Synopsis
If you like a good, broad mix of Science - new science, hard science, pop science, historical science and very silly science, listen to Diffusion.
Episodes
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4D printing and Caring for carers
09/09/2013World Suicide Prevention day news by Ian Woolf, Interview with Stuart Grover about the future of 3D printing by Ian Woolf. Ty Lees presents his 3 Minute Thesis: "Who Cares for our Carers?" Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Asteroids, Nanowires and Llamas
02/09/2013Llamas treat diarrhea, and jetpacks take off in New Zealand, by Ian Woolf. Chard Core interviews David Faber of Deep Space Industries about mining in space, Laingchen Zhu presents his 3 Minute Thesis on Nanowires. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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3D Paper and Identity theft
26/08/2013PANDORA archive news by Ian Woolf Connor Moore discusses about printing 3D objects with paper, with Ian Woolf, Joanna Spasojevic presents her 3 Minute Thesis: "Morphometric Face Analysis: A Potential Solution for Identity Theft at Australia's Borders" Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Gambling and big data
19/08/2013Forever fertilser news by Ian Woolf Indonesian nuclear power by Ian Woolf Interview with Alex Blaszczynksi, about gambling addiction, Marianne Menictas presents her 3 Minute Thesis: Fast Data Analysis. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Sydney Maker Culture
12/08/2013Australian National Security Enquiry needs a time machine by Ian Woolf, Daniel Green plans the Sydney Mini Maker Faire. Adam Farrow-palmer describes his electronic shirt, Iain Chalmers talks about MooresCloud networked lights, ManuelBetancort remotely controls cockroaches at Dorkbot. Gwenael Cadiou presents his 3 Minute Thesis: "A Fish Journey: Where, When, and ...Why?" Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Nuclear Power For Australia? part 2
05/08/2013Mind controlled rat news by Ian Woolf. Ian Woolf concludes the Nuclear Energy For Australia? conference and speaks with: Howard Eastwood who argues for nuclear power for Glen Innes and the promises of Thorium and Professor Ian Lowe, who explains why Australia doesn't need nuclear power Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Nuclear Power For Australia? part 1
29/07/2013Wearable computing news by Ian Woolf. Ian Woolf attends the Nuclear Energy For Australia? conference and speaks with: Dr Erica Smyth argues for nuclear power for Australia, Dr Timos Aikas explains how nuclear waste is handled in Finland, Dr Massimo Salvatores discusses Thorium as an alternative nuclear fuel. Johanna Howes delivers her 3 Minute Thesis: Hungry For Change- maintaining balance on the Great Barrier Reef Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Science Spoken Word Spectacular
22/07/2013Urine power news by Ian Woolf. Highlights from the Science Spoken Word Spectacular from: Ian Bryce, Vanessa Hill. Lou Steer, and Ricky Pannowitz. Organised by Rebecca Rose, Jack Peck and Ariel Pavez. Recording by Merran Winchester. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Trolling science and throat singing
15/07/2013Send your own mini-spaceship to the Moon, and Protect your mobile phone privacy reported by Ian Woolf. Tuvan throat singing by Noel Hanna, Trolling science by Ian Woolf, The Beard Plague by Ian Woolf Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Sexual ecology and Pirate privacy
08/07/2013In Pitt St Mall, Ian Woolf talks to David W Campbell, Pirate Party Senate candidate about the PRISMbreak privacy protest. At Nerd Nite Sydney, Ian Woolf chats with Dr Peter Jonason about the behavioural ecology of sexual relationships. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Physics Of Music special edition
01/07/2013First plants were carnivorous by Ian Woolf. Professor Joe Wolfe from the UNSW speaks to Ian Woolf about the Physics of Music and Voice. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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We Reveal Crimes and squirrels
24/06/2013Crowd-funded SETI, brightness, creativity and aliens, and the final frontier reported by Ian Woolf. Review of the film "We Steal Secrets - the story of WikiLeaks" by Ian Woolf Tim Baynes talks about the wonders of hibernation. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Hypercolour vision and soap
17/06/2013Do GM crops upset pigs? by Ian Woolf Hypercolour vision by Ian Woolf Scurvy by Chris Stewart Soap Science by Ian Woolf Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Magnetic bacteria and chilli
10/06/2013Ian Woolf reports on the rapid aging from fish oil, Podcasting threatened by patents, and paper 3D printers. Tim Baynes investigates magnetically sensitive animals, Christine Baker speaks with Lara Farrell about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Adam Mark explores what makes chilli hot. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Chocolate robots
03/06/2013Ian Woolf reports on asteroids with moons, and squeezing breast cancer. At CeBIT 2013 Ian Woolf spoke to Fred Paulson about Telepresence robots, to Cindy Huang about ThunderDownUnder's robot trophy, to Dalton Tandulka about digital masks that mirror your facial expressions. At Eat The Collection Ian Woolf spoke with Chris Bamborough about designing for 3D printers that use chocolate ink. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Microfactories and synthetic food
27/05/2013Angus Deveson spoke with Ian Woolf about Microfactories and 3D printing Ian Woolf explores synthetic food, from lab grown hamburgers, to food printers, and replacing eating altogether. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Young blood RoboWars
20/05/2013Ian Woolf reports on Wind powered nuclear weapons, Google Glass, and turtle freezing genomes. Angus Deveson spoke with Ian Woolf about RoboWars Sydney, Glowing Mouse draculas return to heal aged hearts - Ian Woolf explains. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Future silkmoth tricycle games
13/05/2013Ian Woolf reports how Harvard robot bees hover. Janine Cahill speaks with Ian Woolf about improving the future with games. Silkmoths ride robot tricycles cruising for sexy females in Japan, for science! Ian Woolf explains. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Baby talk, Naughties, and the web
06/05/2013Ian Woolf gives a brief history of the world wide web, and reports on faces sculpted from DNA data. Gina Sartore tells us about 19th Century astronomer Maria Mitchell. Dr Uté Vollmer-Conna from the University of New South Wales spoke to Marian Curruthers about why Baby Talk is so strange, Michael Archer from the University of NSW spoke with Ian Woolf and Marian Curruthers about gene sharing between species. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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SpaceApps and Spider silk
29/04/2013Lachlan Whatmore explores the spiders web, Ed Pollitt speaks with Sean Herron about the NASA Hack-a-thon. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf