Language learning + ageing, fuel CO2 levels hit record
Science commentator Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn with a new study that looked at 86,000 people in 27 European countries to understand how multilingualism may influence their brain health as they age. The results might just have you reaching for the Duolingo app. This year's Global Carbon Project has found emissions from fossil fuels have risen by 1.1% to reach their highest level yet. And there's new hope for people suffering from anaemia; researchers in Switzerland have developed a new iron supplement for food that's tasteless and more quickly absorbed than iron sulfate. Laurie Winkless is a physicist and science writer.
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The MacLeods epic overland journey
In 1962, Dunedin farmer Alan MacLeod said to his wife Joan and six kids, 'how about going for a drive'?' Little did they know the 'harebrained scheme' Alan had cooked up would see them travelling the world in a homemade house truck a year later. Alan's wanted to reconnect the family with their MacLeod ancestry on the Island of Skye in Scotland, and visit friends he had made fighting in the Italian campaign in World War II. With a few boat crossings, they did it all in their house truck 'Holdfast' built from a Ford tractor engine, a city bus cab and the chassis of an armoured scout car. The extraordinary story is told by Hannah MacLeod whose mother Marilyn was one of the six kids on board. Hannah interviewed her aunts and uncles, and trawled through diaries and old newspaper clippings to recreate the story in her recently published book Overland to the Island.
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Around the motu: Libby Kirkby-McLeod in Hamilton
Libby discuses the local impact of a decision by Fire and Emergency to pull back from responding to water emergencies, wire thefts leaving life threatening hazard and the Japanese textile collection on display at a gallery in Morrinsville.
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Book review: An Eccentric History in Batik by Dinah Priestley
Elisabeth Easther reviews An Eccentric History in Batik by Dinah Priestley, published by Mary Egan Publishing.
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Map Men Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman on cartography quirks and catastrophes
A new book covers cartographical conundrums like disappeared Soviet cities and whether Google Maps has completely ruined our ability to navigate.
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