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Our Changing World for Thursday 2 July 2020

  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 25 June 2020
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  • Voices from Antarctica 6: Seal songs

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    A Weddell Seal pup and its mother.

    9:09 PM.Alison Ballance eavesdrops on the songs of the world's southern-most mammal, the Weddell seal, and finds out about sea ice. Read more Audio

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  • ‘Melting ice & rising seas’ team wins PM Science Prize

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    Nancy Bertler and Richard Levy hold an ice core collected from Antarctica which holds a record of past climate.

    9:08 PM.A team finding links between melting ice sheets in Antarctica and rising sea levels in NZ has won the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Prize. Read more Audio

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  • Wheelie bin robot inventor wins science prize

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    Thomas James, a year 13 student at Burnside High School in Christchurch, is the winner of the $50,000 Prime Minister’s Future Science Prize for 2019.

    9:07 PM.Student Thomas James wanted to help his elderly neighbour, so he invented a wheelie bin robot to take her large recycling bin to the kerb. Read more Audio

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  • Passionate maths teacher wins a PM’s Science Prize

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    Michelle Dalrymple, from Cashmere High School in Christchurch, is the first maths teacher to win the Prime Minister's Science teacher prize.

    9:06 PM.Michelle Dalrymple, winner of the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Teacher's Prize, says being mathematically literate is an important life skill. Read more Audio

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  • Our Changing World for 2 July 2020

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    9:05 PM.Winners of the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Prizes include a team studying melting ice and rising seas, a maths teacher and a young inventor. Audio

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  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 25 June 2020
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 9 July 2020
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