Day dreaming and make believe were the corner stones to childhood; imperative to our schooling and the development of our creative bones. What if you could not imagine pirates and heroes? Mind blindness or congenital aphantasia is a condition where people struggle to use visual imagery. To find out about congential aphantasia and binocular […]
Category: Podcast
Boiling Point 5th of December 2017; Science meets Creation and Innovation to Save and Preserve Sydney’s Sea Life.
We are all too aware human activity negatively impacts the environment. Most of our negative interaction and impact is irreversible. However, in the fight to save the biodiversity of Sydney waters, scientists successfully reversed the effects of human activity on Crayweed and Sydney’s ocean life. Last year we were introduced to the Crayweed […]
Boiling Point 28th of November 2017; Immortal Mammoths and a New form of Resistance
Missed the show? Listen to the podcast Image: Chantelle Doyle; Lyuba the 42,000-year-old mammoth Have you met Lyuba? Lyuba is quite an intriguing and mysterious mammoth. Mammoth’s are extinct, but Lyuba seems to be almost immortal as she still captures our hearts 42,000 years later. Lyuba is a preserved mammoth who has had a […]
Read More… from Boiling Point 28th of November 2017; Immortal Mammoths and a New form of Resistance
At Your Door: Doormen of New York with Alina Gozin’a
On Arts Wednesday 29 November 2017, Sylvia’s guest was photographic artist, Alina Gozin’a. Alina is a Sydney girl, originally from Russia and lately living in New York. The doormen, a familiar sight outside Manhattan’s apartment blocks is the doorman, recipient of residents’ secrets. Alina’s passion for portraiture, combined with her simpatico for these mostly Eastern […]
Read More… from At Your Door: Doormen of New York with Alina Gozin’a
Sydney By Design with Ed Lippmann
Over the course of October/November 2017, Ed Lippmann returned with a second series of Sydney By Design, once again placing the spotlight on Ed’s passion: Sydney and what sort of city we need that fits the requirements of the twenty-first century. This series featured a number of guests who brought their special interests to the […]
Boiling Point 21st November 2017; Gloomy Octopuses the New Tradie? Cloned Dogs and 80-million-Year-Old Sharks.
Image: Octopus Tetricus, Flickr Image, 2016 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Watch out Australia, octopuses are moving in! Not quite, in fact octopuses are making small communities. Specifically, Gloomy Octopuses or Octopus Tetricus. Surprisingly, this behaviour is not thought to be a new phenomenon. It is thought Gloomy Octopuses have been creating communities for some time. […]
The Gender Pay Chasm
Men still earn more than women. Fact. This is known, somewhat euphemistically, as the “gender pay gap”. A more accurate term could be the “Gender pay chasm”. A chasm being a deep fissure in the Earth’s surface, thus potentially more appropriate for the size of said gap. The gap is starkest in the financial sector, […]
Film Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Riley Lavelle-Long reviews Yorgos Lanthimos’s new psychological horror film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell. […]
Australia in World’s Top 10 of Forest Clearing
Eastern Australia ranks in the top 10 in the world when it comes to deforestation. We’re the only developed country with this level of clearing and Queensland is leading the way. On Monday Drive Ruth Hessey spoke with Penny van Oosterze (Principal Research Adjunct James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University) about […]
Read More… from Australia in World’s Top 10 of Forest Clearing
How Much Do You Know? Episode 1
How Much Do You Know? is a podcast series that looks at HIV in the year 2017. It’s brought to you by and produced in the studios of Eastside Radio located in Paddington Sydney in association with ViiV Healthcare. This episode looks at modern HIV testing techniques and the easy and convenient methods in which people can now […]
Painting By Numbers: the story of Ferdinand Bauer
On Arts Wednesday 22 November 2017, Sylvia’s guests in the studio were curator, Alison Wishart and leader of the creative DXLab at the State Library of NSW. A new exhibition about the life of Ferdinand Bauer has just opened, along with a most creative new website. The exhibition examines the work of natural history illustrator, […]
Read More… from Painting By Numbers: the story of Ferdinand Bauer
Eastside meets Catherine Traicos
Described as “an artist of exceptional poise and talent” (SMH) Catherine Traicos has just released her sixth studio album. Luminaire is a beautiful album, wrought with emotion and turmoil. Catherine sat down with Eastside recently to discuss the recording process and play a couple of tracks from the album live in the studio. Listen […]