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7:12 Materials: Fact or Fiction - Jumbonium

 Dr Nate Davis, Associate Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute and Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington brings us the science - or lack of it  - on Jumbonium from Futurama.

Jumbonium from Futurama

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7:35 Tooth and Claw

The tiger truly is the 'prince of the jungle'.. The good news (to some) is that after a century of decline, wild tiger populations have increased recently. But with this comes the increase in human fatalities - there are almost daily attacks on the rural poor across India. A world without wild tigers is not a world we want, but how do we balance the needs of people and the needs of tigers? 

ANTALYA, TURKEY FEBRUARY 11: A tiger is seen at Antalya Zoo in Antalya, Turkey on February 11, 2021.

Photo: 2021 Anadolu Agency

8:15 Pacific Waves

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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.

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8:30 Window on The World 

In this week's People Fixing the World, a large study published in June showed how a peculiar intervention could help prevent the spread of dengue fever. Instead of vaccinating people, the World Mosquito Program has found a way to breed mosquitoes carrying bacteria that prevent them catching the disease in the first place. The organisation releases millions of these designer mosquitos into a city with the aim of displacing the wild population and protecting the human residents. 

Aedes mosquito A female Aedes mosquito. .Credit: NIAID (Photo by IMAGE POINT FR / NIH / NIAID / IMAGE POINT FR / BSIP via AFP)

Photo: IMAGE POINT FR / NIH / NIAID

9:07 Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, two stories about maths. 

Alona Ben Tal at her desk in the Mathematics Department at Massey University Albany.

Alona Ben Tal at her desk in the Mathematics Department at Massey University Albany. Photo: RNZ/Claire Concannon

Claire talks to Alona Ben Tal of Massey University about how careful mathematical modelling can help us gain new perspectives, while Katy learns how crafts such as origami and knitting can help us understand more about maths. 

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Japan

Motoko Kakubayashi joins us once again from Toyko ahead of what's being called the quiet Olympics.

A woman holds an umbrella walking past the Olympic Rings in front of Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo on July 8, 2021. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)

Photo: AFP or licensors

10:17 Lately

Susana Leiataua keeps you up to date if you're up late.

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

In this week's Pocket Edition, The Doors' drummer John Densmore speaks with Charlotte Ryan about the 50th anniversary of LA Woman, the last record the band recorded with their frontman Jim Morrison who died shortly after its release 

The Doors LA Woman

The Doors LA Woman Photo: supplied