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Diffusion Science is broadcast every week on 2SER 107.3 FM in Sydney, Australia.
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Diffusion Science radio Episodes - | Mars, Myopia, Mesoglea, Mildred Cohn | Lachlan Whatmore gets squishy on ya with immortal jellyfish.
Victoria Bond eulogises the Mars rovers,
Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf discuss new understandings about short-sightedness,
Ian Woolf and Pat Rubie collide with bread and hadrons
Lachlan Whatmore eulogises mighty biochemist Mildred Cohn.
Presented by Patrick Rubie,
Produced by Lachlan Whatmore,
and panelled by Patrick Rubie | Get at Short URL | Download Mars, Myopia, Mesoglea, Mildred Cohn | Play in Popup.
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| Primes, codes and entanglement | Prime numbers, secret messages and quantum teleportation!
Marc West explore prime numbers and speaks to Terrance Tao.
Ian Woolf and Marc West discuss Quantum technology - quantum entanglement, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation.
News by Marc West
-Mobile phones make you vague,
-relax for IVF,
-why we like drinks that fizz,
-batteries made from salty paper.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf. | Get at Short URL | Download Primes, codes and entanglement | Play in Popup.
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| Deadly worms and pig orgasms | "Worms worms worms" by Lachlan Whatmore
"Science Trivia" hosted by Victoria Bond. Contributors are Lachlan Whatmore, Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie
"The number 30" by Patrick Rubie
News by Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf
-Evolutionary Leap
-Hadron Collider
-Placebo Effects
-Global Melting
Music:
Tom Glazer - "What makes the weather"
"It's a Scientific Fact"
Presented by Lachlan Whatmore
Panelled by Ian Woolf
Produced by Patrick Rubie | Get at Short URL | Download Deadly worms and pig orgasms | Play in Popup.
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| Music and Viruses | Fighting HIV' Patrick Rubie interviews Andrew Low from the Centre for Excellence in Medical Research, the University of British Columbia about the newest weapons to fight HIV.
Lachlan Whatmore presents Part 2 of his tribute to Les Paul, honouring a man of musical genius
News by Patrick Rubie
- Faster Brains
- Bushwalking Invasion
Presented by Lachlan Whatmore
Produced by Patrick Rubie | Get at Short URL | Download Music and Viruses | Play in Popup.
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| Coffee and Guitar science | We get you up with the science of coffee, take you on a journey of musical genius with guitarist Les Paul, and generally squeeze so much science out of your stomach that you'll need a gastric bi-pass.
Lachlan Whatmore talks about the musical genius of Les Paul
Marc West tackles the science of coffee
Hosted by Victoria Bond, Panelled and Produced by Marc West.
The final song is "Dark Mathematics" by Emergency Calls (used with permission on podcast) | Get at Short URL | Download Coffee and Guitar science | Play in Popup.
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| Power, art and cocktails | Marc West interviews astronomical artist Jon Lomberg about sending art to aliens on the Voyager space probe,
The science of cocktails! Is there really such a thing? Marc West investigates at the Ultimo Science Festival with celebrity chef Manuel Terron,
Ian Woolf interviews Brian Lennon at the Live Futures festival about a power source that is cheap, clean and local - geothermal power from hot rocks under our feet, and the Emissions Trading Scheme - will it work?
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download Power, art and cocktails | Play in Popup.
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| Karaoke science, stock superstitions | Australian uranium, the weapons makers who own it, and the new weapons in our region by Ian Woolf,
Karaoke therapy helping people suffering mild aphasia to speak more clearly by Ian Woolf,
Superstition and the stock market by Marc West,
News by Kalvin Ng,
- sea levels to rise by up to 79 centimetres
- Touvalu goes for 100% green electricity
- Saturn has a longer day
- are women more detail oriented than men?
- swinging is more efficient
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download Karaoke science, stock superstitions | Play in Popup.
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| Wildlife, sperm, cricket and elections | Caitlin Howlett explores wildlife corridors,
Marc West looks for the correlations between cricket and weather,
Ian Woolf looks at a lack of randomness in the Iranian election statistics,
News by Caitlin Howlett
- Eco race,
- shrinking sheep,
- pulsars,
- black holes,
- improving sperm
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download Wildlife, sperm, cricket and elections | Play in Popup.
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| Old dust, biometrics, recycled condoms | Darren Osborne talks to Dr Henner Busemann from the University of
Manchester about dust older than the solar system.
Marc West talks to
Associate Professor Stephanie Schuckers from Clarkson University talks to Marc West about
identifying people through their biometrics.
And Marc West and
Victoria Bond tackle the modern topic of recycling condoms - can it be
done?
News by Victoria Bond
- fluorescent primates
- wooden plastic
Presented and produced by Marc West | Get at Short URL | Download Old dust, biometrics, recycled condoms | Play in Popup.
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| Economics and lithium in our water | 'Bad Economic Science' Marc West talks to Nick Davis from the World Economics Forum about what went wrong in the current 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 | Get at Short URL | Download Economics and lithium in our water | Play in Popup.
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| LOLcat censorship and Future Journeys | Futurist Janine Cahill explains to Ian Woolf how to listen to gentle whispers,
Google Guru Jim Stewart discusses the ACMA black-list of material censored in Australia,
Protesters puzzled by banning of funny cat pictures and witch-hunting,
Colin Jacobs from Electronic Frontiers Australia explains why Internet censorship is a political problem, not a technical problem.
News by Kalvin Ng
- underwater eruption
- self-healing cars
- Tiger ID
- teenage space balloon
Presented by Charles Willock,
Produced by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download LOLcat censorship and Future Journeys | Play in Popup.
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| Bats and sharks and CFS, correlated? | Nick Evershed interviews Dr. Lindy Lumsden about Pipistrelle bats near extinction on Christmas Island,
Ian Woolf gives his view of the New Scientist interview assertion that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is "almost all in the mind",
Marc West examines correlation and causation,
News by Jacqui Hayes
- Older parents statistically have less intelligent children
- Stem cell policy change
- DNA confirms Tsar's children died with the Tsar
Presented by Marc West,
Produced by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download Bats and sharks and CFS, correlated? | Play in Popup.
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| Gender, Curie, Franklin, and Carson | 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,
Produced by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download Gender, Curie, Franklin, and Carson | Play in Popup.
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| Space, babies and pregnant fish | Marc West talks to Bianca Nogrady from New Scientist Magazine about the last 3 unknown facts of our solar system.
Lachlan Whatmore pays a tribute to a special lady called Ruby and explains why babies are so warm.
Patrick Rubie will change the way you think about fish?forever
News by Patrick Rubie
- Migrating Planets
- Mutated HIV
- Bilirubin in plants
Presented by Lachlan Whatmore,
Produced by Patrick Rubie | Get at Short URL | Download Space, babies and pregnant fish | Play in Popup.
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| 2008 Kisses, tantrums and infections | For the last show of 2008, plenty of love, tears and infection spreading!
Patrick Rubie looks at the nice and the nasty side of mistletoe.
Victoria Bond and Jaime Leclerc quiz you on infectious diseases.
Ian Woolf tells a tale of eight-tentacled fury at the Sea Star Aquarium in Coburg, Germany.
And in our last news of 2008 Marc West reveals secrets of Santa!
Presented by Darren Osborne
Produced by Patrick Rubie
Panelled by Ian Woolf
The mistletoe: naughty or nice\? by Patrick Rubie
Otto the kranky octopus by Ian Woolf
Guess the infectious diseases with Victoria Bond and Jamie Leclerc
News by Marc West ? Infectious Happiness and secrets of Santa | Get at Short URL | Download 2008 Kisses, tantrums and infections | Play in Popup.
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| Maths, hot leaves, and body swapping | Marc West talks with Jamos McAlister and Marcus Findlay about teaching kids that "calculations are the spelling of maths, not the story",
Ian Woolf talks to Dr Andrea Leigh at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney about the science of hot leaves,
News by Kalvin Ng and Monica Sharma,
- body swapping
- software to make you statistically beautiful,
- heart attacks prevent heart attacks,
Ian Woolf rallies the Internet censorship protest around Australia on December 13th 2008
Presented by Kalvin Ng, and produced by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download Maths, hot leaves, and body swapping | Play in Popup.
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| Parasite Wisdom, warming, space sugar | News by Marc West
- global warming and the next ice age,
- wine's bubbles can track the carbon dioxide from fossil fuels,
- dating glaciers by atomic bomb residue,
- wind farms may create weather,
- celestial smiley face
Ian Woolf talks parasite wisdom with Professor John Dalton, director of the Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases, UTS, who researches how to exploit parasite's knowledge of our immune system to cure diseases.
Caitlin Howlett tell us about sugar in space, which may point at life, and how water is a greenhouse gas.
Ian Woolf reports on solar powered sea slugs on the sea floor that can make food from sunlight.
Monica Sharma updates us on the fate of the spiders in space, and how a brain implant is giving a paralysed man the power of speech,
Caitlin Howlett reports on how turtles evolved their shells,
Presented by Monica Sharma, produced by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download Parasite Wisdom, warming, space sugar | Play in Popup.
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| Cells, Cycling, and fake holograms | PhD student Phoebe Peters talks with Ian Woolf about how life itself really works and how cells reproduce.
Cyling scientist Chris Lauf describes his 7 month science education adventure around Queensland to Caitlin Howlett.
Cart washes with Kalvin Ng,
Spiders and butterflys in space by Monica Sharma,
Global warming prevents an Ice Age by Patrick Rubie,
and CNN and Telstra "holograms" with Ian Woolf,
Presented by Caitlin Howlett, and produced by Ian Woolf. | Get at Short URL | Download Cells, Cycling, and fake holograms | Play in Popup.
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| Isotopic water, PhD dances, bird flu | Associate Professor Kendal McGuffie from the Physics department at UTS, tells Ian Woolf about tracking the movement of water by weight to find out how forests use water and effect the climate.
Marc West phones Dr Christopher Pettigrew from Cork University in Ireland to find out how to apply for the American Association for the Advancement of Science PhD interprative dance competition. Kalvin Ng bring us the latest news about bird flu. Presented by Kalvin Ng and produced by Ian Woolf. | Get at Short URL | Download Isotopic water, PhD dances, bird flu | Play in Popup.
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| Bleaching coral and androids | Ian Woolf speaks with Peter Ralph about global warming modelling, from coral bleaching to Antarctic algae,
Patrick Rubie examines the issue, are robots better than androids? R2D2 or CP30?
News by Victoria Bond, read by Dean Procter:
- Personal genetic screening
- Mothballs and life
- LHC melts down
- blindness cured by gene therapy
- human clones in Sydney
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf with technical support from Victoria Bond | Get at Short URL | Download Bleaching coral and androids | Play in Popup.
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| Blood and Space Volcanoes | Victoria Bond tells us all about blood and the history of blood transfusions,
Ian Woolf interviews Graziella Caprarelli, Space Scientist for the Department of Environmental Sciences at University of Technology Sydney about volcanoes in space,
the latest scientific news, from Cubans in space to health-conscious computer geeks reviewed
by Ian Woolf, Patrick Rubie and Sam Conyngham
Presented and produced by Patrick Rubie | Get at Short URL | Download Blood and Space Volcanoes | Play in Popup.
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| Conspiracy and LHC | The Large Hadron Collider switch-on discussed by Victoria Bond, Patrick Rubie, and Ian Woolf,
Jason Heimaster brings a critical eye to Conspiracy Theories,
News by Victoria Bond
- familiarity breeds contempt
- gentler needles from mosquitoes,
- listener auto-complete sentences
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf, with technical support from Patrick Rubie. | Get at Short URL | Download Conspiracy and LHC | Play in Popup.
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| Steam work and giant wallabies | Lachlan Whatmore puts steam to work,
Jacqui Hayes and Caitlin Howlett review the week in science
- happiness science,
- giant wallabies in Tasmania
- confirmation that contraceptive pills reverse attraction
- vaccination against alcoholic pleasure
Amy Bullen examines the ultimate cheating drug - the placebo,
News by Ian Woolf
- synthetic telepathy
- anti-aging drugs keep your cells clean
- chilli heat not just an illusion
- cannabis and opium to prevent addiction
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download Steam work and giant wallabies | Play in Popup.
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| Invisible illness and exploding spacecraft | Ian Woolf reports the latest in the war on aging, the Live Futures Festival to be held simultaneously in Newtown and Second Life on August 17th, and The doomed attempt of the commercial SpaceX Falcon 1 spacecraft to launch over the weekend. Dr Stephen Graves talks to Ian about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Conference in Cambridge. 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 1980's?Presented and Produced by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download Invisible illness and exploding spacecraft | Play in Popup.
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| Vaccination and Autism? | Martin Faccini investigates the controversy over whether the Mumps Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination causes austism in children,Panel discussion of vaccination as a civil liberty issue by Martin Faccini and Ian Woolf,News by Ian Woolf, - Viagra for depressed women - lasers for youth - urine on your mindProduced and Presented by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download Vaccination and Autism? | Play in Popup.
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| BioUtopia and draft Garnaut | Heading towards a BioUtopia by Richard Hindmarsh, reviewed by Muhsin Karim,Panel discussion of Ross Garnaut's draft report on climate change for the Australian government by Lachlan Whatmore, Patrick Rubie, Vicky Saunders, Adrian Saunders, and Ian Woolf,News by Ian Woolf - Chimps play to their audience, - Real snail mail, - plastic conductors, - magic half-time oranges,Presented by Lachlan Whatmore,Produced by Ian Woolf | Get at Short URL | Download BioUtopia and draft Garnaut | Play in Popup.
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| '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 FaciniDiscussion forum on Richard Dawkins''Enemy of Reason'News by Ian Woolf- Safe sex science- Design your own phone Presented and Produced by Patrick RubieSample of 'It's a scientific fact' by Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans in outro | Get at Short URL | Download 'Popular and polarising science' | Play in Popup.
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| War goats, rat studs, and smart beds | Goat sacrifices of the military by Ian Woolf,
Wired Beds by Tilly Boleyn and Evan Shapiro,
Junk DNA points the way by Patrick Rubie,
Female rats prefer males with recent sexual experience by Patrick Rubie,
Jacqui Hayes interviews Chris Lauf of the Cycling Scientists and their travelling energy show,
http://www.cyclingscientists.com
Presented by Patrick Rubie,
Produced by Ian Woolf. | Get at Short URL | Download War goats, rat studs, and smart beds | Play in Popup.
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| Zombie Sex Change Lizard Medical Myth | Free will or zombie-hood explored by Amy Bullen,
Medical myths dispelled by Michelle Kovacevic,
Hot sex changing lizards get cool with Jacqui Hayes,
Michelle Kovacevic, Amy Bullen, and Patrick Rubie.
News by Patrick Rubie:
- Virgin Galactic spaceship 2,
- Upsizing dimensions with Artificial Intelligence,
- Searching and rewarding the searching and rewarding area of the brain
- Aztecs sacrificed young boys
Presented by Jacqui Hayes,
Produced by Ian Woolf. | Get at Short URL | Download Zombie Sex Change Lizard Medical Myth | Play in Popup.
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| Robot Love, Nuclear Power, Safe? | A Diffusion Science Nuclear Special (Part II).
Instead of looking only at CO2, we look at the
other important issues surrounding nuclear power
generation. This week: the risks of proliferation.
Special Guests Dr Sue Wareham OAM of the Medical
Association for the Prevention of War, and A/Prof
Tilman Ruff, Australian Chair of the International
Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons talk with
Charles Willock about nuclear proliferation.
Jaroon Descartes is Jacqui Pfeffer's Special Guest
in Part II of "Relationships with Robots".
Presented by: Lachlan Whatmore
News: Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf
Panelled by: Ian Woolf
Produced by Charles Willock and Ian Woolf
Musical Clips:
Randy Newman: Political Science ("Let's drop the big one now")
Tom Lehrer: That Was The Year That Was ("Who's_Next?"). | Get at Short URL | Download Robot Love, Nuclear Power, Safe? | Play in Popup.
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| Nuclear Waste: Safe for 240,000 years? | A Diffusion Science Nuclear Special. We look at the breakdown of
nuclear waste storage materials with time, and the problems
associated with cleanup of the Maralinga nuclear test site.
Dr Ian Farnan, University of Cambridge, talks to Charles Willock about
possibly significant errors in estimates of nuclear waste storage times.
Alan Parkinson, nuclear engineer, talks with Charles Willock about
the mishandling of nuclear waste at Maralinga.
Presented by: Emily Fearn
Panelled by: Celine Steinfeld
Produced by Charles Willock and Ian Woolf
assisted by Patrick Rubie
Music:
"The Elements" Tom Lehrer/Sir Arthur Sullivan
"It's a scientific fact" Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans
(by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer) | Get at Short URL | Download Nuclear Waste: Safe for 240,000 years? | Play in Popup.
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| Carbon Praise, Internet Goes Sideways | Wonderful Carbon by Lachlan Whatmore,
Meshing the Internet by Ian Woolf,
News by Patrick Rubie:
- Space weather
- Microwaved plastic
- Colour evolution
- Artificial skin
- Giant penguins
Presented by Charles Willock,
Produced by Ian Woolf.
Music: Carbon is a Girl's Best Friend by Lynda Williams The Physics Chanteuse - from her Cosmic Cabaret album,
http://www.scientainment.com/songs.html
DJ Ted Stevens Techno Remix: "A Series of Tubes" by 13tongimp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtOoQFa5ug8 | Get at Short URL | Download Carbon Praise, Internet Goes Sideways | Play in Popup.
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| Oil free, Low fat cows, Green goes red | Play in Popup. | Darren Osborne interviews Dr David Lamb about Fuels of the Future,
Tilly Boleyn and Vanessa Gardoz discuss:
- Workchoice treadmills,
- Nominative determinism,
- lonely albatross,
- red-stained windmills,
News by Erin passmore and Ed Pollitt,
- Energetic astronomy,
- Black holes,
- Wood fired reverse speakers for alternative energy,
- Low fat cows
Presented by Ed Pollitt,
Produced by Ian Woolf |
 to send to friends | Download Oil free, Low fat cows, Green goes red
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| Cloned and Dressed for Success | This week's Diffusion casts aside vanity and looks at how healthy those belts, braces and bras really are when we try to dress up. The beer drinking scientists ask your opinion on cloning, life in general and the appeal of your own mini-me. Plus in Diffusion News, we look at an insect which has rediscovered the joys of sex after millions of years of celibacy.
Presented by Emily Fearn. "Dressed for Success" and "Eye Colour" by Kachina Allen, "The Beer Drinking Scientists: Cloning" by Marc West and Darren Osborne, News by Patrick Rubie. Panelled by Celine Steinfeld. Produced by Celine Steinfeld and Patrick Rubie. | Get at Short URL | Download Cloned and Dressed for Success | Play in Popup.
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| Solar saves coal, Green your home | Coal is too valuable to burn, by Ian Woolf,
Angus Kell explains water and energy efficient home renovation to Patrick Rubie, Mark West shares his election fever,
Presented by Jacqueline Hayes,
Produced by Ian Woolf, with technical support by Tilly Boleyn.
Music:
Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)
by They Might Be Giants (Severe Tire Damage Album - Restless Records)
Stretched Out and Rollin by Pat Webb (http://www.archive.org/details/PatWebbStretchedOutandRollin) | Get at Short URL | Download Solar saves coal, Green your home | Play in Popup.
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