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Imagine if doctors started spreading rumours that your hair, your blood or your body parts would bring them mystical power and wealth, simply due to the colour of your skin.  Sound like a horror film?  Well in Tanzania, some witch doctors are perpetuating this very myth about albinos which has resulted in people killing or mutilating over a hundred albinos in the past 6 years.

For Josephat Torner, an albino from Tanzania, the only choice is to take action: "If societies think of me as sub-human today then I need to look for a solution to change society so it will accept me".  And so starts a dangerous trek for Josephat across the country to confront the very people who fear, persecute and kill albinos and convince them that his is no different to them and that albinos are human beings.  Lucky for us, Harry Freeland captures Josephat's inspiring journey of courage, resolve and hope in his documentary In the Shadow of the Sun which is screening at the closing night of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival in Melbourne.

Right Now Radio presenter, Evelyn Tadros, has the honour of speaking to Harry and Josephat while they are on tour in Australia about why these myths are being perpetuated, the challenges albinos face in Africa and how they plan to use this film to save lives.

In the Shadow of the Sun is being screened on 23 May in Melbourne, 28 May in Sydney, 3 June in Canberra, 4 June in Brisbane and Perth.

21 May 2013

Diversity, Crisis, Perception in architecture with Anna Tweeddale of Studio Apparatus guest co-host 

Read Anna Tweeddale's peice The 'I' in Crisis here

we talk with Justine Clark on the upcoming Transform event and Parlour one year in

above: Commander Chris Hadfield performing David Bowie's Space Oddity above the International Space Station, May 2013

• DCM’s Land Art exhibition at the Wunderlich, 9 small projects
• Robin Boyd foundation Open Days: Houses designed by Denton Corker Marshall. A series of viewings beginning Sunday 26 May. This series of viewings has been arranged in conjunction with the exhibition Denton Corker Marshall - Land Art: Nine Small Buildings and their new book Houses. Denton Corker Marshall to be published by Birkhauser.
• Nexus student congress coming up
• AND Some of Melbourne's Best Houses. Sunday 2 June. More info for both www.robinboyd.org.au
• AIA national conference
• Architours have a couple of tours coming up - This Saturday May 25th 10-11:30 is our regular modernism to contemporary tour of the east side of the CBD. Next Sunday June 2nd we have released our second AIA Material conference fringe event (the evolution of public space) after our Thursday one sold out.  This will run from 10-11:30, meeting at Southern Cross station and will uncover how public space is framed by architecture in the city, how this has evolved throughout history and the trajectory of the public realm in future.  The tour attracts 1.5 informal CPD points but of course is available for everyone. Bookings for both tours in online at www.architours.com.au Prices are $37.50 adults, $27.50 concession.
• Convergence: Transforming Our Future has started at RMIT Design Hub. ‘Showcasing five years of world-class trans-disciplinary practice at the Design Research Institute’. Lots of 3D printing and laser cutting, etc.
  

Tue 14 May 2013

Interview with Bimal Patel

Dr Chromo, Dr Lauren, Dr Jen and Dr Krystal join Dr Shane in the studio for this week's show.

In science news: Malaria parasites talk to each other. Time lapse photography is aiding in IVF success rates. There are ten foreign cells for every human cell in the body and they feed on red meat. Alligators lose up to 3000 teeth in their lifetime and re-grow them using stem cells. Surprise, surprise, carrots are good for your eyes!

The first guest is algebraist Dr Marcel Jackson from Latrobe University who comes in to discuss the power of abstraction.

The second guest is Dr Euan Ritchie  (aka Mr Jen) from Deakin University. Euan discusses extinction rates (one or two species per year). He also talks about his current crowd funding project, a camera trapping study for mammals in PNG's remote Torricelli mountains. More details here.

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Zero G #925 THE IMPODDABLE GIRL

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Historical Radio with Rob Jan. This week: we look at the Season 7 finale Doctor Who episode, and more!

For playlists, show notes, the T.V Geek and news see the 3RRR website at http://www.rrr.org.au/program/zero-g/playlists and follow @zerogrobjan on Twitter.

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Zero G broadcasts live from Melbourne Australia on Mondays at 1pm AEST on 3RRR (102.7FM). To stream or to find out more, go to http://www.rrr.org.au

Zero G #924 PODDY, BEAM ME UP- PLEASE!!

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Historical Radio with Rob Jan. This week: we look at the new Doctor Who episode, the second new Star Trek movie, Into Darkness, and farewell Ray Harryhausen, and more!

For playlists, show notes, the T.V Geek and news see the 3RRR website at http://www.rrr.org.au/program/zero-g/playlists and follow @zerogrobjan on Twitter.

Subscribe via the iTunes store here.

Zero G broadcasts live from Melbourne Australia on Mondays at 1pm AEST on 3RRR (102.7FM). To stream or to find out more, go to http://www.rrr.org.au

Joost Bakker is one of the great forward thinkers of the food industry, and today he stopped by to talk about his Farm by Joost project that is planned for a building on Collins St. The urban environment is actually quite well suited to growing food, and with the growth of our suburbs encroaching on traditional farmlands it's time to consider alternatives. Oddly the project has been rejected by the Melbourne City Council, so it's up to state planning minister Matthew Guy to decide whether the project can proceed.

Speaking of rooftops (segue!), Vanessa Kwiatkowski and Mat Lumalasi are in their third year of running Melbourne City Rooftop Honey, which now looks after 75 hives around Melbourne and the 'burbs. We spoke about how critical bees are to agriculture as a whole, and a recent move by the EU to ban neonicotinoid insecticides that have proven to be harmful to bees. We think the Australian government should do the same, and also have a close look at whether glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup cause biological harm to insects.

It's Good Beer Week! The fabulous Dave and Cam from Mountain Goat joined us in-studio, along with Eric Ottaway from Brooklyn Brewery who's in town on a pretty enviable work trip. We spoke about how the burgeoning Australian craft beer industry is also reflected in America, and the differences in beer styles and ingredients encountered as you travel around the world.

unday 19 May marks the beginning of National Archaeology Week 2013. We'll be be speaking with Winthrop Professor Peter Veth and Dr Alistair Paterson from the University of Western Australia who  will be using a $1.17m Australian Research Council Discovery Grant to undertake archaeological investigations on Barrow Island on the Western Australian north west coast, off the Pilbara. Their project researches ‘deep time’ maritime cultures, climate and ecological records over a three year period and will examine 45,000 year old material in caves and rock shelters and on open sites around the island. This significant research has the potential to provide new understanding human behavioural ecology, island biogeography, climate change and historic-era exploitation of this maritime arid zone.

We'll also poke around inside the Federal Budget to see what's there or not there for the marine environment, and catch up with Briny Brett Illingworth for the fortnight's dive diary.

If you think you're weird, on this week's episode Sean The Birdman Dooley talked twitching, then The Breakfasters learnt that what happens under the ceiling rose, stays under the ceiling rose when Marita Dyson from The Orbweavers touched on their intriguing history of ceiling roses, then it was vote 1 Stew Farrell for this week's oration 'Stop the boats!', and Tatiana Mauri from the Immigration  Museum talked about, talking about racism.

Laurel, Hazel and Digga discuss easy medicinal herbs for the home garden. They also discuss their gardens and give advice to callers in thei Mother's Day edition.