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Topics - the Auckland City Council met this afternoon and rejected a binding referendum on imposing motorway tolls on roads as people never tire of pointing out that were built sometimes a long time… Audio

Topics - without giving any particular chocolate maker a plug, it seems the day of the chocolate box may be limited. Just as we don't buy collections of songs on albums much any more, we prefer to… Audio

Topics - Delilah is no longer a popular girl's name, and perhaps that is in part because it's associated with mischief, thanks to Tom Jones. It's long been claimed that names can influence your… Audio

Topics - research out of Michigan State University sugests that rather than being silent and smouldering, or pretending you get on with the boss, you should have it out with them, whatever "it" is… Audio

New Zealand was "settled peacefully" by the British, according to the prime minister. All Black captain Richie McCaw will become the first skipper of any international side to lead his country in a… Audio

Topics - Bob Marley's family are teaming up, it's called in media releases, signing a deal would be another way of putting it, with a private equity firm to launch Marley Natural marijuana; Bob will… Audio

Topics - out of Canada this morning - Transit rife with sexual predators as women subjected to daily abuse on buses and subways. Increasingly transit authorities in the world are proclaiming the… Audio

Topics - In the Swedish town of Flogsta outside Stockholm, they've been screaming out their windows at 10 o'clock at night since the 1970s. The world's just discovered what they do... or re-discovered… Audio

Topics - there's a fascinating GIF file you can look at in the Atlantic Monthly online showing the popularity of female baby names in America, and it's the American trends we follow now. This graphic… Audio

Topics - British, Australian and American research shows we're getting tired of talking on the phone. The Block NZ's long television run ends tonight with the live television auction of four new… Audio

Topics - Although the breakfast news this morning had scientists celebrating landing probe Philae on comet 67P, on this epic Rosetta mission 500 million kilometres away in space, the lander may not be… Audio

Topics - Maybe not forever young, but you'll live longer than you think probably, and if you think you'll live longer you will. This is the conclusion of a big American study 0f 26,000 Americans back… Audio

Topics - today is generally the loneliest date, the 11th of the 11th, a lot of ones. So back in the 1990s a group of students at Nanjing University designated the day Singles Day, as a bit of fun… Audio

Topics - Living in cities makes you look older: urban air makeS you age 10 per cent faster than in the country. admittedly this research from China. It's not lifestyle, it's the more than 200… Audio

The very unusual case involving the AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd and a man formerly alleged by police to be a potential 'hitman', who spoke out to media. Well the story's changed now. Cafes and restaurants… Audio

Topics - there is the new youtube phenomenon, or one of them, and a lucrative one. It's ASMR, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response therapy. Millions are watching people like The Whispering Mum, Lauren… Audio

Topics - shift work dulls your brain. In fact the suggestion is that any sort of employment outside normal daylight hours isn't much good for you. This is research published in the journal… Audio

Topics - the much-anticipated horse race this afternoon, and the much-anticipated horse picks from the renowned Mary Mountier, author of How To Pick A Winner as well as other highly-accomplished… Audio

Topics - Dejan Lazic is demanding that a bad concert review be removed from Google under the European Union's 'right to be forgotten' online legislation. It's Lazic versus the Washington Post at the… Audio

Topics - There's a lot of hype and conjecture and extrapolation in music industry sales figures historicaly; "Thriller" probably sold around 50 or 60 million copies rather than the oft-quoted "well… Audio

Topics - 40 years ago today, October the 30th 1974. It's early morning around about now in Zaire, and the Rumble In The Jungle is over. Regarded as the greatest boxing fight of all time, seen around… Audio

Topics - the University of Texas has concluded the obvious: extraverts seek out songs laden with bass, people who enjoy jazz and classical music are more clever and creative. In Edinburgh 36,000… Audio

A speech from the CEO of the BNZ Anthony Healy contained what was probably unexpected subject matter - he took an environmentalist tone; and Coconut Oil is high in saturated fat and should not be used… Audio

Topics - among ideas we have about ourselves is that we are simply voracious readers of books, from Wuthering Heights to Wind In The Willows. Well we may be, but probably not, if you read into the… Audio

Topics northern Europeans are the world's biggest travellers, four Nordic countries in the top five. US travellers are up there, but their trips tend to be internal. Norwegians are the biggest… Audio

Topics - police have arrested a man for allegedly piloting a drone over Manchester City's football ground at the weekend. Police said he's suspected of breaching the air navigation order, and… Audio

Topics - tomorrow the Kansas City Royals start playing the Giants in the baseball World Series, in San Francisco. And as you may have heard San Francisco radio stations - 104.5 KFOG and 96.5 KOIT… Audio

Topics - Today in Berlin a group of scientists will try and change the name of the era we live in. Would you like to see people being fined for using the phrase "moving forward" or "going forward"… Audio

Topics - there's been a deal of research about the importance of writing things down. In one fairly famous experiment students were asked to recall past trauma and put pen to paper about it. The… Audio

Topics - in the UK Sainsbury's customers are pledging to shop elsewhere after the famous chain of stores halved the value of its "Nectar points". Customers will only receive one loyalty point for… Audio