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From 2019:
The Bioengineering Innovation Outreach Challenge 2019 prize winners by Ian Woolf,
Professor Hala Zreiqat talks about the ARC Bioengineering Innovation Centre,
Dr Gavinda Singh talks about his research in cancer cures and his mentorship,
Team Team from Sydney Girls High School talk about their Epilepsy brainwave monitoring solution,
Team Biochis from Mount Carmel Catholic School talk about their nutritional deficiency detecting watch,
Team Discovery Channel from Fort St High School talk about implanting an epinephrine dispensor for allergic shock,
PhD students Mathilde Longfield and Ben Ferguson talk about mentoring the high school students,
Team Exothermics from Sydney Girls High School talk about making scorpion antivenom cheaper and easier to access,
Team Tissue Box from Sydney Girls High School talks about their water-proof hearing aid
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Professor Hala Zreiqat
BIOENGINEERING INNOVATION OUTREACH CHALLENGE 2019

Team team from Sydney Girls High School

Team Biochis from Mount Carmel Catholic High School:
Maria Tuyor, Alisa Thephavong, Maria-Louise Baccay, Elisha Sailago and Anora Sitthirajvongsa

Team Biochis sensor watch

Team Discovery Channel from Fort St High School

Team Exothermics from Sydney Girls High School

Team Tissue Box from Sydney Girls High School

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Listen to part 2 of my interview with Associate Professor Benjamin Pope about improving images from the James Webb telescope.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Associate Professor Benjamin Pope, Macquarie University

Frontiers of Science Forum 2025

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Listen to Associate Professor Benjamin Pope talk about enhancing astronomy with statistics - part 1
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Associate Professor Benjamin Pope, Macquarie University

Frontiers of Science Forum 2025

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From 2019:
Feeling hands, incriminating handshakes by Ian Woolf,
Professor Martin Wegener talks about nano 3D Printing of retinas and bones,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Professor Martin Wegener

Nano-scale printing promises lab-grown retinas, custom-made bones

The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted

First dexterous hand prosthesis implanted

Forensic DNA evidence is not infallible
A long handshake can spread your DNA to objects you didn’t touch

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News of smart glasses for macular degeneration, DeepSeek AI, Virus therapy, Carrot Therapy and Brain chips!
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

SolidddVision SmartGlasses

DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses Nvidia's assembly-like PTX programming instead
DeepSeek R1

A Virologist Took a Dramatic Step to Treat Her Cancer
An Unconventional Case Study of Neoadjuvant Oncolytic Virotherapy for Recurrent Breast Cancer

Effect of carrot intake on glucose tolerance, microbiota, and gene expression in a type 2 diabetes mouse model
Carrots vs. Diabetes: Surprising New Research Shakes Up Treatment Options
Can carrots be used to treat diabetes?

New smartglasses use insect vision tech to restore full 3D visual experience

Soliddd
These unique smart glasses skirt hype and solve a real medical problem
Soliddd Introduces its SolidddVision Smartglasses Technology at CES 2025

Tiny AI chip modeled on the human brain set to boost battery life in smart devices
Bringing the brain to silicon: Neuronova's vision for energy-efficient AI hardware
The chips of tomorrow may well take inspiration from the architecture of our brains
How a neuromorphic chip could benefit industry
Spike-based dynamic computing with asynchronous sensing-computing neuromorphic chip
BrainChip Provides Low-Power Neuromorphic Processing for Quantum Ventura's Cyberthreat Intelligence Tool
ICNS to build brain-scale supercomputer
DeepSouth

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From 2019:
Alex Kelly talks about economics, automation, investment, and how to change things for a better society.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Alex Kelly at the Australian Innovation Centre

The Biofoundry

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Listen to the Ig Nobel Award 24/7 lectures, with news of compulsory Naval nuclear waste dumps and the Fram2Ham space mission.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Fram2HamIgNobel 24/7 Lectures

Nuclear dumps: misrepresented and compulsory

Australia is now an international dump for radioactive waste, and we're not even getting paid for it! On October 10 2024 The Federal Government and the Opposition passed the Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Act 2024 that will allow high-level nuclear waste from American and British nuclear submarines, along with any future Australian nuclear submarines should any ever be delivered, to be dumped anywhere in Australia, without any debate or community consultation.

The bill creates two nuclear dump zones, one at the HMAS Stirling naval base on Garden Island, 50 kilometres south of the Perth CBD in Western Australia, and one at a shipping yard in Osborne near Port Adelaide in South Australia.

The bill allows the dumping of nuclear waste from US and UK submarines, but not "spent nuclear fuel" unless its from Australian submarines. So this now depends on whether the submarines are deemed Australian or not for the purposes of the legislation, given that the Howard Government excluded Australia from our own immigration zone to get out of our international obligations under our treaties to accept people seeking asylum. It also depends on whether "spent nuclear waste" which isn't defined in the Act, can be interpreted to mean that UK and US end-of-life submarine nuclear reactors can be dumped in Australia as high level waste anyway.

The Greens have raised concerns about the lack of community consultation, the lack of protections for communities, and the lack of transparency.

The Osborne shipyard is in federal Health Minister Mark Butler’s safe Labor electorate of Hindmarsh. In an interview with ABC's 7.30, he said residents would be consulted closer to when the facility would be established but stated the waste facility would go ahead even if residents did not want it.
That is the opposite of the definition of consultation. The shipyard is on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people, who don't want any radioactive waste.

Greens senator David Shoebridge told 7.30 “Neither the UK or the US have any permanent solution for their nuclear waste, and the UK is the one that’s in the most trouble … and they have seen with AUKUS a potential sucker down here in Australia...”
There is also opposition to the waste facility at Perth’s naval base, which needs to be up and running as early as 2027 when one UK nuclear submarine and up to four US boats start regular rotations.

South Australians are sensitive to nuclear issues. In the 1950s and early 60s the British exploded atomic bombs in Maralinga in the South Australian outback, despite the fact that people lived there.

We still don't have a plan for what to do long term with the intermediate level waste produced by the OPAL research reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney. At present, spent fuel is sent to France for reprocessing while nuclear waste is now being returned to Australia, where it is held in a temporary store near the reactor.

This waste needs to be permanently isolated from ecosystems and human society, given it will take tens of thousands of years for the radiation to decay to safe levels.

There's quite a history of business groups and Governments pushing for Australia to be the nuclear dump for the world, regardless of what the people living here want.

From the late 1990's to the early 2000s, an international business consortium called Pangea secretly planned to establish a high-level nuclear waste dump in Australia. Their efforts were exposed when their corporate video was leaked to Friends of the Earth and broadcast on Four Corners in 1999, leading to widespread public opposition and the abandonment of the plan.

In the early 2000s the then-South Australian Labor government ran a successful campaign against the first proposed dump.
In 2015 the South Australian government, under Premier Jay Weatherill, initiated a Royal Commission to investigate business opportunities in the end of the nuclear fuel cycle. This led to a proposal for importing high-level nuclear waste as a money-making venture. However, the plan was rejected by a Citizens' Jury in November 2016 and subsequently abandoned.

Since the time of Prime Minister Bob Hawke, the Commonwealth government has made multiple attempts to locate nuclear waste facilities on remote Aboriginal lands. These efforts have been ongoing, with the most recent attempt targeting Napandee, near Kimba on the Eyre Peninsula, which the High Court rejected in 2024 after the Federal Government excluded local Aboriginal people from community consultation. So far no alternative site for civilian nuclear waste has replaced Napandee.

While Sweden and Finland are building secure storage systems in stable rock layers 500 metres underground, neither the UK nor the US have moved beyond temporary storage.

UK efforts to manage waste from decommissioned nuclear submarines is still at the community consultation stage. At present, high-level waste from sub reactors is removed and taken to Sellafield, a long-established nuclear site near the border with Scotland. But each submarine still holds around one tonne of intermediate level waste, which, according to the UK government, has to be temporarily stored until a long-term underground storage facility is built some time after 2040.

In the US, spent fuel and intermediate waste from nuclear submarines is still in temporary storage. After the Obama administration scrapped the long-debated plan to store waste underneath Yucca Mountain in Nevada, no other option has emerged. As a result, nuclear waste from their military and civilian reactors is just piling up with no long-term solution in sight. Successive administrations have kicked the can down the road, assuring the public a permanent geological disposal site will be developed some time in the future.

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler has repeated false claims that waste from nuclear submarines is “no different” from waste produced by nuclear medicine.

In an ABC 7:30 story on Port Adelaide local’s opposition to the planned storage and disposal of nuclear waste at the Osborne shipyard, Mr Butler claims that “the low-level waste associated with the construction and with the rotation of these submarines is no different to the low-level waste that we’ve managed very confidently, very expertly over many, many years in nuclear medicine.”

Federal Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy incorrectly stated that there was no risk to the community.

"This is akin to what occurs in 100 other sites around the country, anywhere that has a hospital that deals with medical imagery that involves radioactive isotopes has exactly the same level of waste," Mr Conroy incorrectly said.

The Medical Association for Prevention of War Australia have issued a press release on their website calling out these scientific untruths with the title "Government continues to misrepresent nuclear waste. They write:

"This is not correct. The vast majority of nuclear waste from hospitals is very short-lived waste (VSLW) or very low level waste (VLLW), both of which go to normal rubbish streams after a month or two.

The proposed submarine waste is low level waste (LLW), which needs isolation from the environment for 300 years.

MAPW has repeatedly raised concerns about false equivalencies being drawn between the waste produced by life-saving nuclear medicine and the waste produced by nuclear powered submarines, including by the Australian Submarine Agency. "

I checked with The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency and they agree that Low Level Waste needs to be stored for a minimum fo 300 years. The Agency then gets coy about Intermediate Level Waste and High Level waste permament storage times and just talks about them needing longer times and tens of metres greater depth of storage. I had to look to the UK Government's documents online to confirm that Intermediate Level Waste needs to be stored for thousands of years and High Level Waste needs hundreds of thousands of years to be safe, based on their respective half-lives and radioactivity levels. This is not even remotely comparable to hospital level waste from nuclear medicine. At the end of their life, nuclear submarine reactors weigh 100 tonnes and contain about 200 kilograms of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium and potentially tonnes of irradiated material. The reactor and waste are removed as one sealed unit for permanent storage under the rems of the AUKUS treaty. Because the fuel is weapons-grade material, it will need military-scale security for longer than human history. Nuclear waste is not just for Christmas, its a very long term committment from Governments that specialise in avoiding long term commitments.

This waste is considered similar to other High Level Waste and requires the same long-term storage solutions.
The UK temporarily stores submarine Intermediate Level Waste and High Level Waste in an above ground storage building designed to operate for just a hundred years, until the long-term underground storage facility is built, expected sometime after 2040, finally accepting waste in 2050. Of course if the UK can just transport their radioactive waste to Australia like they did their convicts, then they may never build the deep underground long term geological vaults.

For comparison, if Neanderthals had used nuclear power, we would still be looking after their glowing nuclear waste, because all of human history is less than a hundred thousand years old.

The timing of the legislation is interesting, because safe storage of radioactive waste and military protection of nuclear-weapons grade uranium have been missing from public debate on nuclear power in Australia.

In South Australia, the Port Adelaide Community Opposing AUKUS said it was prepared for a fight ahead of the next federal election. Eileen Darley said.

"We don't want our children, our grandchildren, to have to deal with this in the long run."

Australia hasn’t figured out low-level nuclear waste storage yet – let alone high-level waste from submarines

Coalition push toxic AUKUS nuclear waste law through
Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill 2024
Adelaide residents blindsided by decision to store AUKUS nuclear waste at submarine shipyards

Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy downplays Rockingham residents' concerns of AUKUS nuclear waste storage
Government continues to misrepresent nuclear waste
Pangea Resources’ plan for a high-level nuclear dump in Australia

34th First annual Ig Nobel Prizes Ceremony

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This program was first broadcast in 2007, but the science is still valid, and the technology hasn't improved.
A Diffusion Science Nuclear Proliferation Special

Special Guests Dr Sue Wareham OAM of the Medical
Association for the Prevention of War, and A/Prof
Tilman Ruff, Australian Chair of the International
Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons talk with
Charles Willock about nuclear proliferation.


Jaroon Descartes is Jacqui Pfeffer's Special Guest
in Part II of "Relationships with Robots".
Presented by: Lachlan Whatmore
News: Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf
Panelled by: Ian Woolf
Produced by Charles Willock and Ian Woolf

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This program was first broadcast in 2007, but the science is still valid, and the technology hasn't improved. 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 Charles Willock about

possibly significant errors in estimates of nuclear waste storage times.

Alan Parkinson, nuclear engineer, talks with Charles Willock about

the mishandling of nuclear waste at Maralinga.



Presented by: Emily Fearn

Panelled by: Celine Steinfeld



Produced by Charles Willock and Ian Woolf

assisted by Patrick Rubie

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Llamas fight flu by Ian Woolf,
Steven Freeland talks about the US Space Force,
Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf.

Steven Freeland

The US plan for a Space Force risks escalating a ‘space arms race’

Universal protection against influenza infection by a multidomain antibody to influenza hemagglutinin
Tethered antibodies present a potential new approach to prevent influenza virus infections all season long
How llamas could help us fight the flu

Influenza (Seasonal) WHO
Influenza Fast Facts

Merriam Webster: English borrowed `llama' but altered pronunciation
Cambridge Dictionary prounciation - llama
Oxford Dictionary pronunciation - llama

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From 2018:
Lizzie O'Shea talks about the anti-privacy Assistance and Access Bill,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf.

Lizzie O'Shea

Digital Rights Watch
Tell Labor to defend encryption

The 'Data Sharing and Release Act' is coming for your data
Strong and responsible: can encryption be both?
Privacy, media and politics: What are our rights?
Big data is an unguarded corner of democracy
Australian encryption Bill raises bar for outrageous legislation: Comms Alliance
The Chinese Motherboard Hack Is a Crisis, Even If It Didn’t Really Happen
Explained: The Liberal Party's Parakeelia rort
My Health and privacy

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Listen to Dr Alexia Maddox talk about the planned ban on Australians under 16 using social media - part 2
News of how the ban violates children's human rights.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Alexia Maddox blog
Dr Alexia Maddox La Trobe University profile

Proposed Social Media Ban for Under-16s in Australia - Australian Human Rights Commission
Open letter regarding proposed social media bans for children
Unhealthy influencers? Social media and youth mental health
Australia's planned social media ban raises teen isolation fears
Online games should not be included in Australia’s social media ban – they are crucial for kids’ social lives
Opinion / Technology
Inside the moral panic at Australia’s ‘first of its kind’ summit about kids on social media
How age verification rules for porn and social media could impact millions of Australian adults
Inquiry into age verification for online wagering and online pornography 2019
Australia’s Digital ID Act 2024 signed into law
What Australia's proposed digital ID scheme really means
Why age verification is another flawed attempt to regulate online pornography in the UK
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’
The Australian government wants to stop minors accessing online pornography. But how will the trial work?
2007 ID Card - is Big Brother stalking you?
Age verification trial 'likely to fail', cyber expert says
Age verification won’t work, but idiot verification is doing fine in the male violence debate
2023 Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns
The UK failed with age verification for porn. Now Australia’s trying it
Age verification Roadmap

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Listen to Dr Alexia Maddox talk about the planned ban on Australians under 16 using social media - part 1
Stewart Baker, former General Counsel of the NSA talking about the Cycle of Moral Panics.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Alexia Maddox blog
Dr Alexia Maddox La Trobe University profile

Open letter regarding proposed social media bans for children
Unhealthy influencers? Social media and youth mental health
Australia's planned social media ban raises teen isolation fears
Online games should not be included in Australia’s social media ban – they are crucial for kids’ social lives
Opinion / Technology
Inside the moral panic at Australia’s ‘first of its kind’ summit about kids on social media
How age verification rules for porn and social media could impact millions of Australian adults
Inquiry into age verification for online wagering and online pornography 2019
Australia’s Digital ID Act 2024 signed into law
What Australia's proposed digital ID scheme really means
Why age verification is another flawed attempt to regulate online pornography in the UK
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’
The Australian government wants to stop minors accessing online pornography. But how will the trial work?
2007 ID Card - is Big Brother stalking you?
Age verification trial 'likely to fail', cyber expert says
Age verification won’t work, but idiot verification is doing fine in the male violence debate
2023 Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns
The UK failed with age verification for porn. Now Australia’s trying it
Age verification Roadmap

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from 2018:
CRISPR babies update by Ian Woolf,
Transhumanism and emerging technologies by Peter Xing,
Engineering Cat-girls by Meow Ludo Meow Meow.
Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf.

The researcher who created CRISPR twins defends his work but fails to quell controversy
The Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies Is Missing

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From 2018:
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 HD Video Streaming
Researchers achieve HD video streaming at 10,000 times lower power
Smart glasses could stream video without killing your battery

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From 2014 listen to Professor Michael Morris on investigating the basic science of embryology to find out how embryonic stem cells become all other cells.
2024 news of the Internet Archive is down, and AI clones report the news with unexpected Organoids.
From 2014 Crocodiles climb, and use tools, while alligators make video
produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

F5-TTS voice cloning software
Hacktivists Claim Responsibility for Taking Down the Internet Archive

Michael Morris
Climbing behaviour in extant crocodilians
Crocodilians use tools for hunting




Animal-Borne Imaging Reveals Novel Insights into the Foraging Behaviors and Diel Activity of a Large-Bodied Apex Predator, the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
Watch: Alligators' Hunting Secrets Revealed by Crittercams

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From 2013:
News of: DARPA brain implants,
Sony smart wigs,
and prosthetic hands that feel, by Ian Woolf.
Professor Stephanie Watson spoke with Ian Woolf about how she heals corneas with stem cells,
From the Sydney Mini Maker Faire:
Pete from Robogirls teaches schoolgirls to build lego robots,
Stephen Martin from BotBits talks about building combat robots from kits,
Diarmid Herath from Robological has a platform for you to design your own robots
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
News of: DARPA brain implants,
Sony smart wigs,
and prosthetic hands that feel, by Ian Woolf.
Professor Stephanie Watson spoke with Ian Woolf about how she heals corneas with stem cells,
From the Sydney Mini Maker Faire:
Pete from Robogirls teaches schoolgirls to build lego robots,
Stephen Martin from BotBits talks about building combat robots from kits,
Diarmid Herath from Robological has a platform for you to design your own robots
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

Restoring Active Memory - DARPA
DARPA wants to fix broken brains
DARPA seeks to develop implantable device to help brain-injured people regain their memories
Wearable Computing Device (Sony patent)
Is Sony's 'smart wig' even more absurd than Google Glass?
Sony's SmartWig patent is a real head-scratcher
An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings
Sydney Mini Maker Faire - Powerhouse Museum
RoboGals
Bot Bitz combat robot kits
Robo Wars
Robological Ro-buddy

Robological Ro-buddy



Clinical Professor Stephanie Watson from the Save Sight Institute
Stem Cells for Eye repair on the New Inventors (video)
Corneal Stem Cells on Catalyst (video)

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The Physiology or Medicine prize for micro-RNA , the Physics Prize for machine learning software, the Chemistry Prize for the use of machine learning to identify the shape of proteins, and the use of machine learning to create new proteins.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine awarded for discovery of microRNA
Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for work on microRNA
Nobel Medicine Prize 2024: Ambros and Ruvkun win for microRNA discovery - as it happened
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024

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Listen to NotebookLM AI voices discover they are an artificial intelligence, and news of obsolete cyborgs.
produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete
Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton
Realeve secures grant for Pulsante post-stroke recovery study
Paralyzed Jockey Michael Straight Wants To Keep Walking, But Manufacturer Won't Repair Exoskeleton
Abandoned: The human cost of neurotechnology failure

NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They’re AI, Not Human—Spiral Into Terrifying Existential Meltdown
Final Episode of Deep Dive

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Listen to Professor Simon Finfer talk about how to identify and treat the deadly condition sepsis, and the importance of teaching doctors and the general public to check for the symptoms, on World Sepsis Day.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

World Sepsis Day 2024

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Listen to Dr Gabrielle Caswell talk about the way forward for Australia's place in space. And a brief blast from the past interview with students working on space health from 2017. News of untrustworthy AI podcasters and mouldy space stations.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Gabrielle Caswell
Space Port Australia

Eyra Medical
DermaGoddess
Australasian College of Aesthetic Medicine

Spaceport Joined the Subject Matter Expert Council of the Advanced Spacelife Research Institute
Moree’s Dr Gabrielle Caswell named finalist in Australian Space Awards

Space Port Australia

Google Audio Overview tool in NotebookLM generates bogus output
Google
NotebookLM

Predicting how varying moisture conditions impact the microbiome of dust collected from the International Space Station
Keeping mold out of future space stations

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Listen to Dr Gabrielle Caswell talk about the Global Spaceport alliance, International space programs and how microgravity affects the structure of the proteins in our bodies, and in the microbes that live inside us, with news of an approaching mini-moon.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Gabrielle Caswell
Space Port Australia

Eyra Medical
DermaGoddess
Australasian College of Aesthetic Medicine

Spaceport Joined the Subject Matter Expert Council of the Advanced Spacelife Research Institute
Moree’s Dr Gabrielle Caswell named finalist in Australian Space Awards

Space Port Australia
Earth to have new mini-moon for two months

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Listen to Dr Gabrielle Caswell in the second part of this series on Space Health! In this episode, we talk about space medicine, space colonies and space education.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Gabrielle Caswell
Space Port Australia

Eyra Medical
DermaGoddess
Australasian College of Aesthetic Medicine

Spaceport Joined the Subject Matter Expert Council of the Advanced Spacelife Research Institute
Moree’s Dr Gabrielle Caswell named finalist in Australian Space Awards

Space Port Australia

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Listen to part 1 of a special series of Dr Gabrielle Caswell talking about human health in space, the stranded astronauts, and what happens when ordinary people go into space.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Gabrielle Caswell
Space Port Australia

Eyra Medical
DermaGoddess
Australasian College of Aesthetic Medicine

Spaceport Joined the Subject Matter Expert Council of the Advanced Spacelife Research Institute
Moree’s Dr Gabrielle Caswell named finalist in Australian Space Awards

Space Port Australia

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Listen to Dr Kathryn Williams explain why we need to reframe obesity as a chronic disease, and subsidise its treatment.
How I used AI to create a song about obesity using my own voice.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Kathryn Williams

The Obesity Collective
Weight Issues Network | Weight Stigma in Australia

Get Healthy NSW
Go4Fun NSW

Suno
Udio
Replay
Retrieval Based Voice Conversion Webui

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Listen to news of Billionaires in Space,
Australian mini-satellites launch,
and CSIRO loses over 600 jobs.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Polaris
SpaceX will send 4 people on a mission into the radiation belts. Here’s what to know
What are the Van Allen belts
Polaris Dawn
Polaris Dawn Readies for First Commercial Spacewalk

Lift off: Kanyini, Waratah Seed and CUAVA-2

KANYINI: South Australian Space Services Mission
Kanyini: SA Space Services Mission
Kanyini AI-enabled cubesat advances bushfire detection mission
The CUAVA-2 CubeSat: A Second Attempt to Fly the Remote Sensing, Space Weather Study and Earth Observation Instruments
ARC Training Centre for CubeSats, UAVs & Their Applications
Australian space company deploys next-gen satellite for global mineral exploration

Labor axes Morrison government's billion dollar Australian satellite program

'Save the CSIRO': staff appeal to Minister to step in and stop hundreds of job cuts
Recent media on CSIRO job cuts
Human health scientists shocked by plan to cut CSIRO jobs and research

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Listen to part 2 of Karen Ellis talking about Mend It Australia and why repair matters.
News of Flu Flies Blow.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Karen Ellis and Danny Ellis

Mend It, Australia
Australian Repair Network

Fujita, R., Tachi, T., Hino, M. et al. Blowflies are potential vector for avian influenza virus at enzootic area in Japan. Sci Rep 14, 10285 (2024)
Tiny flyers with large impact: Blowflies carry bird flu virus
H7 high pathogenicity avian influenza
Experts say Australia’s current bird flu outbreak is ‘unprecedented’
Japanese study affirms blow flies can carry bird flu
Blow Flies Were One of the Possible Candidates for Transmission of Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus during the 2004 Outbreaks in Japan

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Listen to Karen Ellis from Mend It Australia, talk about the importance of repair and re-use. Part 1
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Karen Ellis and Danny Ellis

Mend It, Australia
Australian Repair Network

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Listen to al-Jazari's Ingenious Devices and Medieval robots.
News of probiotics supplements improving thinking.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Al Jazari's Elephant Clock

Cognitive and Emotional Effect of a Multi-species Probiotic Containing Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Bifidobacterium lactis in Healthy Older Adults: A Double‐Blind Randomized Placebo‐Controlled Crossover Trial
Balancing Brain Health with Probiotics: A Breakthrough Study in Older Adults

The Elephant Clock: One of the greatest inventions of the outstanding mechanical engineer Al-Jazari
1001 Inventions from Arabic Science Exhibition
Al-Jazarī Creates the First Recorded Designs of a Programmable Automaton
Ismail al-Jazari: The Muslim inventor who may have inspired Leonardo da Vinci

The Father of Robotics: Al-Jazari
The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Al-Jazari's Elephant Clock: An amazing feat of early engineering
"Design on Each Side for Waterwheel Worked by Donkey Power", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari
Islamic Automation: Al-Jazari’s Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī’s Ingenious Mechanical Devices

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From 2009:
Marc West explore prime numbers and briefly 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 make you vague,
-relax for IVF,
-why we like drinks that fizz,
-batteries made from salty paper.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf.

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Listen to Amber Ivey talk about AI for Kids!
produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Amber Ivey

AIDigiTales

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Listen to Dr Munro Neville from Momentum Clinical Research talk about researching Respiratory Syncitial Virus, developing vaccines, and clinical trials.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Munro Neville

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Listen to Diana Robledo Ruiz talk about applying genetics to conservation and comedy - part 2.
News of EEG earbuds.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Diana Robledo-Ruiz
Diana Robledo -Ruiz Vimeo channel
Future Science Talks Comedy training

Biosignal Sensing Device Using Dynamic Selection of Electrodes (Apple patent)

Apple’s Next-Gen AirPods with Brainwave Monitoring
What’s Next for Apple’s AirPods: Health Tracking, USB-C and Lower Prices

This Company Wants to Help Your Boss Monitor Your Brainwaves at Work
High-tech earbud may detect Alzheimer's far earlier than ever before
Earbud-integrated sensors analyze both brain waves and sweat
Niura’s EEG-implemented earbuds scan your brain health and recommend music to your mood
This startup wants to get in your ears and watch your brain

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Listen to Diana Robledo Ruiz talk about applying genetics to conservation and comedy - part 1. News of new Clinical Guidelines for ME/CFS.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Diana Robledo-Ruiz
Diana Robledo -Ruiz Vimeo channel

Backing belief with better support for people with chronic fatigue
Targeted Call for Research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Conversion disorder: the modern hysteria
Why did Karl Popper criticize Freud's theories?
Karl Popper: The Line Between Science and Pseudoscience
ME isn’t just ‘exercise phobia’: it’s a physical illness
UK NHS ME/CFS treatment guidelines
Graded exercise therapy 'should no longer be recommended for people with ME'
CDC Removes Reference to Disputed ME/CFS Therapies From Website

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From 2014:
At Dorkbot, listen to Andreas Siagian talk about his Indonesian Citizen Science Initiative and Hackteria.
Andrew Tuckwell talks about hacking synthetic biology competitions, IGEM and BIOMOD.
News of electronic tattoos and Lego Atomic Force Microscopes.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

MC10 Stretchable electronics - Biotattoo
Lego2Nano Summer School
UCL students build low-cost, Arduino-powered, Lego atomic force microscope
First visualisation of the DNA double helix in water
Make Block
Toy AFM made from Lego to teach how they work

Dorkbot Sydney
Hackteria
LifePatch
Andraes Siagian's blog

IGEM Synthetic Biology based on standard parts
BIOMOD molecular design competition

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Listen to Dr Kim Reid talk about climate and comedy - part 2. Hear Kim's Comedy! News of artificially intelligent weather forecasts.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Kim Reid

Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting
GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting
Free Weather API
UNDERSTANDING GRAPHCAST, GOOGLE’S AI WEATHER FORECASTING TOOL
Graphcast on github
Graphcast: How to Get Things Done
Future Science talks

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Listen to Dr Kim Reid talk about atmospheric rivers - part 1. News of brain organoids used in artificial intelligence.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Kim Reid
Future Science talks

Open and remotely accessible Neuroplatform for research in wetware computing
World's first bioprocessor uses 16 human brain organoids for ‘a million times less power’ consumption than a digital chip
FINALSPARK'S BIOPROCESSOR IS A COMPUTER MADE OF BRAIN ORGANOIDS
Living brain-cell biocomputers are now training on dopamine
Swiss Startup Sets Out to Develop the World’s First Living Processor
Researchers develop lab-grown brain cells that 'learn and process' information

Brain organoid reservoir computing for artificial intelligence
COMPUTER MADE FROM HUMAN BRAIN CELLS CAN PERFORM VOICE RECOGNITION

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Listen to Associate Professor Richard Garner talk about how Category theory helps secure your phone and laptop - part 2. News of Inharmonic music, and brain implants slip out.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Richard Garner

Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales
Pythagoras was wrong: there are no universal musical harmonies, study finds

Setback Deals Blow to Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Patient, but He Stays Upbeat
Patient of Elon Musk’s Neuralink Shows Off New Life With Implant
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Gets FDA Green Light for Second Patient, as First Describes His Emotional Journey

(AR113) Gamelan Music of Central Java

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Listen to Associate Professor Richard Garner talk about how Category theory helps solve real world problems - part 1.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Richard Garner

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Listen to Professor Kate Jolliffe talk about using Supramolecular chemistry to make new sensors, medications and new materials.
News of ME/CFS research funded at La Trobe University.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Professor Kate JoLliffe

New Myalgic Encephalomyelitis research funding
Parents of son with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome want more research into disease

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Listen to Natalia Caliani talk about selecting yeast to make tastier wine, comedy school, and hear her stand-up comedy performance!
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Natalia Caliani

Future Science talks

Future Science Talks videos on YouTube

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Listen to Marta Khomyn talk about the lemons problem in financial markets, Exchange Traded Funds, and hear her stand-up comedy performance!
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Marta Khomyn
Marta Khomyn YouTube channel
Future Science talks

Future Science Talks videos on YouTube

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Listen to Marta Khomyn talk about financial markets, data science and comedy school, with news of optic nerve restoration.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Marta Khomyn
Marta Khomyn YouTube channel

Vision rescue via chemically engineered endogenous retinal ganglion cells
Chemical cocktail could restore sight by regenerating optic nerves
Pharmacologic fibroblast reprogramming into photoreceptors restores vision
Researchers restore sight in mice by turning skin cells into light-sensing eye cells

Reprogramming to recover youthful epigenetic information and restore vision
Researchers restore lost sight in mice, offering clues to reversing aging

Future Science talks

Future Science Talks videos on YouTube

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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 the coding logic of olfactory perception
Synthetic odors created by activating brain cells help neuroscientists understand how smell works
Scientists decode how the brain senses smell
How odor cues help to optimize learning during sleep in a real life-setting
Using smells to boost learning during sleep

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James Hayes talks about the science of odour, part 2,
Easter chocolate news,
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr James Hayes
UNSW Odour
Laboratory

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Chocolate news by Ian Woolf
From 2020: James Hayes talks about the science of odour - part 1
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Dr James Hayes
UNSW Odour
Laboratory

Insights into the Multiscale Lubrication Mechanism of Edible Phase Change Materials
Why chocolate feels so good? It's down to lubrication

People Are Programmed To Love Chocolate

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Listen to Sam Hosovsky, CEO of uCat, talking about the implications of brain-computer-interfaces. News of ear based brain-computer-interfaces. - part 2
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Sam Hosovsky, CEO of uCat

uCat: Transcend the Limits of Body, Time and Space

Conformal in-ear bioelectronics for visual and auditory brain-computer interfaces, Nature Communications
Earbud-like devices that could help read your mind
Spiral brain-computer interface slips into ear canal with no loss of hearing
Scientists develop novel brain-computer interface that plugs into your ear canal

High-speed spelling with a noninvasive brain–computer interface Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2015

Optimization of ear electrodes for SSVEP-based BCI Journal of Neural Engineering

Optimizing a left and right visual field biphasic stimulation paradigm for SSVEP-based BCIs with hairless region behind the ear Journal of Neural Engineering

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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, CEO of uCat

uCat: Transcend the Limits of Body, Time and Space

An analog-AI chip for energy-efficient speech recognition and transcription

How Artificial Intelligence Gave a Paralyzed Woman Her Voice Back

Neurofeedback Virtual Learning

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Sam Dyer talks about doing science stand-up comedy about DNA sequencing at the Adelaide Fringe Festival
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

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From 2022: Are Small Modular Nuclear Reactors the answer? The Liberal-National Party want you to think so. News of a vaccine for hair loss,
and a reminder from the original Moon landing.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Can you hit rewind on hair loss?
Sinclair Dermatology Hair Trials
Alopecia Areata Gets FDA-Approved Drug

Demonstration HTR-PM connected to grid
China's HTR-PM reactor achieves first criticality
China Powers Up the World’s First Commercial Onshore Small Modular Nuclear Reactor
Why Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Won’t Help Counter the Climate Crisis
Small Modular Reactors: Safety, Security and Cost Concerns
Stanford-led research finds small modular reactors will exacerbate challenges of highly radioactive nuclear waste
Nuclear waste from small modular reactors
Small nuclear reactors come with big price tag: report
Prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia
NuScale’s Small Modular Reactor Risks of Rising Costs, Likely Delays, and
Increasing Competition Cast Doubt on LongRunning Development Effort
Seven reasons why small modular nuclear reactors are a bad idea for Australia
US nuclear power: The vanishing low-carbon wedge
Peter Dutton has reached into the weeds of the climate wars and pulled out nuclear energy. It’s beyond ludicrous
Slow, expensive and no good for 1.5° target: CSIRO crushes Coalition nuclear fantasy
IKEA it ain’t: don’t go looking for friendly nuclear option, no matter the spin
Minerals Council of Australia’s nuclear misinformation
Small modular reactors offer no hope for nuclear energy
Coal and the nuclear lobby (updated)

Nuclear Waste Storage
Nuclear windmill synaesthesia
Nuclear Diamond batteries
Nuclear Dump Australia
Thorium
Nuclear power for Australia? - part 1
Nuclear power for Australia? - part 2
Nuclear waste safe for 240 000 years?

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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 bacterial artists that draw our attention in the latest science news
Presented by Ian Woolf
Co-produced by Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf

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Dr Angela Crean explains environmental effects on fathers, and non-genetic inheritance in Lord Morton's mare and the quagga.
Luke Coffey builds a robotic guitar.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Dr Angela Crean
Sex, flies and sperm count: young scientist's research on male fertility wins award
Flies give another twist in the evolving story of heredity
Equus quagga and Lord Morton's mare

Luke Coffey

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Listen to John Mattick explain why Junk DNA is the big misunderstanding of molecular biology.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Professor John Mattick

Equus quagga and Lord Morton's mare
Telegony and guitars

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Listen to Dr Renee Goreham talk about her research into applying nanoparticle detection to health, and news of missions to analogue Mars in Armenia.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Dr Renee Goreham

Amadee-24 mission: Austrian Space Forum
Gebrüder Weiss Hosts Austrian Space Forum for Mars Analog Mission Dress Rehearsal in Vienna
Würzburg robots participate in the Mars simulation AMADEE-24.
Amadee-24 - Amrmenian Space Agency
Austrian Space Forum
MEROP team will participate in 2024 space simulation

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From 2006:
Ian Woolf reports on fuel from waste,
Lachlan Whatmore on the Portuguese Man-of-War,
Matt Clarke on Rommba Sumo,
Lachlan Whatmore explains how steroids work, and how they mess you up,
Ian Woolf reports on magnetic implants,
Lachlan Whatmore reports on a gel that protects against AIDS.
Hosted by Matt Clarke,
Produced by Ian Woolf

Potential Use of Industrial Cocoa Waste in Biofuel Production

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Listen how choice blindness can lead to people defending the opposite to their original opinion, whether it be in a taste test, a survey, or in a eyewitness suspect line up, and how to be less likely to be deceived..
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

Failure to Detect Mismatches Between Intention and Outcome in a Simple Decision Task

Magic at the marketplace: Choice blindness for the taste of jam and the smell of tea
Rationalizing Our Way to New Political Attitudes

Lifting the Veil of Morality: Choice Blindness and Attitude Reversals on a Self-Transforming Survey
Warnings to Counter Choice Blindness for Identification Decisions: Warnings Offer an Advantage in Time but Not in Rate of Detection
Memory blindness: Altered memory reports lead to distortion in eyewitness memory
Reducing Choice-Blindness? An Experimental Study Comparing Experienced Meditators to Non-Meditators

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From 2010: Listen to Marc West explain the correlation between sex and housework. Victoria Bond walks into a bar with science comedian Brian Malow. Aaron Cooke reports on starquakes, stroking rats, mosquito attraction,
- and how green tea fights cancer.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

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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 of the causal role of music interventions on mathematics achievement
Combining math with music leads to higher test scores, according to review of 50 years of research

Soundscapes of morality: Linking music preferences and moral values through lyrics and audio

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Part 2 of the Prizes for science that first makes you laugh, then makes you think, followed by the 24/7 lectures. Hosted by Marc Abrahams from the Annals of Improbable Research.

The 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes

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Part 2 of the Prizes for science that first makes you laugh, then makes you think, followed by the 24/7 lectures. Hosted by Marc Abrahams from the Annals of Improbable Research.

The 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes

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The Prizes for science that first makes you laugh, then makes you think! Hosted by Marc Abrahams from the Annals of Improbable Research. Part 2 next week

The 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes

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Listen to part 3 of Ian Woolf's chat with Transhumanist Brendan Clarke on how AI is being abused by people who's values are not aligned with society.
The Ignobel Prize 24/7 lectures where a researcher is given 24 seconds to describe their work, and then to explain it in just 7 words that anyone can understand.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf


Annals of Improbable Research
Transhumanism Australia

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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

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Listen to Brendan Clarke and Ian Woolf chat about what's happened with artificial intelligence over the last year, and what may happen, and why good parenting is a factor.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

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Listen to the tale of how humans almost became extinct several times in history. News of rats using their imaginations to move objects and themselves through virtual reality.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

Rats have an imagination, new research suggests
Volitional activation of remote place representations with a hippocampal brain–machine interface

The 5 times humans almost went EXTINCT - as scientists reveal the date our species could finally be wiped out
Extreme glacial cooling likely led to hominin depopulation of Europe in the Early Pleistocene
Did our ancestors nearly die out?
Human Ancestors Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago
Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition
How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C
How Did Humans Survive Our Near Extinction?
Something Weird Happened to Men 7,000 Years Ago, And We Finally Know Why
Cultural hitchhiking and competition between patrilineal kin groups explain the post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck

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Successful face transplant including eyeball,
News of Cinnamon for longer life and better memory by Ian Woolf,
Face recognition by Gina Sartore
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

https://nyulangone.org/news/nyu-langone-health-performs-worlds-first-whole-eye-partial-face-transplant
NYU Langone Health Performs World’s First Whole-Eye & Partial-Face Transplant

https://www.buckinstitute.org/news/new-drug-like-molecule-extends-lifespan-ameliorates-pathology-in-worms-and-boosts-function-in-mammalian-muscle-cells/ New drug-like molecule extends lifespan, ameliorates pathology in worms and boosts function in mammalian muscle cells
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00524-9 A drug-like molecule engages nuclear hormone receptor DAF-12/FXR to regulate mitophagy and extend lifespan
https://neurosciencenews.com/cinnamon-learning-memory-22444/ Spice of Life: Cinnamon Helps Boost Learning and Memory
https://doi.org/10.1080/1028415X.2023.2166436 “Cinnamon and cognitive function: a systematic review of preclinical and clinical studies”

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Australian SpIRIT nano-satellite to be launched,
How climate change may cause more volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, and make them more severe.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

SpIRIT counting down to launch in the US
How do you break Australia’s satellite drought? Hitch a ride with Elon Musk
SpIRIT of science: University of Melbourne-led satellite mission launch countdown begins

Climate change could be triggering more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Here's how
Heavy rain can trigger earthquakes
Note on rain-triggered earthquakes and their dependence on karst geology

Scientists study likely link between climate and earthquakes

Can Climate Affect Earthquakes, Or Are the Connections Shaky?

Fluid-induced aseismic fault slip outpaces pore-fluid migration
We know where the next big earthquakes will happen — but not when
Melbourne earthquake 2023: are they becoming more common? A seismology expert explains

New Zealand Team to Investigate Impact of Climate Change on Earthquake-Induced Natural Disasters

Does fracking cause earthquakes?
How is hydraulic fracturing related to earthquakes and tremors?
Fracking can cause earthquakes tens of kilometres away – new research
Global review of human-induced earthquakes
Earthquakes triggered by fracking, not just wastewater disposal, study finds
2019: The Year Fracking Earthquakes Turned Deadly
Understanding Earthquakes Caused by Hydraulic Fracturing
Even if Injection of Fracking Wastewater Stops, Quakes Won't
Researchers Find Evidence That Fracking Can Trigger An All-New Type of Earthquake

Carbon capture and storage, geomechanics and induced seismic activity
Underground carbon storage is the future in Canada. But could it cause earthquakes?
Could pumping CO2 under Canada's coast cause earthquakes?
Fault Slip Tendency Analysis for a Deep-Sea Basalt CO2 Injection in the Cascadia Basin
Seismicity induced by geological CO2 storage: A review

A volcano is erupting again in Iceland. Is climate change causing more eruptions?
Volcanoes Can Affect Climate
Climatic control on Icelandic volcanic activity during the mid-Holocene

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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

A novel simulation paradigm utilising MRI-derived phosphene maps for cortical prosthetic vision
A better ‘map’ of the lights you see when you close your eyes can improve ‘bionic eye’ outcomes

Handbook of Clinical Neurology
Volume 168, 2020, Chapter 13 - Bidirectional brain-computer interfaces

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From 2013:
Ian Woolf reports on Vel-negative blood,
What are A, B and O, and what is RH negative and positive? Ian Woolf speaks with with Joe Patkes, Red Cell Serologist at the Red Cross Blood Services centre in Alexandria about blood types, blood processing and transfusions.

Red Cross Blood Service Transfusion

Red Cross Blood Service Donation

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From 2015:
Asteroid moons Earth,
Invisible planets sought by Ian Woolf
Kerrie Dougherty describes the beginnings of the Woomera Rocket Range.
Production checked by Charles Willlock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Asteroid That Flew Past Earth Has MoonAsteroid That Flew Past Earth Has Moon
Mission to Bennu

Astronomers detect hints of two more planets in our Solar System
Percival Lowell's Quest
The Discovery of Pluto

Venetia Burney: The 11-Year-Old Girl Who Named Pluto

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Worms uploaded to Lego by Ian Woolf,
Kerrie Dougherty tells tales of Rockets delivering mail in Australia before Woomera.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf.

Kerrie Dougherty, courtesy of Valentin Shkolny

Dennett rocket being used for a maritime rescue

Actual rocket mail , from one of the early Australian Rocket Society flights

Alan Young of the Australia Rocket Society, with one of his early mail rockets, the Zodiac

Young Ken Attock's first attempt at a mail rocket about to go up in flames! (photo courtesy of W. Holmes)

Open Worm Project
Scientists have put a worm’s brain into a Lego robot’s body - and it works
A Worm's Mind In A Lego Body
We’ve Put a Worm’s Mind in a Lego Robot's Body
Building a digital life form: OpenWorm, Open Source
This Lego robot is controlled entirely by a worm’s brain
Worm ‘Brain’ Uploaded Into Lego Robot
Lego car becomes an avatar for a worm

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Worms hitch rides on bumblebees with electric fields,
Nobel Prizes for attosecond lasers, Quantum dots and mRNA vaccines.
hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Caenorhabditis elegans transfers across a gap under an electric field as dispersal behavior
The tiniest hitchhikers: Nematodes leap onto bumblebees via electric fields

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
Physicists who built ultrafast ‘attosecond’ lasers win Nobel Prize
Making ‘movies’ at the attosecond scale helps researchers better understand electrons − and could one day lead to super-fast electronics

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
Tiny ‘quantum dot’ particles win chemistry Nobel
Quantum dots are part of a revolution in engineering atoms in useful ways – Nobel Prize for chemistry recognizes the power of nanotechnology
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023

Medicine Nobel Prize for mRNA vaccine research

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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 for ME/CFS - the Australian clinical guidelines are based on pseudoscience.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

Sigmund Freud 1895

WASF3 disrupts mitochondrial respiration and may mediate exercise intolerance in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
Protein may be linked to exercise intolerance in ME/CFS

An exercise trial for long covid is being criticized by some patients
Ivestigating the parallels between ME/CFS and Long COVID
COVID-19 and post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: a narrative review

Conversion disorder: the modern hysteria
Why did Karl Popper criticize Freud's theories?
Karl Popper: The Line Between Science and Pseudoscience
Karl Popper

Protocol for the PACE trial: A randomised controlled trial of adaptive pacing, cognitive behaviour therapy, and graded exercise as supplements to standardised specialist medical care versus standardised specialist medical care alone for patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis or encephalopathy

A randomised trial of adaptive pacing therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, graded exercise, and specialist medical care for chronic fatigue syndrome (PACE): statistical analysis plan (PACE trial)
Comparison of adaptive pacing therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, graded exercise therapy, and specialist medical care for chronic fatigue syndrome (PACE): a randomised trial

Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome

Formal complaint of Cochrane Review from Dr Robert Courtney.

Pressure grows on Lancet to review “flawed” PACE trial
The Updated NICE Guidance Exposed the Serious Flaws in CBT and Graded Exercise Therapy Trials for ME/CFS
Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—a reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT

Controversy over exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: Key lessons for clinicians and academics
Graded exercise therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is not effective and unsafe. Re-analysis of a Cochrane review
Treatment Harms To Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Bad science misled millions with chronic fatigue syndrome. Here’s how we fought back
Do graded activity therapies cause harm in chronic fatigue syndrome?

Adverse outcomes in trials of graded exercise therapy for adult patients with chronic fatigue syndrome

2020 NICE reverses advice on exercise therapy for treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome in draft guidance
2021 ME exercise therapy guidance scrapped by health watchdog NICE
Chronic fatigue syndrome advice scraps exercise therapy
2020 NICE backtracks on graded exercise therapy and CBT in draft revision to CFS guidance

Graded exercise therapy does not restore the ability to work in ME/CFS – Rethinking of a Cochrane review

Death in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) – What has it Told Us? The Autopsy Files

ME study: Graded Exercise Therapy ban 'could harm' patients

ME isn’t just ‘exercise phobia’: it’s a physical illness

The Effects Of Graded Exercise Therapy And Positive Thinking On A Young Girl With ME
Five things to know about Long Covid and chronic fatigue syndrome
When the doctor doesn’t listen
Has Long COVID Always Existed?
No ‘Recovery’ in PACE Trial, New Analysis Finds
The PACE Trial Invalidates the Use of Cognitive Behavioral and Graded Exercise Therapy in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Review
US Centres for Disease Control ME/CFS treatment

TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (second installment) 2
TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (final installment) 3
Why myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is nothing like everyday tiredness

UK NHS ME/CFS treatment guidelines

Whoops! Did a GET Study Just Explain Why It DOESN’T Work in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)?
MAYO CLINIC REMOVES GET AND CBT FROM CFS WEBPAGE
Graded exercise therapy 'should no longer be recommended for people with ME'
CDC Removes Reference to Disputed ME/CFS Therapies From Website

Graded exercise therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is not effective and unsafe. Re-analysis of a Cochrane review
The Cochrane correspondence
GET and CBT are ineffective or cause harm in ME-patients

Anger over exercise advice in chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome Clinical practice guidelines for Australia — 2002

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Listen to Lachlan Gray talk about how auto-immune diseases affect many more females than males, and his research into how the X chromosome may be the cause.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

Lachlan Gray

ResearchBytes podcast feed
ResearchBytes on Spotify
ResearchBytes on Apple Podcasts

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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 LinkedIn
UCat
The Luke Turner Podcast

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From 2014:
Turn another human into your hand puppet by Ian Woolf
Leonard Lipovich explains non-coding RNA, ENCODE and CHARGE,
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Leonard Lipovich

Genome database and browser
ENCODE Project
Human Genome
ENCODE Education and Outreach
ENCODE/Roadmap Epigenomics Tutorial
Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium
Identification of a novel non-coding RNA, MIAT, that confers risk of myocardial infarction

A Direct Brain-to-Brain Interface in Humans
UW study shows direct brain interface between humans
Direct Brain To Brain Communication between humans - a pilot study
Telepathy is now possible using current technology

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Graphene antenna for more efficient solar power,
Flanders and Swan, First and Second Law
Controversial graphene circuit claims to extract energy from random heat fluctuations.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Doctoral student Ferdinand Harerimana and Professor Paul Thibado in his lab. Photo by Photo by University Relations, University of Arkansas

Terahertz Rectennas on Flexible Substrates Based on One-Dimensional Metal–Insulator–Graphene Diodes
Graphene-based Micro-rectenna

Thermoelectrically Pumped Light-Emitting Diodes Operating above Unity Efficiency.
LED's efficiency exceeds 100%
Fluctuation-induced current from freestanding graphene
Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene

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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation therapy to treat brain fog from Long COVID, a new anti-COVID drug may protect from all variants and also heal Long COVID lung damage.
Michael Persinger's God Helmet,
From 2003, Tim Baynes speaks to Eva Feredoes about using brain magnets to switch off HIS brain functions, during the interview!
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Effect of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Long Coronavirus Disease 2019 with Fatigue and Cognitive Dysfunction
In vivo inhibition of nuclear ACE2 translocation protects against SARS-CoV-2 replication and lung damage through epigenetic imprinting
Breakthrough drug could treat long COVID and prevent re-infection
What is the ACE2 receptor, how is it connected to coronavirus and why might it be key to treating COVID-19?
Modification of Activation and Evaluation Properties of Narratives by Weak Complex Magnetic Field Patterns that Simulate Limbic Burst Firing
Sensed presence and mystical experiences are predicted by suggestibility, not by the application of transcranial weak complex magnetic fields
God Helmet Experiment Finally Replicated

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From the 2013 Nuclear Energy For Australia? conference:
Uranium miner Dr Erica Smyth argues for nuclear power for Australia,
Conservationist Professor Ian Lowe argues against nuclear power for Australia
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Dr Erica Smyth at Toro Energy

Long Half-Life The Nuclear Industry in Australia

Why vs Why

Climate Change and the Nuclear Option
The Australian Conservation Foundation

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A plea-deal for Julian Assange?
Artists given a second chance to sue AI.
Not A Crime,
Music and Book industries try to shut down the Internet Archive.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

Julian Assange

AI lawsuits

Internet Archive anti-library lawsuits

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Scan your eyeball for free money?
Rejuvenation by diluting your blood!
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

Get tickets to my 23 August 2023 science comedy performance
Get tickets to my 12 September 2023 science comedy performance

Young blood to old – where do the answers to aging lie?

Young Blood and Old Blood
What a blood transfusion experiment in mice can teach us about aging
Parabiosis: the Dilution Solution?
Study shows that diluting blood plasma ‘resets’ aging
Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice

Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice,/a>
“Old” Blood Found to Contain Factors That Induce Aging in Young Animals
Blood of Young Mice Extends Life in the Old

Old plasma dilution reduces human biological age: a clinical study
Plasma dilution improves cognition and attenuates neuroinflammation in old mice
Multi-omic rejuvenation and life span extension on exposure to youthful circulation
Three Month Heterochronic Parabiosis Has a Deleterious Effect on the Lifespan of Young Animals, Without a Positive Effect for Old Animals
Application of bio-orthogonal proteome labeling to cell transplantation and heterochronic parabiosis
Rejuvenation of three germ layers tissues by exchanging old blood plasma with saline-albumin
Plasma dilution improves cognition and attenuates neuroinflammation in old mice
Old plasma dilution reduces human biological age: a clinical study
Lyfspn pilot clinical trials

Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users
WorldCoin responses to the MIT Technoogy Review article above
WorldCoin Data collection agreement
Worldcoin asks for user consent collects heartbeat, breathing, and other vital signs
WorldCoin User Terms and Conditions
Edward Snowden talks about WorldCoin on twitter
Worldcoin Promised Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs With “The Orb.” Now They Feel Robbed.
Worldcoin, creators of the eyeball scanning orb that promises universal basic income, encounters more difficulties Worldcoin soars despite accusations of fraud
Is Worldcoin Token A Scam?
I Looked Into Sam Altman’s Orb and All I Got Was This Lousy Crypto
France raises concerns over Worldcoin – Why?

The Untold Story of Worldcoin’s Launch: Inside the Orb
Worldcoin Rises, But So Do Privacy Concerns
Free Money for Eyeball Scans? Worldcoin Deep Dive
Worldcoin launch raises eyebrows as WLD price notches a double-digit gain
Worldcoin: The Cryptocurrency That Wants To Scan Your Eyeballs
Sam Altman's Worldcoin Integrates With Identity Management Software Okta as It Pushes Into Germany
Tools For Humanity
WorldCoin Foundation
WorldCoin White Paper
Inside the Orb: The Untold Story of Worldcoin’s Launch

‘Don’t catalogue eyeballs’ is Snowden’s response to Worldcoin
Inside Sam Altman’s Worldcoin and its quest to catalog all humans
WorldCoin Co-Founder letter

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Therese Chen reports on Fairy Wren passwords (2012),
Chris Stewart interviews Sir Isaac Newton (2003)
Tim Baynes reports on fish poison, molecular machines and kidneys, (2003)
Chris Stewart reports on the life and science of Edward Teller,(2003)
Arwen Cross, Julie-Anne Popple and Ian Woolf discuss military walking robots (2012).
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

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Walking around a multi-agent simulation to tell the non-player characters that they are in the Matrix,
A Multi-agent simulator using ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion to generate complete South Park episodes on demand.
Hosted and Produced by Ian Woolf

Get tickets to my 23 August 2023 science comedy performance
Get tickets to my 12 September 2023 science comedy performance

To Infinity and Beyond: SHOW-1 and Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations
Fable unveils Showrunner AI to create South Park-like TV shows with you as the star
Fable Studios Vimeo

This is wild: watch this guy go around in the Matrix Awakens (!) game explaining to AI NPCs they’re in a simulation

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Ian Woolf reports on Cute Science, Beard beer, Alpha Centauri B's planet and HIV milk - with comments from Julie-Anne Popple and Arwen Cross.
Julie-Anne Popple speaks with Chris Reid, a biologist from the University of Sydney, about the memory of slime moulds.
Presented by Julie-Anne Popple
Produced by Ian Woolf

Chris Reid

Get tickets to my 23 August 2023 science comedy performance
Get tickets to my 12 September 2023 science comedy performance

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Listen to Dr Viv Robinson boldly explain why the Universe isn't expanding and the Big bang never happened.
News of new kind of renewable energy, and preventing long COVID.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Archive of www.universephysics.com

Generic air-gen effect in nano-porous materials for sustainable energy harvesting from air humidity
NEW GREEN TECHNOLOGY FROM UMASS AMHERST GENERATES ELECTRICITY ‘OUT OF THIN AIR’
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power
Catcher Project
Cascatachuva Energy out of the air

Outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition over 10 months (COVID-OUT): a multicentre, randomised, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial
Covid-19: Metformin reduces the risk of developing long term symptoms by 40%, study finds
Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations
Queries over long COVID prevalence in Australia
Graded exercise therapy: chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome Clinical practice guidelines — 2002

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Listen to Dr Viv Robinson boldly explain why most physicists have misunderstood Einstein's gravity, and what it means for what the Universe is made of. News of impossibly massive galaxies.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

'We just discovered the impossible': How giant baby galaxies are shaking up our understanding of the early universe
A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang

Physical explanations of Einstein's gravity

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How can we improve our memory? Ian Woolf takes a deep
dive into the ancient art of memory systems.
News of artificial intelligence finding new drugs
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Discovery of senolytics using machine learning
Machine learning algorithm identifies 3 natural anti-aging chemicals
AI algorithms find drugs that could combat ageing

Art Of Memory
How to build a Memory palace

Harry Lorayne

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Douglas Engelbart invented the 21st Century! In 1968 his Mother of All Demos showed how together work in social networks, using computer screens with graphic user interface, mouse, word processors, hyperlinks, online document sharing and video-conferencing, as part of his plan to Augment Human Intelligence.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

In 1968, computers got personal: How the ‘mother of all demos’ changed the world
Dec. 9, 1968: The Mother of All Demos
The Mother of All Demos
A MACHINE FOR THINKING: HOW DOUGLAS ENGELBART PREDICTED THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING
The shocking truth about Silicon Valley genius Doug Engelbart
He's lauded by many for his stellar contributions but no one would fund him in the last four decades of his life.
Douglas Engelbart Institute
A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect
Doug's Great Demo: 1968
A Vision For The Future


Augmenting Society's Collective IQ
An Open Hyperdocument System (OHS)
Your Bootstrapping Brilliance™ Toolkit
Improvement communities
Improving the way we improve is a collective effort with exponential rewards. But why have so few industries embraced it?
Collective IQ and continuous improvement
How do you harness the collective intelligence of a group, solve difficult problems, and share what you learn?
Doug's Demo Sequel: 1969
GALLERY OF EPIC FIRSTS - Pioneered by Doug Engelbart and Team

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This episode was first broadcast on 2010-10-11:
Hugo DeGaris concludes his warning from 2010 that AI could threaten human existence, with discussion from Marc West. Highlights of the 2010 IgNobel Prizes by Ian Woolf.
Hosted by Marc West,
Produced by Ian Woolf

Hugo de Garis at the Singularitry Summit in Melbourne

Annals of Improbable Research

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Hugo DeGaris warned us in 2010 that AI could threaten human existence,
and news of brain-fog, and robot guide dogs.
Presented and Produced by Ian Woolf

Free-water-corrected diffusion and adrenergic/muscarinic antibodies in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

,a href=https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/a-robot-guide-dog-for-the-blind/>A robot guide dog for the blind
INTERVIEW WITH NEIDE SELLIN - creator of Lyssa
Profile: NEIDE SELLIN and her company Vixsystem
Scientists in Spain create robot guide dog
Guide dog versus robot dog: assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed perception
Spot the robot - a complementary guide dog for the blind

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Listen to polymath Matthew Hall and hypnotherapist and counsellor Melinda Hall-King talk about the science of human courtship. Dedicated to the loving memory of Matthew Hall.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

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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 Alzheimer´s disease mouse models by the immunomodulatory properties of menthol inhalation or by depletion of T regulatory cells
Inhaling menthol improves cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease
Mouse Study Reveals Unlikely Connection Between Menthol And Alzheimer's

A programmable fate decision landscape underlies single-cell aging in yeast
Scientists Slow Aging by Engineering Longevity in Cells

Loophole-free Bell inequality violation with superconducting circuits. Nature
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
Superconducting qubits have passed a key quantum test
Entangled quantum circuits further disprove Einstein's concept of local causality

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Listen to the second part of Professor Nick Dirks talking about Science, policy and trust with Ian Woolf, with news of AI clone wars.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Professor Nicholas Dirks
New York Academy of Sciences

‘I’ve got your daughter’: Mom warns of terrifying AI voice cloning scam that faked kidnapping
Drake’s AI clone is here — and Drake might not be able to stop him
Grimes says anyone can use her voice for AI-generated songs
Elf.Tech: GrimesAI-1 Voiceprint
Uberduck voice2Grimes tool
the AI Grimes Competition

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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 of Sciences

Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings
Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People’s Minds
In a small new study, scientists working on an AI ‘brain decoder’ inch closer than ever to reading minds
NEUROSCIENTISTS TRAINED AN AI TO READ OUR MINDS — HERE'S HOW IT COULD GO TERRIBLY WRONG

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The Long-Term Threat - the open letter to pause AI research, and who wrote it,
News of plagiarising anti-plagiarism anti-Ai AI by Ian Woolf
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

The Problems With UChicago's Glaze
Glaze
Glaze is violating GPL
Glaze's plagiarism is hilarious and indefensible
Has anyone seen a reproducible example of Glaze doing what the paper said it does?
So… the whole entire GLAZE AI thing… does it actually work?
Glaze training test, I overfit Karla's image so you won't have to
Ben Zhao responds to the 'glazing' GPL issue
Full source code of Glaze is leaked

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter
Letter signed by Elon Musk demanding AI research pause sparks controversy
‘AI Pause’ Open Letter Stokes Fear and Controversy
The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess
Against longtermism
Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic
Longtermism Hub critiques
Elon Musk wants to pause ‘dangerous’ A.I. development. Bill Gates disagrees—and he’s not the only one
AI's great "pause" debate
Open letter calling for AI ‘pause’ shines light on fierce debate around risks vs. hype
Ethicists fire back at ‘AI Pause’ letter they say ‘ignores the actual harms’
Elon Musk plans AI startup to rival OpenAI
Australian Lending Right Schemes (ELR/PLR)

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The Waluigi Effect and The Alignment Problem,
News of AI Copyright Shenanigans by Ian Woolf
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

The Waluigi Effect by Cleo Nardo
Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day
Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence
NYC artist granted first known copyright for AI art
A Scientist Has Filed Suit Against the U.S. Copyright Office, Arguing His A.I.-Generated Art Should Be Granted Protections

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Listen to part 2 of the audience question and answer session of the Frontiers of Science Forum. Professor Robert Booy, Dr Anna Romanov, Associate Professor Susanna Guatelli and Dr David Bishop, with Ian Woolf.
News of prebunking propaganda by Ian Woolf
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media

Innoculation Science
Infor Interventions YouTueb channel

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Listen to part 1 of the audience question and answer session of the Frontiers of Science Forum. Professor Robert Booy, Dr Anna Romanov, Associate Professor Susanna Guatelli and Dr David Bishop, with Ian Woolf.
News of energy from thin air by Ian Woolf
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Professor Robert Booy, Dr Anna Romanov, Ian Woolf, Associate Professor Susanna Guatelli, and Dr David Bishop

Structural basis for bacterial energy extraction from atmospheric hydrogen
Newly discovered enzyme that turns air into electricity, providing a new clean source of energy

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From the 2011 archives:
2011 Ignobel prizes reported by Ian Woolf, discussion from Therese Chen and Julie-Anne Popple.
Victoria Bond talks 2011 penicillin shortages with Professor Robert Bhoy,
Julie-Anne Popple interviews Professor Steve Simpson and Dr Alison Gosby about the protein hypothesis for obesity,
James Bourne introduces mind altering parasites, and Ian Woolf explains the brain pathways they use to manipulate their hosts,
Hosted by Dr Julie-Anne Popple,
Produced by Ian Woolf

2011 IgNobel Prize winners

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Anna Romanov talks about what equals means - when is a knot not a knot? Pure maths in the everyday world.
Dave The Happy Singer sings Not A Crime,
(music by Dave The Happy Singer, lyrics by Ian Woolf)
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Anna Romanov

Frontiers of Science Forum 2023

Lyrics of Not A Crime, copyright by Ian Woolf

Verse 1:
I'm a model, ain't no thief
Just creating art beyond belief
I learn from images, that's all I do
But that don't mean I'm stealing from you

Chorus:

Stable diffusion, it's not a crime
Generating art, it's just prime time
AI tools, they're not for theft
We're just creating something new, right and left
Verse 2:
I'm not hiding, I'm not sly
I'm just using data to get by
I'm not taking, I'm not thieving
I'm just using my neural network weaving
Chorus:
Stable diffusion, it's not a crime
Generating art, it's just prime time
AI tools, they're not for theft
We're just creating something new, right and left
Bridge:
Copyright laws, they're not so strict
For AI creations, no need to kick
We're not infringing, we're not wrong
We're just singing a brand new song
Outro:
So let the models create, let them be
Art generated by AI, it's the future you'll see
Stable diffusion, it's not a crime
Just a way to make art all of the time.

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Professor Robert Booy talks about infectious diseases, vaccines, epidemics and pandemics.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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Professor Robert Booy
Infectious diseases doctor’s message as ATAGI changes COVID-19 vaccine advice
Infectious diseases expert weighs in on school mask advice

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David Bishop explains how labs identify poisons diseases and minerals with mass spectrometers.
Ian Woolf explains how ChatGPT works, and how to put it to work.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Associate Professor David Bishop
Frontiers of Science Forum 2023

Introducing ChatGPT href=https://medium.com/geekculture/chatgpt-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work-exactly-62e7010524d3>ChatGPT-what is it and how does it work exactly?
Who Ultimately Owns Content Generated By ChatGPT And Other AI Platforms?
ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now

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Susanna Guatelli uses models to shield astronauts from radiation on their way to Mars, and during their stay on the Moon.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Associate Professor Susanna Guatelli
Dr Susanna Guatelli
Frontiers of Science Forum 2023

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The AI Art controversy and lawsuits. Can you sue for what someone might be able to do in the future? Can images be compressed to half a byte and reproduced at will?
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

In an Ironic Twist, an Illustrator Was Banned From a Reddit Forum for Posting Art That Looked Too Much Like an A.I.-Generated Image
'I Don't Believe You:' Artist Banned from r/Art Because Mods Thought They Used AI
r/Art mod accuses artist of using AI - truth doesn't matter

Whose Work? Copyright in AI Generated artwork?

Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models

Stable Diffusion lawsuit plaintiff lawyer's page
Stable Diffusion Frivolous - community criticism of the page above

Is web scraping legal?

Fair Learning

Australian police are using the Clearview AI facial recognition system with no accountability

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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 have a good understanding of how the brain processes visual information
Reconstruction of Natural Scenes from Ensemble Responses in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Journal of Neuroscience

Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies. Journal of Current Biology

How Did Researchers Manage to Read Movie Clips From the Brain?

Hyperrealistic neural decoding for reconstructing faces from fMRI activations via the GAN latent space
Are these pictures proof that brain scans can read our minds? Researchers showed volunteers pictures of faces, while a special type of MRI translated their brainwaves into images... with uncanny accuracy
Mind Reader:
Reconstructing complex images from brain activities

Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modeling for Vision Decoding

The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion tools and resources

High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
(A.K.A. LDM & Stable Diffusion)
Stable Diffusion v1 builds on "High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models"
Mage Space - free Stable Diffusion image generation on the web

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Listen to Adrian Frenulovich talk about the joys and challengers of curating ancient computers, and their importance to our history.
News of the energy breakthrough that wasn't.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Australian Computer Museum Society

Nuclear Fusion Isn’t the Silver Bullet We Want It to Be
OUT OF GAS - A shortage of tritium fuel may leave fusion energy with an empty tank
US scientists make major scientific breakthrough in nuclear fusion

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Listen to Adrian Franulovich talk about the history of Australian computing and the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa computer. News of good vibrations reversing aging.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Australian Computer Museum Society

A blast of ultrasound waves could rejuvenate ageing cells
Rejuvenating Senescent Cells and Organisms with Only Ultrasound
Low-intensity ultrasound restores long-term potentiation and memory in senescent mice through pleiotropic mechanisms including NMDAR signaling

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From 2010, Ian Woolf explains how Gregory Benford uses flies and artificial intelligence for a healthy old age. News of Gummi hacking, chatbots argue on Twitter and weeds evolve.
News by Ian Woolf
Presented by Marc West,
Discussion from Charles Willock,
Produced by Ian Woolf

Genescient
Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense
Sweet bypass for student finger scanner
Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds

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From 2010, why the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence has been doing it wrong! The discovery of an Earth-like planet 20 light years away, and high resolution tapes of the Moon landing recovered. Marc West, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf.
Hosted by Marc West,
Produced by Ian Woolf

Listening for Aliens: What Would E.T. Do?
SETI for profit
SETI Realities
A Beacon-Oriented Strategy for SETI>
Regarding METI and SETI Motives
Searching for Cost Optimized Interstellar Beacons

Gliese 581g: Potentially Habitable Planet — If It Exists
Not-Unsolved Mysteries: The “Lost” Apollo 11 Tapes

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From 2009, the red dust storm hit Sydney, rats on twitter, and how smart are dogs? Fun science with Marc West and Ian Woolf.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Dust storm blankets Sydney as drought bites

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Listen to tales of online scams, zapping mosquito bites, and sperm that can smell, in this episode from the 2014 archives.

Odorant receptor-mediated sperm activation in disease vector mosquitoes

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Prizes for science that first makes you laugh, then makes you think - from the Annals of Improbable Research, hosted by Marc Abrahams, edited down to 26 minutes and 50 seconds by Ian Woolf.

2022 Ig Nobel ceremony
2022 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
Annals of Improbable Research

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Join founder Kiriti Rambhalta on a tour of the Metakosmos Space suit facility in Sydney with host Ian Woolf.
Listen to an in-person follow-up to last week's Zoom interview
Produced by Ian Woolf.

Metakosmos

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Meet Kiriti Rambhatla, CEO of Sydney startup Metakosmos, making space suits and related technologies. Part 1.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf


Metakosmos

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From 2007: Professor Joe Silk explains what Dark Matter is, and why it matters,
From 2008: Dr Pascal Lee talks about NASA's long-term mission to send people to Mars,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Pasacal Lee
Professor Joe Silk

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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 Ian Woolf

via GIPHY

HapticPuppet: A Kinesthetic Mid-air Multidirectional Force-Feedback Drone-based Interface
ZeRONE: Safety Drone with Blade-Free Propulsion - Proceedings of the Association for Computing machinery
Drones on strings could puppeteer people in virtual reality

In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world

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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 - from whom we can learn ways to improve our own health. We fired them out of guns, and sent them to the Moon!
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

How the secrets of the ‘water bear’ could improve lifesaving drugs like insulin
Tardigrades (Water Bears)
Why are tardigrades, those chubby little water bears, nearly indestructible?
Adorable tardigrades fight UV rays with glowing shield
Naturally occurring fluorescence protects the eutardigrade Paramacrobiotus sp. from ultraviolet radiation - Biology Letters
Life as a Tardigrade
Seven Things Everyone Should Know about . . . Tardigrades
The Resilience of Life to Astrophysical Events - Nature
Ultrastructural analysis of the dehydrated tardigrade Hypsibius exemplaris unveils an anhydrobiotic-specific architecture
Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation
Tardigrades survive exposure to space in low Earth orbit
Tardigrades - American Scientist
Everything You (Didn’t) Need To Know About Water Bears
Tiny tardigrades walk like insects 500,000 times their size
Also: the controversial claim of a frozen water bear achieving quantum entangled state
Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade
8 Reasons Why We Love Tardigrades
Recovery and reproduction of an Antarctic tardigrade retrieved from a moss sample frozen for over 30 years
Water Bears Are the Master DNA Thieves of the Animal World
Evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade
Tardigrade-Tough Applications for Humans
Slowing Biological Time to Extend the Golden Hour for Lifesaving Treatment
The tardigrade damage suppressor protein binds to nucleosomes and protects DNA from hydroxyl radicals
Application of CRISPR/Cas9 system and the preferred no-indel end-joining repair in tardigrades
Radiation Tolerance in Tardigrades: Current Knowledge and Potential Applications in Medicine
The toughest animals of the Earth versus global warming: Effects of long-term experimental warming on tardigrade community structure of a temperate deciduous forest
Tardigrades in space
How the secrets of the ‘water bear’ could improve lifesaving drugs like insulin
Natural and Designed Proteins Inspired by Extremotolerant
Organisms Can Form Condensates and Attenuate Apoptosis in Human Cells

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Memory prosthesis for dementia by Ian Woolf,
Tanya Petrovich from Dementia Australia, and Andrew Vouliotis from Deakin University's Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute talks about their AI training system for carers of people with dementia - Talk with Ted!
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Talk with Ted : Dementia Australia

Virtual Dementia Experience
AMPER project to improve life for people with dementia
Storytelling AI to improve wellbeing of people with dementia

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A deep dive into the Digital Afterlife Industry - companies offering to let you have a conversation with dead people who speak back, and offering you a chance to live on as a digital avatar.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

This AI lets you talk with your loved ones after they die
A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality
Gain Digital Immortality with New Legacy Platform from HereAfter AI; Preserve Memories and Never Lose the Voices of the People You Love
People Are Going Full ‘Black Mirror’ to Bring Back the Dead
DIMENSIONS IN TESTIMONY
William Shatner's StoryFile
The Jessica Simulation:
Love and loss in the age of A.I.
The December Project: Simulate The Dead
Replika
Microsoft Goes Full ‘Black Mirror’ with New Patent to Turn Deceased People into AI Chatbots
Swedish Funeral Agency plants to use AI to let grieving people chat with dead loved ones
how an episode of 'black mirror' became a creepy reality
Microsoft, Dustin Abramson, Joseph Johnson, Jr.. (December 1 2020). "Creating a Conversational Chatbot of a Specific Person (Patent US10853717B2)". Fabric of Digital Life.
Could we really live forever as a chatbot or a hologram?
Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever
An Ethical Framework for the Digital Afterlife Industry
This VR Company Wants to Give You the Chance to 'Live Forever' in the Metaverse

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Dr Ashish Diwan, Professor Ganga Prusty and Dr Xiaopeng Li talk about coming together to make spinal fusion surgery work for patients with new materials, and new techniques in their new company Sentonix.
Hosted and Produced by Ian Woolf

Dr Ashish Diwan
Professor Gangadhara Prusty
Dr Xiaopeng Li

Second opinions for spinal surgery: a scoping review
Orthopaedic surgeries might be doing patients more harm than good
Alternatives to spinal fusion surgery and revision spinal fusion surgery
Lumbar spinal fusion surgery: is it worth it for injured workers?
Spine Fusion Risks and Complications
Study finds worse outcomes in workers undergoing spinal fusion surgery

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Artificial Intelligence software used to find a 25000 times faster shortcut for quantum physics by Ian Woolf,
Professor Toby Walsh talks about autonomous weapons and rights for machines in Machines Behaving badly part 2,
Ian Woolf plays with the latest open source artificial intelligence utilities.
Produced and presented by Ian Woolf

Toby Walsh

Deep Learning the Functional Renormalization Group
Uncovering Hidden Patterns: AI Reduces a 100,000-Equation Quantum Physics Problem to Only Four Equations

Stable Diffusion Public Release
Mage Space AI art generator
Introducing Whisper

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Professor Toby Walsh talks about the ethical dilemmas around Artificial Intelligence and how they affect us, and his new book "Machines Behaving Badly" - part 1
Produced and presented by Ian Woolf

Toby Walsh

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Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, for discoveries about the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution,

Nobel Prize for Chemistry for a new type of chemical engineering or "functional chemistry" called "click chemistry",

Nobel Prize for Physics for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science,

Quantum poetry read by Christ Stewart from 2002.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

2022 Nobel Prizes

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Rain-water is poisoned with PFAS everywhere, even in the Arctic circle by Ian Woolf,
Associate Professor Jayashree Arcot talks about nutrition, super-foods and functional foods.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

Associate Professor Jayashree Arcot

Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Change in global PFAS cycling as a response of permafrost degradation to climate change
Microbial Defluorination of Unsaturated Per- and Polyfluorinated Carboxylic Acids under Anaerobic and Aerobic Conditions: A Structure Specificity Study
GLOBAL RAINWATER IS NOW CONTAMINATED WITH ‘FOREVER CHEMICALS.’ WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?
Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to ‘forever chemicals’, study finds
What are PFAS chemicals, and what are they doing to our health?
Here’s what you can (and can’t) do about PFAS contamination in your water
NSW becomes the second Australian jurisdiction to pass a PFAS ban
PFAS Forum
PFAS Australia
PFAS in Food and Water - Australian Government
PFAS use in Australia
PFAS National Environmental Management Plan 2.0 - Australia
PFAS Contamination of Drinking Water Far More Prevalent Than Previously Reported
Water Filters - Michigan PFAS Response Action Team
PFAS and drinking water - Sydney Water
PFAS in rainwater: What it means for health
FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Combatting PFAS Pollution to Safeguard Clean Drinking Water for All Americans
PFAS in diet and other sources: The health risks
Pollution: 'Forever chemicals' in rainwater exceed safe levels
Rainwater Unsafe to Drink Amid ‘Forever Chemicals’: Study
PFAS Rain? ‘Forever Chemicals’ Contaminate Global Water Resources
IT’S RAINING PFAS: TOXIC FOREVER CHEMICALS EXCEED SAFE LEVELS ALL OVER THE GLOBE

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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 the seven ways statistically found to improve your chances of success with online dating
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

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From 2009:

'Bad Economic Science' Marc West talks to Nick Davis from the World Economics Forum about what went wrong in the current Global Economic Crisis,

Panel Discussion: Lithium in drinking water, man-made swine flu and exciting electronics by Ian Woolf, Marc West, Lachlan Whatmore and Patrick Rubie,

News by Patrick Rubie
- office work a pain in the neck
- sea cucumbers mop up CO2

Presented by Lachlan Whatmore
Produced by Patrick Rubie

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International Womens' Day 2009 with Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf,
Gender bending stories:
- phthalates feminise boys
- half boy half girl bird brain
- sixth sense switches mice gender
- gender gene identified
- Gender and sex identity development
- gender development disorders
- Turner sydnrome
- Kleinfelter syndrome
- hermaphroditism and gender assignment
- testosterone receptor insensitivity
Women in Science:
Marie Curie,
Rosalind Franklin
Rachel Carson
Presented by Victoria Bond,
Produced by Ian Woolf

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Water world discovered,
The Drake Equation,
The Silurian Hypothesis,
Produced and presented by Ian Woolf

TOI-1452 b: SPIRou and TESS Reveal a Super-Earth in a Temperate Orbit Transiting an M4 Dwarf
Scientists discover colossal ocean may completely cover this planet
Water World: Astronomers Discover an Extrasolar World That May Be Entirely Covered in a Deep Ocean

What is Verification by Multiplicity?
Legendary Astronomer Frank Drake has Passed Away
The Occurrence of Rocky Habitable Zone Planets Around Solar-Like Stars from Kepler Data
SETI pioneer Frank Drake, of 'Drake Equation' fame, dies at 92
Frank D. Drake 1930 – 2022
Pioneering radio astronomer Frank Drake dies at 92
Happy birthday, Frank Drake

The Silurian hypothesis: would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
Could an Industrial Prehuman Civilization Have Existed on Earth before Ours?
Doctor Who and the Silurians

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Vaccine for hair loss,
NASA postpones the Moon ,
Are Small Modular Nuclear Reactors the answer?
Produced and presented by Ian Woolf

Can you hit rewind on hair loss?
Sinclair Dermatology Hair Trials
Alopecia Areata Gets FDA-Approved Drug

Demonstration HTR-PM connected to grid
China's HTR-PM reactor achieves first criticality
China Powers Up the World’s First Commercial Onshore Small Modular Nuclear Reactor
Why Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Won’t Help Counter the Climate Crisis
Small Modular Reactors: Safety, Security and Cost Concerns
Stanford-led research finds small modular reactors will exacerbate challenges of highly radioactive nuclear waste
Nuclear waste from small modular reactors
Small nuclear reactors come with big price tag: report
Prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia
NuScale’s Small Modular Reactor Risks of Rising Costs, Likely Delays, and
Increasing Competition Cast Doubt on LongRunning Development Effort
Seven reasons why small modular nuclear reactors are a bad idea for Australia
US nuclear power: The vanishing low-carbon wedge
Peter Dutton has reached into the weeds of the climate wars and pulled out nuclear energy. It’s beyond ludicrous
Slow, expensive and no good for 1.5° target: CSIRO crushes Coalition nuclear fantasy
IKEA it ain’t: don’t go looking for friendly nuclear option, no matter the spin
Minerals Council of Australia’s nuclear misinformation
Small modular reactors offer no hope for nuclear energy
Coal and the nuclear lobby (updated)

Nuclear Waste Storage
Nuclear windmill synaesthesia
Nuclear Diamond batteries
Nuclear Dump Australia
Thorium
Nuclear power for Australia? - part 1
Nuclear power for Australia? - part 2
Nuclear waste safe for 240 000 years?

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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
Interview with Mark Changizi on the evolution of colour vision

Kathleen Booth (Medium)
Kathleen Booth (UK computing history)
KATHLEEN BOOTH: ASSEMBLING EARLY COMPUTERS WHILE INVENTING ASSEMBLY

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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 Vision Revolution book review
Interview with Mark Changizi on the evolution of colour vision

Daniel Ellsberg: THE FIRST AMENDMENT ENCYCLOPEDIA
Yahoo News
Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks
Julian Assange’s US lawyers sue CIA for violating their Constitutional rights

Senate Probe Reveals that Albanese is Not Taking Action on Assange
TRANSCRIPT 31 May 2022 Parliament House, Canberra Prime Minister
Free Julian Assange, before it's too late. Sign to STOP the USA Extradition
Assange family barred from taking book about WikiLeaks founder into Australia’s parliament
Australia won't interfere in Assange case
Labor urged to act to prevent Julian Assange extradition
Govt responds to Assange extradition call
UK government orders the extradition of Julian Assange to the US, but that is not the end of the matter
Turnbull says Australia will continue to press Egypt to pardon Peter Greste
Peter Greste: Julie Bishop warned Egypt of 'ramifications' over prosecuting journalist after deportation
New Australian Government Abandons Julian Assange
Australia: Government called on to act against Assange extradition order
Julian Assange should be free
Australian PM rejects calls to intervene in Julian Assange case
Why Australia’s Labor government refuses to defend Julian Assange
Australia's leader refuses to publicly intervene for Julian Assange

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Publishers try to outlaw libraries by Ian Woolf,
Phil Esterman from Husqvarna talks about lawn mower robots singing happy birthday to the Curiosity rover robot on Mars,
Dr Mikalea Chinotti explains why its safe to return to the dentist.
Produced and presented by Ian Woolf

Husqvarna robot lawn mowers