Nights for Tuesday 1 March 2022
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Mathematics and the Lagrange Point
7:13 PM.Over the last month or two, there has been a lot of press coverage of the new James Webb Space Telescope, and quite a lot of that coverage has mentioned the fact that the telescope is going to "sit at… Read more Audio
7:12 Mathematics and the Lagrange Point
Over the last month or two, there has been a lot of press coverage of the new James Webb Space Telescope, and quite a lot of that coverage has mentioned the fact that the telescope is going to "sit at a Lagrange point". Dillon Mayhew talks us through this mathematical concept.
A contour plot of the effective potential of a two-body system. (the Sun and Earth here), showing the 5 Lagrangian points.
Photo: Lagrange_points.jpg: created by NASAderivative work: Xander89, CC BY 3.0
7:30 The Sampler
Tony Stamp reacts to the latest record in Spoon's thirty year rock career, the debut album by Manurewa rapper Deadforest, and a country-adjacent collection from Nashville's Erin Rae.
Deadforest Photo: supplied
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
The Spotted Hyena - Cursed as a worthless scavenger and cast as villainous cowardly sidekicks in Disney's The Lion King, the spotted hyena is one of the world's most misunderstood of all predators. It may scavenge at night on a giant rubbish tip on the outskirts of Mekelle in Ethiopia, but it earns it's top predator status when it takes down its prey in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve. Adam Hart and guests polish up the spotted hyena's tarnished reputation.
Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spotted_Hyena_(230073667).jpeg#:~:text=Dominik%20Angstwurm%2C%20CC%20BY%2DSA%203.0%20%3Chttps%3A//creativecommons.org/licenses/by%2Dsa/3.0%3E%2C%20via%20Wikimedia%20Commons
9:07 Sci-Fi, Sci-Fact
Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland, Jan Eldridge takes a look at exploding stars and dying stars as plot devices in Science Fiction.
Photo: Photos12.com - Collection Cinéma
10:17 Lately
Bryan Crump has the latest updates on the days top stories.
Photo: RNZ Andrew Robertson
11:07 Worlds of Music
After 11, on Worlds Of Music, Trevor Reekie features has music from Palestinian group Duo Sabil. Female Kora player Sona Jobarteh, King Sunny Ade, Le Trio Joubran, Jewish vocalist Yasmin Levy and a gloriously ambient track by the band Opium Moon.
Photo: https://www.yasminlevy.net/
