Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
26 May 2012 - 3:09 am NZ time
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Our Changing World
Starts at 9:06 pm on Thursday, 17 November 2011
During Nights with Bryan Crump
What happens when a scientific mind turns to poetry? To find out, Veronika Meduna meet Janis Freegard, a poet trained in botany, who has arranged the poems in her first collection by Linnaeus’ six animal classes.
Also this week:
Waste 2 Gold is a collaboration between Scion and the Rotorua District Council, testing an innovative new process to minimise the town’s sewage sludge. Alison Ballance meets Scion’s Robert Lei to see the pilot plant in action.
Alison Ballance joins botanist John Dawson for a walk at Otari-Wilton gardens in Wellington to talk about his new book on New Zealand’s native trees.
University of Auckland’s Asaad Shamseldin and Reza Shafiei are creating waves in the lab to study the impact of tsunami bores on physical structures. While their research has just begun, their aim is to help mitigate the risk of damage from this natural disaster in the future.