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This is the course blog for 2010. Content posted on this blog is intended to provide students with supplimentary information about topics discussed in class. Information will be in the form of video links, podcasts, RSS feeds and site and article links. This blog will also have links to all student blogs as well as other sites of interest. Students should spend some time reviewing the material on this blog. Please note that blogs show the most recent posts at the top of the page so you'll need to scroll down to see older content. Also some information gets archived after a while you can view these archived post by useing the archive tools on the right side of this blog. This is a public blog so other people may also be viewing and comenting.

As the sign says 'Don't Panic' and if you do start feeling overwhelmed spend some time watching the fish!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

A regular in site into human occupation 'the things we use and consume'

This is a link to 'This Way Up' podcasts. 'This Way Up' is a programme on New Zealand National Radion, Saturday's 12-2pm. Avery interesting programme that covers a wide spectrum of human occupation!

http://www.radionz.co.nz/podcasts/thiswayup.rss

Radio NZ - This Way Up with Simon Morton


This Way Up is a weekly two-hour radio show broadcast on Radio New Zealand National Saturdays from 12pm-2pm - it explores the things we use and consume.

Things we use and consume..what on earth does that mean?

Go on have a taste - we've covered superstitions, the history of scrabble and monopoly, ethical tea, how deodorant works, fair trade chocolate, hitchhiking in Cuba, jetlag, the laws of beachcombing, global butler shortages, tartan, the largest Swiss army knife, supermarket food labeling, homebrew, energy saving light bulbs, getting kitted out for the duck hunting season, the physics of toilet paper, why your urine smells funny after eating asparagus, how to buy a bra, the history of chewing gum, what makes camouflage so fashionable, using mobile phones on planes, things you'll find on your keyboard and why people eat together....and that's just for starters!

Give us your ears..go on, we'll give them back, promise! You might even enjoy it. Sign up to our weekly show preview by emailing thiswayup-join@lists.radionz.co.nz

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