Afternoons

Australia's ban on social media for anyone under 16 isn't working. It's not even close says world renowned behavioral economist and Harvard Law School professor Dr Cass Sunstein. He's one of the authors of a new working paper that argues compliance has to reach a tipping point for the ban to work, a point when not going on TikTok and Instagram and all the other apps is the new normal and that's not happening. Dr Sunstein is also part of a team of researchers examining the link between social media and wellbeing in the World Happiness Report. Just like Australian teenagers, many of us use social media even though we know it's not good for us, because everyone else is. He explains what he calls the "product trap", the way certain platforms are designed to pull us in, and we let them, even when we suspect we'd be happier without them.

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Tim Batt is with Jesse to talk about what's been happening in the world of technology; today he'll bring us up to speed on a local data breach and why Amazon is abandoning plans for a local data centre.

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Afternoons book critic Lisa Glass joins Jesse to share her thoughts on the following books: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte Eurotrash by Christian Kracht Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth

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It's time for Mayoral minutes, each week we speak with a local mayor about the challenges they're facing how they're working to solve them and what makes their community special. Today we're heading to the Gisborne District on the stunning east coast from where Mayor Rehette Stolz joins Jesse.

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A recently published study from West China Hospital and Monash University has the potential to upend our understanding of ADHD For decades ADHD has been diagnosed by using behavior-based questionnaires to understand the symptoms, not the underlying brain activity. The new study turned this on its head analysing over 1,000 brain scans from children and teenagers with ADHD It's challenging the idea that ADHD is just one condition. Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychologist and founder of Totally Psyched, Dr Sarah Watson chats to Jesse.

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For the first time in almost 15 years there are more business deaths than births here in Aotearoa New Zealand. And of those business failures, the vast majority are solo business operators. We know a lot of you listening run your own businesses, so do let us know if this conversation resonates. In a new research paper "Built on Assumptions" our next guest argues that with more support these businesses could be thriving instead of failing. Sarah Davies from Sweet Spot business coaching talks to Jesse.

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David Hall is the co-founder and Executive Director at a startup called Toha Network. In October 2024 they launched an environmental restoration project in Tairawhiti on the East Coast. Landowners are paid to regenerate native forests and wetlands using a digital funding system based on tokens called MAHI. He chats to Jesse.

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This morning the Government announced it's changing the law to prevent companies from being sued over climate change related harm caused by green house gases We'll get reaction to that news in a moment, but we also want to talk about nature credits, voluntary biodiversity credit schemes that could mean more investment in nature restoration. Scott Burnett is the climate spokesperson for Forest and Bird and talks about both issues with Jesse.

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The show within a show, the little show that could, call it what you will, Wallace Chapman and Jesse Mulligan will always make you smile as they preview tonight's edition of The Panel.

Life can start to feel like a numbers game with everyone chasing likes and followers, and productivity stats that measure our steps. It seems like there's a number for everything even parenting and relationships. But at some point, the numbers stop measuring us and start controlling us. Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen says modern life is increasingly built around scoring systems that quietly shape what we value and how we see ourselves. And once you start chasing points, whether it's money, status, or approval, it gets harder to tell what you actually want. He unpacks these invisible games we play in his new book, The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game.