warming sceptical research. Kangaroo leather with Dr Jacinta Poole of CSIRO. Dinosaur stampede...
Diffusion 9th October 2001
Play Now Presented by Gina Sartore. News by Ian Woolf. Chris Stewart investigates the 2001 Noble and Ig-noble Awards. Gina Sartore reviews Kim Stelrony: Dawkins versus Gould - survival of the fittest, about the big debatesin evolutionary science. Produced...
Faster Than Light, Japanese Encephalitus
Play now Presented by Melissa Hulbert. News by Angelique Hutchison. Communicating Mozarts 40th Symphony Faster Than Light by Ian Woolf. Tony Curtis of CSIRO talks with Dr Williams about a test for Japanese Encephalitis. Late news by Melissa Hulbert and...
Diffusion 30th January 2001
Play Now Presented by Melissa Hulbert. News by Angelique Hutchison. Communicating Mozarts 40th Symphony Faster Than Light by Ian Woolf. Tony Curtis of CSIRO talks with Dr Williams about a test for Japanese Encephalitis. Late news by Melissa Hulbert...
30th January 2001
Presented by Melissa Hulbert. News by Angelique Hutchison. Communicating Mozart's 40th Symphony Faster Than Light by Ian Woolf. Tony Curtis of CSIRO talks with Dr Williams about a test for Japanese Encephalitis. Late news by Melissa Hulbert and Angelique...
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