Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Show notes for Saturday 28 April 2012

Quick Hits

12:15   Macau: World's gambling capital

12:30   Natural History of Middle Age

  1:15   Cheese: Halloumi

  1:50   Naked Science

The Small Print

First up this week we're off to Macau, the casino capital of the world. So how does this Chinese territory, the only place in China where it's legal to gamble, turn over 5 times more cash than Las Vegas?

Then at 12:30pm a natural history of middle age with David Bainbridge. What happens to our bodies and our brains when we hit mid-life? And with mid-life crises, the middle age spread and the menopause, it’s not exactly presented very positively is it? Well David's a lot more upbeat!

After the 1pm news, do try this at home! We're making cheese, fresh tasty halloumi, with cheese-maker Wendy Adams.

HALLOUMI LINKS

Recipe: Halloumi

http://cheesemakinghelp.blogspot.co.nz/2011/02/mustafas-hellim-also-known-as-halloumi.html

http://handyface.wordpress.com/tag/halloumi/

http://www.cyprusfoodndrinks.com/cgibin/hweb?-A=67&-V=authentics

SALTING HALOUMI

With the salting / brining - dry salt and let firm up if using soon (like that day), submerge in brine if keeping for later use, 10-15% brine so quite salty.

And before we go Dr Chris Smith beams in with the latest science news, This week, how pigeons use magnetic fields to navigate and a way to turn scarred heart tissue back into fully functional, blood-pumping muscle!

• We'll be playing these tracks too....
• Track: Blood and Fire
• Artist: Niney the Observer
• Album: Roots With Quality
• Label: VP
• Catalogue #: 454148
• Broadcast at: 13:10
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• Track: Le Goudron
• Artist: YACHT
• http://soundcloud.com/dfa-records/yacht-le-goudron-edit
• Label: DFA Records
• Broadcast at: 13:45
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• And our theme is:
• Track: The Green Termite
• Artist: Jefferson Belt
• http://www.myspace.com/jeffersonbelt
• Album: Table Manners
• Label: Round Trip Mars
• Catalogue #: RTM 2009