Kia Ora and welcome to our final episode! Joined with professor of genetics and head of Genomics Aotearoa Peter Dearden, we navigate genetic engineering and the future of biotechnology.

A final huge thank you to Radio One for their support and encouragement on this journey, we couldn’t have done it without you. And thank you to you, the listeners, for your feedback and suggestions. 🧬

Kia Ora Kotou, welcome to our People’s choice episode! We explore environmental solutions, glacial changes and the probability of the alpine fault rupturing 😬 with the incredibly stylish Sean Fitzsimons. Grab a tea, relax and come dive in.

Welcome groovy cats to our third episode, joined with Dr Annika Seppälä. We chat about solar storms, and healing of New Zealand’s ozone layer, as well as auroras in Dunedin and where students can go to spot them!

Alert website:

http://auroraalert.otago.ac.nz/aurora/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVU5qrnVeZs

Welcome back to Does this Count as Study season 2!! We are guided by English and Linguistics professor Dr Anne Feryok. We explore the zone of proximal development and how students can maximise their time at university.

✨ The Religion Episode ✨

Kia ora Kotou, welcome to our season finale! For our final ep Professor of Buddhism and east Asian studies Benjamin Schonthal yarns with us. We ask YOUR questions about karma, religion as a social science, crazy rituals, cultural appropriation and more. Grab a tea, get comfy and enjoy.

https://www.otago.ac.nz/religion/about.html

Massive thank you to every single person who has made this epic show come to life the way it has, and to YOU listening for supporting this endeavour.

Kate and Henry xx

For our third episode we are joined with Professor Ted Ruffman, a developmental psychologist. TED-talks (pun intended) to us about the 4 theories of attachment, cultural differences in New Zealand and speaks about the way through our currently high depression rates. This content contains content of a distressing nature, with themes of anxiety and depression. If you need some support (NZ):

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In our second episode we dive into the bubble of Dr Anna Garden, a computational chemist (we still don’t really know what that means either) and all round genuine character. We learn more about the secrets of the world at an atomic level and ways to travel within chemistry. Finally, we discuss how chemistry can help contribute to solutions to climate change!

Guitar from outer space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc8BcBZ0tAI

Joined by world famous in Dunedin Dr Annika Bokor, expert in biochemistry. The first ever episode explores potentials of gene therapy; what it is and how it might change the world. As well as Annikas journey from undergraduate to teaching fellow at Otago.