Nights for Thursday 19 August 2021
7:12 Materials: Fact or Fiction - Proton Packs from Ghostbusters
Emily Kendall, Physics PhD student at the University of Auckland gives us her scientific take on the Proton Pack from Ghostbusters.
Photo: Archives du 7e Art/Columbia Pictures
7:35 Engineering in an Earthquake Zone
Michelle Grant, president of the Structural Engineering Society of New Zealand joins us as our new engineering regular. Tonight she'll be taking a look at how we engineer buildings in a earthquake zone.
Photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Base_isolators_under_the_Utah_State_Capitol.jpg
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
From the BBC World service, People Fixing the World tonight looks at Seaweed - we have been using it for centuries in food and toiletries. It can help to keep toothpaste and ice cream soft, as well as being a tasty snack. It is a billion-dollar industry. But in some parts of the world, supply of the crop has decreased dramatically due to climate change.
Photo: Yadid Levy
Now people in Zanzibar are fighting back. They are learning new methods of farming seaweed in deeper, cooler waters. It is boosting the amount of seaweed they can grow and improving their livelihoods as a result.
9:07 Our Changing World
Our Changing World this week discovers how information flows in the cell from DNA to proteins, and how scientists have tapped into this to enable a new way to make vaccines using messenger RNA.
Colour enhanced transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. Photo: Public Domain, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Uganda
Our Overseas Correspondent from Uganda, Tabu Butagira joins us from Kampala.
Photo: AFP or licensors
10:17 Lately
Photo: RNZ
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, Yadana Saw brings us this week's Pocket Edition, Arts Laureate Maisey Rika speaks with Kathryn Ryan and Lawrence Arabia swings by the Music 101 studio. Plus lots of new music for lockdown discovery.
Maisey Rika Photo: Supplied
