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Ian Woolf
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Dec 25, 2023 • 0sec
2023 Ig Nobel Prizes - part 1
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
Produced by Ian Woolf
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Dec 18, 2023 • 0sec
AI has a human alignment problem
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.
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Dec 11, 2023 • 0sec
After AI takes our jobs
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.
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Dec 4, 2023 • 0sec
AI needs nurturing
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.
Hosted and Produced by Ian Woolf
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Nov 27, 2023 • 0sec
Humans almost extinct and Rat Matrix
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.
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Nov 20, 2023 • 0sec
Face transplant and spice for life
Successful face transplant including whole eyeball,
News of Cinnamon for longer life and better memory by Ian Woolf,
Face recognition by Gina Sartore
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Nov 13, 2023 • 0sec
Are earthquakes affected by climate change?
Australian SpIRIT nano-satellite to be launched,
How climate change may cause more volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, and make them more severe.
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Nov 6, 2023 • 0sec
Brain Writing
Brain writing with bidirectional Brain-Computer-Interfaces,
with news of spots before your eyes mapped at Monash, and stimulated in Toronto
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Oct 30, 2023 • 0sec
Red Cross Blood Bank
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.
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Oct 23, 2023 • 0sec
Woomera blasts off
From 2015: Asteroid moons Earth,
Invisible planets sought by Ian Woolf
Kerrie Dougherty describes the beginnings of the Woomera Rocket Range.
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