Our Changing World

@cconcannonsci produces Our Changing World on @radionz; all about science, natural history, health & the environment.

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101 million years ago, an astonishingly large dinosaur roamed Patagonia in Argentina. It weighed as much as 8 African elephants.

William Ray meets the ancient giant at @Te_Papa & discovers the surprising link between Patagonia's dinosaurs & NZ

https://t.co/ugp3u3qMyn

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🔊 Listen now! Our final summer science episode with 2 more @OtagoSciComm stories:

🤖 The engineer & the ghost. Can we – or should we – make conscious artificial intelligence?

🍃 The challenges of researching and prescribing medicinal cannabis

https://t.co/8LsdJcnRqk

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🔊 Listen now! Our summer science series continues with 2 stories from @OtagoSciComm students:

🧬 The conservation conundrum of hybridisation

🌱 Mātauranga Māori & western science – the perspective of 2 wāhine Māori

https://t.co/WjUYvhI3if

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🔊 Our summer science series continues today with 2 mini-eps:

🌊 Seabirds in Auckland, a story from the Voices podcast https://t.co/MNvmXtNDqw

🦜 Kākā in Wellington, a story from @scieVUW @VicUniWgtn student Samantha Lloyd Evans
https://t.co/xLGSTrUOmF

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🔊 This week on the podcast feed: an episode from Black Sheep.

In 1935, newspaper articles claimed a backyard inventor was building a death ray for the NZ government.

Listen to find out the truth – & the science – behind the sensational headlines.

https://t.co/IFWZS7ynBz

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Coming up this week, producer/dinosaur correspondent William Ray checks out the world's largest dinosaur on display at @Te_Papa and learns about Patagonian dinosaurs' surprising link to Aotearoa 🦖🦕

Episode online Thursday!

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🔊 Listen now! On the seafloor off Taranaki, signs of huge ancient underwater landslides...

And east of Gisborne, slow-motion earthquakes regularly detected...

Meet 2 researchers studying geological phenomena that could pose a tsunami risk to NZ 🌊

https://t.co/d5g0Zjsq7f

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In the shaky isles, who's keeping tabs on earthquakes & other geohazards?

The National Geohazard Monitoring Centre is on alert 24/7 for earthquakes, volcanic activity, tsunamis & landslides.

@cconcannonsci finds out more.

@geonet @gnsscience

https://t.co/nhTtIn35Rw

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Coming up this week, @cconcannonsci gets a sneak peek behind the scenes at the National Geohazard Monitoring Centre @geonet @gnsscience

Here, a team of geohazard analysts monitor data 24/7 for signs of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis & landslides 🌋

Listen on Thursday!

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Stoked to have been awarded silver in Best Factual and gold for the Climate award in the @nzpodcastawards 🥳🥳🥳 Thanks for listening and supporting the show 💜

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Deep challenges lie ahead for New Zealand to achieve its water quality goals with current land use and the state of contaminants in freshwater, new research shows.

https://t.co/hFhEGzIF37

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Expect more shark sightings this summer, says @docgovtnz scientist 🦈

https://t.co/O4l04Bdmxa

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🔊 Listen now! Mohua are bright yellow – but they can be tricky to spot flitting high in the canopy.

@cconcannonsci visits the Makarora mohua, where a team of scientists & conservationists are testing acoustic machine learning to ID individual birds

https://t.co/s6pZbsLXDn

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The world's largest iceberg is on the move. It has an area 6.5 times larger than Lake Taupō 🧊

https://t.co/8WIx3lksCO

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The kakī, an endangered wading bird, is central to the latest work of Kāi Tahu Ōtepoti artist Madison Kelly’s new work in a major exhibition @ChchArtGallery

https://t.co/gjcWpw5I3V

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Canterbury farmers help protect endangered kororā on Banks Peninsula

https://t.co/BspdVbmMA7

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Coming up this week, @cconcannonsci meets a little yellow forest bird & the people looking after them in Makarora.

Despite their bright feathers, mohua are surprisingly hard to spot in the canopy – could a new acoustic monitoring tool help to count them?

Episode online Thursday

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🔊 Listen now! Varroa mites are bad news for honey bees 🐝

Researchers @VicUniWgtn are investigating a promising new way to stop the parasites using RNA.

@cconcannonsci finds out more

https://t.co/RsdMEyQIm3

[Ricky Whelan @rickywhela90923]

Here's a fun 1/2 hour episode to get you home this evening...full of bird facts, good humor and a bit of smack-talk thrown-in for good measure!! Hope you enjoy...back next week with a deep-dive on the wild side of #Connemara, #Galway. @JamieMcAulayNZ @cconcannonsci @RNZScience