Episodes
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On Our Changing World, we hop onboard the Department of Conservation boat Southern Winds in Doubtful Sound, Fiordland.
The team are doing scientific dives to document the different habitats in the sound.
They are also collecting some black corals and sea sponges for research back in Victoria University of Wellington’s Coastal Ecology Lab.
Onboard are PhD candidate Eva Ramey and her supervisor Dr Alice Rogers. Both are part of the dive team for this expedition, but they are also involved in another piece of Fiordland science: using acoustic tags to track sevengill sharks.
During a break in the dive action, Claire Concannon caught up with Dr Alice Rogers to learn more.
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It's easy to say "you should have known better' when someone falls victim to a scam". Every day, smart people lose life savings to con artists who know exactly how to exploit trust. Scams are a global industry extracting more than 500 billion dollars a year from victims. The Economist investigates the crime, the criminals and the untold suffering they cause in a podcast called Scam Inc. South East Asia correspondent Sue Lin Wong tells the stories of victims, investigators, and even the scammers themselves, revealing their tricks so we can learn how to avoid them.
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Kelly Gibney brings a meal full of crowd-pleasing flavours that's perfect for weeknights.
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If you've been thinking about communing with nature in your natural state before it gets too nippy ... then we've got the guide for you.
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Growing up isn't easy at the best of times but today's youth face an additional challenge: eco-anxiety.
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When humans arrived in New Zealand they set about dramatic changes to the landscape, which in turn impacted birdlife.
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With the huge popularity of web based word games like Wordle, Connections and thousands of versions of crossword, have you ever thought about trying to design one yourself? Where would you even start? Arun Stephens has done just that - Hang Five is like the old game Hangman but with a digital twist.
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Billions of dollars poured into Alzheimer's disease research has brought us no closer to understanding why some people lose their memories and fade away in front of their families. Yes, the human brain is complicated says science journalist Charles Piller, but the lack of progress is not just about biology, it's the result of arrogance, manipulated research results and downright fraud. Piller spent years peeling back the scientific scandal costing millions of research dollars and precious time for families. He details his investigation in his book, Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's.
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Our Aussie correspondent relays all the latest news in the 'lucky country' including a multi-billion-dollar bailout of steelworks in South Australia and new laws passed in NSW aimed at reducing the spate of antisemitic incidents we. And there's also the story of a couple who had to sit next to a woman who died on a flight to Venice for the last four hours of the flight.
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Today Catherine Robertson reviews two nonfiction books and a novel. They are: Mrs D is Not on a Diet (Allen and Unwin) by Lotta Dann. Route 52: A Big Lump of Country Unknown (Ugly Hill Press) by Simon Burt Book People (Headline) by Jackie Ashenden
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Vertech managing director Dan Watson gets nostalgic for retro gaming of the 80s and 90s. Turns out you can relive your childhood using programmes called emulators. Dan also discusses the news that following Australia, MPs here have had their phones wiped of DeepSeek and WeChat.
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According to our most recent General Social Survey, a quarter of New Zealanders aged between 15 and 25 say they are lonely some or all of the time. The majority of that group live in the regions, where socialising with people their own age can be a rare opportunity. Re:News looks at this in their new docuseries 'The Regions', which follows their journalists as they travel to some of the most isolated regions in the country to meet young people we don't hear enough about. You can watch the series now on TVNZ+ and YouTube. Baz Macdonald is on the Re:News team and directed one of the episodes.
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Almost 120 years ago, a tragic incident captured headlines across the nation. The emu at Wellington Zoo was found dead in its enclosure only ten days after it arrived. Did the emu die of natural causes? Or was it killed in an act of cruelty?
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The biennial Te Matatini Kapa Haka Festival kicked off today. 55 groups are vying for the coveted Toa Whakaihuwaka title in the competition this year, making it the biggest iteration of the festival yet.
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There was a time when we had to work hard for a hit of happy hormones our bodies produce naturally. Sugar, alcohol, scrolling social media on smart phones make dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins easy to access says Neuroscientist TJ Power. Too easy, he says . For years Power struggled with addictions and anxiety, damaging his brain while studying how it worked at the same time. His research led him to find a way to use the four natural hormones in our bodies with the acronym DOSE to improve mental health. He shares practical ways to harness the power of our happy hormones in his new book, The Dose Effect: Small Habits to Boost Your Brain Chemistry
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today we're focusing on the first of those inevitability's: death, and in particular funerals.
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It's a simple concept: Jesse calls an info center, chosen at random, with no advance warning. It could be good, fun chat. It could be a disaster.
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Caitlin Cherry reviews the hotly anticipated first episode of The White Lotus and reviews what she calls "the best medical drama ever made."
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Just over three years ago the End of Life Choice Act became law.
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We're all familiar with drones but how much do you really know about "Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles" and the role they could play in your daily life?
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