

Diffusion Science radio
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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Oct 17, 2022 • 0sec
Machines Behaving Badly - part 1
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
Hosted and produced by Ian Wool
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Oct 10, 2022 • 0sec
2022 Nobel Prize awards
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.
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Oct 3, 2022 • 0sec
Functional Super Food
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.
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Sep 26, 2022 • 0sec
Zwicky Dating Deja Vu
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, Ian Woolf recveals to Patrick Rubie the seven ways statistically found to improve your chances of success with online dating
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Sep 19, 2022 • 0sec
GFC what did we learn?
'Bad Economic Science' Marc West talks to Nick Davis from the World Economics Forum about what went wrong in the 2007-2009 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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Sep 12, 2022 • 0sec
Women in Science and Gender-bending
International Women's 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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Sep 6, 2022 • 0sec
SETI and Alien archaeology
Water world discovered,
The Drake Equation,
The Silurian Hypothesis,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf.
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Sep 3, 2022 • 0sec
Small Modular Reactors
Vaccine for hair loss,
NASA postpones the Moon ,
Are Small Modular Nuclear Reactors the answer?
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Aug 22, 2022 • 0sec
Expressly Human - part 2
Computing pioneer Kathleen Booth reaches 100 by Ian Woolf,
Dr Mark Chanizi talks about how emotional expression evolved - part 2.
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Aug 15, 2022 • 0sec
Expressly Human - part 1
Pleading the fourth - suing the CIA by Ian Woolf,
Dr Mark Chanizi talks about what we said before language was invented - part 1.
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