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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Today's Story of the Day is about memory - how to make yours better and how that could help starve off dementia.

We find the answers to any queries you can think up. Today we answered Simon's question about other planets, Christine's query about goats and Davey's one about wine.

A senior lecturer at Massey has been looking into the bad behaviours of drivers and found only a few of us - one in three - actually stop at stop signs in heavy traffic. We're also more likely to mimic the actions of drivers in front of us.

Sir Bob Jones is underfire yet again for a column he wrote about Waitangi Day. He says the piece was satirical and fellow controversial columnist Mike Hosking has backed him.

A new Sony kids movie, based on the popular book Peter Rabbit, is being boycotted by some parents around the world over a scene which they say shows bullying of someone with allergies.

What the Panelists Tracey Bridges and Tim Watkin want to talk about.

What tech is "missing" in our lives? Despite all the new gadget's available around the world, there's never been a time in history where new innovations haven't changed the way we live.

A working group has been formed to tackle the housing issue, between the Housing Minster, Auckland's Deputy Mayor and industry experts.

What tech is "missing" in our lives? Despite all the new gadget's available around the world, there's never been a time in history where new innovations haven't changed the way we live. We ask the panellists what they think needs to be invented or brought back, personally and professionally. What the Panelists Tracey Bridges and Tim Watkin want to talk about. There's been swift negative reaction to the news McDonald's is opening four more restaurants in Christchurch this year. While the stores will employ more than 150 people, there are "fast food intensification" concerns about the high concentrations of fast food outlets, particularly close to schools, when the country has such a high child obesity problem. Paediatric and Sport Dietitian Lea Stening tells us what the issues are. A new Sony kids movie, based on the popular book Peter Rabbit, is being boycotted by some parents around the world over a scene which they say shows bullying of someone with allergies. In the movie a character is allergic to blackberries and is pelted with them, choking on the ground until he can get his EpiPen injected. A petition has been started to ban the movie over the scene. We speak to Allergy NZ's chief executive Mark Dixon about the outrage, which he says is justified. Sir Bob Jones is udnerfire yet again for a column he wrote about Waitangi Day. He says the piece was satricial and fellow controversial columnist Mike Hosking has backed him. But a filmmaker that started a petition to have Sir Bob stripped of his knighthood, declaring the column racist, has now received more 40,000 signatures on her petition. We get the panellist's views on the matter.

A working group has been formed to tackle the housing issue, betwwen the Housing Minster, Auckland's Deputy Mayor and industry experts. It comes as a new report is released, revealing the housing crisis is worse than realised.Housing strategist and regular panellist Leonie Freeman joins the programme to discuss the working group, which she's been trying to establish for the last 18 months. The Automobile Association is calling for safety ratings to be displayed on vehicles when people buy them, after another disastrous weekend on the roads. Meanwhile a senior lecturer at Massey has been looking into the bad behaviours of drivers and found only a few of us - one in three - actually stop at stop signs in heavy traffic. We're also more likely to mimic the actions of drivers in front of us. We ask the lecturer, Dr Andrew Gilbrey from the School of Aviation, what he thinks this means.