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Stable Diffusion?
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Australian Computer Museum Society - part 1
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Cyber-pig and Eye-cow
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Face COVIDSafe explosion
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Brainwave generation
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Brain wave discoveries
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COVIDSafe Brainwaves
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Little Ice Ages and future housing
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Tesla suit field brain scanner
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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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Coral reefs in NSW
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Bio-engineering Innovation Challenge 2019
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Gravitational wave generators
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Solar cooling, work and housing
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Axiomatic weird food and Bronowski
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Brain upgrades
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Sound is the next wave
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Pupils Pulse at Parkes
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Crooke's radiometer mystery
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The Internet of Hackable Things & OzSpace part 2
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Addictive epigenetics
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Cellf - making a musician
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Pursuing pulsars, part 1
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Physics of Music revisited
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Fate of the Universe
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Space Psychology Array
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Heatwave detecting cancer
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Brainwaves and Photonics
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DIY EEG and Rocket Scientist networking
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Transition waves rideable multicopters
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Bitcoin rules soliton waves
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Mood Dress and the End of the World
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Mapping Robots and printed houses
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Time, Mars and chocolate
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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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Fecal transplants and Darwin part 5
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Crab torture and Darwin part 4
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Sick prawns and sleep rehearsal
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Brain magnets, junk DNA and nymphomania
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Grave chemistry, anti-gravity, attractive armpits and rising sap!
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People puppets and molecular synthesis
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Cricket balls and Climate Fix Flicks
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Corpse power and blood pressure genes
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Cockroaches, crabs and kindness
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Sexy Smells and parasite overlords
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Sunstones, chocolate and rain-making
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Disgusting politics and drought resistance
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Labile languages and remembering Steve Jobs
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Stelarc and Artificial Brains
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Axis of eating and Secrets of Chocolate
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Artificial Intelligence and windy assassins
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Synthetic organisms and cloud-busting
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Seagrasses, Art and Maggots
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Hormoned beef and fracked farming
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A Social Experiment
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Bones, Devils and Mind Control
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Lizard babies and exploding stars
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Enquiry based learning and Hendra
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I love that word, Meltdown
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Lactating insects and handy fish
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Anatomical anomalies and Cane toads
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Birds and the bees and mint
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Let's talk about X... and exits
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Terminal Decline and Zero Emissions
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Phone cancer and giant cuttlefish
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Fear pathways and vampire allergies
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HIV vaccine, Sponge music, casual sex
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Circadian rhythms and sperm teasing
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Bionic Eyes and Synthetic Biology
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Driver Fatigue and Ury's Night
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Protect Research Rally and 3 blind mice
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Fukushima special!
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Handwashing, meltdown and nanocooling
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Smart Windows and Morton's Demon
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TB Day and CSIRO Vacations
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First computers and Radio mashups
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Nuclear medicine and the Singularity
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Unfair reporting and DNA Poetry
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Fire and Transhumanism
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Death by Chocolate!
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Science of Romance special
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Skin hunger and mouse Draculas
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Tsunami warning and Greentech awards
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Younger mice and spider invasions
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Real Doctors eat Breakfast
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Addict detention and child enhancement
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Genescient Healthy old age
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Plankton and the Artilect War
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Gene modified salmon and Sexy dancing
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BSD Sex and Beady-Eyed Agents
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Sports at altitude and Jacob Bronowski
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Wave energy and the Coming Famine
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DIY EMP, Putin and Sunlight
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Photic sneezing and a naked scientist
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Science Week special 2010
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Brown science, Solar cells, horse tale
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Power tool orchestra, self attraction?
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Female physicists and belly button dynamics
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Beauty and the Geek, and Homeopathy
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Sexual selection and the bionic eye
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Sex Evolution and Technological Art
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Cognitive Load and Vision Revolution
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Solar racing and toxoplasma
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Trigeneration and Sports networks
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R.I.P. Martin Gardner and Rover Phoenix
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Sexy Greys and Super-planes
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Rising seas and the oil crises
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Quolls, laser planes, anosmic flies
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Doc Oc, Element 117, and Nikola Tesla
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Australian Pirate Party, and LHC restarted
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Inside the Earth, pharmacogenomics
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Solar Gem, and Wolverine bones
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GAY MUMS, TELOMERES, TRANSSEXUAL CLOWNFISH
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G-spot, wealth and nanotechnology
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Dr Rachie vs anti-vax, and DSM psycho
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Wolverine, snails of steel, and you
MP3 download Marc West and Dr Chris Pettigrew try to recreate Wolverine in the lab. Marc West, Aaron Cooke and Ian Woolf discuss the science of superheroes. Ian Woolf challenges you to read his mind in a Diffusion listener experiment!...
Housework, sex and comedy
MP3 download Marc West examines the correlation between sex and housework, Victoria Bond walks into a bar with science comedian Brian Malow, News by. Aaron Cooke - starquakes, - stroking rats, - mosquito attraction, - how green tea fights cancer....
Cancer alternative and Santa's role
MP3 download Alternative Cancer by John August, Santa sets a bad role model by Patrick Rubie News by Ian Woolf - kanagaroo cream to prevent skin cancer - testosterone does not produce aggression in humans - Methuselah Foundation's top 5...
The ghost of Diffusion past - Xmas 2000
MP3 download The ghost of Diffusion past - the Xmas show from 2000 sampled at 20kbps: Myths and facts of the great Aussie Beer Gut by Nick Perkins Anthropomorphisation by Lachlan Whatmore Weird science by Gina Sartore - GM Potato...
Lung flutes, leg growing and Science circuses
MP3 download Pahia Cooper picks her favourite inventions of 2009: the Lung flute, greensulate mushroom packaging, and the Mindflex; Aaron Cook interviews Pahia Cooper about her experiences travelling in the Questacon Science Circus; News by Aaron Cook - how to...
ET, choice mathematics and farts on Mars
MP3 download 'ET won't go home' by Marc West and Darren Osborne, 'the beer drinking scientists' 'Science of Choice' Ian Woolf interviews Dr Stephen Bush of the Centre for the Study of Choice, the University of Technology, Sydney. News by...
Portable forensics, and ET in the pub
MP3 download Portable forensics, sexual revolutions and ET in the pub! Dr Alsion Beavis talks to Ian Woolf about portable crime scene investigation labs. Marc West and Darren Osborne talk to pub-goers about Extra-Terrestrials. Aaron Cook reports on Kiwis in...
Global Warming's Evil Twin
MP3 download Global warming's evil twin! Dr Ross Hill explains to Ian Woolf how the acidification of the oceans is causing osteoporosis in tropical reefs. Lachlan Whatmore reports on Apple's lemon, and the mangrove invasion of fresh-water wetlands. Ian Woolf...
Rad Cooling, SETI and Augmented Reality
MP3 download Use the cold of space to cool your home with Angus Gentle and Ian Woolf. Search for alien life and Extraterrestrial Intelligence with Carol Oliver and Marc West. Visits Bondi Beach with Ian Woolf, to explore the futuristic...
Mars, Myopia, Mesoglea, Mildred Cohn
MP3 achlan Whatmore gets squishy on ya with immortal jellyfish. Victoria Bond eulogises the Mars rovers, Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf discuss new understandings about short-sightedness, Ian Woolf and Pat Rubie collide with bread and hadrons Lachlan Whatmore eulogises mighty...
Hot Maths and Disintermediation
MP3 Brigid Mullane interviews Dr Michael Cavanagh about new software to help teach Maths at school, Ian Woolf talks with Futurist Janine Cahill about the paradigm shift from Traditional to New Media, Mobile Banking, Serious Games and Disintermediation. The future...
Mystique, pill ills, sin distribution
MP3 Marc West asks Dr Chris Pettigrew how X-men character Mystique's super-powers might really work, Charles Willock reports on the distribution of sin in the USA, Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie discuss the lesser known side effects of the contraceptive...
Primes, codes and entanglement
MP3 Prime numbers, secret messages and quantum teleportation! Marc West explore prime numbers and speaks to Terrance Tao. Ian Woolf and Marc West discuss Quantum technology - quantum entanglement, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation. News by Marc West -Mobile phones...
Deadly worms and pig orgasms
MP3 "Worms worms worms" by Lachlan Whatmore "Science Trivia" hosted by Victoria Bond. Contributors are Lachlan Whatmore, Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie "The number 30" by Patrick Rubie News by Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf -Evolutionary Leap -Hadron Collider -Placebo...
Vaccination special!
MP3 All you need to know about vaccinations! Marc West, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf talk about how vaccines are made, how they work, the biochemistry behind vaccines, the controversies, and even a little maths! Hosted by Ian Woolf Produced...
Dating science, brains and bacterial art
MP3 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 bacterial artists...
Dust, smart dogs and rats on twitter
MP3 Marc West explains the new dust storms that have hit Australia, Marc and Ian Woolf discuss whether the internet is addictive, and just how smart are dogs really? Presented and produced by Ian Woolf...
Dark Energy, Vacuum and Casimir forces
MP3 Ian Woolf reports on Lawrence Karuss's talk on Dark Energy at the Powerhouse Museum, Marc West and Ian Woolf discuss the expansion of the Universe, and harnessing Casimir forces from quantum vacuum energy. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf...
Music and Viruses
MP3 Fighting HIV' Patrick Rubie interviews Andrew Low from the Centre for Excellence in Medical Research, the University of British Columbia about the newest weapons to fight HIV. Lachlan Whatmore presents Part 2 of his tribute to Les Paul, honouring...
Coffee and Guitar science
MP3 We get you up with the science of coffee, take you on a journey of musical genius with guitarist Les Paul, and generally squeeze so much science out of your stomach that you'll need a gastric bi-pass. Lachlan Whatmore...
Power, art and cocktails
MP3 Marc West talks with Jon Lomberg about sending art to aliens on the Voyager space probe, Ian Woolf speaks with Brian Lennon about smal, cheap and locally owned Geothermal Power plants and the Emissions Trading Scheme, Marc West drinks...
10daysofscience and marijuana science
MP3 Caitlin Howlett interviews Kate Hennessy, editor of www.10daysofscience.com about the Ultimo Science Festival, Victoria Bond celebrates 400 years of Galilean astronomy, Dan Keogh and Caitlin Howlett lead a discussion on the science of marijuana with Celine Steinfield, Victoria Bond,...
Emailing aliens, and Future Festivals
MP3 Marc West talks with Jacqui Hayes about the HelloFromEarth.net project, From the Live Futures Festival, Dr Zheng asks us about what it should be like to live in cities in the future, Natalie Rowland talks to Ian Woolf about...
The Diffusion Science Show Trivia Special!
MP3 Join Marc West, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf as we tackle questions in mathematics, biology, popular science and chemistry. Can you do better than the team? Produced and Panelled by Marc West Also starring Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf...
Karaoke science, stock superstitions
MP3 Australian uranium, the weapons makers who own it, and the new weapons in our region by Ian Woolf, Karaoke therapy to help sufferers of mild aphasia regain their voice by Ian Woolf, Superstition and the stock market by Marc...
Designer thinking and coral reefs 101
MP3 Ian Woolf speaks to Deborah Kneeshaw about using Design thinking to solve the world's problems, Lachaln Whatmore explains the nature of coral reefs to Marc West, News by Ian Woolf - unseen giant object crashes into Jupiter - circumcising...
Moon landings and Whalesong
MP3 Ian Woolf informs us on 10 Apollo 11 facts that will surprise you, Ian and Marc West chat the science and politics of moon landings, and we feature some out-of-this-world music. And just for balance, we come back to...
Newly possible futures
MP3 Futurist Janine Cahill interviewed by Ian Woolf about how we are living in an era where the impossible is becoming possible, News by Ian Woolf - Photographic memory pills, - Caffeine may reverse Alzheimers - zapping brains - Urine...
Ritzian physics and imaginary friends
MP3 Did you have an imaginary friend? Do you think the scientific establishment is suppressing alternative theories? Caitlin Howlett discusses giraffe evolution and Saturn's moons, and the benefits of imaginary conversations. John August debates the Ritzian alternative to Einstein's relativity...
Power-dressing giant frogs with ID cards
MP3ID card pensions by Ian WoolfSynaesthesia by Charles WillockPower-dressing giant frogs by Tilly Boleyn and Evan ShapiroNews by Patrick Rubie- Wild winter viruses- snake jaws sailing sound waves- solving a 140 year old equation Song '"A Thumbnail 160 -Atomic...
Carbon Praise, Internet Goes Sideways
play now Wonderful Carbon by Lachlan Whatmore, Meshing the Internet by Ian Woolf, News by Patrick Rubie: - Space weather - Microwaved plastic - Colour evolution - Artificial skin - Giant penguins Presented by Charles Willock, Produced by Ian...
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