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Diffusion Science radio episodes

  • Electric spaceships and domesticating dogs
    Marc West interviews Alan Wilton about the history of dog domestification
    Aaron Cooke reports
    - how dementia caring puts carers at risk of dementia,
    - how some countries will be uninhabitable by humans in 2100
    Jon Bale tells us about
    - NASA's electric spaceships,
    - how HIV immunity works,
    - killer whales are actually three different species
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

    27 min
  • Pill's 50th twitter box office hits
    Jon Bale covers the news with water-recycling cacti
    Marc West interviews Sitaram Asur about predicting box office hits on Twitter
    Victoria Bond celebrates the Pill's very special 50th birthday

    Produced and presented by Victoria Bond

    27 min
  • Quolls,laser planes, anosmic flies
    Pluto demoted again? It's been some fall from grace for Pluto. This week sees a possible new definition of dwarf-planet, and it seems Pluto is hardly special at all. Charles Lineweaver explains to Marc West
    Ian Woolf tackles grey hair and baldness, and rats solving the long-standing mathematical conundrum, the prisoners' dilemma.
    Produced and presented by Victoria Bond

    27 min
  • Dwarf planets and cooperating rats
    Pluto demoted again? It's been some fall from grace for Pluto. This week sees a possible new definition of dwarf-planet, and it seems Pluto is hardly special at all. Charles Lineweaver explains to Marc West
    Ian Woolf tackles grey hair and baldness, and rats solving the long-standing mathematical conundrum, the prisoners' dilemma.
    Produced and presented by Victoria Bond

    28 min
  • Doc Oc, Element 117, and Nikola Tesla
    Aaron Cook reports on Element 117-- Ununseptium
    Marc West speaks with "Doctor Boob" about super-villain Doc Oc
    Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf discuss the life and legend of Nikola Tesla
    Presented by Ian Woolf,
    Produced by Victoria Bond,
    with technical support by Ian Woolf

    27 min
  • Australian Pirate Party, and LHC restarted
    The Australian Pirate Party's Simon Frew explains how the party is for online civil liberties to Ian Woolf.
    Victoria Bond reports that the Large Hadron Collider didn't destroy the world,
    the brain has a moral centre that can be switched off with giant magnets,
    and the courts rule that human genes can't be patented.
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

    27 min
  • Glowing sperm and syphilis handshakes
    Aaron Cook talks glow in the dark sperm with Scott Pitnick
    Marc West and Victoria Bond demonstrate how to check for syphilis
    Iam Woolf discusses Man Flu
    Presented and produced by Victoria Bond, with technical help from Ian Woolf
    27 min
  • Beneath your feet, pharmacegemnomics
    Aaron Cooke asks Geophysicist Hrvoje Tkalcic whats happening inside the Earth,
    Ollie Barrand, Marc West and Ian Woolf discuss Pharmacogenomics and Gattaca,
    Ian Woolf and Aaron Cooke discuss forbidden words and the healing powers of marmite.
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
    27 min
  • Solar Gem, and Wolverine bones
    Ian Woolf interviews Khimji Vaghjiani of Solar Gem about affordable solar powered lighting,
    Marc West interviews Dr Chris Pettigrew about splicing metal to Wolverine's bones,
    and Marc's correlation of the week: are aetheists and liberals smarter than everyone else?
    Hosted by Marc West
    Produced by Marc West
    27 min
  • GAY MUMS, TELOMERES, TRANSSEXUAL CLOWNFISH
    Special International Women's Day edition!
    Victoria Bond talks about transsexuality in clownfish
    Catherine Beehag explains the science behind nobel-prize winning telomeres
    News by Victoria Bond and Catherine Beehag
    Presented by Catherine Beehag,
    Produced by Victoria Bond
    28 min

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