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Aug 20, 2012 • 0sec

Wallaby, damaged doubt, rat pilots

Julie-Anne Popple discusses the foraging behaviour of swamp wallabies with Miguel Bedoya-Perez. Ian Woolf finds out how damage to your brain can reduce your ability to doubt your beliefs. Julie-Anne Popple reports on dog shaking, cave spiders and denting diamonds. Ian Woolf reports on rat brains that fly planes Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
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Aug 13, 2012 • 0sec

Belief updating kiwi

Part 2 of How To Change Your Mind by Nathan Sinclair, Lindsey Gray talks about Kiwis with Julie-Anne Popple, Therese Chen reports on: - Curiosity - Attenborough's Goblin - dolphin subcluture - oldest insect fossil James Millar reports on the ITER fusion reactor project Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
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Aug 6, 2012 • 0sec

How to change your mind, snakes on a plane

Nathan Sinclair explains How to change your mind, Professor Mike Thompson spoke with Julie-Anne Popple about the time he got a snake on a plane, Ian Woolf reports on the lack of Dark Matter, James Millar reports on the accelerating Universe, Ian Woolf reports on permanent sexual side-effects to a hair loss treatment, Julie-Anne reports on suspicions of salty oceans on Titan, Ian Woolf reports on rat-jellyfish cyborgs, Ian Woolf reports on the attack on Professor Steve Mann's cybernetic visual aide in a Paris McDonalds. Presented by James Millar, Produced by Ian Woolf
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Jul 23, 2012 • 0sec

Frogs, wallabies and troubled turtles

Julie-Anne delivers the science news: sexy dumpling squid, holy mars and space gopher. Julie-Anne Popple interviews Miguel Bedoya-Perez about finding rare frogs and swamp wallabies. Professor Mike Thompson speaks to Julie-Anne about the plight of turtles in the Murray River. Presented and produced by Julie-Anne Popple
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Jul 16, 2012 • 0sec

Sizzled intelligence retention

Julie-Anne Popple reports on the global warming comedy Sizzle with a hot issues discussion panel of Randy Olsen, Dr Rod Lamberts, Professor Lesley Hughes, and Professor Tim Flannery. Ian Woolf reports on: license to crime, artificial intelligence finds cats on youtube, mind-controlled robot avatars, and milk chasers make you stronger. Observations from James Millar, and Nathan Sinclair Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
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Jul 9, 2012 • 0sec

Higgs tastes dark tendrils

Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf discuss the discovery by the team at the Large Hadron Collider, Victoria Bond reports on Dark Tendrils, Ian Woolf reports on how taste affects judgements, the speechjammer, and activating your immune system to save people from fatal flu. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
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Jul 2, 2012 • 0sec

Sick prawns and sleep rehearsal

Julie-Anne Popple reports on Turtle death mysteries, spray on batteries, and Hot dinosaurs. Ian Woolf reports on Sleep rehearsal,Vortex data streams Hiccupops, Shoes for efficient running, record Solar power,,Alcohol and caffeine sprays. Bonnie Yiu reports on pesticide pollution in the Hawkesbury River, with eco-toxicologist Dr Ben Kefford. Ian Woolf zaps his food. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
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Jun 25, 2012 • 0sec

Species Invasion and Burritobot

Ian Woolf reports on a spider-man backpack, Julie-Anne Popple reports on a molesting mosquito, Ian Woolf reports on the Burritobot, Ian Woolf reports on Cosmetic nuclear medicine, Julie-Anne Popple reports on erotic fossils, Ian Woolf reports on Social reading enhancing glasses, Victoria Bond speaks with Dr Simon Pooley about invasive ecologies. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Jun 18, 2012 • 0sec

Extreme Science Experience special

At the Extreme Science Experience, 250 high school students met the Australian Academy of Science Technology and Engineering Clunies Ross innovator's award winners and spoke to Ian Woolf: Dr Gideon Chitombo spoke about mining research, Professor Stuart Crozier spoke about Magnetic Resonance Imaging esearch, Several Central Coast students described their impressions of the day, Professor Peter Blamey spoke about his bionic research and the damage to hearing from noise exposure (apologies for unavoidable background noises). Produced and presented by Ian Woolf
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Jun 11, 2012 • 0sec

From 2007: ID Card special

In March 2007 this special edition examined in depth issues of identity and privacy raised by the proposed introduction of a card to identify everyone using Government services. Presented by Darren Osborne, Synthetic interview with Anna Johnston about privacy concerns, Aras Vaichas speaks with Ian Woolf about RFID, Interview with Professor Graham Greenleaf about the Access Card and Cyberlaw Produced by Ian Woolf and Charles Willock original broadcast and full references

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