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.

Professor Phil Hansbro is the depute director of Australia's Centenary Research Institute and director of the Centre for Inflammation at Sydney's University of Technology. He's internationally recognised for his work and in his new book The Good Gut Anti-Inflammatory Diet he gives practical information about how inflammation works in your body and the tools available to limit it.

Haydon Dewes grew up in Hastings then worked for a while a reporter at the Dominion Post. He's been living in Calgary for years now, raising a family there and founding a craft brewing beer company.

Media merger out of its misery; supermarkets shaping the food price story; Southlander goes solo to tell southern stories.

The idea of getting fit can be daunting. For some it's because they've never really done it, for others, perhaps they've been ill or injured and watched their fitness disappear. Orthopaedic Surgeon and author of "Play Forever: How to Recover from Injury and Thrive", Kevin Stone has been the doctor for the U.S. Ski Team and the World Pro Ski Tour, various dance companies, even the Old Blues Rugby Club. He explores ways to regain lost fitness and how long it might take.