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Ian Woolf
If you like a good, broad mix of Science - new science, hard science, pop science, historical science and very silly science, listen to Diffusion.
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Sep 21, 2025 • 0sec
Knots and Networks - part 2
Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about how knitting and neural networks are just complicated knots, and how imagining a donut shaped world gives us applications in the real world. All the age verification news!
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Sep 14, 2025 • 0sec
Knots and Networks - part 1
Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about the mathematics and science of knots, weaving, networks and neural networks - part 1
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Sep 7, 2025 • 0sec
Retrocausality Again
From 2007:
2007 Science News by Ian Woolf,
Human evolution by Marc West,
Retrocausality by Tim Baynes,
Sperm wars by Darren Osbourne,
Science predictions for 2007 by Jacqui Hayes,Lachlan Whatmore, Catherine Beehag, Ian Woolf and Marc West.
Produced and presented by Tilly Boleyn
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Aug 31, 2025 • 0sec
The Quantum Age - part 4
Listen to James Vandeleur talk about Quantum Computer programming, particle physics, and the Casimir effect, in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology - part 4,
Deep dive into the Casimir effect and quantum levitation.
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Aug 24, 2025 • 0sec
The Quantum Age - part 3
Listen to James Vandeleau talk about Quantum Computers, in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology - part 3.
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Aug 17, 2025 • 0sec
The Quantum Age - part 2
Listen to James Vandeleau talk about the history of Quantum physics, what it means and a demonstration with polarised sunglasses. News of scientists sacked, and eSafety failed.
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Aug 10, 2025 • 0sec
The Quantum Age - part 1
Listen to James Vandeleau talk about the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology - part 1.
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Aug 3, 2025 • 0sec
Censored searches - part 3
Listen to the final part of John Pane talking about privacy rights online, from social media bubbles, to how kids need to practice socializing safely online, just as they do in the real world.
News of Senate voting against the censorship, and then for it the next day.
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Jul 27, 2025 • 0sec
Censored searches - part 2
Listen to the second part of John Pane talking about privacy rights online, from your private interactions with AI, to the dangers of manipulation by social media companies even if you don't have a social media account.
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Jul 20, 2025 • 0sec
Censored searches - part 1
Listen to John Pane, Chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia talk about the executive order from Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, requiring photo ID age verification for using an uncensored search engine in Australia by December 2025
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