Afternoons for Monday 10 June 2024

 

1:15 "Berm Batteries" a great way to recycle EV batteries

For many years now the after life batteries from electric vehicles have been a thorn in the side environmentally friendly image of those EVs.

Now it's hoped that those batteries, no longer fit for purpose in electric cars, can be deployed to help serve as electricity distribution centres, charging cars but also acting as generators not dependent on fossil fuels.

A prototype's been set up in Mercer, just south of Auckland by Counties Energy, it's known the Berm Battery - even though it's not technically sitting on the berm at the Mercer service centre.

Moonis Vegdani is Counties Energy's chief strategy and transformation officer talks to Jesse.

1.25 What is the role of a university in the future?

New Zealand universities are under increasing pressure, there's financial constraints, the post-COVID hangover, and staff layoffs.

In response the government's appointment of a University Advisory Group to "consider challenges and opportunities for improvement in the university sector"..

The most important question being asked is: What should be the function of a university in the modern world?

To talk through the potential answer to that question is Dr Anthony Richardson, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Tertiary Teaching and Learning at Waikato University, and the Deputy Director of Te Puna Ako.

1.35 Hā - helping people across Aotearoa to breathe

We've all experienced those moments in life when we feel totally overwhelmed.

Well, a breathing tool designed right here in Aotearoa is made to help in those moments

Julia Wikeepa is the founder of Hā Habit!

Her Hā Tools are beautiful breathing devices that the user can wear as a necklace and use to help relieve anxiety, increase lung volume, and regulate the nervous system.

Julia speaks to Jesse.

1:45 Feature album

Today we dive into Al Green's album 'Call Me'.

2:10 Television Critic: Brooks Alexander

Today Brooks Alexander talks to Jesse about House of the Dragon, Interview with the Vampire, The Boys and The Acolyte.

2:20 Made in NZ: NZSIP Smart Panels

NZSIP  make a specific kind of insulated panel - structural insulated ones called Smart Panels.

For Made in NZ today we head to Central Otago to chat to James Clarke the General Manager/Director NZSIP.

2.30 Expert Feature: Falconry

Today's expert is all about falconry - That's the art of using a bird of prey for hunting.

It's history here in Aotearoa only dates back 100 or so years. Globally it's been going for thousands.

We have just one native Falcon the Kārearae. There are only around 8,000 and it's illegal to own them for Falconry.

But it is permitted to train them in falconry for conservation and rehabilitation, which is exactly what Rotorua's Wingspan charitable trust does.

General manager  and falconer Ineke Milne has traveled the world following her love of birds of prey - and even had one on her shoulder while she taught biology to high school students for six years in Rotorua.

3:10 The Final Diagnosis, a new book by Dr Cynric Temple-Camp

How would you commit a perfect murder? It's a question New Zealand's leading forensic pathologist gets asked a lot.

He's worked on some of New Zealand's most high profile murder cases such as the Lundy murders.

In his third and final book, Dr Temple-Camp shares some less well known cases of death, disease and murder that prove that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The book is called Final Diagnosis .

3:35 Here Now
What's settling into New Zealand as a newly refugee like? What are the factors that determine how NZ recieves refugees and where they get resettled?

This month on Here Now, Kadambari Raghukumar features stories on refugee resettlement in NZ, starting with this first episode at Auckland's Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre.

3:45 The pre-Panel