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Afternoons for Monday 29 May 2023

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1:15 Parkinson's research focussing on patient's hallucinations

A Canterbury researcher with a person connections with Parkinson's disease is going to investigate hallucinations experienced by those with the disease.

Dr Kyla-Louise Horne has been awarded a 180-htousand dollar grant by The Canterbury Medical Research Foundation to support her two year research project.

The condition affects more than 12-thousand kiwis and this project has the potential to hugely improve their lives.

This is a high resolution, anatomical magnetic resonance image of the brain, which gives researchers exquisite detail about the structure of the brain, including the amount of grey matter tissue, white matter tissue, and cerebral spinal fluid.

This is a high resolution, anatomical magnetic resonance image of the brain, which gives researchers exquisite detail about the structure of the brain, including the amount of grey matter tissue, white matter tissue, and cerebral spinal fluid. Photo: Supplied

1.25 Taking dag wool and turning it into a business!

An enterprising family on the North Island's central plateau have found a way to recycle the waste dag wool from sheep!

Rita Hammond and her husband Dave run a farm, have a firewood business and now sell dag wool as plant protectors.

Rita talks to Jesse about their unique product and how they're recycling the waste.

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Photo: RNZ/Carol Stiles

1.35 Inner monologue myth busting

Psychology professor Russell Hurlburt has been studying people's inner monologues for more than four decades.

And through talking to hundreds of people, he's certain most of us don't think in words at all - despite many of us assuming we do.

Russell Hurlburt joins Jesse from Las Vegas.

Thought bubble

Thought bubble Photo: Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay

1:45 Feature album

 

2:10 Television Critic: Guy Williams

Today Guy talks to Jesse about NBA Eastern Conference finals on ESPN, Super Rugby and Jomboy - a youtuber.

2:30 Expert feature: Antique furniture restorer

Today's expert is preserving New Zealand history one piece of furniture at a time.

This afternoon we are going to talk about antique restoration with Dr William Cottrell.

He restores important colonial-made furniture, either for institutions, historical societies and the occasional private collection.

If you have any questions for him text 2101 or email jesse@rnz.co.nz.

NZ table (made in Auckland by Anton Seuffert, ca.1870) found in a Parisian flea market.

Photo: Te Papa

3:10 How incentives influence lives 

Talk is cheap. But sometimes, what we say doesn't match what we really intend. Incentives play a central role in influencing behavior. Mixed signals from incentives can achieve the opposite of what they were designed for. At work, leaders can preach innovation but punish failure. We tell our kids to be honest, but lie about their age to get discounts. Uri Gneezy is a behavioral economics professor  at the University of California in San Diego who researches incentives and what motivates people. He offers advice about how to incentive smart, in ways that are simple, effective, and ethical in his new book, Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work.

Mixed Signals book cvoer

Mixed Signals book cvoer Photo: supplied

3:35 Voices

On Voices, a powerful new documentary speaks to the human rights abuses faced by Kazakhs and Uyghurs across Xinjiang's mass internment camps. 

Security cameras are seen on a street in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region on July 2, 2010. Photo: Peter Parks / AFP

Security cameras are seen on a street in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region on July 2, 2010. Photo: Peter Parks / AFP Photo: AFP

3:45 The Panel with Sue Kedgley and Allan Blackman