Ready Steady Learn

More films for Breakfast! The University of Auckland's, Brendan Donovan, is with us, this week, talking about his short film, featured during NZIFF, No Shame (2018). The film tackles a dark and important topic with a beautiful cinematic veil, Brendan tells us about the production and how he managed the responsibility of a confronting topic for New Zealand.

We're diving deep and heavy into the world of war and international politics with Dr. Thomas Gregory from the University of Auckland this morning. Can you put a montery value on grief? The US military seems to think so. We talk war, civillians, condolence payments and the politics of grief - straight into the real stuff on your Tuesday morning.

Haimo and Denys are research fellows within the new Augmented Human Lab in Auckland University's Bioengineering Institute. They focus on augmenting our human senses and expanding our capabilities via embedded sensors and wearable devices. So... cyborgs, right? Eee!

A widespread 'tale of terror' in Western societies is that people are focused on getting ahead in a world obsessed with money, materialism, individual success and status. But a large body of research in psychology shows that most people's first move in collective settings is to cooperate. Associate Professor Niki Harre's in the studio to teach us a thing or two about selflessness and sustainability. The more you know.