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Wool face masks proving a hit
Audio 5 Jun 2020New Zealand wool company Lanaco has turned their hand to making woolen face masks, which they say are a much more natural and easy-breathing solution than synthetic masks. Audio
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NZ Music Month 2020: Fresh Music Daily
The RNZ Music team is celebrating NZ Music Month with Fresh Music Daily - new music from a different Kiwi artist every day. Video
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3MM: Sara Walton on 'the next normal'
Audio 24 May 2020Three Minutes Max, succinct opinions from Kiwis on topics of their choice. Associate Professor Sara Walton from Otago University's Business School shares her thoughts on the 'next normal' and building… Audio
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The escalation of antibiotic-resistant superbugs
Before the pandemic, antibiotic resistant bacteria is what kept many global health officials up at night. Superbugs have not gone away, they are still out there figuring out ways to defeat whatever… Audio
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Regional Wrap
Hawkes Bay is in dire straits with a continuing drought, Northland which was in one of the worst droughts on record, has had rain. A parched Marlborough received rain last weekend and South Otago is… Audio
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NZ fashion brand RUBY launches training scheme
The New Zealand fashion brand RUBY is launching a training scheme to build skills for the local industry and hopefully help rejuvenate the industry in a post-Covid world.
The company is looking for… Audio
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Going virtual: taking parliament onto the holodeck
Along with most everything in New Zealand parliament has gone virtual, and not just the MPs. Audio
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Paypal sees surge in New Zealanders spending online
New Zealanders are buying up large on board games, home entertainment, education materials and alcohol.
The number of us using the electronic payment service PayPal for our online shopping has… Video, Audio
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Tara McLeod: A Typographic Journey
Audio 14 Apr 2020Master typographer Tara McLeod talks with Lynn Freeman about his love of an ancient and still enduring craft.
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Where Covid-19 meets tourism, taps and nanotechnology
Two Cents Worth answers two listeners’ questions around how Covid-19 might change the world. Audio
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Covid-19: Flour demand up 500 percent for NZ producer, but plenty of wheat
Home bakers keen to keep busy and fed during the lockdown have pushed demand for flour up 500 percent for one producer.
Champion Flour has three mills going around the clock to keep up. There are no… Video, Audio
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3MM: Vaughn Davis on things of beauty in times of crisis
Vaughn Davis is the owner and creative director at The Goat Farm. He offers his thoughts on a public toilet built in the darkest hours of WW2 - a story of beauty and hope that is entirely relevant in… Audio
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Covid-19’s silver lining
As we face very uncertain times, the Two Cents' Worth team thought to try to find the economic positives out of the COVID-19 crisis. Audio
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Covid-19: Medicine, vaccine supply disruptions likely - Pharmac
Drug buying agency Pharmac is warning further disruptions to medicine supplies are inevitable, as measures are taken to restrict the spread of Covid-19.
Increasing restrictions on air travel and… Video, Audio
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Norris commission evokes Cook's arrival in NZ
Audio 14 Mar 2020Michael Norris talks about how and why his new NZSO commission Mātauranga (Rerenga) for taonga pūoro, live electronics and orchestra, evokes James Cook's first encounters with Māori. Audio
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Environmentally aware NZers are embracing the circular economy
The concept of the circular economy has been around for many years, but this sustainable way of doing business is getting a boost from a new breed of environmentally aware consumers. Audio
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Covid-19: Staff redundancies not ruled out - Air NZ boss
Air New Zealand's new chief executive says redundancies cannot be ruled out as the company weathers financial turbulence in the Covid-19 outbreak. Video, Audio
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Government has ignored expert advice on kits for dyslexia
The mother of a dyslexic child says the Government has ignored expert advice in putting together its new kit of resources for schools. Sharon Scurr told reporter Ruth Hill that the thousands of… Audio
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Westport man makes kitset bamboo bikes
Glenn Irving bought a kit set bamboo bike online and built it. It turned out to be so popular he's built several more. He explains to Jesse how he does it and why they are so popular. Audio, Gallery
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Silver filling, amalgam replaced by tooth coloured materials
New research by Otago University has found amalgam was used in 7 percent of fillings in 2017 - compared to just over 50 percent in 1998. Associate Professor Jonathan Broadbent is the lead author of… Audio
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Where are all our zero carbon homes?
New Zealand is building a new generation of unsustainable housing - tens of thousands of homes that will put out carbon emissions five times higher than levels set by the Paris agreement. Audio
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Bougainville community's self-built bridge sets a precedent
A local chief in Bougainville says a bridge that his community built by itself is an example of how a new independent nation might work. Audio
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The science of wildfires
Bush fires are growing in severity and frequency. William Ray finds out about the latest research into how fires burn and how people react when flames threaten. Audio
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Lightsabers
Audio 30 Jan 2020A new series on Nights in collaboration with the MacDiarmid Institute where we take an idea from fiction and see how it stands up to scientific scrutiny. Tonight, Professor Justin Hodgkiss Professor… Audio
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New Zealanders send 97 million plastic containers to landfill every year
WasteMINZ has released their research on plastic recycling around the country with some startling results. They found that every year 97 million recyclable plastic containers are going to landfill… Audio
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Andrew Crowe: Pathway of the Birds
Nature writer Andrew Crowe tells Lynn Freeman about the story of Polynesian voyaging and migration; of finding and re-finding small remote islands and atolls scattered throughout the Pacific… Audio
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Call for national plastic recycling strategy
Not all plastics are created equal, when it comes to recycling - in fact many everyday products, like ice-cream containers, can not be recycled at all. Audio
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Exposure: A lawyer’s fight against ‘forever chemicals'
Rob Bilott is the lawyer who revealed the dangers so-called 'forever chemicals'. It started with a phone call from a concerned farmer and uncovered decades of water contamination. Audio
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New Zealand jewellers and the Handshake project
Te Auaha's Handshake project was started in 2011 by makers Peter Deckers and his wife Hilda Gascard, aiming to nurture New Zealand jewellers, and build links with international galleries and… Audio
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From plumbing his dreams to creating new technology, James Cameron’s deep-sea explorations mirror his approach to making movies
Noelle McCarthy talks with the film director James Cameron about his passion for exploring the natural world, and its connection to his career in cinema. This event was recorded at Otago Museum. Audio