Afternoons for Tuesday 28 May 2024

 

1:15 Safety and etiquette for dogs at work

Around 76 dog incidents happen each day in New Zealand requiring medical attention, according to ACC data.

That's a total of 28,000 incidents annually, costing almost $30 million dollars.

The Dog Safe Workplace helps reduce the number of incidents and protects workers who may come into contact with dogs. 

Company director Jo Clough dropped by our Auckland studio to offer some safety advice. 

1:25 Why Chinese migrants change their names when they move to a new country

Names are a vital part of our identity. They're the first sounds we learn to recognise. And they carry cultural, familial and historical connections.

We often have multiple layers of names and nicknames for different groups and situations.

But increasingly many given those as a child are choosing - when they grow up - to revert back to their Chinese names.

Waikato times reporter Ke Xin - went through 5 names before coming back to her Chinese name. She speaks to Jesse about the phenomenon and cultural expectations.

1:35 Baby food pouches not providing enough nutritional value

Baby food pouches could be providing our little ones with very little nutritional value, according to new research.

A team of University of Otago researchers, whose study has been published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, set out to determine the nutrients pouches are providing babies.

The team looked specifically at commercial baby foods such as food in jars, baby rice, and baby snacks.

Ioanna Katiforis is PhD candidate in the Department of Human Nutrition at University of Otago, was involved in the study.

She joins Jesse on the line from Otago.

1:45 Tech Tuesday with Tim Warren 

Today Tim talks to Jesse about how AI will change jobs and careers.

2:10 Book Critic: Claire Mabey 

Today Claire talks to Jesse about two very different memoirs, First Things by Harry Ricketts and Splinters by Leslie Jamison. She also talks about Jane Arthur's children's novel Brown Bird.

2:20 Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Brad Foster reports on the search for a mum and newborn baby in Sydney after evidence of a birth on the banks of a river in Sydney's south west were found by a man walking in the area late on Monday.

He also reports on a nationwide initiative by a radio personality and filmmaker to increase the age of social media use by teenagers from 13 to 16 to reduce what they describe as "an anxious generation". He also talks film and footy.

2:30 Music feature: Pixies 

Emerging out of Boston in 1986, alternative band the Pixies was, and still is, a jarring mix of surf rock, punk, pop and usually a good bit of screaming.

The band influenced some of the most famous musical acts of the 90s grunge era and beyond. 

The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead and Nirvana all owe something to The Pixies, and so does musician and The Phoenix Foundation co-founder Samuel Flynn Scott.

Sam is going to take us on a journey curated not just from The Pixies discograpghy, but also from the solo efforts of some of their most fractious members. 

3:10 From high flyer to fraud: Bob Calkin's incredible life 

Bob Calkin considers himself a lucky man. Too young for both world wars and entering the workforce in the '50s and '60s,  New Zealand gave working-class men like him tremendous opportunities.

He thrived as a lawyer and businessman until he didn't, committed fraud and was sent to prison.

Surrounded by disaffected young men, he worked on a PhD to better understand  a wave of crime and alienation that continues today.

He offers his unique perspective as well as hope in his new book, Tales from the Lucky Generation: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of a Kiwi Working-class 'Hero' and the Stories that Shaped His Life.

3:30 Spoken Feature: Thrift 

How to eat well on 40 dollars a week. 

Katy Gosset meets the Christchurch student nurse and blogger who's teaching others how to meal plan.   

3:45 The pre-Panel