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Diffusion Science radio episodes

  • Grassroots OLPC and Martian red skies

    Martin Facini explores Mars with the Phoenix lander,
    Ian Woolf talks with Professor Barry Vercoe about the One Laptop Per Child Foundation in Australia,
    Is space exploration worth it? Discussion by Patrick Rubie, Martin Facini and Ian Woolf,
    Presented by Patrick Rubie,
    Produced by Ian Woolf.


    29 min
  • Brain cells and water wells

    Inside your brain with Muhsin Karim,
    Watching the Water: Interview by Amy Bullen with Clunies Ross Award winner Iven Mareels,
    News by Jacqui Hayes,
    - Panda's survive the Chinese Earthquake,
    - Interplanetary locust robots,
    - Bubonic plague's secret weakness
    Presented and Produced by Ian Woolf
    Music: "The Best Imitation of Myself by Ben Fold"

    29 min
  • 'Popular and polarising science'

    'Rock radar and solar cells' (The ATSE Clunies Ross Awards: part 1) - Amy Bullen interviews two award-winning scientists, David Noon and Stuart Wenham on their inventions
    'A tribute to David Attenborough' by Victoria Bond and Martin Facini
    Discussion forum on Richard Dawkins''Enemy of Reason'
    News by Ian Woolf
    - Safe sex science
    - Design your own phone

    Presented and Produced by Patrick Rubie

    Sample of 'It's a scientific fact' by Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans in outro

    29 min
  • Flores Hobbits and Stinging Jellyfish

    Amy Bullen and Chris Rehberg interview Professor Mike Morwood about the Hobbits of Flores,
    Lachlan Whatmore talks about the stinging Irukandji jellyfish of Australia,
    News by Ian Woolf,
    It takes two people to trick the masses,
    Solar electric cars for cities
    Presented and Produced by Ian Woolf
    Music: Upside Down by Jack Johnson from the Curious George soundtrack CD

    29 min
  • Global cool space engineers chocolate

    Ian Woolf looks at chocolate physiology,
    John August continues his battle with syphilis and the world,
    and Lachlan talks to space engineer George Graves.
    News by Patrick Rubie,
    Presented and produced by Lachlan Whatmore.

    28 min
  • Quolls and Quokka dreaming

    Almost extinct animals with Chris Rehberg,
    Lucid Dreamer Amy Bullen,
    News by Ian Woolf
    - peering phones
    - Chicken X prize
    - pig plastic
    Presented by Amy Bullen,
    Produced by Ian Woolf.
    This Ponderous by 2NU2

    29 min
  • Tasmanian Tiger bosses spy syphilis

    Tasmanian Tigers on the mainland by Chris Rehberg,
    Syphilis dose 2 by John August,
    Policing at work and school by Ian Woolf,
    News by Victoria Bond
    - mineral deficiency delayed evolution,
    - fertilisation fighting malaria,
    Presented and Produced by Ian Woolf

    29 min
  • Big pox big cats remotely lie

    John August gives us Syphilis,
    Chris Rehberg chases Singleton Big Cats,
    News by Patrick Rubie and Victoria Bond,
    - remote lie detection
    - two faced girl
    - spinal healing with nano-polymers
    - piezoelectric nano-fibres rub up some power

    Multilingual dyslexia and super-powerful lasers by Patrick Rubie,
    Presented by Victoria Bond,
    Produced by Ian Woolf

    28 min
  • Reducible Evolution Special

    Thermoregulation with Frank Seebacher interviewed by Jesse Silverman
    The irreducibly complex Michael Behe by Alex Jordan
    News by Jesse Silverman
    - life from space
    - hobbits
    - Ancient sea monsters
    - AIDS resistance
    - Antarctic giants
    Presented by Carla Avolio
    Produced by Ian Woolf
    We Come From Monkeys by Emerald Rose

    29 min
  • Silky spiders with wireless chips

    Fast, cheap and wireless by Ian Woolf
    Silky spidery secretions' by Lachlan Whatmore with discussion by Patrick Rubie, Ian Woolf and Victoria Bond
    News by Victoria Bond
    - bacteria fighting bacteria
    - iodine-deficient cavemen
    - cancer-killing viruses

    Presented by Patrick Rubie
    Produced by Patrick Rubie

    Songs:
    'Big Scary Monsters' by Sar Friedman
    'The Spider' by Flanders and Swan
    Sample of 'Technologic' by Daft Punk

    25 min

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