6 things about Australia that might help in physical and mental preparation for an Australian journey

6 things I wish I knew before I came to Australia

English is very important when you study in Australia. How are you going to improve your English? What are the important principles when it comes to learning English? Let's talk about them.

Learning English

living in a different country it’s inevitable that you would experience some cultural shock. Today I’m going to share with you my list of 13 cultural shocks.

Cultural Shock

今天我们用中文来聊聊你所不了解的澳大利亚talk about interesting facts about Australia in Chinese

【Chinese】你不知道的澳大利亚 Things about Australia

Do you like travelling the world and listen to local people talking about their local cultures and traditions? Well there is a cheap and safe way to do that

Travelling the world with postcards

今天又是用中文讲讲我在澳洲开车的经历 Today I'm going to use Mandarin to talk about driving in Australia

【Chinese】在澳洲开车是种什么样的体验 Driving in Australia be like

I did an interview with ABC Radio Canberra Sunday Brunch on 07-Jun-2020 about international students

interview with ABC Radio Canberra Sunday Brunch

Are you one of those people who would get lost in a big store like me? Well I'm going to share with you what I did when I was involved in such a situation.

Getting lost in the store in Australia

今天我们用中文来讲讲澳洲的野生动物们 Today I'm going to speak in Mandarin about the wild animals I have met in Australia

【Chinese】我在澳洲的动物之旅 The animals I met in Australia

What does your country use as identification document? In Australia there are things you can use as a valid identification document so you don't need to carry your passport around

Identification

as an international student from China, I would talk in both English and Mandarin about how I survived through all those cultural shocks and cultural experience I have been through in about 5 minutes

今天用中文来聊聊在澳大利亚该怎么坐公交呢？澳大利亚的公交车有哪几种呢？在澳大利亚坐公交需要遵守什么呢？Let's talk about all those things you should know when taking a bus in Australia

【Chinese】在澳洲坐公交 Taking A Bus in Australia

Let's talk about how to greet people like a true Australian.

Learning English: Greeting in Australia

今天我们用中文来聊聊在澳洲睡觉打呼噜很严重该怎么办。Today let's talk about what to do when you snore badly in Australia in Chinese

【Chinese】在澳洲睡觉打呼噜怎么办 What to do when you snore badly in Australia

Remember to take good care of your mental health.

Taking Care of Your Mental Health

今天我们用中文来聊聊在澳洲怎么看病 Today let's talk about what to do when you are ill in Australia in Mandarin

【Chinese】在澳洲怎么看病 What to do when you are ill in Australia

Being in a relationship should be a positive experience for both parties.

Girls, Girls, Girls - Respectful Relationship

今天我们来聊聊疫情下的澳洲Today let's talk about Australia in Coronavirus

【Chinese】疫情下的澳洲 Australia in Coronavirus

Today let's talk about some panic buying behaviors that Australian have during the coronavirus lockdown

Australia & Panic Buying in Pandemic

今天我邀请到了Jacky来讲讲在澳洲钓鱼的日常以及国内和澳洲钓鱼的不同。Today I invited my friend Jacky to talk about fishing in Australia and the difference between fishing in China and Australia

【Chinese】在澳洲钓鱼 Fishing in Australia with Jacky

Today let's talk about how to meet a wild kangaroo in Australia especially in Canberra

How to Meet A Wild Kangaroo in Australia

International Student's Australian Survival

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How our mind explains things:[topic-start]
“The way that the mind works, very frequently, is that we start from a decision, or we start from a belief, and then the stories that explain it come to our mind. Conclusions come first, and rationalizations come later.”[topic-end]
How we come to believe things:[topic-start]
"The real cause of your belief in a political position, the real causes are rooted in your personal history. They’re rooted in who are the people that you trusted and what they seemed to believe in, and it has very little to do with the reasons that come to your mind, why your position is correct and the position of the other side is nonsensical."[topic-end]
Who is Daniel Kahneman:[topic-start]
Nobel prize winning psychologist and economist who helped created the field of behavioural economics.

The Nobel Prize-winning psychologist on why we think and act the way we do — and why facts matter less than we think in forming our beliefs.
With his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman emerged as one of the most intriguing voices on the complexity of human thought and behavior. He is a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics for helping to create the field of behavioral economics — and is a self-described “constant worrier.” It’s fun, helpful, and more than a little unnerving to apply his insights into why we think and act the way we do in this moment of social and political tumult.
Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

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Daniel Kahneman — Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other

Real scenarios of a hospital during a war:[topic-start]
“... we were hand squeezing his ventilator as we ran out of oxygen" and when we finally found the physician to get more oxygen, he said "We don't have any oxygen left, you're going to have to let him go"[topic-end]
Who is Sheri Fink:[topic-start]
An investigative journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Memorial Hospital (the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina).

Sheri Fink on the tragedy of being forced to choose who's life to save

When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the names in a hat and pick at random. Would your answer change if a sick person was standing right in front of you? In this episode, we follow New York Times reporter Sheri Fink as she searches for the answer. In a warzone, a hurricane, a church basement, and an earthquake, the question remains the same. What happens, what should happen, when humans are forced to play god? Produced by Simon Adler and Annie McEwen. Reported by Sheri Fink.  In the book that inspired this episode you can find more about what transpired at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina, Sheri Fink’s exhaustively reported Five Days at Memorial You can find more about the work going on in Maryland at: www.nytimes.com/triage Very special thanks to Lilly Sullivan.  Special thanks also to: Pat Walters and Jim McCutcheon and Todd Menesses from WWL in New Orleans, the researchers for the allocation of scarce resources project in Maryland - Dr. Lee Daugherty Biddison from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Howie Gwon from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Emergency Management, Alan Regenberg of the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Dr. Eric Toner of the UPMC Center for Health Security.  Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.    

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When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the names in a hat and pick at random. Would your answer change if a sick person was standing right in front of you? In this episode, we follow New York Times reporter Sheri Fink as she searches for the answer. In a warzone, a hurricane, a church basement, and an earthquake, the question remains the same. What happens, what should happen, when humans are forced to play god? Produced by Simon Adler and Annie McEwen. Reported by Sheri Fink.  In the book that inspired this episode you can find more about what transpired at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina, <a href="http://www.sherifink.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sheri Fink’s</a> exhaustively reported <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718972/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1471783956&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=five+days+at+memorial" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Five Days at Memorial</a> You can find more about the work going on in Maryland at: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/triage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.nytimes.com/triage</a> Very special thanks to Lilly Sullivan.  Special thanks also to: Pat Walters and Jim McCutcheon and Todd Menesses from WWL in New Orleans, the researchers for the allocation of scarce resources project in Maryland - Dr. Lee Daugherty Biddison from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Howie Gwon from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Emergency Management, Alan Regenberg of the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Dr. Eric Toner of the UPMC Center for Health Security. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at <a href="https://pledge3.wnyc.org/donate/radiolab-it/onestep/?utm_source=wnyc&amp;utm_medium=radiolab-redirect&amp;utm_campaign=pledge&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Radiolab.org/donate</a>.

Playing God


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An 8-part series on the brutal business battle between Netflix and Blockbuster, and later HBO.

This is Episode 1 of an 8-part series on the brutal business battle between Netflix and Blockbuster, and later HBO.It all started around 1997, with a guy named Marc Randolph and his mathematician friend Reed Hastings. Randolph and Hastings knew they’d have to take on Blockbuster, but what they didn’t anticipate was that their business model would take on network television and eventually change the entire movie industry.This was an 8-year total war that left innumerable casualties in its wake: thousands of hollowed out buildings and economic losses in the billions.Support us by supporting our sponsors!

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This is Episode 1 of an 8-part series on the brutal business battle between Netflix and Blockbuster, and later HBO.It all started around 1997, with a guy named Marc Randolph and his mathematician friend Reed Hastings. Randolph and Hastings knew they’d have to take on Blockbuster, but what they didn’t anticipate was that their business model would take on network television and eventually change the entire movie industry.This was an 8-year total war that left innumerable casualties in its wake: thousands of hollowed out buildings and economic losses in the billions. Support us by supporting our sponsors!

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You don't have to like tennis to like this. There is so much to learn from how this rivalry made each player better. This series explores the unique tennis rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal-- two very different players, both exceptional, in pursuit of perfection. Swiss-born Roger Federer was seemingly born with a racquet in his hand and at a young age he quickly masters the game, but what he needs to reach the top is to learn how to master his emotions. Meanwhile, Spaniard Rafael Nadal learns the game under the tutelage of his uncle Toni on the clay courts of Mallorca, where the decision to make him a left-handed player separates him early from his competition.

A 7 part series on Federer and Nadal

In this series we explore the unique tennis rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal-- two very different players, both exceptional, in pursuit of perfection. Swiss-born Roger Federer was seemingly born with a racquet in his hand and at a young age he quickly masters the game, but what he needs to reach the top is to learn how to master his emotions. Meanwhile, Spaniard Rafael Nadal learns the game under the tutelage of his uncle Toni on the clay courts of Mallorca, where the decision to make him a left-handed player separates him early from his competition. Support us by supporting our sponsors!

Sports Wars

In this series we explore the unique tennis rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal-- two very different players, both exceptional, in pursuit of perfection. Swiss-born Roger Federer was seemingly born with a racquet in his hand and at a young age he quickly masters the game, but what he needs to reach the top is to learn how to master his emotions. Meanwhile, Spaniard Rafael Nadal learns the game under the tutelage of his uncle Toni on the clay courts of Mallorca, where the decision to make him a left-handed player separates him early from his competition.  Support us by supporting our sponsors!

International Student's Australian Survival

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Best weekly hand curated episodes for learning

International Student's Australian Survival

Latest release on Jan 11, 2021

Best weekly hand curated episodes for learning

The Best Episodes Ranked Using User Listens

Updated by OwlTail about 1 month ago

Rank #1: 6 things I wish I knew before I came to Australia

Rank #2: Learning English

Rank #3: Cultural Shock

Rank #4: 【Chinese】你不知道的澳大利亚 Things about Australia

Rank #5: Travelling the world with postcards

Rank #6: 【Chinese】在澳洲开车是种什么样的体验 Driving in Australia be like

Rank #7: interview with ABC Radio Canberra Sunday Brunch

Rank #8: Getting lost in the store in Australia

Rank #9: 【Chinese】我在澳洲的动物之旅 The animals I met in Australia

Rank #10: Identification