Weekend Variety Wireless With Graeme Hill On Radiolive

This week Graeme and music critic Grant Smithies delve into the cult classic, Big Stars alternately titled Third or Sister Lovers featuring Alex Chilton. Listen to the full audio with Grant Smithies above. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone. RadioLIVE.

The strange but quite real Dunning-Kruger Effect, where being overly confident of your knowledge means you almost certainly shouldnt be. Ipsos research director Jonathan Dodd joins Graeme Hill for our Human Statistics of the week: what do various nations think are the least trustworthy organisations, and how has the Dunning- Kruger effect turned into a meme? Mr Dodd speaks about the International Global Reputation Centre, what do businesses in New Zealand think are the biggest issues for them? Reputation is important, and along with well-known New Zealand companies such as Air New Zealand and Trade Me, 73 per cent of those surveyed said the finical sector was facing the biggest challenges.Graeme plays an audio clip of Tom Nickle explaining the Dunning-Kruger effect and how it has turned into a meme. Apparently, if one mentions the effect they may be suffering from it. Mr Dodd says people will respect you more if you just admit you dont know something, and that youre out of your depth. Hidden in Taranaki

At The Movies with James Croot, delving further into the goodies at the Documentary Edge Festival. Alver noticed the words helter-skelter, okey okey and hunky dory only take meaning when in pairs? Max Cryer is a New Zealand living treasure in both entertainment and etymological spheres. He joins Graeme Hill to banter over helter-skelter, floods and the nautical origin of the saying 'by-and-large'. What association does sailing have with the saying 'by-and-large'? Mr Cryer delves into ancient nautical terminology to explain the bizarre connection. Mr Cryer also discusses the origins of the words, obese, scrim and whether 'you, yourself' is grammatically correct. Listen to the full audio with Max Cryer above. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone. RadioLIVE.

This hour, Science Report with Matthew Egbert. Also, Neighbouring galaxies, otherwise known as 'Magellanic clouds', lie just beyond the Milky Way. Astronomer Dr Grant Christie joins Graeme Hill to discuss the Magellanic clouds images taken from Chile. These two "clouds", first described by Ferdinand Magellan are two dwarf galaxies very close to our much larger Milky Way Galaxy. Following The Gaia Projects second data release, precise positions of over 1.3 billion stars have been plotted- still being only about 1% of the Milky Way's stars. At the lower right of the map are stars of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Solar minimum is where solar activity is least active in its cycle. So far in 2018 the sun has been blank almost 60% of the time, with whole weeks going by without sunspots. Today's sun, shown from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, is typical of the featureless solar disk: sunspots are vanishing faster than expected. Forecasters have been saying for years that this would happen as th