Nights for Thursday 8 July 2021
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Overseas Correspondent - Japan
9:40 PM.Motoko Kakubayashi joins us once again from Toyko ahead of what's being called the quiet Olympics. Read more Audio
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Jumbonium
7:10 PM.Dr Nate Davis, Associate Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute and Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington brings us the science - or lack of it - on Jumbonium… Read more Audio
7:12 Materials: Fact or Fiction - Jumbonium
Dr Nate Davis, Associate Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute and Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington brings us the science - or lack of it - on Jumbonium from Futurama.
Photo: 20th Century Fox Television
7:35 Tooth and Claw
The tiger truly is the 'prince of the jungle'.. The good news (to some) is that after a century of decline, wild tiger populations have increased recently. But with this comes the increase in human fatalities - there are almost daily attacks on the rural poor across India. A world without wild tigers is not a world we want, but how do we balance the needs of people and the needs of tigers?
Photo: 2021 Anadolu Agency
8:15 Pacific Waves
Koroi Hawkins presents a daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world.
Photo: RNZ Pacific
8:30 Window on The World
In this week's People Fixing the World, a large study published in June showed how a peculiar intervention could help prevent the spread of dengue fever. Instead of vaccinating people, the World Mosquito Program has found a way to breed mosquitoes carrying bacteria that prevent them catching the disease in the first place. The organisation releases millions of these designer mosquitos into a city with the aim of displacing the wild population and protecting the human residents.
Photo: IMAGE POINT FR / NIH / NIAID
9:07 Our Changing World
This week on Our Changing World, two stories about maths.
Alona Ben Tal at her desk in the Mathematics Department at Massey University Albany. Photo: RNZ/Claire Concannon
Claire talks to Alona Ben Tal of Massey University about how careful mathematical modelling can help us gain new perspectives, while Katy learns how crafts such as origami and knitting can help us understand more about maths.
9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Japan
Motoko Kakubayashi joins us once again from Toyko ahead of what's being called the quiet Olympics.
Photo: AFP or licensors
10:17 Lately
Susana Leiataua keeps you up to date if you're up late.
11:07 Music 101 pocket edition
In this week's Pocket Edition, The Doors' drummer John Densmore speaks with Charlotte Ryan about the 50th anniversary of LA Woman, the last record the band recorded with their frontman Jim Morrison who died shortly after its release
The Doors LA Woman Photo: supplied
