Episodes
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The snowballing power of fanhood
Without her fans, holographic pop star Hatsune Miku would literally be nothing. It's now the same story for organisations, says Zoe Fraade-Blanar.
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The reign of business bullshit
The empty jargon of the management world is symptomatic of a deeper cultural malaise, says the author of Business Bullshit André Spicer.
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Lost in translation: navigating comedy across cultures
Samoan New Zealander Li'I Alaimoana, South African New Zealander Urzilla Carlson and Icelandic comic Ari Eldjárn explore comedy and culture.
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High tech hearing aids
Hearing devices have for years been an expensive and somewhat unfashionable necessity for those with hearing troubles, but as the tech improves, hearables are becoming a cool functional accessory. For one thing, translating languages, in real time, could soon be a reality. In the US, legislation...
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Auckland Pride Festival's Lexie Matheson
2018's Auckland Pride Festival is all about peace. They've got the usual parties that people flock too... the Ponsonby Road parade, the family-friendly 'Bay Gay Out' plus dozens of other events. Co-chair Lexie Matheson takes Simon Morton through the programming.
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Festival tent testing fake highs
Synthetic drugs sold as MDMA and ecstacy and oversized MDMA pills cause the most drug-related harm at NZ gigs and festivals, a volunteer with the drug checking service Know Your Stuff says.
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North and South Korea... together?
At the winter Olympics next month, the Koreas will march under one flag - united, after so long apart. They'll also compete as one in women's ice hockey. This comes out of the first real talks between the countries in more than two years. International reaction has been mixed, with some concerned...
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Gene editor may not work on humans
It's been dubbed the biggest advance in the world of genetic engineering but scientists are still trying to discover more about what the gene-therapy CRISPR-Cas9 can do. It's often described as molecular scissors, and can be used to find and cut out a specific short DNA sequence with a gene. Now...
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'Exercise is the top thing to do for your brain'
For the health of your brain, exercise is even better than thinking, Harvard psychiatry professor John Ratey says.
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Swipe right for conspiracy
What do you do when when you're looking for love but but most people don't share your views on the world and society? Up This Way's Shaun D Wilson spoke to truther Jenny and writer Florence Wilkinson - who for Broadly looked into how people who subscribe to conspiracy theories are trying to make...
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Why Dexter Guff is smarter than you
On Wednesday 24 January, RNZ National will be airing the first episode of Dexter Guff is Smarter Than You (And You Can Be Too). The comedy series has a very droll, completely deadpan format masquerading as a series of self-improvement podcasts. The vacuousness of motivational speaker Dexter Guff,...
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Tonga's parliament opens at a time of uncertainty
At the end of last year 'Akilisi Pohiva's Democratic Party won a resounding victory in Tonga's election. The win came after his reign as the Kingdom's Prime Minister was cut short by King George Tupou the 6th, who intervened and dissolved parliament, on suspicion Mr Pohiva was trying to usurp…
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Bits+Bytes: changes to Facebook and YouTube & the future of smart speakers
Alphabet (Google) tightens up YouTube advertising rules; the future of smart speakers; Simon and Peter test out wireless home audio systems; and why has Facebook changed its algorithm?
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Sport with Barry Guy
Senior RNZ Sport journalist Barry Guy joins Simon Morton on Up This Way to with the lowdown on the latest in sports including an update on what's happening with the cricket.
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Fun or conformity - lawnmowing
At some point this summer many of us, who are lucky enough to back yards, have probably taken out the lawn mower and spent a sweltering afternoon cutting the grass. But have you ever thought about what that simple act tells us about our relationship to nature? In a time of eco-consciousness and...
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Alzheimer's discovery could lead to new treatments
Scientists have discovered the workings of tau – an essential protein that turns harmful in the Alzheimer's brain and takes down neurons as it spreads. Intercepting this process could arrest cognitive decline in Alzheimer's patients.
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China's environmental double disaster
Earlier this week in China, an Iranian tanker sank. Oil has been coursing out of the rig for days, the slicks growing in size. If it doesn't burn off or stop chugging out soon, this could be one of the biggest oil spills in 50 years. But as journalist Adam Minter has discovered, the East China…
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'If you're not being authentic people will see straight through you'
Emma Mildon, an author with over 32,000 Instagram followers, and The Social Club's Georgia McGillivray discuss what it takes to be a social media influencer.
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Digital blackface, and the death of memes
Chicago-based Lauren Michele Jackson is a writer and PhD candidate focused on the intersections of race, gender, music and technology. Her articles have appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Complex, and Teen Vogue. She's currently working on a book called White Negroes: Love & Theft in the New...
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The desperation of India's scammers
The scammers trying to convince you your computer has a problem may well have been conned themselves, Delhi journalist Snigdha Poonam says.
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Flat Candy: a new place to find a sweet flatmate
Kiwi flat-hunters can now connect with people who have rooms to rent on the free website and app Flat Candy. "It's almost like Trade Me Property except instead of rentals, it's people," says co-founder Finn Dinneen.
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Drake the video game
Rapper and video game developer ya boy sprightly has been getting a lot of attention recently for his RPG video game The Legend Of Drake.
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Bright ideas: Start up sector takes off
The New Zealand start up scene has only really been around for the last decade or so, and when a Kiwi idea is picked up overseas it's huge for the players and for the economy, says start-up guru Dave Moskovitz
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Space Wars: the manual
The idea of a war in space is no longer science fiction, but our international laws on extraterrestrial conflict are unclear, says the editor-in-chief of an upcoming military manual for outer space.
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How stress can affect your body
Most of us know too much stress isn't healthy, but a new study has discovered how it can affect our immune system and make us more vulnerable to disease.
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Could supercharged drugs fight the superbugs?
Antibiotic resistance could leave humanity returning to an age when simple infections were fatal and surgery was life threatening, the World Health Organisation says. Australian researchers say revamping existing drugs could be the answer.
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California's mudslides
It's been a rough few weeks for residents in Southern California. First a massive fire swept through the region, destroying homes and leaving the earth scorched and dry. Then this week, rivers of mud flowed through, crushing homes and killing at least 17 people. Santa Barbara county in particular...
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The rise of true crime
The true crime genre is booming because it offers the unique experience of being simultaneously in the place of the victim, the detective and the accused, says an academic and writer.
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Put Some Colour In Your Life
Put Some Colour In Your Life chronicles Australian painter Graeme Stevenson as he motorbikes around the world, visiting artists in their studios. It's an opportunity for viewers to learn about the techniques and inspirations that the profiled artists use to create their aesthetically pleasing...
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Nabakov's future dreams
What if your dreams could tell the future? Famed Russian-American author Vladimir Nabakov tested just that theory by keeping a dream diary documenting 64 dreams over 80 days and ordering them with 118 index cards. His dream documentation and their relation to his work are examined in a new book…
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When is dubbed better than subbed?
Overdubbed films have a bad reputation in the English-speaking world, but if done well can be superior to subtitled films, says a former Studio Ghibli producer.
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Workplace strife at Fiji airport
There's a dispute going on at Fiji's Nadi Airport, between the workers on the ground and the company they work for. Management at Air Terminal Services have been arguing with workers since December over issues including sexual harassment and pay concerns. Now their jobs are being done by…
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Bits+Bytes: is your iPhone being throttled?
Scrutiny of Apple intentionally slowing down iPhone performance heats up; more fallout from the world’s biggest hardware fault; gaming addiction now officially a mental disorder; and the Chinese electric car that's making waves.
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Sport with Barry Guy
Senior RNZ Sport journalist Barry Guy joins Simon Morton on Up This Way to give us the lowdown on the latest in sports.
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Who's got your DNA?
Who has access to your DNA? More importantly...do you? Most people now have the right to access their lab results and DNA data. But that doesn't mean the companies that hold that data can't access it too. The ins and out and legal issues surrounding ownership of our medical and genetic…
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Marine heatwave: 'It's never been that hot before'
If you've jumped in the sea this summer and found it to be a surprisingly warm temperature that's because the Tasman Sea is currently going through a "marine heatwave". Since November the water has been more than 2 degrees above average...in fact it's been the warmest ever in records going back…
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A standout voice in gaming - Nina Freeman
One of the more interesting voices in independent video gaming right now is Nina Freeman. Her games favor narratives that often chronicle everyday life and conversations. Nina's been rather prolific recently with the releases of Edinburgh International Festival commissioned Lost Memories Dot Net,...
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Oreet Ashery - death in the now
Oreet Ashery is an Israeli-British artist who works in multiple mediums including film, photography, and performance. Her art often tackles themes of politics, gender, class, social constructs, and the plight of refugees. In Malmö, Sweden she constructed a fascinating sonic scene called Passing...
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Californian ferrets for freedom!
Over in the States, the New Zealand example is often pointed to as why Californian residents shouldn't be allowed to keep ferrets. There's a passionate community of ferret-lovers in the golden state, who see the issue as one of excessive and illogical lawmaking. La Masa resident Pat Wright, of…
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Translating the darkness
The NZ Festival's Reader and Writer's section is a chance to see some of your favourite authors and find many new ones. A very new author - at least to English language fiction - is Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha.
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The real Tower of Babylon
What was the real Tower of Babylon? Why do humans speak so many languages, sometimes over small geographical distances? On this little planet we speak over 7000 distinct languages, but they're unevenly spread - a massive country might be home to many times less languages than its smaller cousin....
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Use KiwiSaver to build nation - fund manager
New Zealanders' contributions to the voluntary, work-based savings initiative KiwiSaver have grown into a significant pool of money that could be used to build much-needed infrastructure, says investment manager Sam Stubbs.
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Suffocated by noise pollution
Whether you're on a bus, turning up your music to drown out the rattling, or sitting in traffic next to honking cars and squealing breaks, there's a lot of sounds around. A paper from Canadian scientists has been looking at the effect of these sounds on our hearing and so has kiwi expert…
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Mongolian opera punches above its weight
The move from traditional throat singing to opera intrigued Glasgow-based music critic Kate Molleson so much she decided to travel to the country, crossing hundreds of kilometres to find out where this love of opera came from.
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DNA from space!
Until now astronauts have had to send mysterious microbes and organisms back to earth to figure out what they are. But for the first time, NASA astronauts have successfully sequenced DNA and identified the organism in space. This development is an important step for a number of reasons…
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'Fire and Fury' is released - Trump book makes waves
Another bombshell this week for the Trump administration, an explosive new tell-all book which has thrown the White House into a frenzy. Lawyers for Donald Trump moved to stop publication of the book but the author, Michael Wolff, retaliated by bringing its release date forward. The White House…
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The good oil on hemp
Plant Culture founder Cameron Sims works with farmers in Ashburton to produce premium hemp seed products. It's time Kiwis got into this superfood, he says.
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Dr. Seuss/Star Trek mashup heads to the courts
Star Trek and Dr. Seuss - a laughable pairing surely? Well maybe not. In the US a judge is allowing Dr. Seuss Enterprises to proceed with a lawsuit against the tiny ComicMix company. They're behind a book which retells the classic Oh The Places You'll Go as Oh The Places You'll Boldly Go - a...
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Which are the best fly sprays?
Belinda Castles shares the Consumer NZ findings on fly sprays.
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The Long Island Vegetable Orchestra
Music is great. But what if it could be nutritious as well? Simon Morton speaks to Daniel Battaglia, Music Director of the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra, about turning tubers into music makers.
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