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Spiders! [Flickr] iwoolf posted a photo: The Dark Side of Science at the Ultimo Science Festival Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cockroaches [Flickr] iwoolf posted a photo: The Dark Side of Science at the Ultimo Science Festival Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Training Coffins [Flickr] iwoolf posted a photo: The Dark Side of Science at the Ultimo Science Festival Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IMGP0381 [Flickr] iwoolf posted a photo: Derrick with hooks. He only decided to do this for the first time this night. The Dark Side of Science at the Ultimo Science Festival Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IMGP0380 [Flickr] iwoolf posted a photo: Tug of war with hooks. The Dark Side of Science at the Ultimo Science Festival Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My rocket powered brain in slow motion 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Natalie Rowland Living Locally 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paddle-pop flick-knife [Flickr] iwoolf posted a video: The Paddle-pop flick-knife in action! 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Karaoke Therapy 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Designer Deborah Kneeshaw talks about creative thinking 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Class Rooms The Australian government, whichever party is in power, funds private schools with public funds, but fails to fund public schools with private funds. The result is that public schools are seriously under-funded and many are using photocopies of texts because they can't afford to buy books. All new funding is for infrastructure only. Strangely, private schools get more public funding than public schools.This double-funding of private schools at the expense of public schools has been justifie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deborah Kneeshaw [Flickr] iwoolf posted a photo: Design Thinking Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We're living in an age where the impossible is becoming possible 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flying thingy at Barcamp Sydney 5 A remote controlled gyroscopically stabilised flying thingy, flying at the Australian Technology Park in Redfern for Barcamp Sydney 5. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Graham Nicholson explains Ciguatera 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introduction to Transhumanism 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Futurist Janine Cahill MP3We 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teen wankers caught on video Here are the video clips referred to in Assault by teen wankers This first guy is the one that came up to me from across the road trying unsuccessfully to provoke a fight while making violent threats: They were intimidated by the camera like vampires faced by a crucifix, so they sent their main neanderthal, who shoved us and threw a milk crate at us. Note the kid claiming his "rights" against being photographed in public while committing assault. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Scientist response podcast 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Cortie SCEP interview MP3 I spoke with Professor Michael Cortie about his research using lasers to zap gold nano-particles to kill cancer cells and parasites, at the University of Technology, Sydney. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Cortie SCEP interview MP3 I spoke with Professor Michael Cortie about his research using lasers to zap gold nano-particles to kill cancer cells and parasites, at the University of Technology, Sydney. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Communication Education Project I'm the Project Officer for the Science Communication Education Project in the Faculty of Science at the University of Technology, Sydney. I've recorded 11 radio interviews with cutting edge researchers at UTS as audio podcasts, and Shannon Jones has recorded 4 video interviews. The aim of the project is to stimulate first year science students to write a personal response writing assignment based on their favourite interview. By hearing good science communication in the interview, and by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Communication Education Project I'm the Project Officer for the Science Communication Education Project in the Faculty of Science at the University of Technology, Sydney. I've recorded 11 radio interviews with cutting edge researchers at UTS as audio podcasts, and Shannon Jones has recorded 4 video interviews. The aim of the project is to stimulate first year science students to write a personal response writing assignment based on their favourite interview. By hearing good science communication in the interview, and by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today show celebrates 2001 Back in 2001, the Today show promoted the re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey by filming science fiction fans giving movie reviews. The reviewers: Cat Sparks, Iain Triffit, Garfield Barnard, Stephanie Lennon, and me. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today show celebrates 2001 Back in 2001, the Today show promoted the re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey by filming science fiction fans giving movie reviews. The reviewers: Cat Sparks, Iain Triffit, Garfield Barnard, Stephanie Lennon, and me. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stilgherrian interview MP3 Stilgherrian is a survivor of the first dot com boom and sometime tech writer for Crikey.com. I spoke with him about the Australian government's plan to censor the internet. Read Stilgherrian's blog: Stilgherrian or follow him on twitter Electronic Frontiers Australia: No Clean Feed Electronic Frontiers Australia: Protecting and promoting online civil liberties Digital Liberty Coalition: No Censorship Twitter hastags: #nocleanfeed Laurel Papwoth: No Clean Feeds video Irene Graham: The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stilgherrian interview MP3 Stilgherrian is a survivor of the first dot com boom and sometime tech writer for Crikey.com. I spoke with him about the Australian government's plan to censor the internet. Read Stilgherrian's blog: Stilgherrian or follow him on twitter Electronic Frontiers Australia: No Clean Feed Electronic Frontiers Australia: Protecting and promoting online civil liberties Digital Liberty Coalition: No Censorship Twitter hastags: #nocleanfeed Laurel Papwoth: No Clean Feeds video Irene Graham: The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Braunstein's teleportation part 2 MP3 Continuing my conversation with Dr Samuel Brainstein about quantum teleportation, entanglement, encryption, eavesdropping, and true love. Dr Braunstein is Professor of Informatics at the University of Wales in Bangor, England. This is part two of a two part interview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Braunstein's teleportation part 2 MP3 Continuing my conversation with Dr Samuel Brainstein about quantum teleportation, entanglement, encryption, eavesdropping, and true love. Dr Braunstein is Professor of Informatics at the University of Wales in Bangor, England. This is part two of a two part interview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Braunstein's teleportation part 1 MP3 I spoke with Dr Samuel Braunstein about quantum teleportation, why there can never be two Captain Kirks, and how to teleport by fax. Dr Braunstein is Professor of Informatics at the University of Wales in Bangor, England. This is part one of a two part interview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Braunstein's teleportation part 1 MP3 I spoke with Dr Samuel Braunstein about quantum teleportation, why there can never be two Captain Kirks, and how to teleport by fax. Dr Braunstein is Professor of Informatics at the University of Wales in Bangor, England. This is part one of a two part interview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Lennon prints up solar power MP3 Brian Lennon has the last word from the Live Futures Festival, talking to Ian Woolf about solar power you can print, and the consequences of cheap, abundant energy around the world. This is part 3 of a 3 part interview from the Live Futures Festival in Newtown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Lennon prints up solar power MP3 Brian Lennon has the last word from the Live Futures Festival, talking to Ian Woolf about solar power you can print, and the consequences of cheap, abundant energy around the world. This is part 3 of a 3 part interview from the Live Futures Festival in Newtown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Lennon talks about veggy cars MP3 Brian Lennon speaks about his vegetable oil powered car and how he plans to make it solar powered, at the Live Futures Festival in Newtown. This is part 2 of a 3 part interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Lennon talks about veggy cars MP3 Brian Lennon speaks about his vegetable oil powered car and how he plans to make it solar powered, at the Live Futures Festival in Newtown. This is part 2 of a 3 part interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Lennon and the Fab Lab from the Live Futures Festival part 1 MP3 At the Live Futures Festival, I spoke with Brian Lennon about the Fab@home 3D printer/fabricator/rapid prototyper, the Fab Lab that can build anything, and solar power you can print at home. This is part 1 of a three part interview recorded live from the Live Futures Festival in Newtown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Lennon and the Fab Lab from the Live Futures Festival part 1 MP3 At the Live Futures Festival, I spoke with Brian Lennon about the Fab@home 3D printer/fabricator/rapid prototyper, the Fab Lab that can build anything, and solar power you can print at home. This is part 1 of a three part interview recorded live from the Live Futures Festival in Newtown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Postponing Doomsday At 5:30pm AEST, the Large Hadron Collider will be switched on and there will be a giant party in Bicentennial Park at the end of Glebe Point Road, to celebrate that we're still alive. However if you check out the source, the time-table for destruction doesn't match what's in the news. Protons have already been injected into the LHC. Today is the first time protons will have made a complete circuit. In October they will switch on the GRID, a super-fast network replacement for the internet. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Postponing Doomsday At 5:30pm AEST, the Large Hadron Collider will be switched on and there will be a giant party in Bicentennial Park at the end of Glebe Point Road, to celebrate that we're still alive. However if you check out the source, the time-table for destruction doesn't match what's in the news. Protons have already been injected into the LHC. Today is the first time protons will have made a complete circuit. In October they will switch on the GRID, a super-fast network replacement for the internet. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Stephen Graves CFS interview MP3 Dr Stephen Graves, Director of Hunter Area Pathology and the Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory spoke with me about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Conference held in Cambridge in July 2008. What is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? What are the causes, and what is it like to be struck down by the illness? Why is it still the invisible illness so many years after its discovery in the 1980s? The interview was broadcast on Diffusion Science Radio on 2SER on the 4th of August 2008 You can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Stephen Graves CFS interview MP3 Dr Stephen Graves, Director of Hunter Area Pathology and the Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory spoke with me about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Conference held in Cambridge in July 2008. What is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? What are the causes, and what is it like to be struck down by the illness? Why is it still the invisible illness so many years after its discovery in the 1980s? The interview was broadcast on Diffusion Science Radio on 2SER on the 4th of August 2008 You can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Watkins explains Appropedia MP3 Chris Watkins spoke to me about the Appropedia project to make information about sustainable technology freely available where-ever its needed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Watkins explains Appropedia MP3 Chris Watkins spoke to me about the Appropedia project to make information about sustainable technology freely available where-ever its needed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whose moon is it anyway? MP3 After 35 years of neglect, there a new race to the moon. A look at who is going, and why. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Professor Barry Vercoe MP3 I spoke with Professor Barry Vercoe of MIT Media Labs about the One Laptop Per Child Foundation at the Sydney Mechanic's School of the Arts. In the background you hear the delighted cries of people playing with the XO laptops. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Professor Barry Vercoe MP3 I spoke with Professor Barry Vercoe of MIT Media Labs about the One Laptop Per Child Foundation at the Sydney Mechanic's School of the Arts. In the background you hear the delighted cries of people playing with the XO laptops. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chocolate desire laid bare MP3 Are you chocolate desiring or chocolate indifferent? The reason lies in your guts. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goat Warriors and Uri Gellar MP3 Goat experiments by the British Navy and the US Army, and the link to Uri Geller through Jon Ronson's wonderful book "Men Who Stare At Goats". Story by Ian Woolf, questions by Patrick Rubie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goat Warriors and Uri Gellar MP3 Goat experiments by the British Navy and the US Army, and the link to Uri Geller through Jon Ronson's wonderful book Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RepRap Revolution MP3 Desktop-sized factories that can print any 3D design out of plastic, including the parts to make another 3D printer. Welcome to the world of the replicating rapid prototyping machine or RepRap. Anyone can have a factory! Disruptive technology, coming your way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RepRap Revolution MP3 Desktop-sized factories that can print any 3D design out of plastic, including the parts to make another 3D printer. Welcome to the world of the replicating rapid prototyping machine or RepRap. Anyone can have a factory! Disruptive technology, coming your way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Super fast wireless Get a DVD beamed into your phone in seconds! MP3 NICTA have invented a 5 gigabit per second wireless meshing network chip that will sell for only $10. Soon every gadget will talk with all its friends. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Super fast wireless Get a DVD beamed into your phone in seconds! MP3 NICTA have invented a 5 gigabit per second wireless meshing network chip that will sell for only $10. Soon every gadget will talk with all its friends. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chalk and talk no more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chalk and talk no more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gaming, aiding and training brains MP3 A game controller reads your mind, Make a circuit to entrain your brain and help you become a lucid dreamer, Use Memory Goggles to record, index and search what you've seen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gaming, aiding and training brains MP3 A game controller reads your mind, Make a circuit to entrain your brain and help you become a lucid dreamer, Use Memory Goggles to record, index and search what you've seen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocket Car Day X - Jumbo edition This was powered by the carbon dioxide from a fire extinguisher. It was the biggest and slowest car on the day! Rocket Car Day X was held in Sydney Steele Rd Marrickville, NSW, Australia. http://www.rocketcarday.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocket Car Day X - Jumbo edition This was powered by the carbon dioxide from a fire extinguisher. It was the biggest and slowest car on the day! Rocket Car Day X was held in Sydney Steele Rd Marrickville, NSW, Australia. http://www.rocketcarday.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lachstock interviewed Ian Woolf interviews Lachlan Hardy about freeing the net in Australia with Meraki wireless meshing routers. Sharing is caring! MP3 Read more on Lachlan's blog http://lachstock.com.au Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Internet goes sideways Pssst, wanna share some internet? If you like your internet cheap, fast, and out of control; then wireless meshing networks might be for you. MP3 Ian Woolf finds that if we all bring a pump and a pipe to the party, then the data can flow like beer. Plug in and turn on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robots driving in traffic MP3 I interview Dr Will Uther about his robots that drive cars in traffic. His team from the National ICT Australia, the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney, the University of Technology, Sydney, and the University of California, Berkeley are competing in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. This is a competition run by the American military for cars driving themselves in traffic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brain Scan Soldiers MP3 The US military are testing systems that bypass the soldier's judgement and act before he realizes that his subconscious has spotted a potential target. Cognitive Threat Warning Systems, will scan the soldier's brain as if he were just a zombie computer targeting system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beer power MP3 Clean electricity and clean water, made from beer. A pilot power plant has opened where microbes feeding on waste water from a brewery are making electricity as they clean the water. Waste not, want not! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Santa Claus Conspiracy MP3 The Santa Claus Conspiracy puzzled me, it was so blatant... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smart Dust Gets Legs MP3 Smart Dust made of robots 1 millimeter long with a cluster of sensors and radio networking are the ultimate surveillance tool. Now they have legs! 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Ted Berger has a device that takes analogue signals from the brain, converts them to digital, processes the signals, and then outputs in the brains own language to neurons on the other side. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solar saves Coal 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 spe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weaponized Bees Play now The US military have trained bees to save lives on the Iraq battlefield. 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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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Molecular Condoms Play now The Smart Semen-Triggered Vaginal Microbicidal Vehicle works a little like Vaginal Contraceptive Film, except that it also prevents AIDS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Super Solar Cells 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digital Brains? If some of your brain works in binary, is it more like a digital computer than we thought? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website National Identity Card references: Diffusion ID Card special podcast - http://www.diffusionradio.com/2007/03/id_card_is_big_brother_stalkin.html Updates International and General Campaigns and Issues Need for Identity? - Need for Privacy? Blogs and Commentary Australian Government Websites Technology Sites Business Issues Updates and developments: [Senate]:  Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee report is critical of many aspects of the Legislation (15th March ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website National Identity Card references: Diffusion ID Card special podcast - http://www.diffusionradio.com/2007/03/id_card_is_big_brother_stalkin.html Updates International and General Campaigns and Issues Need for Identity? - Need for Privacy? 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BeepCard are selling a radio microphone bug on a credit card, with a computer, memory, and rechargeable battery. Their RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) card allows anyone with the remote card reader to listen in on your conversations. The battery will be recharged whenever it's in range of a reader. References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Frequency_Identification http://www.beepcard.com/docs/ComTalk.pdf mirror http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/471386/rss/2463 http://sci ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The card that listens! BeepCard are selling a radio microphone bug on a credit card, with a computer, memory, and rechargeable battery. Their RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) card allows anyone with the remote card reader to listen in on your conversations. The battery will be recharged whenever it's in range of a reader. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio ID skim scam The Access Card Bill proposes to allow the computer on a card to act as a cash card for emergency relief as well as an ID card storing all your personal information. By an amazing coincidence, the "Pay Pass" digital cash card is being trialled in Australia this month by Mastercard. Its RFID. Radio Frequency IDentification allows people with card readers to access your information or cash remotely, without you having to remove the card from your wallet. Hackers have built devices that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colbert Reports on John Howard Stephen Colbert tips his hat AND wags his finger at John Howard Colbert Report 12th February 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sex , death and the Antechinus Play now Antechinus is a small Australian marsupial that has lots of sex, and then dies. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Duck's Quack Echoes I have a riddle for you, how can something NOT be true, be widely believed, and yet NOT be a myth? The widely distributed belief that a duck's quack doesn't echo has its basis in reality, and yet it isn't true. Ian Woolf once again shows us that things aren't always what they seem. The duck tape of the sitting duck disproving quackery can be found at the University of Salford Acoustic, Auditory and Video department website www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk "Its a Fact, Deal With That" by Sam Gre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sex and Vitamin C What is it that reduces stress and anxiety, and makes you sexier? What helps your heart, and makes you slimmer? Dr Brody has discovered the strange connection between vitamin C and sexual behaviour. Ian Woolf pops a vitamin pill and investigates. 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