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Topics - it's getting tougher to get into the world's great universities. It's the deadline shortly for applications for Oxford, for example, and the Telegraph newspaper reports new requirements for A… Audio

Topics - Economic professors at Emory University carried out a study on more than 3,000 US men and women who had been married to a member of the opposite sex. They have concluded that the more you… Audio

Bernard Hickey's on The Panel today, and Tau Henare makes his debut: Our standing in the world. Andrew Little standing in the Labout world. Outstanding CEOS. The exact amount of sleep you need, they… Audio

Topics - lightning strruck a 48 year old American stockbroker called Michael Utley, when he was playing golf. Now all this happened in 2000, and over the years since, Michael Utley's recovery has… Audio

Topics - new research indicates acorns don't fall far from the tree at all. This is from Kings College London. Genes don't just influence your IQ, you inherit a lot else besides, and it determines how… Audio

Topics - Paul Revere has died at the age of 76. "He'd been quiet about it for some time" said his manager. "Paul stayed on the road as long as he could, then retired just recently back to Idaho." The… Audio

Topics - how parenting is killing marriage. The cult of parenting now is destroying marriage. More and more people are divorcing once the children leave home. In the US, parenting today is comparable… Audio

Topics - At the University of California they've developed a new way to make oxygen that doesn't need plants. It uses UV light and it's splashed across the journal Science. Post match grumpiness has… Audio

Topics - your sense of smell could predict when you'll die, that's the dramatic headline from a new study, and its a pretty respectable study. The University of Chicago. John Herridge a Christchurch… Audio

Topics - the very short courses in tourism at the wananga and the Warriors caught up in this $6m scandal. Nearly 100 players and staff "completed" a course funded for 18 weeks in just one day. The… Audio

Topics - apparently 8 years ago a much-discussed study estimated 304 million lakes on the surface of the land, but a careful count using high-resolution satellite images says 117 million. Newly… Audio

Topics - "Coming off caffeine reduces your cognitive performance and has a negative impact on your mood. The only way to get back to normal is to drink caffeine, and when you do drink it, you feel… Audio

Topics - there's a British Tory MP, a minister actually, by the name of Brooks Newmark. Minister of civil society. He became more than civil on Twitter with someone he thought was an admiring young… Audio

Topics: the words we use; the global mobilisation on climate change; "living below the line"; the iPhone 6; Which movie would be closest to your own life? Audio

Topics - Rod Stewart is being sued.. His party trick at concerts has ben kicking autographed soccer balls into the crowd, but at Caesar's Palace one of the balls broke the nose of a Mr Mostafa Kashe… Audio

Topics - a Cambridge University initiative is set to launch, aiming to find out what poetry stays with us, or with you Steve McCabe, British people. It's the Poetry & Memory Survey. So Pike River was… Audio

What Emma Watson said at the UN about feminism. Is it all over at age 75 if you're honest? Have you done what you're going to do, is it all downhill from then on, and should you help speed up the… Audio

Topics - at Rutgers University they've found evidence that women are better at recalling memories, especially autobiographical ones. A Waikato Economics Professor asks why New Zealanders are crying… Audio

What happened to the Maori Party vote? Audio

Topics - Do you goal-set? There is evidence that goal setting can do more harm than good. Election officials are reminding users of Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media that they are… Audio

Topics - Voting begins in two hours on the Scottish referendum. David Slack disapproved of a blog by Stephen Franks. More political news, reported in the NZ Herald... "At a meeting in Moerewa, Mr… Audio

Topics - the USA is one of the world's happier countries, but it's not quite the happiest, and interestingly its in America, from Central America up, where people report being most content. Are… Audio

Topics - Bernard, financialpost.com says the world financial system will soon be short of easy money. It's at what is described as an inflection point as the U.S. and China both switch off monetary… Audio

Topics - the salary bill at the Auckland Council has risen by $9 million dollars in the year to June - to $702 million. 1780 Auckland Council staff earn over $100,000. Would you pay $1,430 for a seat… Audio

Topics - Do you bite your nails? "Pathological groomers" - nail biters, skin pickers and hair pullers - are on the rise in number the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, will say… Audio

Topics - Joon Yun is a rich radiologist from Silicon Valley he's in charge of a lot of money as the head of Palo Alto Investors, and now there's the Palo Alto Longevity Prize for the first researcher… Audio

Topics - in Britain, but also in New Zealand for the same reasons, there are fewer and fewer pubs and more and more cafes. And yet we're not really drinking alcohol less or coffee more. Experts in dog… Audio

Topics - a study by Dr Tom Jackson at the University of Loughborough found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your thoughts after reading an e-mail. Are jeans fading? When and how often… Audio

Topics - There's been interesting research come out through the year on what walking does to you, not long distances like those advocated by those fans of Scottish independence the Proclaimers, but… Audio

Topics - new research from the University of California... younger blood can reverse many of the effects of ageing. The police have had this tech for a while, but 13 new cars that can detect stolen… Audio