8:15 Spencer Wells: DNA sampling
9:05 Vladimir Hachinski: stroke and recovery
9:45 Classical Music with Davinia Caddy: melody and pitch
10:05 Playing Favourites with Peter Marshall
11:05 Stephen Shafer: anaesthesia and academic misconduct
11:45 Energy with David Haywood: what is energy?
Producer: Mark Cubey
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8:15 Spencer Wells
Spencer Wells is the head of the Genographic Project at
National Geographic, a study that has involved the DNA sampling of more than
650,000 people in 130 countries around the world. He will be visiting Gisborne
with a PBS crew later this month to film people of Ngai Tamanuhiri being
sampled, and receiving study results from Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith, an
Allan Wilson Centre Principal Investigator and the Genographic Project
Principal Investigator in the Oceania region for over six years. Dr Wells will deliver
a presentation on the DNA-based Genographic Project at the Royal Society
Auditorium in Wellington (4 March), and take DNA sampling for full genome
analysis from the audience, who will learn what percentage of their DNA is
affiliated with specific regions of the world and if they have traces of
Neanderthal ancestry.
9:05 Vladimir Hachinski
Dr Vladimir Hachinski is Distinguished University
Professor of Neurology at Western University, London, Canada. He was
instrumental in establishing the world's first successful acute stroke unit,
was editor-in-chief of the journal Stroke from 2000 to 2010, and is President
of the World Federation of Neurology. Dr Hachinski is visiting New Zealand as a
guest of the Neurological Foundation Chair of Clinical Neurology.
9:45 Classical Music with Davinia Caddy
Dr Davinia Caddy is a senior lecturer at Auckland
University's School of Music, a flautist, and the author of How to Hear
Classical Music (Awa Press). She will discuss melody and pitch.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Peter Marshall
Peter
Marshall is managing director of architectural firm Warren and Mahoney, part of
the team selected to carry out the task of the redesign of Christchurch after
the earthquakes.
11:05 Steven Shafer
Dr Steven Shafer is a professor of anaesthesiology,
perioperative and pain medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center and
was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the International Society of
Anaesthetic Pharmacology in 2011. He is editor of the Journal of
Anaesthesiology and Analgesia, a world-leader on academic misconduct, and appeared
as an expert witness in the Michael Jackson manslaughter trial. Dr Shafer is
visiting New Zealand as a keynote speaker at the 2014 Combined AACA & ASURA
Congress, hosted by the NZ Society of Anaesthetists, and will run a session,
Academic Misconduct: More Tales from the A&A Case Files, on 22 February.
11:45 Energy with David Haywood
David Haywood has a Ph.D. in engineering and lives in
Dunsandel. He writes the Southerly blog for Public Address, and is the author
of the collection of humorous essays My First Stabbing, the children's book The
Hidden Talent of Albert Otter, and The New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual 2010
(all publicaddressbooks.com). He will explain what energy is.
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Shaun Wilson
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
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On Saturday 22 February 2014 during Great Encounters
between 6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat
broadcast of Kim Hill's interview from 15 February with Stuart McNaughton.
Next Saturday, 1 March, Kim Hill's guests will include
Hugh Macdonald and Tony Morrison.
On Saturday 8 March, Saturday Morning with Kim Hill will
be broadcast live from the upstairs foyer of the St James Theatre during
Writers Week at the NZ Festival. To register your interest in becoming part of
the audience for this programme, please email saturdayrsvp@radionz.co.nz with
the names of the people interested in attending (limit two per application),
and how long you intend to stay. Successful applicants will be advised by email
in the week leading up to the event.
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