PhD candidate in Pacific Studies / Professional Teaching Fellow, Sarah McLean-Orsborn comes into the studio to kōrero about her research into Samoan women’s experiences of COVID-19 and looking at how they navigate their way through a crisis. Whakarongo mai nei!
To celebrate Christina's last Dear Science, Joel Rindelaub and Christina decided on an unofficial theme of beer and the end of the world for a rather morbid segment. This week, they discussed how beer hops could help cure Alzheimer's, the amount of emissions released by billionaires compared to us regular folk, and how scientists solved the mystery of a mass extinction event way back in the day.
After 13 long years, Avatar's long awaited sequal The Way of Water hits cinemas. Steve pops in to help us make sense of all the craze and fancy water graphics.
Today on Dear Science, Milly and Casper join an overseas Dr. Joel Rindelaub to recap the HUGE science of 2022! From volcanoes, to nuclear fission discoveries, all the way to outer space with the James Webb telescope, they're covering off what was a great year for science and ramping up for a 2023 of science discoveries.
Yesterday was the final day of Jacinda Ardern’s time as Prime Minister, as she formally hands the role over to incoming leader Chris Hipkins.
News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Academic GP at the University of Auckland, and director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre, Professor Nikki Turner about Ardern’s legacy on Child Poverty.
Turner says that Ardern has done more than any Prime Minister, but that there is still a long way to go towards ending child poverty in Aotearoa.
Pavement are on their way to Aotearoa in March - so in eager anticipation of the show hitting Auckland next week, Jonny speaks with Pavement's percussion & synthesizer legend Bob Nastanovich.
This week on Dear Science, Joel Rindelaub joins Milly and Beth to talk all things science news. From outer space, with the precursor to DNA being found on asteroids, to altered states where gorillas spin around to get high, and back down to earth where scientists have found a way to allow two male mice sucessfully procreate.
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