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Sex Outside the City is a new campaign and wellbeing movement led by Josh McCormack. He's an advocate for the health and well-being of LGBTQIA+ takatapui people, and a medical student at the University of Auckland.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... Especially throughout one Wellington suburb with decorated letterboxes sprinkled with festive cheer. Crofton Downs resident Leigha Speirs-Hutton is the mastermind behind the bright initiative.

For centuries, historians and archaeologists have puzzled over the many mysteries of Stonehenge, the huge man-made circle of standing stones found on England's Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. Some of the monument of mystery's secrets are about to be revealed in an exhibition at Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Scientists are abuzz after a major breakthrough in the race to recreate nuclear fusion. Physicists have pursued the technology for decades, but what have they found? Dr David Krofcheck is a senior lecturer in physics at the University of Auckland. He joins the show to discuss.

Jason Morrison from 7News in Australia joins us with the latest news from across the ditch.

Carole Beu from The Women's Bookshop shares some reading recommendations for summer time.

Santa's about to be cancelled... Or at least that's the case in a naughty new Christmas play opening in Christchurch this week. Cancel Santa runs at the Little Andromeda theatre from December 15 to 24.

Colin Peacock joins the show for the latest analysis of New Zealand's media landscape. This week he looks at the what's happening with the TVNZ-RNZ merger, coverage around the FIFA World Cup, and the death of long-serving NZ Herald journalist John Armstrong.

The Great Filter theory is the idea that when intelligent life on a planet reaches a certain level of technology and complexity they wipe themselves out. This may speak to why we are still yet to make alien contact. And a recent report from NASA suggests we might be heading the same way. Joining the show to discuss is Professor Jan Eldridge, theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Auckland.

Yin-yang is an abstract concept within ancient Chinese philosophy. It's the law of nature, the origin of motion and variation, and the principle of how humans perceive the world. But how does it fit in within the context of traditional Chinese medicine? And what about the food we eat? Lynn Hwang is a lecturer, clinical supervisor and clinical coordinator at the New Zealand School of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. She joins the show to explain.