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The psychopaths among us Oct 12, 2023

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Lawyer and author David Gillespie has been on a mission to understanding psychopaths after realising he might have worked with one

The chef who changed the world Oct 11, 2023

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Josh Niland on his mission to cook with fish eyes, fish liver, and fish sperm to help revolutionise how we cook and eat fish

David Marr's reckoning with his family's brutal past Oct 10, 2023

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David Marr with the story of his great-great-grandfather Reg Uhr, who led murderous expeditions with the Native Police during Queensland’s frontier wars CW: mentions the names of Aboriginal people who have died

Ancestors like aliens: clues from the Cambrian explosion Oct 09, 2023

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Diego Garcia-Bellido is a palaeontologist who specialises in soft-bodied fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago. These perfectly preserved eyes, guts and nervous systems provide a window into the beginning of our own family tree, and into life on Mars.

Robyn Davidson, wandering spirit Oct 06, 2023

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Robyn Davidson on her adventures high in the Himalayas, her love affair with an Indian prince, and her late in life reckoning with her own story (CW: mentions suicide)

Jessica Cottis — inside the colour of sound Oct 05, 2023

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Jessica is an orchestral conductor, organ virtuoso and also a synesthete who 'sees' colour in her mind's eye (R)

Silk, sex, secrets and spiders Oct 04, 2023

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James O'Hanlon digs deep into the secret world of spiders; complex and tiny lives most of us are either unaware or afraid of

From Antioch to Syracuse and Tyre Oct 03, 2023

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Historian Katherine Pangonis with stories from five cities of the ancient world, from their splendour in antiquity to their comparatively modest twilight

Confessions of a drama kid Oct 02, 2023

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Actor and writer Brendan Cowell with tender and funny tales from his boyhood as a child actor and a budding playwright (R)

Suzie Miller: finder of ways Sep 29, 2023

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Suzie Miller with stories from her free range St Kilda childhood, her drama-filled life as a lawyer, and the inspiration behind her play Prima Facie