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Maggie Brady and Professor Room

First Taste History & Culture in Indigenous Alcohol Use (September 18 2008)

Dr Maggie Brady and Professor Robin Room, The Australian National university and The University of Melbourne

This public lecture challenges some of the common beliefs that surround Indigenous Australians and the history of 'grog', by discussing the findings of the newly released publication First Taste:…

Vanessa Woods

It’s Every Monkey for Themselves (March 07 2007)

Vanessa Woods, Writer, researcher, freelance journalist

Taking off to mend a broken heart, Vanessa Woods left safe, suburban Canberra and headed for the remote, wild and distinctly unsafe jungles of Costa Rica. She was stung so often by killer bees she developed…

Dr Kristen Pammer

Window on the Brain (August 17 2006)

Dr Kristen Pammer, School of Psychology, ANU College of Science

There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way. The brain is probably the most complex thing on earth, and yet we know very little about how…