What is that tail-gater thinking? Road rage podcast

Experts at the Monash University Accident Research Centre have research on the links between road rage and accidents. Dr Amanda Stephens is a Psychologist and a Senior Researcher. Listen to her tell Clare Arthurs: what tail-gaters might be thinking why your day is affecting your perception easy ways to stay calm (which might not include singing ‘Frozen’).

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How your food can cloud your brain

There’s an old saying: “You are what you eat”. And new research by Monash University and international colleagues has found evidence that ultra-processed foods damage your focus, even if you otherwise have a healthy diet. In this podcast from A Newsman and His Music, Colin Tyrus is speaking with Dr Barbara Cardoso from the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food

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A whale of a time at Melbourne Museum… and Bayside too!

In this podcast, Southern FM newsman Colin Tyrus is speaking wth palaeontologist Dr Erich Fitzgerald from Museums Victoria Research Institute about a groundbreaking discovery in partnership with Monash University that has  rewritten our understanding of whale evolution. The podcast also covers the Bayside-based project, Raising Leviathan. It’s focused on whale evolution and includes plans to involve the local community of citizen

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“Get the jab” says Professor

Professor Stephen Turner is Head of Microbiology at Monash University and his team has found the COVID-19 vaccines are very effective at preventing serious illness from the Coronavirus. He’s speaking with Southern FM Newsman Colin Tyrus. (As broadcast on A Newsman and His Music – Monday 20 September 2021).

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From Holdens to Hoovers: modern dads adapt to the times

They may have traded the 7 iron for a stick vacuum but today’s fathers are still expected to be the main breadwinner in the household. Kate Murphy and Alistair Thomson from Monash University joined Hear and There presenter Nathan Reynolds to discuss the changing role of fatherhood in Australia over the last 100 years.

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Monash PPE breakthrough

This podcast from A Newsman and his Music features Monash University‘s Professor Gil Garnier speaking about a newly-developed medical gown made of paper, designed to help protect frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo courtesy Monash University: (L to R) Professor Gil Garnier, Dr Joanne Tanner, Professor Mark Banaszak Holl, Laila Hossain, Ruth Barajas Ledesma and Maisha Maliha

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