Afternoons

 

1:15 Looking for a more humane option: the professor with a possible alternative to 1080

A Canterbury professor says he has potentially found a better, more humane, option than 1080. 

Scientist Rudi Marquez-Mazlin discovered a compound that sterilises pests by inducing the early onset of menopause.

He tells Jesse how he found the active ingredient by chance when he was involved in cancer research. 

1:25 That emoji means what?! Is a thumbs up actually passive aggressive?

Despite seeming like a universal language, it turns out some of us are using and reading emojis the wrong way. 

Brittany Ferdinands is a Lecturer in Digital Content Creation at the University of Sydney, she explained to Jesse how different generations read emojis differently. 

1:35 Getting insight into how women with rheumatoid arthritis experience perimenopause

Rheumatoid arthritis, also called RA, is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation, pain and swelling in the joints. 

It most often develops between the ages of 25 and 50, and affects more women than men. 

A research project is getting underway in the hopes of bridging the gap on how women with RA experience perimenopause. 

1:45 Feature album: Florence and the Machine, Lungs

Today's feature album is the debut studio album by Florence and the Machine.

Lungs came out in 2009 and won the award for British Album of the Year at the Brit Awards. 

2:10 The Best on the Box: The Bear, Rivals and Smoke

Claire Chitham shares her television picks with Jesse: The Bear, available on Disney/FX; Rivals (Disney) and Smoke (Apple+).

Dame Jilly Cooper fans will be thrilled to learn that filming has started for season two of Rivals!

2:20 Information Centre Cold Call: Reefton

Reefton calls itself "The Town of Light", a place for everyone to enjoy. 

In this week's iSite centre cold call, Jesse finds out what makes Reefton locals light up. 

2:30 Expert Feature: Diffusing tension, how to turn the anger dial down a notch.

Have you ever been stuck in a situation where a conversation turns tense, and the person you're talking to just keeps getting angrier, or more passionate?

Or strangers have reacted quickly, and badly, and suddenly something small becomes a big deal?

Lance Burdett is a former hostage negotiator, turned de-escalation expert at WARN international and an expert on keeping calm. 

3:10 Dishing the dirt on restaurant life: Acclaimed food critic Besha Rodell

One birthday dinner at Melbourne's fanciest restaurant at age nine was all it took for Besha Rodell to get hooked on fine dining.

She turned that obsession into a career, becoming a James Beard Award winning food critic for LA Weekly, The Age, and The New York Times.

Besha Rodell's new memoir goes beyond restaurant reviews. It's an unflinching account of navigating a high-pressure, male-dominated world where every meal feeds deeper questions of self-worth, longing, and the drive to belong.

It's called "Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, A Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table".

3:35 Here Now: The sounds of Zimbabwe with Auckland musician Jay Moyo

Back to Basics, with Kadambari Raghukumar's Here Now podcast - this week, she's taking us to Zimbabwe and the sounds that Auckland musician Jay Moyo grew up on.  

3:45 The pre-Panel

Wallace Chapman previews tonight's instalment of The Panel.