Oto and Jaycee spoke to Alexander L. Brown - a designer, artist, musician and founder of Wrought Material about his experiences working as an Asian artist in the underground arts and music scene, as well as Extreme music in Southeast Asia.
Jonny chats to Dr Bryan Ruddy of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute about his work with healthcare robots, and how his involvement BattleBots bootstarted his research into making motors, and robots, more effective. Thanks to Waiapapa Taumata Rau - University of Auckland!
Featuring Ready Steady Learn with Dr Bryan Ruddy, brought to you by the University of Auckland, and a snippet of Hunter's chat with Nadia Reid on Short Player thanks to NZOA Music. This week's our Album of The Week is The D4's Out Of My Head, which at longlast has been pressed to vinyl. Tune into Breakfast all week for your chance to win a copy!
Sof spoke to Sharon Van Etten (USA) about her latest record, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory. They spoke about Van Etten working in full collaboration with her long-time band for the first time, the heavy themes of the album, and who to listen to when you want emotional solidarity.
After a week on hiatus, Sof is back on the airwaves!
She spoke to Sharon Van Etten (USA) about her latest record, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, released last week. They spoke about Van Etten working in full collaboration with her long-time band for the first time, the heavy themes of the album, and who to listen to when you want emotional solidarity. Listen back to their kōrero here!
Sex-bias in healthcare and research has long been a prevalent issue for women, as clinical trials occurring as recently as 2023 have excluded women, in favour of testing men as “the average person”.
This has had consequences such as women being more likely to experience negative side effects to certain drugs, due to important differences in female bodies being unaccounted for in research.
As today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, producer Athena spoke to Associate Professor, Dr Kelly Burrowes, at the University of Auckland Bioengineering Institute, about the historic and current gender inequities in healthcare and clinical research, as well as The FemTech Revolution.
Waitangi Day was last week on Thursday, and to commemorate the anniversary of the signing of Te Tiriti we saw MPs attending various events across the country. During these events we also saw many speaking out against the government’s approach to Treaty relations, particularly the treaty principles bill.
We also saw a series of new appointments to the Waitangi Tribunal at the end of last month. While the new appointments and outgoing members are each uniquely qualified for the position, some have noted that many of the outgoing members have academic experience and knowledge that will not be replicated by the new appointments.
Wire host Castor spoke about each of these issues in this week’s catchup with the National Party’s Tom Rutherford, beginning by asking about what National’s MPs got up to on Waitangi Day.
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