
Matthew Crawford
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6 days ago |
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Claire Slattery |Matthew Crawford |David Le May
Gina Chick made her name as the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, but her story begins a long time before that. It involves unimaginable hardship, death grief, illness and injury. How has she learnt to sit with all that life has thrown at her, and remain joyful and true to herself, in the face of adversity? This event was recorded at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne, with thanks to Readings Books.
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2 months ago |
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Kim Jirik |Matthew Crawford |Rhiannon Brown
If you were to list the world's best bakers working today, Richard Hart's name would have to be right near the top. After honing his craft at big-name bakeries in California, he teamed up with the world-famous Noma to open Hart Bageri in Copenhagen. His skills with sourdough are so well-known, he was even namechecked on The Bear. Richard recently published his first book. It's called Richard Hart Bread.
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2 months ago |
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Claire Slattery |Matthew Crawford |David Le May
How many times have you checked your phone today? How many tabs are open in your web browser? Do you feel in control of your attention? In the digital age, attention is now a commodity. Can practices like meditation and mindfulness help us feel more free to focus on what really matters? This event was hosted at the Brunswick Ballroom by the Sophia Club in partnership with the University of Melbourne's Contemplative Studies Centre.
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2 months ago |
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Kim Jirik |Matthew Crawford |Rhiannon Brown
If you took the sodium chloride out of human history, you would have a very different and strangely flavourless tale to tell. Salt has historically been one of the world's most valuable commodities. Its discovery, extraction and commodification has shaped the story of humanity. So, let's take a trip from the test tube to the kitchen, to salt tolerant plants that could revolutionise agriculture. This is an episode of Blueprint for Living, originally broadcast on March 24, 2018.
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2 months ago |
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Claire Slattery |Matthew Crawford |David Le May
The Murray Darling Basin is the most important river system in Australia, and the most contested. What does it mean to live by those rivers, through the droughts, the floods, and the water politics that shape these communities? A beautiful and evocative history of the Murray Darling Basin, as told by people who live there. This speech was recorded at the History Council of Victoria's annual lecture at the State Library of Victoria on 14 November 2024.
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