Best Jon Sandys Podcasts (2023)

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Best of 2023 - Danny Estrin 52:18

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Voyager frontman Danny Estrin on his unconventional path from heavy metal to law and the Eurovision grand finalBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Best of 2023 - Deb Wallace 51:30

2h ago51:30

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Former top Detective Deb Wallace with ingenious and surprising stories from her working life smashing criminal gangs in SydneyBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Sandy Mackinnon's never-ending adventures aboard Jack de Crow 50:12

3h ago50:12

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For 25 years Sandy wondered what became of the little yellow dinghy he left in Romania, after a months-long voyage from the UK. Could it still be waiting for him the marshes of the Danube Delta, ready for another adventure?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Melissa Lucashenko and the story of Edenglassie 53:12

5h ago53:12

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Melissa Lucashenko was a motorcycle detailer, a house painter, a prison advocate, and a game show contestant before finding her way as a writerBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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🧬 Fengru Lin - TurtleTree - Part 2 | Salesforce’s Customer-Centric Sales Motion | The Value of Knowing Your Audience in Every Conversation | Why Executive Buy-In Matters | How a Hobby Led to TurtleTree ... 24:23

6d ago24:23

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Part 2 of 3. My guest for this week’s episode is Fengru Lin, Founder and CEO of TurtleTree, a biotech company revolutionizing food for good. Having raised a 40 million dollar Series A, TurtleTree is creating cell-based milk, with a current focus on releasing LF+, the world’s first sustainably produced lactoferrin made with cutting-edge precision fe…

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Active Pooper with Nancy Fart (Lyndsey Frank) 1:25:47

14h ago1:25:47

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This week the fellas are joined by Nancy Fart (Lyndsey Frank) who has repeatedly been kicked out of Disney for using the bathroom in line. Brett also fills us in on his homegrown Chipotle Conspiracy Theory, and later the Big Silly News Boys discuss a holiday party that is either a dream (if you're Buddy) or a nightmare (if you're Brett), as well as…

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William McInnes and his favourite Australianisms 47:54

5d ago47:54

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The actor and author thinks that nowhere in the world is the English language more poetic, colourful and persuasive than here in AustraliaBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Piecrust promises and broken hearts 51:18

1d ago51:18

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Alecia Simmonds with tales from a time in Australia's legal history when the jilted and broken-hearted could sue for redress in the courtsBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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The truth about Pax Romana 51:52

2d ago51:52

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Tom Holland on the glories, bloodshed and barbarianism of the golden days of the Roman EmpireBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Lee Miller: surrealist photographer, war correspondent, and gourmet chef 51:30

5d ago51:30

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Antony Penrose grew up knowing little about his remarkable mother Lee Miller, who had studied with Man Ray in Paris, and become a model, a photographer, and a war correspondent. But then an unexpected find in the family attic changed everythingBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Lucy's button shop 50:30

13d ago50:30

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Lucy Godoroja deals in the business of buttons, and the stories each button carries with it from Bohemia, or Milan to her shop in Sydney, and then into the hands of passers-byBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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🧬 Fengru Lin - TurtleTree - Part 1 | Growing Up in Hong Kong & Singapore | Serendipity & Its Effect on Career Paths | Connecting the Dots in Business | The Complex & Fragile World of Food Production ... 22:45

13d ago22:45

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Part 1 of 3. My guest for this week’s episode is Fengru Lin, Founder and CEO of TurtleTree, a biotech company revolutionizing food for good. Having raised a 40 million dollar Series A, TurtleTree is creating cell-based milk, with a current focus on releasing LF+, the world’s first sustainably produced lactoferrin made with cutting-edge precision fe…

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The Smash Mouth Top 10 Gooftastic Slappers with Sal Valentino (Wayland McQueen) 1:25:16

8d ago1:25:16

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This is it, the culmination of weeks of searching and compiling and hand-wringing. On the show this week, Brett and Buddy are joined by legendary "goof producer" Sal Valentino (Wayland McQueen) to finally rank the top 10 goof songs of all time and put this challenge to bed. Sal brings a level of insight you'd never believe to the discussion surroun…

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Hayley's morbid curiosity 47:00

8d ago47:00

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British-Australian journalist Hayley Campbell uncovers the secret society of the western world's death industry, run by people who have made death their life's work. CW: contains discussions of death and descriptions of dead bodiesBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Pentridge Prison, Australia's bluestone hell 48:54

9d ago48:54

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Writer and journalist James Phelps takes you inside the bluestone walls and medieval-looking turrets of Australia's most infamous jailBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Jon Owen's radical love 50:33

15d ago50:33

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Jon Owen on how he chose a life of 'intentional downward mobility' to help addicts, sex workers, and the homeless, from Calcutta to Mount Druitt to the Wayside ChapelBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Catherine Martin: making Elvis and loving Baz 52:30

15d ago52:30

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How a fashion-loving misfit from Sydney took over Hollywood with husband Baz Luhrmann, winning more Oscars than any other Australian (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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The ladder out of depression with psychiatrist Ian Hickie 52:30

20d ago52:30

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Professor Ian Hickie has spent decades trying to understand clinical depression. Where does it come from? What role do genes play? And most importantly – what works to release its chokehold?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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🧬 Sandy Paige - Seabright Ventures Fund - Part 4 | Creating Competitive Moats | Leveraging Financing Opportunities for Growth | The Purpose of a Board of Directors | Ambiguity as an Asset & Avoiding the ... 29:11

20d ago29:11

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Part 4 of 4. My guest for this week’s episode is Sandy Paige, co-managing director of the Seabright Ventures Fund, a search fund investing in the US middle market, with a focus on life sciences and cleantech. Sandy is an expert CEO, most recently leading and scaling Explora BioLabs before its acquisition by Charles River Laboratories for $295 Milli…

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Karma is the Guy Aging Weens with Doctor Rick (Casey Feigh) 1:26:06

20d ago1:26:06

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On this week's ep, the fellas talk Taylor Swift's sneaky lyrics change and a potentially catastrophic volcanic event in Iceland, and later bring on Doctor Rick (Casey Feigh - Holy Shit Improv, JV) to discuss an eccentric millionaire who's attempting to medically "de-age" his penis. They also discuss another piss related product, some crypto guys wh…

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Prepared for anything 45:06

21d ago45:06

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Brendan Watson took his Scouts promise very seriously as a young boy. He's leaned in to his pledge in some very unexpected ways, from Moscow to Mongolia and through temporary blindness back home againBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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The rise of the Super Bilby 50:30

16d ago50:30

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Ecologist Katherine Moseby is helping Australia's bilbies, quolls, and stick-nest rats evolve to become tougher, faster and stronger, so they can survive the looming threat of more than 2 million feral cats (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Mick and Juana: a love story 53:18

23d ago53:18

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Mick O'Regan met his feisty, brilliant wife Jo for the first time on a work brigade in Nicaragua. They fell in love and had a beautiful baby boy. Then quite unexpectedly, when Jo was in her 50s, Mick became her carerBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Wily cockatoos, bin chickens and spangled drongos 50:24

20d ago50:24

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Darryl Jones on the dramatic lives of Australia's city-dwelling native birdsBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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How David got his sea legs 51:36

21d ago51:36

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When David Hannan was a young man, he fled university and took a detour to the wild coral coast of WA where he became a lobster fisherman, before earning an Emmy for his underwater cinematographyBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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🧬 Sandy Paige - Seabright Ventures Fund - Part 3 | Managing International Distribution | Meaningful Work & Personal Buy-In as a Form of Equity | Getting Into Business Development & The Importance of Sales ... 23:46

27d ago23:46

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Part 3 of 4. My guest for this week’s episode is Sandy Paige, co-managing director of the Seabright Ventures Fund, a search fund investing in the US middle market, with a focus on life sciences and cleantech. Sandy is an expert CEO, most recently leading and scaling Explora BioLabs before its acquisition by Charles River Laboratories for $295 Milli…

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Ha-Cha, Na-Cha, Minneso-Ta with Aidis J. (Jeremy Culhane) 1:32:27

22d ago1:32:27

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On this week's show the fellas are joined by Aidis J. (Jeremy Culhane), a man recently released from jail for repeatedly faking heart attacks to avoid paying at restaurants. They also break some very important news about a food recall that will directly affect most of their audience, discuss a recurring piss problem for delivery drivers, a drunk dr…

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Kylie Moore-Gilbert's freedom fight 52:30

21d ago52:30

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Kylie Moore-Gilbert spent two years inside the Iranian prison system, secretly communicating with fellow women prisoners while she waited for news from AustraliaBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Richard Flanagan's chain of events 52:06

23d ago52:06

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Richard Flanagan was forever changed as a young man, when he was trapped for hours and almost drowned in an isolated stretch of river on Tasmania's wild west coastBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Ariadne and the Minotaur 53:12

29d ago53:12

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Writer Kate Forsyth on how revisiting the story of a mythic Minotaur lurking in a labyrinth in Crete helped her realise that we all need monsters (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Running from the FBI: life in The Weather Underground 53:00

1M ago53:00

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Zayd Dohrn’s parents were militant left-wing revolutionaries, and he was born while they were living underground, fugitives from the FBI (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Killer sponges of the vasty deep 47:12

28d ago47:12

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Dr Merrick Ekins is Australia's leading expert in carnivorous sea sponges. Some sponges are secret killers, others are made up of glass and imprison tiny shrimp-like lovers for eternity, and others make love to themselves to reproduceBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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🧬 Sandy Paige - Seabright Ventures Fund - Part 2 | Practicing Corporate Entrepreneurship | Life Lessons on How to Treat People | Seeking Margins & Avoiding Commodity | Scaling a Non-Profit | A CEO’s 3 ... 36:05

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Part 2 of 4. My guest for this week’s episode is Sandy Paige, co-managing director of the Seabright Ventures Fund, a search fund investing in the US middle market, with a focus on life sciences and cleantech. Sandy is an expert CEO, most recently leading and scaling Explora BioLabs before its acquisition by Charles River Laboratories for $295 Milli…

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Our First Themed Episode: Halloween Edition 1:16:44

29d ago1:16:44

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It's just Brett and Buddy this week, and they take a break from goof songs and the usual bullsh*t to bring you a FULL episode of Halloween/Spooky themed stories and goofs. They talk trick or treat age limits, sexually suggestive skeleton tableaus, poor storage at a funeral home, lights out punches at a halloween party, and some necrorobotics new (i…

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Bruce Englefield's devilish charm 46:06

28d ago46:06

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On a whim, Bruce Englefield bought a wildlife park in Tasmania and moved from across the other side of the world to make life better for Tasmanian DevilsBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Sandi Toksvig and the school of life 46:24

1M ago46:24

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The Danish-British author and comedian on her father's laissez faire attitude to school, and how this opened her mind and brought her to NASA's mission control room for the moon landing of 1969By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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How Stephen sang himself to life 49:30

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From homeless teen to operatic stardom: how a job at the David Jones food hall changed the trajectory of Stephen Smith's lifeBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Shanelle Dawson: the daughter's story 54:00

1M ago54:00

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In 2018, Shanelle Dawson's family were the subject of a hit true crime podcast which helped convict her father Chris Dawson of her mother's murder. Now she's reclaiming her own story and the story of her mother LynetteBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Pip Williams: from dyslexia to the Dictionary of Lost Words 53:36

1M ago53:36

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Pip Williams was diagnosed with dyslexia as a teenager. She grew up to write a novel inspired by the history of the Oxford Dictionary, which soon became an international bestsellerBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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🧬 Sandy Paige - Seabright Ventures Fund - Part 1 | The Value of Hustle & Being a Team Player | Saying Yes to Opportunities | Corporate Entrepreneurship & Finding Your Path | Entrepreneurs & Risk Aversion ... 30:30

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Part 1 of 4. My guest for this week’s episode is Sandy Paige, co-managing director of the Seabright Ventures Fund, a search fund investing in the US middle market, with a focus on life sciences and cleantech. Sandy is an expert CEO, most recently leading and scaling Explora BioLabs before its acquisition by Charles River Laboratories for $295 Milli…

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Food is Jewelry and Jewelry is Food with Mandy Kin (Zac Oyama) 1:16:44

1M ago1:16:44

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This week, the fellas are joined by Mandy Kin (Zac Oyama-- Dimension 20, Rotating Heroes Podcast), a man who posed as a mannequin to stay after hours in a mall (but it's more complicated than that). They also discuss a few more goof song submissions, funny street names, a long form prank on the largest company on the planet, tech bro dating woes, a…

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Penny Moodie's compulsive and compelling life 52:42

1M ago52:42

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Penny grew up consumed by catastrophic thoughts and developed habits to try to ward off impending doom. It turned out she had been living with obsessive compulsive disorder for 30 yearsBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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The hunt for deep sea bioluminescence (and a giant squid) 48:18

1M ago48:18

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Marine biologist Dr Edith Widder was inside a submersible searching for bioluminescence in the ocean depths when she saw a giant squid as big as a two story house (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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The speech collector 51:28

1M ago51:28

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Tony Wilson was always drawn to the world's great speeches. Then, without warning, he was called on to make the most difficult speech of his life (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Champion surfer Jodie Cooper on the breaks that made her 52:18

2M ago52:18

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How Jodie went from skateboarding in her home town of Albany to become a world surfing champion, frothing all the wayBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Penny's odyssey to Greece and family 53:06

1M ago53:06

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An unexpected DNA test result sent Penny Mackieson on a mission across the other side of the world, to find her real natural mother, and discover her identityBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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🧬 Maneesh Jain - Mirvie - Part 3 | Finding & Addressing Unmet Needs | The Maternal Health Crisis | Creating an Empathy-Focused Company Culture | Fundraising & Hitting Milestones in a Recession 26:00

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Part 3 of 3. My guest for this week’s episode is Maneesh Jain, CEO and Co-Founder of Mirvie, a life science company that predicts pregnancy complications before they happen by revealing the underlying biology of pregnancy health. Mirvie is dedicated to shaping the future of pregnancy health through simple, personalized blood tests. Before Mirvie, M…

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Century Depilavation Tank with DeVonte' Belarosi (Ify Nwadiwe) 1:18:35

1M ago1:18:35

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This week the fellas talk about a massive crab heist in Philly, with one of the thieves, DeVonte Belarosi (Ify Nwadiwe - Dropout, Twisted Metal, Grand Crew). They also continue their search for the top 10 goof songs of all time, check in with the Amish, discuss a wild lawsuit, and much much more! Follow us on social media-- @DePodcastPod on Twitter…

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The caving time lord 53:06

1M ago53:06

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Dr Kira Westaway is a geochronologist who places modern and ancient humans in context by dating things found in caves. For Kira, how we understand ourselves now is tied up in the past (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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