Nights for Thursday 23 September 2021

 

7:12  The Traditional Fijian Female Tattooing Practice of Veiqia

We chat to Luisa Tora about the traditional Fijian female tattooing practice of veiqia and a new exhibition in Christchurch.

7:35 World Weather with Erick Brenstrum

Erick Brenstrum joins us once again.  He casts his eye on the flooding in Europe and Tennessee, Hurricaine Ida and the wildfires and drought in Europe and North America.

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.

8:30 Window on The World

Crowd Science from the BBC World Service - Charles Darwin called the eye an 'organ of extreme perfection' and he's not wrong! But if the eye is so complex and intricate, how did it evolve?

9:07 Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, two stories about the brain.  Claire Concannon speaks to a scientist in the University of Auckland trying to figure out a way to slow Parkinson's Disease progression.  Sonia Yee explores research happening in Victoria University of Wellington into our perception of emotions in a mask-filled world. 

9:30 Uptown Lowdown

We're joined by Marty Duda from The 13th Floor to talk about their new youtube channel - Uptown Lowdown.  A new music news and review show.

10:17 Late Edition

Bryan Crump presents all the breaking news, a little analysis of the stories of the moment, and some highlights of the day on RNZ National.

 

10:20 Catching Maori vaccination rates up

Vaccination rates for Maori are being described as dismal, compared with non- Maori and the race is on to get them vaccinated as fast as possible. According to this week's figures 51 percent nationwide had recieved their first jab compared to 78 percent of non-Maori... Across Auckland Counties Manukau is the worst... just 50 percent of Maori have had their first dose versus 84% of non Maori. And only a quarter of Maori in the catchment are fully jabbed..its just over half for for non-Maori. The Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson says the Government is doing everything it can to get 90% of Maori vaccinated in the next fortnight before alert levels are reviewed. Bryan Crump spoke to a man at the coalface, Dr Rawiri Jansen chair of Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā - the National Maori Pandemic Group.

10:30 Amazon to build data centres in New Zealand
 

The future of the tech sector is looking dazzling - and quite crowded - actually. Amazon Web Services announced this morning it wants to build three data centres in Tamaki Makaurau, spending up to 7-point-5-billion-dollars on the centres, which are due to be completed in 2024. It says the project will create a-thousand direct and indirect jobs, and add nearly 11-billion-dollars to the economy over the next 15-years. The chief executive at Gorilla Technology Paul Spain explains what it all means.

 

10:45 Tired during pregnancy? It's biological - new research
 

There's nothing new about being shattered during pregnancy and we all know why - or do we?  New research from Otago University has looked at the hormone prolactin - which is critical for milk production - and found it tells the brain to stop exercising.  To rest and preserve to help the body build a little human - or more than one.   Bryan talks to Dr Sharon Ladyman, who has been leading the research on mice.

 

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

Yadana Saw presents with this week's Pocket Edition.  Tonight, Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera on his new collaboration with an old friend called Tim Finn and Alien Weaponry on their new record Tangaroa.