The Panel for Thursday 9 August 2018

3:45 PM.How much of an environmental impact does dog poo have? How many stamps bear Queen Elizabeth II's image? And why don't we eat whale meat? Audio

3:54 PM.I think many of us know someone quite like Oscar the grouch, easily annoyed, their default setting is grumpiness. Audio

4:08 PM.The government has announced an "apprenticeship for the dole" scheme, targeting 18-to-24 year-olds who've spent more than six months on a benefit. Audio

4:10 PM.The divisive "waka-jumping" bill went before parliament today, with the Greens reluctantly promising their support. Audio

4:11 PM.Public transport woes continue to plague two of the country's biggest cities - in Auckland the effort to phase out school buses in favour of "normal" public transport seems to have backfired, while… Read more Audio

4:21 PM.Six people - one of them the minister for civil aviation - were fined last year for using a cellphone on a plane, according to Newshub. But what exactly is happening in the radio-sphere that makes… Read more Audio

4:27 PM.France has reopened its investigation into the vanished Malaysia Airlines plane MH370, after a "final report" from Malaysian authorities failed to explain what happened. Audio

4:34 PM.From the journal Science Advances... sociologists from the University of Michigan set out to analyse online dating. Audio

4:44 PM.Chris Ryan, the president of the Auckland University Debating Society, joins the panel to talk about the mood and level of interest around Don Brash's appearance at a debate at the university later… Read more Audio

4:54 PM.A listener recently sent in a letter about the problems he'd had proving his address to his bank ... why is this SUCH an important detail? Audio