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Liverpool takes top spot in EPL
Liverpool have stormed to the top of football's English Premier League table for the first time since May 2014 with a 6-1 win over Watford.
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Who controls the algorithms that control our lives?
Mathematical algorithms have become central to so many parts of modern life, but who controls them? This Way Up takes a closer look with Professor Pedro Domingos. Audio
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John ELMSLY: Stilldream K...
John Elmsly (baroque flute, tape realisation); Recorded by RNZ Concert, 21 March 1993. Audio
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How to win games and beat people
Audio 20 Oct 2016Tips from a science journalist for “seriously financially embarrassing your opposition” at Monopoly and crushing it at Paper Scissors Rock. Audio
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Māori innovation hub targets modern tech, education
Science organisation Callaghan Innovation is targeting Māori businesses at its research premises in Petone.
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Muesli and sea ice - an unexpected maths tale
Industrial mathematician Mark McGuinness has applied maths to problems as varied as crispy cereal and the freezing of Antarctic sea ice. Audio
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Muesli and sea ice - an unexpected maths tale
Industrial mathematician Mark McGuinness has applied maths to problems as varied as crispy cereal and the freezing of Antarctic sea ice.
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Decoding the US election: Who are Donald Trump's supporters?
Opinion - The US Republican candidate retains a solid core of supporters regardless of what he says or does. Phil Smith looks at who these people are.
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Lovers and Leavers by Hayes Carll
Nick Bollinger talks magic and romance with Texan troubadour Hayes Carll. Audio
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Lovers and Leavers by Hayes Carll
Nick Bollinger talks magic and romance with Texan troubadour Hayes Carll.
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Anthony RITCHIE: Gallipoli to the Somme
Performed by Anna Leese (soprano), Martin Snell (bass), with City Choir Dunedin, Southern Youth Choir and the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Over. Video, Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Mathematics
Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University on the mathematics that arises from political forecasting in the US election. Audio
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Ethical considerations in mathematics
Professor Steven Galbraith from the University of Auckland's Mathematics Department on ethical considerations in maths and the changes technology is bringing to some fields of mathematics. His… Audio
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Blaming maths teachers for students' struggles 'insulting'
It is insulting that teachers are being blamed for students finding a Year 11 maths exam too hard, a senior maths teacher says. Video
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Mathematics professor answers controversial maths question
Sylvain Cappell is a Silver Professor of Mathematics at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Checkpoint asked him to solve a maths question which caught out year 11… Video, Audio
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Dianne Brunton: bird songs and dialects
Kim Hill talks to Professor Dianne Brunton, who founded the Ecology and Conservation Group at the Albany campus of Massey University, and currently heads the Institute of Natural and Mathematical… Audio
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Grotesque Girls: What's the appeal of Real Housewives?
Opinion - How has yet another reality show managed to lure New Zealand eyeballs? Paul Casserly explains the appeal of the Real Housewives of Auckland.
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How to fix the Warriors, NZ’s most tortured sports franchise
The Warriors are playing some of the worst rugby league you’ll ever see, but we’re not about to give up on them just yet.
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Otago to announce cuts to arts departments
Otago's pro vice chancellor of Humanities, Professor Tony Ballantyne has told staff there will be job losses across several humanities subjects, believed to include English, linguistics, music… Audio
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Teachers' judgements of national standards 'lack dependability'
Teachers' judgements of national standards cannot be relied on and some children's results might be wrong, a government-funded report says. Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Mathematics
Making the numbers add up is Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research. Tonight he's looking at a recent discovery based on the game SET. Audio
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Education Ministry helps kids staying at Te Puea
The Ministry of Education has come to the tēpu - or table - to help some of the tamariki at Te Puea marae in Auckland.
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Solve for X - 26 June
Audio 26 Jun 2016Mathematics intimidates a lot of us, but it can deliver surprising answers to life's pressing questions. In this episode, TED speakers discuss the elegant simplicity, and giddy complexity, of solving…
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Danyl McLauchlan's Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley
Some streets have their own personality - Beale Street in Memphis, Bourbon Street in New Orleans - and in Welllington, that haven of Bohemians, Aro Street. A mystery about mathematics, labyrinths… Audio
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Chancing It
Robert Matthews' book 'Chancing it: The laws of chance - and what they mean for you' is published by Profile Books. Audio
