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Diffusion Science radio episodes

  • Dementia and artificial intelligence
    Memory prosthesis for dementia by Ian Woolf,
    Tanya Petrovich from Dementia Australia, and Andrew Vouliotis from Deakin University's Applied Artificial
    Intelligence Institute talks about their AI training system for carers of people with dementia - Talk with Ted!
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

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    29 min
  • The Talking Dead
    A deep dive into the Digital Afterlife Industry - companies offering to let you have a conversation with dead people who speak back, and offering you a chance to live on as a digital avatar.
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

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    0 min
  • Spinal Fusion
    Dr Ashish Diwan, Professor Ganga Prusty and Dr Xiaopeng Li come together to make spinal fusion surgery
    work for patients, with new materials, and new techniques in their new company Sentonix.
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

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    28 min
  • Machines Behaving Badly - part 2
    Artificial Intelligence software used to find a 25000 times faster shortcut for quantum physics by Ian Woolf,
    Professor Toby Walsh talks about autonomous weapons and rights for machines in Machines Behaving badly part 2,
    Ian Woolf plays with Stable Diffusion and Whisper artificial intelligence utilities.
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf

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    28 min
  • 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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    28 min
  • 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

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    28 min
  • 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

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    29 min
  • 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

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    29 min
  • 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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    29 min
  • 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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    28 min

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