{"id":427,"date":"2011-08-22T06:29:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T06:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2011-08-22T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T06:33:10","slug":"2082011-science-week-live-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"20\/8\/2011 Science Week Live Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, Saturday has come and gone, and fun was had all round. To celebrate Science Week, Brains Matter, with the support of the Monash Science Centre<\/a>, hosted a live show on The World of the Elephant<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The first person to be interviewed was Professor Roger Short, a world leading expert on elephants, and he discussed many fascinating aspects of elephants that both he and others have discovered in their research over the years.<\/p>\n

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Following on from Roger, Evan Bittner, a research scientist, who flew in all the way from Adelaide only minutes before the show started, discussed his research.<\/p>\n

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This included his work on vocalisations and his aim to help with human-elephant conflict. He also gave some chilling statistics on current elephant populations in Asia.<\/p>\n

This was followed up by music from Clive Weeks – who wrote a special song for the day.<\/p>\n

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A Future With Elephants<\/i>, a conservation fund that was started by a Brains Matter listener, then discussed what their aims were and the type of projects and research they were doing in South East Asia to help the plight of the elephant.<\/p>\n

All in all, a fascinating day with great information, and the feedback we had from attendees on the day was fantastic. So a big thank you to everyone who was involved, who helped out, and who attended.<\/p>\n

The presentations for the day, the lyrics to Clive’s song, and the audio to the interviews\/podcast will be up very soon. You can also find some extra photos on the AFWE facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n

Once again, thank you to everyone involved!<\/p>\n

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The show is able to be done through the assistance of its listeners – if you’d like to help, check out the support page on the right hand side, or donate via paypal – all information is on the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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