Sunday Morning for Sunday 17 September 2023

8:10 Gregor Paul: Rugby World Cup Update 

Herald rugby writer Gregor Paul joins us with his take on the latest from France in the Rugby World Cup. 

8:20 Dr. David Cox: How to best keep hydrated 

With summer on the horizon, we talk to Neuroscientist and journalist, Dr David Cox to find out how much we should drink every day, and what we should be drinking. 

8:40 Dr Riley Elliott: Cookiecutter sharks  

Most of us had never heard of cookiecutter sharks until a week or so ago, when they managed to sink a catamaran off the coast of Australia. 

New Zealand marine scientist and Auckland University's shark man Dr Riley Elliott gets his teeth into the details. 

9:10 Mediawatch 

Mediawatch this week talks to the boss of our biggest publisher of news - Stuff - confronting the disruption of artificial intelligence technology. 

Also: election campaign arguments about the state of our finances - and education. 

9:30 Calling Home: Duncan Paterson in Paris 

Duncan Paterson is calling home from Paris, currently the centre of the Rugby World Cup. 

Duncan’s bar is called The Black Sheep Society, a slice of kiwi heaven on the streets of Paris. 

10:10 Lisa Sanders: What they're learning at Yale University’s long-COVID clinic. 

It's been reported that 1 in 5 Covid sufferers in NZ have long-COVID symptoms.  

Otago University estimate that up to 150,000 New Zealanders may be battling, or have been battling long-COVID, another estimate was up to 300,000 earlier this year. The only publicly funded long-COVID clinic in the country will shut up shop at the end of this month. 

Dr. Lisa Sanders is a physician, a professor of internal medicine and a longtime New York Times medical columnist and at Yale University's long-COVID clinic, she is doing what she can to understand the mysteries of the disorder.  

10:40 Alex Wellerstein: How reliable is the world’s nuclear weapon arsenal? 

Nuclear weapons have unfortunately been brought to the fore once more with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine despite most experts agreeing deployment is unlikely.

No nation has detonated a nuclear weapon in conflict since 1945 and many of those weapons are getting pretty old.   

Alex Wellerstein is a nuclear weapons historian at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He talks to Jim about the state of nuclear weapons and how reliable they are.    

11:10 David Robson: Why great people don’t always give the best advice. 

Neuroscience researcher, writer and author David Robson joins us once again. This time he’s been looking at advice and where we get it. Interestingly, it’s not always the most successful people that are best-placed to give advice. 

11:25 Mea Motu: What I’m listening to 

Champion boxer Mea Motu joins us to talk life and boxing and to share some music that she loves. 

11:45 Ali Hill: The Nutrition Edition 

There’s so much nutrition information firing at us from all sides. Joining us once again to make sense of it all is Dr Ali Hill from the Human Nutrition department of Otago University.