Sunday Morning

The more social support a teenager has from their parents, the more likely they are to be addicted to the internet, according to a new study from the Sydney Business School.

Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, sometime-hotelier and self-confessed rebel Gin Wigmore returns to Aotearoa next month for a five-date regional tour.

New Zealander Sarah Codd talks to Jim from her home in Bozeman, Montana where she is co-director of the Magnetic Resonance Lab and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Montana State University.

Our media were in emergency mode yet again this week, offering hours of extra coverage on air, online and in print. Outlets in the hardest-hit places reported the basics - even without access to basics like power, communications and even premises. What will Gabrielle's legacy be for media's role in reporting disasters and national resilience?

You won't see it on Google Earth but The MIT Technology Review has obtained exclusive satellite pictures, in conjunction with Soar Earth, an Australian startup, showing work well underway on Saudi Arabia's sci-fi megacity.

The dangers of burnout – a stress-based condition related to overwork – are too often disregarded, says Australian psychiatrist Gordon Parker. He argues that we need better public education about how to identify and treat burnout.

The CNBC business website has released its list of the 10 most welcoming places in the world, and Marlborough has come in 6th. based, apparently, on 240 million reviews assessed on the website Booking.com. So this would seem to be a feather in the cap of Marlborough. We get the inside story from Belinda Jackson, a personality in the local wine industry who is well-known to RNZ audiences.

Cyclone Gabrielle hit Norfolk Island overnight. To get an idea of how that was for the 2000 residents of the island, and the 1000 tourists who didn't fly out, Jim talks to Marilyn Granbeau at the Governor's Lodge on Norfolk.

It's been hard to miss the flurry of media coverage around ChatGPT, the artificial large language model website which can apparently help students cheat with their assignments. Dr Jonathan May is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, the University of California in Los Angeles has been writing about his version/vision of the future, especially with using ChatGPT.

It's official. The world is getting noiser. Silence is disappearing, increasing stress, raising blood pressure, having a bearing on cardiovascular disease, dementia, diabetes, and of course, hearing loss. The World Health Organisation says this comes at a cost of one million healthy life years every year in Europe alone, with 20% of Europeans claiming to be suffering physically because of noise. Science writer Kayt Sukel joins us to talk about the need for quiet in our louder lives now, and how much quiet we need for our sanity.