Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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She investigates how the latest work in psychology and brain science helps explain why some us are risk avoiders and learns from an Australian woman, who's climbed Everest twice, the surprising truth about what really goes on inside the mind of someone deciding whether to risk it.
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Six Australians embark on one of the most thrilling and dangerous training courses Australia has to offer - saltwater crocodile wrangling - and are immediately thrown in at the deep end when an emergency at the farm means they have to help separate two giant males who are up for a blue.
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If the history of earth were condensed into 24 hours - humans would have existed for just two seconds. In that short time we've disrupted the chemical systems that sustain all life on our planet. This is the story of our chemically induced crises - and how, if we're to avoid dire consequences, chemistry must be at the core of the solutions.
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The story of the cutting-edge breakthroughs that revealed the chemical building blocks of life, and how we're using this knowledge of our innermost chemistry to understand the chemistry of love and parenthood, help combat previously untreatable diseases, and reverse the inevitable declines of age