A Footy Girls Guide to the Stars of 2017

It's out! Nicole and I spoke to some incredible footballers!

To celebrate the first-ever elite women’s competition, A Footy Girl’s Guide to the Stars of 2017 showcases some of the key players to look out for, and reveals how they made it to the top of the women’s game.

Players profiled include: Daisy Pearce, Emma King, Katie Brennan, Darcy Vescio, Maddy Collier, Kara Donnellan, Sabrina Frederick-Traub and Erin Phillips. What age did they start playing footy? What do they love about the game? Who are their role models? What are their greatest talents as players? Find out the answers to these questions and more.

Filled with inspirational stories and fun facts, A Footy Girl’s Guide is an essential read for aspiring footy stars of the future – and all kids who love their AFL.

https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/footy-girls-guide-stars-2017

Sound and Words

Love creating sound and had the best time working with Nat Bates and Dr Jen Martin on Soundproof, Radio National talking about science. Miyuki Jokiranta is amazing and Soundproof will be missed. She will continue to do amazing things but Soundproof will be sorely missed.

You can listen to the sound piece on Soundproof. 

Griffith Review

Love this time of year when you can cuddle up with a book and enjoy the words (as well as tactile doona cover). Read this issue of the Griffith Review and not just because I have a prose piece in it, but because it has many great writers such as Gideon Haigh, John Harms, Tracey Holmes, Fleta Page, William McInnes and many more. Look at the Griffith Review here.

Footy Furore...

This is from the article in The Age today by Miki Perkins about our podcast Outer Sanctum and the role it has played in the media at the moment.

"One night, at a rare IRL (in real life) dinner they jokingly decided to launch a podcast, and Outer Sanctum was born in March. "We all have an interest in stories about women's involvement in football. We love football, we love that it's such an intrinsic part of our culture and we want to be involved," says Race.

Hayes and Sometimes have even written a book, From the Outer, which is a collection of essays on topics rarely covered in a football context, including LGBTI, culturally-diverse and female writers. The book opens with an essay by Chelsea Roffey, the first female to officiate an AFL grand final.

Last Monday, when McGuire and his co-commentators first made the comments about Caroline Wilson on Triple M, a short news story appeared on Sporting News. Lucy Race noticed it and shared with her fellow podcasters. They were appalled, and amazed it had appeared nowhere else."

Review of 'The Quantum Age'

Had fun writing a review on Brian Clegg's 'The Quantum Age: How The Physics of the Very Small Transformed Our Lives' for the wonderful website Science Book a Day. Click link for the whole article.

This is from the website: 'Science Book a Day is a project put together by George Aranda who often goes by the name PopSciGuy. I run a science book club in Melbourne, Australia and hope to run one online soon.

My aim is to engage people in science via books and for them to bring their own ideas and experiences to science. To me, science isn’t about being told by scientists that “this is science” but for people to build an understanding and engagement with science in their own way.'

CERN at Sydney

This is exciting if you are Sydney. From the CoEPP website via Gizmodo:

'As a part of the 2016 Sydney Science Festival the The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) is “transporting” the world’s greatest science experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to the Powerhouse Museum in an Australian first exhibition.

Running from 11 August to 30 October, the exhibition from the Science Museum, London, Collider provides a behind-the-scenes look at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva that houses the LHC.'

Get along and see it!

Bath and Roulette

After migrating to this website from another I'm starting my blog anew with posts of science, retro and the things I find in my drawer. This article published in a 1969 Vogue states that one cannot have a scale like back or arms. But one must take chances in the bath. Like play roulette.