Afternoons for Tuesday 16 November 2021

 

1:12 First Song

 

1:15 Further funding for research into whether spiders can count

Back in 2017 Jesse spoke with arachnologist Dr Fiona Cross - or Doctor Spider - about her work investigating how tiny spider brains might understand numbers.

She was nearing the end of a Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden (Marsden Fund) grant to study a jumping spider named Portia in Kenya.

An update: Fiona recently secured $926,000 from the Marsden Fund to continue to her research.

She joins Jesse to discuss where this research will take her next.

1:25 100 years of radio, listeners' memories 

To mark 100 years of radio in New Zealand this week, each day Jesse is speaking to a listener about their memories of radio. Today we speak to Martin Heal about what he recalls from his childhood and what has stuck with him throughout the years. 

1:30 Descendants of the Māori battalion are being encouraged to get vaxed this weekend

The descendants of the Māori battalion are being asked to get vaccinated this weekend - as part of a special event being put on at the aerodromes on the East Coast. 

This Saturday, aircraft bearing the names of the soldiers who fought in C Company from Te Tairawhiti in WWII will be on show - with pilots volunteering their time and aircraft coming from all over the North Island.

Barry Soutar a trustee from Ngā Taonga o Ngā Tama Toa talks to Jesse about their project. 

1:40 Were Moa and people co-existing on Rakiura Stewart island?

Humans and moa may have co-existed on Rakiura Stewart island, according to some new research from the University of Otago and the Department of Conservation. 

The research was undertaken after the discovery of the bird's skeleton on the island last March by DOC ranger Phred Dobbins.

Dr Nic Rawlence, director of the Otago Palaeogenetics Laboratory and research paper co-author talks to Jesse about what they've discovered. 

1:50 Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson

Today Daniel Watson, owner and managing director of Vertech IT Services, talks to Jesse about cleaning out your images to bolster storage and the supply chain issues for many tech product providers heading into the busy Christmas period. 

2:10 Book Critic: Anna Rankin

Today Anna Rankin looks at the latest from writer, Paula Morris, "On Coming Home."

2:20 Songs from the Audioculture Album Cover Location Map

Audioculture have published an interactive map of iconic New Zealand album covers that plots the locations where the images were originally shot. 

It includes Anika Moa being photographed in the Waitakere ranges for her In Swings The Tide cover, and The Underdogs Blues Band who chose Invercargill for their self-titled debut album cover.

So for today's music feature Jesse is joined by Chris Bourke who put the map together, and he's picked a few album covers to chat about with a few of their tracks to play.

3:10 How ancient philosophies apply to modern times 

You don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. This is how hipster Stoic Ryan Holiday boils down the ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and applies it to our very modern lives. He tells us how he uses the wisdom of stoicism from the 3rd century BC to develop resilience and humility to navigate uncertainty in the  21st Century. 

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness 

The shrinking glacier on top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is a very clear example of the effect that global warming is having. Rebecca Kesby speaks to an international scientist and those who live locally, about the rapid changes taking place on one of Africa's greatest landmarks. 

3:45 The Panel with Julia Hartley Moore and Jack Yan