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Das V&A Museum (Victoria & Albert Museum) in London ist nicht nur ein phantastisches Gebäude mit vielen besonderen Themen, sondern auch bekannt dafür, hervorratende Modegeschichtliche Sonderausstellungen zu machen. Unvergessen: Dior Dream Dresses, oder Balenciaga Shaping Fashion. Wir waren in der Ausstellung: Gabrielle Chanel Fashion Manifesto und plaudern ein wenig fachlich darüber. Wer genau hinhört, hört immer mal wieder die Londoner U-Bahn durch den Ton rauschen. Ich bitte das zu entschuldigen: Wir wollten unbedingt sofort nach der Ausstellung die Aufzeichnung machen, um die Eindrücke frisch transportieren zu können und haben dies ergo in Kauf genommen, weil es keine andere Location zum Aufzeichnen gab. Danke :-)

This week on our Summer Series Claire speaks to Dr Kylie Cairns all about dingoes, and her groundbreaking research using new genetic tools that has changed the way we understand the lineage of dingoes, as well as discovering endangered dragons with Jo Sumners from Museum Victoria.

If you've enjoyed delving into museums with our celebrity guests on Meet Me at the Museum, then our new spin-off show, Meet You at the Museum, should be right up your street, as we get the lowdown from museum visitors themselves. Join host JP Devlin as he explores the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and hears fascinating first-hand stories from visitors about the important and surprising role the museum plays in their lives, as a space of solace, inspiration and learning.National Art Pass gives you great discounts at hundreds of museums, galleries and historic houses across the UK, while at the same time raising money to support them.https://www.artfund.org/national-art-pass Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Caroline Williamson is a poet and editor. She was born in London, and worked there and in Beijing as a teacher, before turning her hand to editing academic books, museum publications, and a campaigning anti-nuclear magazine. She moved to Melbourne with her Australian partner, where she has worked at Lonely Planet, Museum Victoria and Melbourne University Publishing. Her poems have been published in journals, including Overland, Meanjin, Heat, Rabbit and Cordite, in several Newcastle Prize anthologies, and in Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry (ed. Bonnie Cassidy and Jessica Wilkinson). Her essay, 'Working Methods: Painting, Poetry and the difficulty of Barbara Guest', based on her masters minor thesis, was published in Jacket magazine #36. Her PhD in creative writing (Monash 2016) examined some of the ways that poets have attempted to deal with climate change in their work, and included a verse narrative dealing with the lives of her coal-mining ancestors in Wales, in the context of what we now know about the damage done by burning fossil fuels. She won the 2014 A. D. Hope prize for the best postgraduate essay presented at the conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, for 'Beyond Generation Green: Jill Jones and the Ecopoetic Process'. Her debut collection of poetry, Time Machines, is published by Vagabond Press.   Picture: Di CousensProduction and Interview: Tina Giannoukos

Chris (along with the rest of us) surfs waves of gravity so long they take a galaxy sized detector to measure, and Claire talks discovering endangered dragons with Jo Sumners form Museum Victoria

「开小差」的第 11 期节目，我们邀请了好设计士多的创始人——Gary（陈伟嘉）。本期声音：阿正、Gary好设计士多是广州的一家“大隐隐于市”的中古家具店，藏匿于某个批发市场里。巧合的是，它就在 Steppy 办公室的楼上。酒香不怕巷子深，好设计士多是许多中古家具爱好者热衷的打卡地。中世纪摩登流派是这家店的主轴，Dieter Rams、Eames 夫妇的原版作品都在这儿，走进店内，就好像在逛家具作品集。创始人 Gary 的身份有很多很多，是设计师、也推出过服饰品牌、还出版过网络杂志，甚至做过电台、公关、媒体、活动策划等等。这次我们聊了年轻时的职业选择，斜杠青年的养成之旅，当然还有家具设计，以及让 Gary 痴迷、甚至流泪的上世纪末流行文化。 Timeline：06:04 大学兼职，一不小心当上总监18:50 什么家具风格能让室内设计师如此上瘾？29:13 走火入魔？！收藏超 100 件 Dieter Rams 的作品40:33 诞生快 20 年的 Monster KaR（怪兽阿佧），什么来头？51:53 英伦摇滚死忠粉，在现场直接泪目59:02 多重身份不重要，要记得归于自己Shownote：Charles&Ray Eames：指的是 Charles Eames 和妻子 Ray Eames，他们被誉为 20 世纪最具影响力的设计师夫妇。其卓越的设计囊括了家具、摄影、建筑等领域，为现代建筑和家具的发展做出了重大的历史贡献。LA CHAISE by Charles and Ray Eames：V&A Museum：Victoria and Albert Museum，位于英国伦敦的工艺美术、装置及应用艺术的博物馆，成立于 1852 年。欧阳应霁：自香港理工大学设计系获取荣誉学士及哲学硕士以来，长期对现代家居生活及建筑设计潮流观察研究，大量撰写相关评论推介文章，发表于大陆港台报章杂志。节目中 Gary 提到的书，是《设计私生活》。MCM：Mid-Century Modern 的缩写，一般指上世纪中期北欧或者美国的一些摩登设计风格的家具。Hans J. Wegner：现代家具史上无法绕开的姓名，丹麦著名建筑师和家具设计师，一生设计超过500款椅子，代表作有中国椅、孔雀椅、贝壳椅等等。Dieter Rams：著名德国工业设计师，从 23 岁开始就在博朗开启了他的传奇设计生涯，其主张Less, but better 的设计风格和理念对后世产生了深远的影响。“白雪公主的棺材”by Dieter Rams：Jonathan Ive：曾任苹果公司的首席设计师，是许多苹果公司产品的主要设计者，包括Macbook Pro、iMac、Macbook Air、iPod、iPod touch、iPhone 和 iPad 等等。Alva Noto：德国知名音乐家和视觉艺术家，曾与坂本龙一合作推出过数张音乐作品。Britpop：英式摇滚，一种另类摇滚的类型，源自于英国九零年代初期的独立音乐圈。Radiohead：1985 年成立的英国摇滚乐队，多次获得格莱美奖项，2019 年入驻第 34 届美国摇滚名人堂。BGM：等圣诞 - Monster KaR东京初恋限定(Ft.Yanlo & Jannie Kyo) - Monster KaR / Yanlo / Jannie Kyo最后也欢迎大家搜索微信公众号：Steppy潮流周志，关注我们的文字内容。*好设计士多：营业时间为周六、日上午 10 点至下午 6 点（需购票提前预约，微信预约：Lostdesign），地址为广州市海珠区南泰路168号联星创意园2号楼726室。

Grace speaks with Catherine Simmonds of Act in Connection, the artistic director of the film 'Forget the Stereotypes' a collection of rich personal stories of international students, showing at Melbourne's Immigration Museum. We hear the creative process and the story's message which is a more diversified experience of International Students that is often presented in the media.  Watch the film trailer HERE then head down to Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders Street, anytime from 10am to 5pm. Students will have free entry whereas for others, do go purchase your ticket through Museum Victoria now.  We revisit excerpts from the panel discussion called "Don't Contaminate the Oceans with Radioactivity!" organized by the Citizens' Conference to Condemn Further Pollution of the Ocean (KOREUMI) in response to the announcement by the Japanese government to discharge nuclear waste from the Fukushima Daiichi Plant into the Pacific Ocean. A history in repeat? The panel featured the voices of people around the Pacific Rim whose livelihoods depend on the ocean and continue to be impacted by radioactive industries, including TEPCO's approach to its responsibility to the Fukushima community. Chiyo Oda is a member of the Fuku-shima civil environmental protection organisation and Dr Arjun Makhijani is President of the Institute for Energy & Environment Research.   Claudia speaks with Mick Cummins, winner of the prize for unpublished manuscript in the Victorian Premier's Literature Prize. Mick's manuscript “One Divine Night” is described as a gritty and compelling work exploring homelessness, independence and the ties that bind on the streets of Melbourne. Subscriber Drive is on NOW! By subscribing, you're helping us to remain independent, free of commercials and corporate influence. Renew your subscription or sign up as a subscriber HERE. You could also call 03 9419 8377 during business hours (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm).   Music:Telephone – Eastern Arrernte Band Colours – Jessica Wishart Don't Explain – Kate Vigo  

She's spent years working with children and animals (a combination many of us would steer clear of) and yet Gaye Hamilton says the transferable skills gained in secondary science education and zoo management paved the way for her varied and fascinating career and board journey. “Children and animals are equally unpredictable but also rewarding when you get the chance to stick with it,” Gaye tells Claire in this podcast. Today Gaye is Deputy Chancellor at Victoria University, Chair of the Western Bulldogs Community Foundation board and board member of Western Chances, a not-for-profit that helps young people in western Melbourne who are facing financial barriers achieve their potential. But Gaye started her professional career as a high school teacher before joining the Zoo Education Service, working at Melbourne Zoo. She then went on to become Director of Werribee Open Range Zoo before moving to Museum Victoria as Director of Scienceworks in the mid-90s, redeveloping the museum and building and opening the new Melbourne Planetarium. In 2002, Gaye became Director of Museum Operations with Museum Victoria, overseeing daily operations of Scienceworks, Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum and the Royal Exhibition Building, the position she retired from at the end of 2004. In the 1990s Gaye joined her first board with the Gould League of Victoria. There followed over the next 30 years board appointments where, as a trusted member of the western Melbourne community, Gaye has been able to indulge her passions for sport, education and the environment. This has included positions on the Old Treasury Building Committee of Management, the Queen Victoria Women's Centre Trust, the People and Parks Foundation board, the Western Bulldogs Football Club Board, the Zoos Victoria Board, the State Sports Centres Trust, the Council of Victoria University and most recently the Western Chances board and Chair of the Western Bulldogs Football Club Community Foundation board. As she tells Claire: “It's been quite the rollercoaster.”   LinkedIn: Gaye Hamilton | Claire Braund (host) Further Information:  WOB membership, events & services, please visit our website. To receive our weekly newsletter, subscribe to WOB as a Basic Member (free). Join as a Full Member for just for full access to our Board Vacancies, WOBShare (our online member platform) and more.

Are Shadows and Culture Inextricably Linked? © 2020 Vol.1 ISBN 978-976-96579-0-8 Podcast Ostensibly, culture and shadows are as old as Methuselah.The differing and sometimes conflicting views of this narrative is that it is just what is meant by Culture and Shadows. At the out set, this posited theory culture and shadows appears to be an essential part of conflict and conflict resolution. A close up detail view shows that culture and shadows are delicate and precise and to difficult to analyse but they are intertwined. And there is no denying the fact that there are everywhere, "everyone carries a shadow” Jung wrote, “ everyone has a culture and the less shadow is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is"according to Jung. My analysis of Jung’s theory suggest that there seems to be a symbiotic relationship existing between Culture and Shadows, and they are everywhere,"everyone carries a shadow," Jung wrote, "and the less they are embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is” Culture and Shadows combined makes them inseparably linked. And if Culture and Shadows go unnoticed this is contingent on our cognition and cognitive lens. Works Cited"Aborigines Protection Act of 1886". Museum Victoria, Australia."Burmese Language Dictionary & Translation (search for caste)"."Indigenous Australians: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people". Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2019."Quick Change Artistry"."Shadowgraphy - Magicpedia". www.geniimagazine.com.Beddard 1892, p. 122.Beddard 1892, p. 87.Bell. "Art Bell - Shadow People". Archived from the original on September 25, 2001. Retrieved 3 October 2014.Forbes 2009, p. 77.Heidi Hollis (October 1, 2001). The Secret War: The Heavens Speak of the Battle. iUniverse. ISBN 9780595203314.http://www.weatherscapes.com/album.php?cat=optics&subcat=twilight_wedgeLi, Geng (2014). "Gnomons in Ancient China". In Ruggles, Clive (ed.). Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy. Springer New York (published July 7, 2014). p. 2095. ISBN 978-1-4614-6141-8.Poulton 1890, p. Fold-out after p. 339.Rothenberg 2011, pp. 132–133.The Art of Hand Shadows by Albert AlmozninoYoung, Robert J C (1995). Colonial desire: hybridity in theory, culture, and race. Routledge. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-415-05374-7.Young-Eisendrath, P. and T. Dawson. 1997. The Cambridge Companion to Jung. Cambridge University Press. p. 319.γνώμων. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project. "Burmese women who took Indians". Burma Press Abstract. Seq-than Journal. 5 December 1940. (IOR L/R/5/207)."Heidi Hollis - Guests". Coast to Coast AM. Retrieved 2016-01-12. "NHS Choices, Editorial Style Guide V2.1" (PDF). NHS Choices."Shadow Cabinet: Glossary". UK Parliament. Retrieved 22 September 2012."Shadow People & the "Hat Man"". Coast to Coast AM. 2008-03-07. Retrieved 2013-04-25."The Half Caste". Boston News. February 17, 1904.A.O. Neville (September 1951). "The Half-Caste in Australia. By A. O . Ncville, Esy., Former Commissioner of Native Affairs for Western Austral-ia1". Mankind. 4 (7): 274–290. doi:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1951.tb00251.xAboriginal timeline (1900 - 1969)". Creative Spirits NGO. Archived from the original on 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2012-06-02.Ahlquist, Diane (2007). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Life After Death. USA: Penguin Group. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-59257-651-7.Akenine-Mo ̈ller, Tomas; Haines, Eric; Hoffman, Naty (2018-08-06). Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-351-81615-1.Andres Sanina CS, Brian C. Lovella: Shadow detection: A survey and comparative evSupport the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)

Nadya Tkachenko talks about Museum Victoria's program for at-home education; Russel Holmesby discuss his new book The Death of Fitzroy Football Club; the team discuss which type of Iso activity they are; Daniel reviews his recent food experiences, and Sarah re-lives her childhood lasagna overload; Simon Hinkley sheds light on dancing bees for 'Feature Creatures'; I spy with my little eye: Window Edition; Lyndelle Wilkinson chats about the new onlline series Mint Condition; and lastly, the team rounds up the week with a spooky Mother's Day chat. With presenters Sarah Smith, Daniel Burt, and Geraldine Hickey.

In his April chapter of Cabin Boy Diaries, Brett talks about the Plimsoll Line, a vessel marking which has saved thousands of sailors from a watery grave, and has had some controversy to make it legislation. We'll catch up with Mark Rodrigue from Parks Victoria about some plans coming up for this year's 'Sharing the Love' gathering of coastal community advocates from all over Victoria.We’ll speak with James Rule from Monash University and Museum Victoria about an amazing discovery made back in 1998 by a beachcomber in Portland - an interesting looking find turned out to be an ancient seal tooth that has changed our understanding of how seals evolved in southern Australia, and what might lie ahead if sea levels rise.And Fam looks at how to stay connected to the ocean when you’re in lockdown.

J'ai rencontré Sigolène dans une soupe populaire dont elle était l'organisatrice. En passant à côté de moi, j'entends qu'elle est allée à l'école pour la première fois en classe de 4ème. Cela m'a intrigué et j'ai voulu en savoir plus sur cette femme qui, au moment de l'enregistrement en 2017, est âgée de 74 ans. image : Museum Victoria par Unsplash Accompagnement musical : Page Blanche de Matt DeHarp sur l'album Morning Songs

The either / oar sailboat docked at MPavilion for a special Friday sunset series, with DJs and discussion. Listen back to our panel discussing the deep relationship we have with ‘place’ and exploring how place is simultaneously reconciling the past, the present and the future. Consider what is it that ties you to place, and how that relationship has changed with time. Unravelling the knots of a fishing net, our panellists untie how our experiences, ideas, memories and feelings come together to tie us to place. Panelists were Isobel Morphy-Walsh, Senior Koorie Programs Officer and curator Museum Victoria, and Janet Bolitho, Former City of Port Phillip Councillor and Mayor and curator of Port Places. either / oar is an urban activation project that utilises an old wooden sailing boat to tell the story of place, its past, present and future. With the boat retrofitted to operate as a pop-up bar, either / oar aims to activate under-utilised, abandoned or overlooked places in our fast changing city.

Dr Shane, Dr Ailie, Dr Krystal and Dr Linden are in the studio for this episode. In the news segment they cover contrails effect at lower altitude, critical thinking when reviewing a cancer study and a new species of dinosaur.First guest: Dermot Henry, Head of Science, Museum Victoria discusses how the Directors/CEOs of Australia’s leading natural history museums today issued a joint statement in support of increased funding and co-ordinated national action to address the impacts of climate change on the nation’s biodiversity following the bushfires which ravaged the continent over the past few months. Second guest: Dr Aaron Elbourne, RMIT University, talks about antibiotic resistance and the future devastating projections that could cause around 10 million deaths per annum by 2050. Also how his team is investigating the use of magneto-responsive gallium based liquid metal (LM) droplets as a new-class of anti-biofilm materials.Third guest: Dr Tia Cummins, Founder | Neuroscientist at VR Corp tells us about VR CORP’s mission is to empower and save the lives of uniformed service personnel through the prevention, detection and intervention of service-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). To do this, VR CORP is developing an end-to-end integrated mental health service, that will use Virtual Reality (VR) to aide those at risk of and living with service-related PTSD.

The authors of the image collection, Dr David Haveric and Dr Moya McFadzean talk about an interesting exhibition that enriches the museum's offer. Photos and stories about the arrival of Muslims in Australia - U razgovoru za naš radio, autori kolekcije fotografija Dr Džavid Haveric i Dr Moya McFadzean govore o značaju izložbe koja obogaćuje ponudu ovog muzeja. Kolekcija predstavlja i priče i fotografije nekih od prvih muslimanskih familija koje su u Australiju stigle iz Bosne i Hercegovine

Dr Shane, Dr Krystal and Dr Ailie present to discuss today’s theme - How to survive extinction. In new, 466 million years ago an extra-terrestrial asteroid collision caused an ice age on earth; Auto brewery Syndrome; Vale Professor Penny Whetton. First studio guest is Dr Mark Warne, Palaeontologist from Deakin University. Second studio guest is Dr Christy Hispley, Museum Victoria. Third studio guest is Douglass Rovinsky, PhD candidate from Monash University.

Marine Protection meets Marine Science!Have you ever seen a sea creature and wondered ‘What on earth is that?’ If the animal or plant is from Port Phillip Bay, the answer to that question can now be at your fingertips! Dr Jacqui Pocklington (Parks Victoria) will tell us all about a brand new guide to the marine life found in Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park.Then we speak with Dr Dustin Marshall (Monash University) about an exciting new research paper he has had published in the Ecological Society of America journal ‘Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment’. Dustin and his co-authors believe that the benefits of marine protected areas are actually being underestimated. Exciting news for marine conservation.And to celebrate National Science week, Museums Victoria are gearing up for an exciting week of exploration and discovery. We’ll speak with Dr Robin Wilson, Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates at Museum Victoria, about National Science Week at Museums Victoria, the ‘Living Wonders’ Morning Seminars and some of the great wet ‘n salty activities that you’ll not want to miss!

Bron and Dr Beach catch up with Port Phillip Baykeeper Neil Blake about the ‘native wells’ on the beach between Beaumaris and Brighton, there due to local sandstone layers that seep groundwater in sheltered coves such as Half Moon Bay. Neil will also tell us all about a Hercules Club Whelk shell found at Point Richards that’s not been recorded in Victoria west of Wingan Inlet. How did it get there? Neil might have a theory for us!We’ll then catch up with Dr Erich Fitzgerald, Senior Curator of Palaeontology, Museum Victoria about an exciting discovery that may account for a 5 million year gap in the global fossil record of baleen whales, the largest animals on earth. It’s a story of evolution, extinction and resurgence, and we cannot wait to find out more.We’ll then stay in the theme of fossils as Dr Beach talks fish – from fossils to genes.Plus a dive report from Terri Allen, and an update from Terri on the annual phenomenon of the spider crabs at the southern end of Port Phillip Bay.

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Rex Hunter joins us to talk about when David Mearns found the HMAS Sydney in 2008 when no one could for many many years. Dave Donnelly talks live in the studio about the 50th Humpback Whale being sighted and catalogued by the Dolphin Research Institute and Dianne Bray from Museum Victoria comes into talk marine stuff before we head into Radiothon - remember It is Alive... Bron and Anth are not so scary this week...

This week Claire talks to Melanie Mackenzie from Museum Victoria about an expedition to the deep sea abyss and the collection of weird animals like zombie worms, sea cucumber herds, and faceless fish (currently on display at Melbourne Museum).Also this episode, Manisha talks about studies showing the mental health problems experienced by farmers and investigating some of the possible causes.

The ARC Linkage project LP160100192 Howitt and Fison’s anthropology has just got underway, led by Helen Gardner of Deakin University and with participation of four universities and participation of four partner institutions, Museum Victoria, State Library of Victoria, Native Title Services Victoria and the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages. It aims to analyse nineteenth century anthropologists Lorimer Fison and A.W. Howitt’s accounts of Indigenous kinship, social organisation, and local languages. This project will assemble Fison and Howitt’s and their correspondents’ records into best-practice digital formats, with widely accessible interactive data presentation, and bring these extraordinary records to the broadest possible community. Currently the research team are in the process of planning how this will be done and we would like to engage in dialogue with others deriving analyzable corpora from old written data (without any associated sound recordings). Some of the important issues are: - Transcription of the text of fieldnotes, letters etc. which includes amounts of words and longer passages in languages of South-East Australia which have not been well described, as well as English. The spelling of the Aboriginal languages is not regular, but can be deciphered with careful study. We have discussed the possibility of automatic transcription with an expert-system approach. - What is the optimum system for entering the transcription? A corpus approach might lead us to a multi-tiered tool eg like FLEX. - We also need to deal with other formats such as genealogies and various kind of diagram which are important and interact with text in this corpus. - Decoding of handwriting, which complicates the possibility of automatic transcription - Because of the latter, and in order to draw a wider interested audience into the materials, we want to use crowdsourcing for at least some of the transcription, so we cannot make the task of transcription too onerous or technical.

The second lap of MRelay was Play. What can be learnt from seeing Melbourne as a playground? Recent decades have seen a rise in playful practices in the public spaces, ranging from street art to skateboarding to parkour. From flash mobs to urban gardening. From performative interventions to location-based digital games. In social frameworks how can play be used as a tool to promote inclusion, and improve and increase life opportunities and boost community morale? Architecturally, how can the concept of play trigger us to rethink traditional urban infrastructure and address important social issues and challenges by creating new experience and new situations? How does being playful capture imagination and trigger creativity in public spaces? These were some of the talking points our speakers set out to to explore—namely the intersection between social engagement, interpersonal relations and the environments we inhabit. 'Play' was hosted by Christian Thompson, Australian-born London-based artist. Speakers include Mary Featherston, famed Australian designer; Natalie Thomas, Melbourne-based interdisciplinary artist; Amani Naseem, internationally acclaimed artist, researcher and games culturalist; Linda Sproul, manager of education and community programs for Museum Victoria; Rob McGauran, urban designer and architect; Bruce Gladwin, Australian artist, performance maker and theatre director; and Scott Price, ensemble member of Back to Back theatre.

We celebrate the New Year by having a discussion about the evolution of feeding strategies, in particular sucking whales. Also, Amanda is a bad "parent", James spreads new Elk related lies, and Curt is happy he's at least being remembered. References: Vullo, Romain, Ronan Allain, and Lionel Cavin. "Convergent evolution of jaws between spinosaurid dinosaurs and pike conger eels." Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61.4 (2016): 825-828. Marx, Felix G., David P. Hocking, Travis Park, Tim Ziegler, Alistair R. Evans, and Erich M. G. Fitzgerald. "Suction feeding preceded filtering in baleen whale evolution" Memoirs of Museum Victoria 75 (2016): 71-82.

Dr Sahane and Dr Ailie in the studio this week. First guest is Dr Andrew Langendam from the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University. Andrew studies the birth and evolution of planets. His research compares how planets formed with and without ice. Planets closer to the Sun were unable to incorporate much ice but planets and moons that formed further out were able to incorporate water, CO2 and other ices, significantly changing their chemistry. This means that they could potentially be good candidates for the search for life. Next guests are Sanja Van Huet and Rebecca Ballard from Deakin University. Sanja is palaeontologist at Deakin University running a fossil dig for Megafauna in Lancefield. There are many different theories for the deposition of the >10,000 extinct animals in the swamp. This year we hope to have the start of an ongoing dig that is a collaboration between Deakin Unversityi, Latrobe, Monash and Melbourne Universities with Museum Victoria.

It's Anth and Dr Beach in the Fishbowl this week. Their guests in today are Anna McCallum telling us about a great event at Museum Victoria that showcases Victoria's marina science and Geoff Wescott to talk about a new MACA discussion paper regarding State Government efforts to deliver on its commitment to create a new Marine and Coastal Act to improve the management of our marine and coastal areas.

Bron and Angeline in the Fishbowl Studio for chats with Skip Woolley from Museum Victoria on the first ever map of the deep sea floor, with Mark Keenan, the Marine Response Unit Coordinator at Zoos Victoria and Terri Allen with the Dive Report

Is the spirit of multiculturalism still alive in Australia today? Is it relevant? And who decides what it means, anyway? Listen back to a lively Wednesday night panel discussion featuring voices from the arts, the social sector and academia: Nikos Papastergiadis, director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures; Moya McFadzean, senior curator of migration and cultural diversity in the humanities department at Museum Victoria; Nur Shkembi, Muslim artist and curator; Nicholas Tsoutas, independent curator and writer; Frank Panucci is executive director of grants at the Australia Council for the Arts; and Ghassan Hage, Lebanese-Australian academic. Discussing the role of the arts in challenging subscribed conversations about multiculturalism, the panel attempts to unpack exactly who shapes our cultural diversity discourse. Hold on to your headphones once the dust settles: the hour-long conversation will wind down (or up) with the psychedelic garage-pop sounds of Empat Lima. A dreamy occasion for further healthy rumination.

Charles Darwin's theories didn't just stir up controversy, it polarised society on every level. If Charles Darwin was right, where did that leave the work of God and creation? An ideal example of the reaction to Darwin is illustrated by a case of three stuffed gorillas in the Melbourne Museum. Guest: Dr Rebecca Carland (Curator, History of Collections, Museum Victoria).

Charles Darwin's theories didn't just stir up controversy, it polarised society on every level. If Charles Darwin was right, where did that leave the work of God and creation? An ideal example of the reaction to Darwin is illustrated by a case of three stuffed gorillas in the Melbourne Museum. Guest: Dr Rebecca Carland (Curator, History of Collections, Museum Victoria).

Supermassive black holes, containing as much mass as millions or billions of suns, exist at the centre of all galaxies, including our own Milky Way. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, CC BY-SABlack holes are incredibly strange phenomena: a collapsed star packed into a tiny region of space. Their gravitational force is so strong that not even light can escape. So it is not surprising that, for a long time, black holes were not thought to actually exist – they were only a theoretical possibility. But today, not only do we realise that black holes are relatively common in the universe, we also know that there are black holes lurking in the centre of all galaxies – including our own Milky Way Galaxy. These black holes, called supermassive black holes, can pack the mass of millions or billions of suns into a region smaller than our solar system. Tanya Hill spoke to Meg Urry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale University and currently the President of the American Astronomical Society, about distant galaxies and the supermassive black holes that can be found in their centre. This podcast includes excerpts from Museum Victoria’s Black Holes: Journey into the Unknown, narrated by Geoffrey Rush. Subscribe to The Conversation’s Speaking With podcasts on iTunes, or follow on Tunein Radio. Music: Free Music Archive/Kai Engel - The Scope Additional audio: Museum Victoria, Fox News (US), BBC Worldwide, Sky News (Australia) Tanya Hill does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

On this week's podcast artist Tim Sharp and his Mother Judy Sharp talk about Judy's book "Double Shot of Happiness" which recalls the tale of Tim growing up with autism, Writer/Director Brendan Cowell and actor Patrick Brammall talk about their upcoming film "Ruben Guthrie", Biggsy drops by to review Barbara Ehrenreich's "Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World" and Travis Park from Museum Victoria talks about Scienceworks and Dinosaurs. 

Dr. Greene, CEO of Museum Victoria, discusses curating to audience, encouraging accountability among executives, and using technology that engages museum visitors in narrative.

ast week, Dr Erich Fitzgerald from Museum Victoria spoke about the uniquely precious marine fossil record along the Beaumaris coastline - if you didn't catch the show. Erich brought some extraordinary information - the site is Australia's best snapshot of marine life 25 million years ago, and 85% of Australia's seal fossils on record are located in this site alone! The whole site is currently under threat by proposals to develop a 120 berth marina, breakwall and outfall, and the rproposal has moved forward to consideration under an Environment Effects Statement. To explore the issues and campaign to have the site saved from destruction, we'll be joined by Sandringham Foreshore Association's Helen Gibson and Professor Tim Flannery.Then Jeff brings us a coastal classic - our only clue - John Carradine and a diving bell.

Today’s episode is part 2 of a 3 part series called “Where is my flying car?” organised and hosted by the University of Melbourne’s Physics Students Society. Hosted by Dr Roger Rassool, panel members included: Dr Andi Horvath, Museum Victoria, Dr Erica Sloan, Monash Institute on Pharmaceutical Science, Tim Thwaites, Science writer, and myself. The […]

Today’s episode is part 1 of a 3 part series called “Where is my flying car?” organised and hosted by the University of Melbourne’s Physics Students Society. Hosted by Dr Roger Rassool, panel members included: Dr Andi Horvath, Museum Victoria, Dr Erica Sloan, Monash Institute on Pharmaceutical Science, Tim Thwaites, Science writer, and myself. The […]