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Daily Cuts - Thank you for the music! The real purpose of SMRT’s new chimes

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The new jingles and chimes at SMRT station platforms and onboard its trains aren’t just an audio pick-me-up for commuters – they’ve also been specially curated for the visually impaired to create a more inclusive public transport system here. Our guest on Asia First tells Andrea Heng and Joel Chua about the science and hard work that went into composing San Lun Che, Chan Mali Chan and Singai Naadu for this now-permanent feature. 

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Daily Cuts - Making home with Forest & Whale

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Gustavo Maggio and Wendy Chua, co-founders of Forest & Whale, a local design duo that focuses on sustainable design and social care. The husband and wife team will talk about how they create homeware products, furniture systems, and services that use novel material technologies and circular production systems. 

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Daily Cuts - Contemporary art at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Koei Shiraishi, director of Whitestone Gallery Singapore and Ronald Ventura, a contemporary Filipino artist. The newly opened Whitestone Gallery Singapore is a new contemporary art gallery located at Tanjong Pagar Distripark and houses both a museum and a commercial gallery. Philippines’ Ronald Ventura is a contemporary Filipino artist known for his dynamic melding of realism, cartoons, and graffiti, and will share more about being ine of the artists involved in the grand opening.

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Daily Cuts - NASA unveils findings from asteroid Bennu

About 18 days ago, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx returned to Earth to drop off material from asteroid Bennu. This is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, which is about 200 million miles away. The samples from the asteroid contained abundant water in the form of hydrated clay minerals and molecules. 5% of the asteroid was made up of carbon, which is the "highest abundance of carbon measured in any extra-terrestrial sample". Dr Brad Tucker, Astrophysicist and Cosmologist, ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics explains the significance of this for our future.

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Daily Cuts - The relevance of flyers in this digital age

We’re all familiar with printed flyers being left at our doors and in our letterboxes. But as the world has transitioned into online advertising, would it not be more convenient and green to do away with them completely? So what alternatives do companies have, if they do away with printed flyers? Some ideas can be found in a commentary on TODAY Online, it’s called “Marketing flyers still useful in a digital age, but we need better controls against waste, unsolicited mail”. One of the authors of the commentary Cheng Kwang Hwee, Senior Lecturer, SUSS tells Arnold & Andrea why printed flyers are still so common.

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Daily Cuts - What would Israel's ground offensive look like

Israel has formed a ‘war cabinet’ between PM Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz  as rockets continue to be fired from both sides. This unity government will not promote any unrelated policy or laws except those related to the ongoing fighting with Hamas in Gaza. Over 2,000 people on both sides have lost their lives and Gaza’s only power station has stopped working after running out of fuel. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has also vowed to launch a ground offensive in response to the attacks by Hamas. Dr James Dorsey, Adjunct Senior Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU explains the role the unity government will play in conflict.

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