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Should we sing Christmas Carols before Christmas Eve? A Marlborough farming couple have been fined $40,000 for not wearing helmets while riding their quad bikes. A call for a ban on alcohol… Audio

Topics - when faced with auditory confusion we are more likely to select a word or phrase that we're familiar with, a phenomenon known as Zipf's law. Our brains are great creators of logical meaning… Audio

Topics - these days it's cheap smartphones and even deals on tyres, touted on TV as the ideal Christmas gift. There's been a war against the trivialisation of Christmas for a hundred years. That's… Audio

Topics - the economic cost of social inequality in NZ has been highlighted again. Where do you think all the Earth's water came from? A New Zealander is being detained in Myanmar after using an image… Audio

Scientists are searching for a quantum theory of the universe that brings together Einstein's general theory of relativity - which denies the existence of a unique time - and quantum mechanics - which… Audio

Topics - the way you walk can change your mood. This is in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. New research suggests that if we walk purposefully our mood is elevated, if we… Audio

Topics - the number of homes in the United Kingdom with a television in has fallen for the first time since television was invented and made comercially available. Troubled waters in Wanaka… Audio

Topics - in the UK, where Christmas Number One songs are a national institution, The Radio Times asked readers to nominate their favourite of all time. 1969's Two Little Boys was removed from the… Audio

The Crown is being urged to appeal against jail terms of less than six years imposed on two men who wrongly accused a Christchurch father of being a paedophile, poured petrol over him, and burned him… Audio

Topics - the latest Nielsen quarterly survey published overnight shows the average time a day spent watching live TV fell 12 minutes in the latest quarter to four hours and 32 minutes. That's 141… Audio

Topics - well the magazines have been very busy displaying the bodies of famous women in recent times. Kim Kardashian tried to "break the internet" by posing nude for Paper magazine. Last week British… Audio

Topics - last names are especially important if you want to better yourself in life. We discussed this topic once last year when it emerged that people with elite surnames tend to stay rich through… Audio

Topics - the Sydney Morning Herald's just run a piece about the ongoing demise of traditional broadcasters like the ABC, and Channels 7,9 and 10 in Australia. Once they were printing money, now they… Audio

The Martin Jetpack has been on the drawing board for a few years. Auckland Council has apologised after hundreds of council carpark holders were sent the private details of hundreds of other clients. Audio

Topics - the Auckland City Council met this afternoon and rejected a binding referendum on imposing motorway tolls on roads as people never tire of pointing out that were built sometimes a long time… Audio

Topics - without giving any particular chocolate maker a plug, it seems the day of the chocolate box may be limited. Just as we don't buy collections of songs on albums much any more, we prefer to… Audio

Topics - Delilah is no longer a popular girl's name, and perhaps that is in part because it's associated with mischief, thanks to Tom Jones. It's long been claimed that names can influence your… Audio

Topics - research out of Michigan State University sugests that rather than being silent and smouldering, or pretending you get on with the boss, you should have it out with them, whatever "it" is… Audio

New Zealand was "settled peacefully" by the British, according to the prime minister. All Black captain Richie McCaw will become the first skipper of any international side to lead his country in a… Audio

Topics - Bob Marley's family are teaming up, it's called in media releases, signing a deal would be another way of putting it, with a private equity firm to launch Marley Natural marijuana; Bob will… Audio

Topics - out of Canada this morning - Transit rife with sexual predators as women subjected to daily abuse on buses and subways. Increasingly transit authorities in the world are proclaiming the… Audio

Topics - In the Swedish town of Flogsta outside Stockholm, they've been screaming out their windows at 10 o'clock at night since the 1970s. The world's just discovered what they do... or re-discovered… Audio

Topics - there's a fascinating GIF file you can look at in the Atlantic Monthly online showing the popularity of female baby names in America, and it's the American trends we follow now. This graphic… Audio

Topics - British, Australian and American research shows we're getting tired of talking on the phone. The Block NZ's long television run ends tonight with the live television auction of four new… Audio

Topics - Although the breakfast news this morning had scientists celebrating landing probe Philae on comet 67P, on this epic Rosetta mission 500 million kilometres away in space, the lander may not be… Audio