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Nights for Thursday 5 August 2021

 

7:12 Materials: Fact or Fiction - Liquid Metal from Terminator.

MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Professor of Chemical Sciences at University of Auckland, Duncan McGillivray gives us his scientific take on Reconfigurable materials - Liquid metal from Terminator 

TERMINATOR 2 TERMINATOR 2 : JUDGMENT DAY 1991 de James Cameron Robert Patrick. COLLECTION CHRISTOPHEL © Carolco Pictures science fiction; sci-fi (Photo by Carolco Pictures / Collection ChristopheL via AFP)

Photo: © Carolco Pictures

7:35 Superheroes: Mindless entertainment or Meaningful Figures of our Time?

Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Professor of Film and Popular Culture at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) joins us to discuss superheroes

Kick-Ass Year : 2010 - UK / USA Director : Matthew Vaughn Chloe Moretz.

Photo: Archives du 7e Art/Plan B Entertainment/Marv Films

8:10 Tech with a Teenager

Charlie Cuff is back again.  Tonight he delves into data collection and mining by companies like Google and Facebook.

Data Mining visualisation.

Photo: Arbeck, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

8:15 Pacific Waves

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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.

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8:30 Window on The World

In this episode of People Fixing the World. the LGBT community in Mombasa, Kenya has suffered from violent mob attacks in recent years - often fuelled by influential preachers spreading messages of hate. But one group decided to tackle this in a remarkable way: they have directly engaged with faith leaders. In carefully controlled meetings the pastors and imams, get to know LGBT people and have their misconceptions challenged. This has led to a big reduction in violence. Now many of those religious leaders use their influence to help the LGBT community fight discrimination wherever they find it.

A woman wearing a rainbow flag walks between Christian members of the Sozo church of God as they hold anti-LGBTQ signs and sing against homosexuality after a verdict on scrapping laws criminalising homosexuality in front of the Milimani high court in Nairobi, Kenya.

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9:07 Our Changing World

As the New Zealand team continues to bring in the medals at the Tokyo Olympics, this week's Our Changing World explores two aspects of sports psychology - how crowds can influence performance, and how to 'get in the zone' in adventure sports. 

A spotlight highlights empty seats in the stadium ahead of the women's 3m springboard diving final event during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Tokyo on August 1, 2021. (Photo by Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)

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9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Russia

Our Overseas Correspondent in Russia, Bryan MacDonald joins us from Moscow.

A man holds an umbrella during a rainy day at Three Station Square in Moscow on August 2, 2021. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

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10:17 Lately

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Lately with Karyn Hay is a late night radio show on RNZ National, with an eye on live events, an ear for music, a great sense of humour and a genuine interest in people and their stories.

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

After 11, in this week's Pocket Edition with Yadana Saw, Grammy Award winning super producer Jack Antonoff speaks with The Details' Emile Donovan, Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station discusses climate anxiety and Tony Stamp investigates the re-emergence of cassette tapes.

In this photo illustration, cassette tapes which could once be purchased at RadioShack are displayed on February 8, 2015 in Westport, Connecticut.

Photo: 2015 Getty Images