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The hunt for deep sea bioluminescence (and a giant squid)
Marine biologist Dr Edith Widder was inside a submersible searching for bioluminescence in the ocean depths when she saw a giant squid as big as a tw…
2 years, 7 months ago
The speech collector
Tony Wilson was always drawn to the world's great speeches. Then, without warning, he was called on to make the most difficult speech of his life (R)
2 years, 7 months ago
Champion surfer Jodie Cooper on the breaks that made her
How Jodie went from skateboarding in her home town of Albany to become a world surfing champion, frothing all the way.
When Jodie Cooper was growing u…
2 years, 7 months ago
Penny's odyssey to Greece and family
An unexpected DNA test result sent Penny Mackieson on a mission across the other side of the world, to find her real natural mother, and discover her…
2 years, 7 months ago
The caving time lord
Dr Kira Westaway is a geochronologist who places modern and ancient humans in context by dating things found in caves. For Kira, how we understand ou…
2 years, 7 months ago
The lucky accident of Sydney's Opera House
Helen Pitt on how the luminous shells of the Sydney Opera House nearly didn't get off the drawing board
2 years, 7 months ago
Lovemore's left hook
A chance encounter led Lovemore Ndou into his local boxing gym, and a lucky left hook became his ticket out of apartheid South Africa
2 years, 7 months ago
Silverchair's drummer grows up
Ben Gillies was a 15 year old drummer when Silverchair became a global sensation. After almost two decades of being a rock star, the band broke up, a…
2 years, 7 months ago
The psychopaths among us
Lawyer and author David Gillespie has been on a mission to understanding psychopaths after realising he might have worked with one
2 years, 7 months ago
The chef who changed the world: Josh Niland
Josh Niland on his mission to cook fish eyes, fish liver, and fish sperm to help revolutionise how we cook and eat fish
Chef Josh Niland is devoted to…
2 years, 7 months ago