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Diffusion Science radio episodes

  • Driver Fatigue and Ury's Night
    Victoria Bond celebrates 50 years of human space travel,
    Ian Woolf interviews Dr Sara Lal and Diarmuid Kavanagh about stopping tiredness killing people,
    News by Patrick Rubie:
    - safe injecting cuts overdoses
    - premature pregnancy evolves
    - NASA finds medicines stored in space become inactive
    Presented by Victoria Bond,
    produced by Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf

    27 min
  • Protect Research Rally and 3 blind mice
    Ian Woolf visits the protest rally against proposed medical research budget cuts, and interviews:
    Bettina Arndt, Bill Ferris, Judy Black, and Andrea MacFarland.
    Patrick Rubie with the latest medical research news: Blindness, Schizophrenia and Depression.
    Produced and presented by Ian Woolf

    27 min
  • Fukushima special!
    Victoria Bond asks Ian Woolf to explain what radiation is, anyway.
    Martin Faccini cuts through the spook to get down to the bottom of health risks surrounding the meltdown.
    Finally, a Diffusion panel discussion about levels of exposure and radiation hormesis.
    Paneled by Ian Woolf, produced by Victoria Bond.

    26 min
  • Handwashing, meltdown and nanocooling
    Victoria Bond gets the scoop from Ian Woolf on the nuclear reactor situation in Japan and asks, what is a meltdown, exactly?
    Victoria Bond speaks to Adam Freeman about why surgeons get so passionate about hand hygiene.
    Ian Woolf speaks to Geoff Smith about nanophotonics, and cooling.
    Presented and produced by Victoria Bond,
    with technical support by Ian Woolf

    27 min
  • Smart windows and Morton's Demon'
    "Confirmation bias, denialism and Morton's Demon" by Peter Bowditch,
    Professor Geoff Smith spoke to Ian Woolf about how nano-photonics
    can be used for smart clothes and smart windows
    Presented by Ian Woolf,
    Produced by Victoria Bond

    27 min
  • TB Day and CSIRO vacations
    Kate Barnard speaks to students in the CSIRO Vacation Scholarship Program,
    Victoria Bond talks about World Tuberculosis Day,
    Ian Woolf interviews Professor Geoff Smith about the importance of Nanophotonics to environmental energy flows,
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

    28 min
  • First computers and Radio mashups
    Peter Bowditch describes Australia's first computer science,
    Smooth by Derek Muller,
    Ian Woolf talks with Balint Seeber about radio-frequency mashups,
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

    27 min
  • Smart Bras and cheesey pickup lines
    Phillipe Perez interviews Dr Timothy C. Nielsen about the Smart Bra
    News by Ian Woolf
    -BBC saved by Bit Torrent,
    -Electro-shock body armour,
    -Mulchable PC cases,
    -Solar roads,
    -Singularity Summit Australia 2011,
    -Jurassic Lounge,
    -Cheesey pickup lines have a purpose
    Gravity by Derek Muller,
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

    27 min
  • Unfair reporting and DNA Poetry
    Free internet for everyone by Ian Woolf
    Electronic glasses by Ian Woolf
    DNA poetry by Ian Woolf,
    How not to be fair and balanced, and why never to debate, by Peter Bowditch
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

    29 min

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