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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 Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links
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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. Hosted and produced by Ian Wool Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links
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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. Hosted and produced by Ian Wool Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links
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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 Hosted and produced by Ian Wool Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links
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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 Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links
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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 Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links
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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. Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links
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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? Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links
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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. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links
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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. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

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