This Thursday Harry Speaks to Dr Jeanne Snelling, research fellow in bioethics and health Law at the University of Otago on a recent US study in which scientists used CRISPR a genetic modification tool to edit human embryos, removing mutations linked to heart conditions. Harry also speaks with newly appointed Labour Deputy Leader Kelvin Davis on Labour’s new direction. We have Eva Sherwood, Oracle Account Executive and NZTech Board person on NZ tech’s campaign to bring more women into the tech industry. Ben Speaks to Senior Economist at NZIER, Christina Leung on traffic congestion. Ben also speaks with the CEO of Hāpai Te Hauora, Lance Norman on 'synthetic cannabis'. And Harry speaks to the Mental Health Foundation’s chief executive Shaun Robinson on the launch of their new website to bring awareness and assistance to those affected by suicide bereavement.
Raukura Turei, of Ngaitai ki Tāmaki and Ngā Rauru is a registered architect who has found her visual art practice a powerful tool to clearly communicate ideas without the constraints found in architecture. Turei is about to launch her first ever solo exhibition in a gallery.
Currently she has a show at Objectspace but at the beginning of next month, her own show, titled Self is her way of giving back to women around her. It offers an intimate reflection of the body, and on our embodied relationships to space and each other. The works are a cathartic meditation saturated in the female form, sitting between self expansion and self obsession.
I spoke with her for quite a long time about how she came to be an artist as well as an architect and how these works came about. If you want to hear the full interview, check out the bcasts on our website. For now, here’s a section from the interview where she tells us about the show at Objectspace, her more recent influences, and the upcoming show.
America has entered an age of excess, according to Jay Slosar. Driven by a maddening quest for perfection, technology, deregulation, and a superficial, and often inaccurate mass media, America’s national psychology has become increasingly narcissistic. This is leading to a culture of cheating, lying, and reckless behaviour which has crashed the economy and continues to wreck lives in the national fabric. The emerging nation of narcissists has more consequences should the spiral continue, making a world that accepts cheating and lying as a way of life. Maria Armoudin discusses whether we are living in an age of excess with Slosar.
On Dear Science with AUT’s Allan Blackman we talk enantiomers and magnets, and interstellar asteroid and really really hot water.
We speak with NZ First MP Jenny Marcroft, this week unpacking the NZ First wins in the budget and how this affects Maori development.
Tracey Williams of Auckland Council tells us about an art initiative taking submissions of art celebrating 125 years of women's suffrage in NZ
For our Wire Worry week we have Lisa Boudet with a report on ghost homes in New Zealand.
Harry Willis speaks with Manu Caddie from Hikurangi Cannabis company on record numbers of would-be medicinal cannabis investors crashing crowdfunding website Pledgeme raising $2M dollars in east coast districts.
In this special extended episode of the What If? podcast, Luke Goode talks about the future of mental health with a panel of international experts who were recently brought together as part of an Australia and New Zealand lecture tour entitled ‘Mental Health Crisis.’
Historically political leaders and the citizens of the United States had turned toward a civil service after being fed up with the spoils system and other problems arising from private companies running those services. With the return to privatizing government services, Jon Michaels suggests the US is facing a deeper problem.in the form of a potential constitutional coup. Maria Armoudian spoke with Michaels about his new book “Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic.
Great speculation has arisen about the effects of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s resignation from the Supreme Court, particularly on the rights, liberties, and politics in the United States. Will it ultimately change course in the USA? And does this also illuminate the fundamental flaws in American politics, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution? Maria Armoudian is joined by Sanford Levinson, John Vile, and Stephen Griffin.
Earlier this year, New Zealand popstar Lorde became the latest in a long line of artists to pull out of shows in Israel. This came after pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, including two New Zealand activists who called on the singer to change her mind about playing in the country. The activists were later ordered to pay $12,000 by an Israeli court under a 2011 ‘anti-boycott’ law. Sam Smith spoke with Mark LeVine about the impact of BDS and the ongoing issue facing musicians on whether or not they should perform in Israel.
The world is fast running out of fresh water according and the results could be very grim: more wildfires, droughts, rationing, less food, more hunger. The causes are linked to overconsumption and a growing human population. Can we reverse the trend? Thomas Kostigen, author of The Green Blue Book: The Simple Water-Savings Guide to Everything in Your Life, says we can and he has quantified how much each of us contributes to either continuing water crisis or averting it. Maria Armoudian speaks with Kostigen about what people can do to help alleviate the water crisis.
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