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Meet Kiriti Rambhatla, CEO of Sydney startup Metakosmos, making space-suits and related technologies. Part 1.,
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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,
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From 2008: Dr Pascal Lee talks about NASA's long-term mission to send people to Mars,
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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,
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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,
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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work for patients, with new materials, and new techniques in their new company Sentonix.
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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.
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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.
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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
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and how they affect us, and his new book "Machines Behaving Badly" - part 1
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Associate Professor Jayashree Arcot talks about nutrition, super-foods and functional foods.
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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
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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
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'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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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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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,
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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,
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Water world discovered,
The Drake Equation,
The Silurian Hypothesis,
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The Drake Equation,
The Silurian Hypothesis,
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