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How does AI art software work? Ian Woolf attempts a clear explanation in plain English. News of AI software showing what your brain saw. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

Listen to Adrian Frenulovich talk about the joys and challengers of curating ancient computers, and their importance to our history. News of the energy breakthrough that wasn't. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

Listen to Adrian Franulovich talk about the history of Australian computing and the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa computer, at the Australian Computer Museum Society. News of good vibrations reversing aging. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

From 2010, Ian Woolf explains how Gregory Benford uses flies and artificial intelligence to slow ageing. News of Gummi hacking, chatbots argue on Twitter and weeds evolve. Presented by Marc West, Discussion from Charles Willock, Hosted by Marc West Produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

From 2010, why the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence has been doing it wrong! The discovery of an Earth-like planet 20 light years away, and high resolution tapes of the Moon landing recovered. Marc West, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf. Hosted by Marc West Produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

Prizes for science that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think, from the Annals of Improbable Research. Hosted by Marc Abrahams, edited by Ian Woolf Produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

Listen to tales of online scams, zapping mosquito bites, and sperm that can smell, in this episode from the 2014 archives. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

From 2009, the red dust storm hit Sydney, rats on twitter, and how smart are dogs? Fun science with Marc West and Ian Woolf. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

Join founder Kiriti Rambhalta on a tour of the Metakosmos Space suit facility in Sydney with host Ian Woolf. Listen to an in-person follow-up to last week's Zoom interview Produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

Meet Kiriti Rambhatla, CEO of Sydney startup Metakosmos, making space-suits and related technologies. Part 1., Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

From 2007: Professor Joe Silk explains what Dark Matter is, and why it matters, From 2008: Dr Pascal Lee talks about NASA's long-term mission to send people to Mars, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

Drones puppetting people in the metaverse, Dishbrain plays Pong by Ian Woolf, From 2007: Retocausality by Tim Baynes, Killer toys by a panel of Ian Woolf, Marc West, Lachlan Whatmore, Catherine Beehag, and Celine Steinfeld, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

A deep dive into the science of tardigrades - the tiny water bears or moss piglets that can withstand extremes of cold, heat, dryness, pressure, and vacuum, by going into suspended animation and then revitalising when its safe again - from whom we can learn ways to improve our own health. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying throug...

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 Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

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 Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

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 Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

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 Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion...

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 Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

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 poet...

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 Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

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 Support Diffusion by making a contribution Sup...

'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...

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 Wome...

Water world discovered, The Drake Equation, The Silurian Hypothesis, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links

Vaccine for hair loss, NASA postpones the Moon , Are Small Modular Nuclear Reactors the answer? Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying through affiliate links