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A motley crew of academics from the University Of Auckland educate you on a range of thought-provoking topics. Thanks to the University of Auckland.

 

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Ready, Steady, Learn w/ Dr Amber Milan: May 1, 2018

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Tue 1 May 2018

Could drinking a2 Milk be the solution to all our lactose-prompted woes? Research Fellow at the Liggins Institute Dr Milan sure thinks so. Drop your conventional milk and cheese for just two weeks and let the a2 goodness consume you. This study suggests you'll be able to digest dairy better long-term and reduce common side-effects such as nausea, stomach pain and bloating. Yum. 

Ready, Steady, Learn w/ Matt Bastion: April 24, 2018

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Tue 24 Apr 2018

We're ready, steady, learning all the way to the bank with young entrepreneur Matt Bastion this week. A wunderkind of the university's own making, Matt is part of a team that's currently developing an app that allows musicians to connect with new fans based on what's worked for other artists in similar genres and locations. Learn more about ~ Hypebeat ~ on the website. Or, you know, just listen to this bCast. Whatever. 

Ready, Steady, Learn w/ Ayla Raymond-Roberts: April 17, 2018

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Tue 17 Apr 2018

Is small housing the future for a more sustainable, affordable Tāmaki Makaurau? Ayla thinks so, and she's got a pretty solid argument. Catch her award-winning project Muryo Jitaku: A Forecast for the Future of the Detached Home in Urban New Zealand at the Architecture Student Design Awards this Thursday. 

Ready, Steady, Learn w/ Sanjal Shastri: April 10, 2018

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Tue 10 Apr 2018

Sanjal's in to talk about the history of religious rioting in India, with particular regards to the often gruelling election process. From the promotion of Hindu nationalism to 'ethnic outbidding' of Muslims and other minorities, let this Master of Conflict and Terrorism Studies broaden your mind to the trials and tribulations of all things political. 

Ready, Steady, Learn w/ Geoffrey Handsfield: April 3, 2018

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Tue 3 Apr 2018

Can we capture leg motion and use it to understand calf and thigh muscle contraction? Or what about seeing inside a heart to get a glimpse of how it functions? Geoffrey's in to chat about just a few of the biomechanics projects that'll be on display at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) as part of National Biomechanics Day on April 11.

Ready, Steady, Learn w/ Albert Ashton: February 20, 2018

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Tue 20 Feb 2018

Albert is a master weaver, also studying for his Masters of Fine Arts. In studying the personal (his heritage, his whanau, his mahi) his work has taken him on greater explorations of Maoritanga and the wider world of cloak creation - even to the British Museum, where he's been able to speak on potential repatriations of such cloaks in museum collections the world over.

Ready, Steady, Learn w/ Chris Young: February 13, 2018

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Tue 13 Feb 2018

Chris is a current Masters photography student at Elam School of Fine Arts whose past includes having lived through apartheid, and the post-apartheid changeover, as a First Generation South African. Drawing from intense personal experience, Chris's work investigates how relationships between black and white South Africans have changed over the last twenty-five years.

Ready, Steady, Learn w/ Dr. Maria Armoudian: January 30, 2018

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Tue 30 Jan 2018

Dr. Maria Armoudian runs the website The Project for Media in the Public Interest (PMPI), an online hub connecting audiences to informed dialogue on science, economics, arts and politics. Striving to elevate critical thinking and involve a range of international scholars, check out her site HERE.

Ready, Steady, Learn w/ Clare Reynolds: January 23, 2018

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Tue 23 Jan 2018

The health of the mother while pregnant is being found to affect the heath of the unborn child in lasting ways all the time. Clare's research in this area involves supplementing healthy fats, in particular conjugated linoleic acid (or CLA), in the diets of obese female rats with an aim to increasing metabolic function and decreasing weight gain in their offspring. As worldwide obesity worsens, could the findings within Clare's research one day help human mothers? 

Ready, Steady, Learn w/ Dr. Daniel McCormick: January 16, 2018

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Tue 16 Jan 2018

Medical science can, and often does very successfully, use electrical stimulation to help trigger responses in the human body. However, the specificity of the stimulation needed (i.e. not zapping everything in the nearby radius) has long meant these sorts of implants were limited to pacemakers and cochlear implants. ...But not for long if our guest's research is anything to go by. A current research fellow investigating the use of light stimulation on genetically targeted neurons, Dr. McCormick is on the cutting edge of a potentially game changing technique in the treatment of disease.