NATIONAL TALK BLACK – 26/02/2025
On todays National Talk Black via NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Service we have:
Jess Hitchcock, Melbourne-based Indigenous Singer-songwriter, talking about Jess Hitchcock joining forces with the award-winning Penny Quartet for a five-city national tour. Experience a feast of creativity, beginning in Perth on Wednesday 26 February and concluding in Jess’ hometown, Sutherland, NSW on Friday 7 March. Hailed as a ‘vocal chameleon’ (Glam Adelaide), Jess Hitchcock is an opera singer, a singersongwriter, a writer, a composer and a storyteller whose endlessly versatile voice can make itself at home in a studio, on a stage, or in a football stadium. Founded in 2014, the Penny Quartet are one of Australia’s leading string ensembles with an insatiable appetite for the new. Don’t miss this exquisite evening of music-making presented in association with the Adelaide Festival and Perth Festival. Tickets are available now on Musica Viva Australia’s!
https://www.musicaviva.com.au/…/jess-hitchcock-penny…
Abdullahi Chowdhury, University of South Australia Data Analyst and Lead Researcher, talking about Can Artificial Intelligence save the Great Barrier Reef? Australian researchers are designing a global real-time monitoring system to help save the world’s coral reefs from further decline, primarily due to bleaching caused by global warming. Coral reefs worldwide are dying at an alarming rate, with 75% of reefs experiencing bleaching-level heat stress in the past two years. A collaborative project led by the University of South Australia (UniSA), with input from Queensland and Victorian researchers, is integrating remote sensing technologies with machine learning, artificial intelligence and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to monitor and hopefully stall the damage to the world’s most fragile marine ecosystems. A multimodal platform will distil all research data relating to coral reefs, including underwater videos and photographs, satellite images, text files and time-sensor readings, onto a central dashboard for real-time global monitoring.
https://unisa.edu.au/…/can-artificial-intelligence…
Professor David Playford, Cardiologist and The University of Notre Dame, talking about The next cardiac epidemic: New report warns 250,000 Australians at risk of heart disease. With Heart Valve Disease Awareness Week (17 Feb – 23 Feb) A new report is addressing the lack of awareness for heart disease, calling on policymakers to take action. More than half a million Australians are living with heart valve disease, yet alarmingly, research shows an additional 254,000 are unaware they have the condition – a number projected to nearly double in the coming decades. Concerningly, untreated severe symptomatic aortic stenosis – the most common form of heart valve disease – has a staggering mortality rate of 25% to 50% per year. However, two-thirds of Australians remain unaware of the condition.
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