Hazards hidden in museum collections

Katy Gosset meets a Christchurch woman who's teaching a new generation of New Zealanders how to pickle and preserve. 

Breaking up is hard to do in relationships but also breaking up with your job. Dr Tessa West is a social psychology professor at New York University who says our relationships with our careers and jobs can be a lot like relationships with people and sometimes it's best to break u ... Show More

DOC has updated its list of environmental weeds. 

Mary Beard argues that 21st Century disputes about what museums should own - or give back - are far from being a modern phenomenon. 'Almost as far back as you can go, there have been contests about what museums should display, and where objects of heritage properly belonged,' wri ... Show More

A surprising number of Nobel Prize winners credit their childhood chemistry set for sparking their interest in science. But most kids just used them to make stuff explode. Compared to the originals, today’s versions are super safe, pale shadows.See omnystudio.com/listener for pri ... Show More

It revolutionised domestic chores, signified modernity and has been made into packaging, textiles, electrical machinery but plastic has also contributed to our throw-away society. Clay is turned into bricks, cookware and used in industrial processes including paper making, cement ... Show More

Mes chers camarades, bien le bonjour !Visiter le Quai Branly pour découvrir les nombreuses œuvres d’art de nombreuses cultures, aller au Louvre pour voir des statues gréco-romaines et des sarcophages égyptiens, on ne dit jamais non ! Et pourtant, c’est souvent le résultat d’une h ... Show More

C’est l’une des plus importantes collections de collections privées d'impressionnisme français en Europe. Rassemblées par un couple de riches industriels au début du XXe siècle, c’est la première fois que ces peintures sont exposées hors les murs. La collection du musée Langmatt ... Show More

Nicholas Cullinan, the new director of the British Museum, seems to think so. “I'm not afraid of the past,” he says — which means talking about looted objects, the basement storerooms, and the leaking roof. We take the guided tour. SOURCES:Nicholas Cullinan, director of the Briti ... Show More

  Nos poubelles et leur contenu disent beaucoup de qui nous sommes, d'où nous vivons et de comment nous habitons notre territoire. Aujourd'hui, à en croire un rapport de l'ADEME, la France a "produit" 310 millions de tonnes de déchets en 2020, et la filière déchets fait vivre et ... Show More

Les autorités londoniennes sont particulièrement inquiètes à cause des "fatbergs", des amas monstrueux de graisse solidifiée, de déchets et d'autres substances non biodégradables qui se forment dans les égouts. Ces accumulations deviennent un problème majeur pour la gestion des i ... Show More

Jewels can tell stories… they can also inspire them…The greatest writers, actresses, and poets have forged masterpieces from jewels, gems, and precious metals. While some pieces really exist, others do so only in the realm of the imagination.This new season of Voice of Jewels tak ... Show More