8 Jun 2018

The Panel with Janet Wilson and James Nokise (Part 2)

From The Panel, 4:05 pm on 8 June 2018

Argentina comes from "land beside the silvery river", Venezuela means "little Venice", Brazil means red like an ember, Spain comes from land of many rabbits.The Credit Card Compare site in Australia has some nifty maps of what the names of countries mean. What the Panelists Janet Wilson and James Nokise want to talk about. Auckland man Damien Grant is carrying on with plans for his annual commercial-scale fireworks display despite an outcry from neighbours who are worried about their pets and stock. Ros Rowe of Leg-Up Trust in Hawke's Bay knows the equine nature and tells us how horses react to sudden loud bangs and colourful outbursts in the night sky. Some are starting to notice a pattern that links key words that they type in emails or in internet search engines leading to advertisements that suddenly appear in their social media feed about those very topics. Are you being paranoid thinking that your smart phone apps are actually listening to your conversations and doing the same thing? Dr Peter Hannay is an information security expert and says it's not.