Mind Flexing Sound Bites

Writer Alia Parker looks for inspiration in the short stories that surround us in street signs and place names, including a few anecdotes of her own.

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In this short entertaining sound bite, writer and journalist Alia Parker examines why we develop preferences for certain coffee cups over others, and how its colour can change the taste.

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What is that emotion you feel when something makes you so happy you become shrouded in a melancholic mist at that thing’s impermanence? Writer Alia Parker finds the answer in music and Japanese philosophy.

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Journey back with Alia Parker to the time of the Great Wars and the Great Depression and discover the almost forgotten lives of the Rabbitohs.

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Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Traveled is one of the most quoted—and most misused—poems in the world. So what does it really mean? Alia Parker offers a translation to help you see it in a different light.

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