Afternoons for Wednesday 6 July 2022

1.15 First song with Ed Waaka

Award winning singer and songwriter Ed Waaka joins us the in the studio to play his recently released single, E Kura. It's the first song he's written entirely in Te Reo and was inspired by the imminent birth of his daughter.

1:10 Death toll displays increase crash rates

Displaying highway death tolls on message boards is common in the US.

But a new study shows that this awareness campaign could actually lead to more crashes.

Joshua Madsen is an Assistant Professor in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He conducted the study with a colleage, and joins Jesse discuss it.

1.25 Engaging more Pasifika students with STEM subjects

Our next guest says that it's hard to find Pasifika students at Honours level with STEM backgrounds.

Pasifika are under represented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. The Government has recognised it, and say they're pushing hard for Pasifika achievement in STEM.

Dr Taniela Lolohea is a lecturer in Chemistry at AUT and it's been weighing on his mind.He talks to Jesse.

1:35 Dead penguins another climate change conundrum

Some Adelie penguin colonies in Antarctica have been there for centuries. Which means there is a build up of thousands of years of penguin poo and carcasses.

Warming temperatures will increase the melt water flowing through these colonies. And this massive build up of contaminents could become a problem.

Masters student from the University of Waikato Madison Farrant is heading south this summer to research this. She talks to Jesse about the trouble shooting they're doing.

1.45 NZ Horror film to be showcased at New York's Museum of Modern Art

A New Zealand Horror film is set to be showcased on the global stage at the legendary Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The 1993  film called 'Jack Be Nimble' will screen at the museums upcoming summer film series "Horror: Messaging the Monstrous" in July, and the film has been celebrated by the New York Times in an article about the series.

The film stars Bruno Lawrence, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, and American actor Alexis Arquette prior to her transition.

Director and writer Garth Maxwell talks to Jesse about the new attention the movie's getting!

2.12 Podcast Critic: Caitlin Cherry

Caitlin Cherry discusses two podcasts’ Scamfluencers and Persona - the French Deception. Both dive into the world of scams and scammers - what makes them do what they do, how they manage to dupe people and how the end up going too far and getting caught.

2:25 Bookmarks with Te Waiarangi Ratana

Today on Bookmarks we're talking to a young filmmaker who's just getting his feet wet in the NZ screen industry.

Te Waiarangi Ratana got his first professional job in the locations department for 'Wellington Paranormal' while he was still studying.

By the fourth season he was serving as third assistant director and helping out in the writers room.

Between seasons he worked on a variety of projects including films like 'Savage' and 'Cousins' and TV shows like 'Mystic' and 'Mr Corman'.

He recently premiered his own short film 'Manu Masters' at the Maoriland Film Festival.

3:10 The Guilty Feminist Show, Deborah Frances White in NZ

You don't have to be perfect to be a force for change. In the 7 years since Comedian and podcaster Deborah Frances White started her wildly popular podcast, The Guilty Feminist, that's been her message. And the universe is always giving her things she wants to change. She says the US Supreme Court's decision taking away a woman's right to an abortion is just one more thing for  women to fight. She's back in New Zealand with The Guilty Feminist live show in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch later this month.

3:35 Stories from Our Changing World

Claire Concannon vists a group at the Unviersity of Waikato who are developing machine learning algorithms to help make sense of environmental data.

The goal of the TAIAO data science programme is to provide tools and methods for researchers to deal with tricky data problems, make good predictions, and guide future environmental decisions.

3:45 The Panel with Sue Kedgley and Liam Hehir