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The physics and feeling of floating — why Angelica learnt to swim - ABC listen

2 days ago | abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Sarah Kanowski

Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis has achieved a lot in her young life. She is a social researcher at Western Sydney University, she has represented Australia at the United Nations, she advices groups like UNESCO and a couple of years ago she was awarded the NSW Premier's Youth Medal. But for her family, Angelica's greatest achievement is learning to swim as an adult.
From Manila to Sydney — how Loribelle found family, love and her art - ABC listen

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Sarah Kanowski |Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris

Loribelle Spirovski grew up in the Philippines, with her mum and her extended Filipino family. Her Serbian father, whom she had never met, was in Australia, driving taxis and waiting for the visa that would allow him to bring Loribelle and her mum to join him. Loribelle didn't meet her father until she was 7 years old, and when she saw him for the first time at Manila Airport, she was shocked by how hairy his arms were and the way he smelled just like she did.
The secret world of the human ear

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler

For Professor Kelvin Kong, the ear is our most beautiful organ. It's vital to how many of us understand each other, and how we understand ourselves. The Worimi man is the third doctor in his family, and is now an ENT surgeon at the forefront of medical innovation. He performs highly intricate lifesaving procedures, and also more simple medical interventions that are equally as impactful, because by tending to untreated ear disease in children, he can change the entire trajectory of their lives.
Encore: The poker-playing cardiologist

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Alice Moldovan |Richard Fidler

In 2018, Dr Bo Remenyi was made the Northern Territory’s Australian of the Year for her work as a paediatric cardiologist. But her path to receiving that honour, and to her work in remote communities, has been filled with unexpected twists and risks. After escaping communist Hungary as a child, she got her first job flipping burgers in a Townsville Hungary Jacks. From there, she put herself through medical school by cleaning the very lecture theatres in which she was studying.
Shaking—escaping the grip of a lifelong tremor - ABC listen

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler

Sonya Voumard was on the precipice of teen hood when her father suddenly and unexpectedly died. In the months following his death, Sonya developed a tremor in her right hand, not dissimilar to the shaking she sometimes noticed in her father when he was cutting the top off her boiled egg at breakfast. The tremor got worse as she got older, but working late nights as a dogged journalist, fuelled by coffee and nicotine, it almost became a badge of honour for Sonya.
Could you live forever? The neuroscience behind brain preservation, consciousness and death

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler

Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston is a neuroscientist at Monash University who is exploring challenging ideas about life and death. From adding a few decades onto a life span, to suspending the aging process altogether, and more radically, uploading a preserved brain and consciousness into an entirely different physical structure, Ariel's research is at the cutting edge of neuroscience.
Gus Worland on the men who made him and Australia's male suicide epidemic

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler

TV and radio host Gus Worland grew up with some deeply rooted ideas about what it meant to be a man and a good bloke. But two of the most important men to Gus departed his life in shocking and unexpected ways. The first was his father, who left the family home for reasons Gus didn't understand when he was just 10 years old. Then when Gus was an adult, the role model who had filled the gap left by his father also disappeared.
Encore: Brigitte and the seven peaks

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Sarah Kanowski

Brigitte Muir fell in love with the outdoors and adventure as a teenager in Belgium. Initially she was exhilarated by going caving, deep in the earth, and then rock-climbing, until she made her way closer and closer to the heavens and became a mountaineer. In her thirties Brigitte became fixated on a big dream - to climb the seven highest mountains on each of the seven continents.
David Whyte on writing poetry the world loves

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Sarah Kanowski

For David Whyte, the power of poetry lies in its unmatched ability to meditate and focus on what's right in front of us -- whether it's a mountain, a loved one, or our own reflection. David grew up amongst the moors and fields of West Yorkshire, with an English father and an Irish mother who had a gift for lyricism and language.
Surviving bombs and starvation on a Mediterranean island paradise

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Richard Fidler |Meggie Morris

When Linda Peek was growing up, her mother, Margaret, would tell her remarkable stories from her wartime childhood -- stories of survival, friendship and tragedy. Margaret had spent her most formative years on the island of Malta during World War Two. The Mediterranean island was not only an idyllic paradise, it was also a British stronghold in a highly strategic position, and Adolf Hitler wanted it.