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This week on Dear Science, Frances Wright was joined by AUT Professor Marcus Jones, talking about zero-COVID countries, amateur astronauts in space and protein synthesis anti-aging research.

This week on the wire Frances began with her regular segment Dear Science with AUT Professor Marcus Jones where they talked about the future for zero-COVID countries, amateur astronauts in space and anti aging clues found in protein synthesis. Zazi then spoke with Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, England, Paula Larsson, about her article “The inherent racism of anti-vaxx movements.” This was followed by a piece from Frances talking to Emma Bugden, Whanganui and Partners Strategic Lead for the Creative Industries and Art, about the new Whanganui Film Office. And finally Zazi had her regular talk with the ACT Party’s Brooke van Velden, talking about Auckland moving to Alert Level 3 and Climate Change Minister James Shaw going to COP 26 - the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

Today on the Tuesday Wire, we are presenting a Best of Level 4 Lockdown show! 

It has been five weeks to the day that the 95bFM News Team started producing news and current affairs content from home. So today, News and Editorial Director Jemima Huston thought she would highlight some of the best Level 4 lockdown pieces created by each person that contributes to our daily current affairs show.

On the show Jemima plays snippets of interviews played on the Wire over the last five weeks. We’ll go over and update our pieces on Conversion Therapy Practices Bill submissions, a book called "Protest! Shaping Aotearoa", how to entice native birds into your garden, the Green Party's thoughts on David Seymour tweeting the Māori vaccination code, the impact of lockdown on climate change, the Canadian election, the latest Afghanistan crisis and the flooding event in West Auckland. 

A massive thank you needs to go to our Wire contributors for their work over this time. Thank you Jessica Hopkins, Louis Macalister, Joe Wickins, Zazi Hewlett, Frances Wright, Justin Wong, Conor Head-McCarthy, Ilena Shadbolt and Noah Ferguson-Dudding. 

You can hear any of the pieces played in this show in full on the Wire page on the 95bFM website. 

A recent study from the University of California, Los Angeles has found a correlation between too much free time and poorer mental health. The research involved over 25,000 participants and how free time impacts their wellbeing. 

Louis talked to one of the researchers, Cassie Mogilner Holmes, about the findings and the consequences of lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.