Ciguatera Videos

My brain rocket car is shown at 21 seconds to 34 seconds of the video. Rocketcar Day 11. Slow Motion Montage from sixty40 on Vimeo.

Natalie Rowland spoke to me at the Live Futures 2020 Festival at the College of Fine Arts in Paddington about the Live Local project. download MP3

I reasoned that karaoke therapy might help my fluent or "mild" aphasia, and a year after I had big improvements in my speech, the science was published explaining why it worked, and why joining a choir may help me and other people who've suffered "mild" aphasia even more. download MP3

MP3 download I spoke with designer Deborah Kneeshaw about how the creative thinking philosophy of design can be used to solve the world's problems. (This is the full version of the interview that was cut for size for Diffusion) Deborah regularly participates in the Foresight Innovation Sustainability Hothouse run by Future Journeys

I had a cup of hot chocolate in a coffee shop with Futurist Janine Cahill from Future Journeys, about how we're living in an age where the impossible is becoming possible. download MP3

Zombie Fish poison! Associate Professor Graham Nicholson from the department of molecular and medical biosciences in the faculty of science at the University of Technology, Sydney spoke with Ian Woolf about the tropical fish disease Ciguatera and the fish you eat to consume the poison. Download MP3

Transhumanism regards involuntary aspects of the human condition, such as disability, suffering, disease, aging, drudgery and death as unnecessary and undesirable. Transhumanists support the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities, not just to bring the disabled up to average, but to bring anyone above average. This introduction will give an overview of the major themes, the history and politics. This talk was given at Philorum at the Gaelic club on 6th May 2009. download MP3

MP3 We all have an interest in the future because its where we'll spend the rest of our lives. I spoke with Futurist Janine Cahill from Future Journeys.

Here's a podcast of my response to the New Scientist headlines about "How People Can Think Themselves Sick - how chronic fatigue syndromes are triggered by people's mindset". MP3

Play now Coal is too valuable to burn, because it is the feedstock of the chemical industry. Solar power is now as cheap as dirty coal, so why burn any? There are three pilot solar power stations in Australia, each using different technology, but all as cheap as dirty coal, and MUCH cheaper than any hypothetical "clean coal" could ever be. Solar power can save the coal industry if they act rationally. For video about the solar power stations have a look at the ABC Four Corners energy special, and they have good documentation about renewable energy in Australia

Play now The US military have trained bees to save lives on the Iraq battlefield.

Play now Imagine if semen contained mind-altering and addicting chemical signals that made you feel good! Suggestive research that the neurotransmitters are absorbed quickly and act on the brain for hours. My information came from email discussions with Gordon Gallup who wrote the chapter "The Psychobiology of Semen" in the book "Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty". Unstoppable Confidence - Seduction Auto-pilot - program your own brain - direct digital download

Play now The stuff we can't see is revealing itself by bending light from what we can see. Maybe there really is Dark matter?

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Play now Termites do your head in! They emit poisonous naphthalene gas to keep other insects away from them. The termite toxin can cause headaches and nausea in small doses. The neurotoxin leads to organ failure in extreme cases.

Play Now Liquid electricity may be the car fuel of the future. You can charge the liquid up with power, and then transport it by tanker to a filling station. Cars can empty their discharged liquid and refill with charged up liquid and drive using pollution-free electrical power. Pollution-producing petrol is replaced by elegant electricity.

Play now The Smart Semen-Triggered Vaginal Microbicidal Vehicle works a little like Vaginal Contraceptive Film, except that it also prevents AIDS.

Solar cells that are 8 times more efficient for half the cost, and lithium batteries to store 4 times more of the power they generate.

If some of your brain works in binary, is it more like a digital computer than we thought?

ID Card - is Big Brother stalking you? subscribe to Diffusion Diffusion identity card special edition Synthetic interview with Anna Johnston about privacy concerns by Anonymous Voice, Aras Vaichas speaks with Ian Woolf about RFID technologies, Interview with Professor Graham Greenleaf about Access and Cyberlaw by Anonymous Voice Who is Anonymous Voice? Can you catch the hidden messages masked in the music? Will the Access Card bill be passed into Identity Card legislation without any debate at all?