Nine To Noon for Tuesday 12 August 2008
Nine to Noon on Tuesday 12 August 2008
9:05 P Babies causing problems for schools
John Cubitt, The Principal of Pekerau School in Te Awamutu
School principals in the Waikato say a generation of P babies is now entering the primary school system and causing huge problems for schools.
9:20 Impact of methamphetamine on the developing brain
Trecia Wouldes is a Senior Lecturer in psychological medicine at the Auckland School of Medicine - she is involved in a long term study of the impact of the use of methamphetamine by mothers on foetuses and infants.
9:30 The Antikythera Mechanism
Dr Tony Freeth, a member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project
It was the super-computer of the ancient world: a mechanism so complex that the greatest minds and the best technology of our modern era are only now deciphering how it worked and what it was for. Now, an Anglo-Greek group of scientists known as the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project believe they have started to unravel the mystery regading its function and significance.
It's called the 'Antikythera Mechanism', after the Greek Island near to where it was found on the seabed more than a hundred years ago.
Details at: www.antikythera-mechanism.gr and www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/antikythera
9:45 US correspondent Richard Adams
Richard is Washington editor of The Guardian
10:05 Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
Christina Thompson is the author of this book on observations on New Zealand and its race relations.
Published by Bloomsbury USA (July 22, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-1596911260
10:30 Book Review: My Name is Will by Jess Winfield
Reviewed by Kate Blackhurst
Published by Allen & Unwin
ISBN 9781741756029
10:45 Book Reading: On The Wings Of Mercury - The Lorraine Moller Story
Episode 2 of 6
11:05 Business with Rod Oram, Business and Economic commentator
11:30 Starbucks failure in Australia
Nick Wailes, Professor in Strategic Management, Faculty of Business and Economics at University of Sydney, Australia
11:45 Beijing Olympics
Joseph Romanos updates us from the XXIV Olympiad in Beijing, China