Our Changing World for Thursday 21 February 2019
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Actinium - rare & radioactive
8:00 AM.The first alphabetical element in the periodic table is actinium. It is a heavy radioactive element, as we discover in episode 1 of Elemental, with Professor Allan Blackman from AUT. Read more Audio
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Flying kākāpō sperm
5:00 PM.In a world-first for kākāpō conservation, a drone (nicknamed the 'spermcopter') has flown kākāpō sperm across Whenua Hou / Codfish Island - the Kākāpō Files was there for episode 10. Read more Audio
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Plastic pollution in streams - a citizen science effort
9:06 PM.NIWA freshwater scientist Amanda Valois is co-opting citizen scientists to work out where plastic rubbish in streams is coming from. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 21 February 2019
9:05 PM.A citizen science project on plastic pollution in streams and flying kākāpō sperm takes to the air. Audio
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Tales from the periodic table
8:00 AM.In the prequel to Elemental, AUT's Allan Blackman introduces us to Dmitri Mendeleev and chemistry's periodic table of elements. Read more Audio
