Afternoons for Tuesday 6 September 2022

 

1:20 Using natural landscapes as pest control!

Natural landscapes could play their part in helping to eradicate pests that are threatening alpine ecosystems.

The idea is that high-elevation landform limiste the movemenf of invasive small mammal species, as long as there is work done at lower altitudes.

 Nick Foster, who's the lead author in an Otago University Department of Zoology study talks to Jesse about their work so far.

1:25 Earth station satellite upgraded to help search and rescue

New Zealand's Rescue Coordination Centre responds to about 1200 search and rescue incidents each year, and their ability to locate people in these dire situations quickly and accurately can be the difference between life and death.

Thankfully, the systems that help find people via locator beacons and transmitters on ships and aircrafts are about to get a massive overhaul.

Maritime NZ has started work to upgrate the satellite Earth Station located between Rotorua and Taupō, which will improve the accuracy and response times of emergency beacons across 30 million square kilometres of the south-west Pacific.

Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand manager Justin Allan talks to Jesse.

1:35 Melanin Rising exhibition opening today

Today portrait photographer and writer Abhi Chinniah has launched an exhibition that serves as a spiritual sequel to a series of photographs she showed in 2020 exploring colourism.

This one's called 'Melanin Rising', and it uses portraits, essays, and interviews to examine skin-lightening practices that exist today and the ways media tends to represent dark-skinned people.

You can catch it at Depot Artspace in Devonport until 28 September, but if you're not around Auckland you can head to loveyourmelanin.com to take a look.

1:50 Relationships with Hannah Korrel

Today neuropsychologist and author Hannah Korrel talks to Jesse about the difference between jealousy and envy when it comes to relationships and when it turns into something malicious.

2:10 Book Critic: Anna Rankin

Today Anna talks to Jesse about bell hooks' 'The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love.'.

2:20 Music feature: The music of Fela Kuti

For this week's music feature and today we're talking about a musicians Miles Davis called "a life-transforming artist".

Fela Kuti is a Nigerian born multi-instrumentalist and bandleader who pioneered the genre that came to be known as Afrobeat.

He was also a fearless political activist who stood up to his country's colonial government, supporting and empowering his people through his music.

To tel; us more about the influence of Fela Kuti and play us some of his music we're joined by hip-hop artist Mazbou Q.

3:10 How to break bad habits and understanding our brains

Breaking bad habits is simple, but not easy  according to neuroscientist, Dr Selena Bartlett. For 30 years, she's been studying the human brain, motivated to understand it better when her sister was hospitalized with a mental illness.  She says understanding what's going on in our brains when we're stressed or stuck in bad habits can help us make  positive changes instead of leaning on sugar or alcohol. She believes if you want to change your life you first have to change your mind and offers ways to make that possible.

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died aged 91 last week.

Gorbachev came to power in 1985 at a time when the Soviet economy was on the brink of collapse. He introduced a radical reform programme called Perestroika.

25 years on from Perestroika, in 2012, Louise Hidalgo spoke to three people who remembered those exciting days in Moscow.

3:45 The Panel with Amy Carter and Phil Taylor