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January/February 2002

Date (show no.)	Topic	Guests
20 Jan #1	Eating crow with the left side of the brain: New Caledonian crow tool use and left-hemisphere dominance	Gavin Hunt, Russell Gray, Michael Corballis, U Auckland
	Wild Rivers: the unique ecology and unusual geology of New Zealand's braided gravel rivers (book)	Brian Patrick, Otago Museum
	Spider silk and spit: using NMR to study materials that fall between solid and liquid	Paul Callaghan, Victoria U.
27 Jan #2	Oceanography: New Zealand's oceans in a warming world    -heat    -salt, circulation and the Antarctic cold reversal    -ocean currents    -the physical pump: waves and carbon dioxide    -the biological pump: plants and carbon dioxide    -past warming    -sea level rise	National Institute of Water and Atmosphere Basil Stanton Barbara Manighetti Lionel Carter Murray Smith Scott Nodder Helen Neale Derek Goring
3 Feb #3	Food: the problem of post-harvest waste	Julian Heyes, Crop and Food Research and Post Harvest Action
	A life: Sir Graham Liggins
10 Feb #4	Physics: subatomic particles from Rutherford to Higgs	Jonathon Ellis, CERN
	A life: Elizabeth Flint and her desmids
17 Feb #5	Biotechnology debate: GM contamination of Mexican maize?	David Quist, UC Berkeley David Hoisington, CIMMYT
	Artificial intelligence: the probelm of the Chinese Room	Jack Copeland, UCanterbury
24 Feb #6	The Barker hypothesis (repeat)

March/April 2002

Date (show no.)	Topic	Guests
3 Mar #7	Physics: Einstein's Blunder (Soundprint)
10 Mar #8	Hypnosis	David Spiegel, Stanford U. School of Medicine
	Paleontology: ancestor of the Great White sharks	Ewan Fordyce, U Otago
17 Mar #9	Diabetes: disease, research and funding (repeat)	Garth Cooper, U Auckland
23 Mar #10	Physics: Fate of the Universe (Soundprint)
31 Mar #11	Ecology: chaos and population biology	Robert May, Oxford U
	Computing: quantum computers	Seth Lloyd, MIT
6 Apr #12	On the Road: a trip from Bluff to Cape Reinga, in which non-scientists talk about science*
	*After this program, full time responsibility for Eureka! passed to Radio New Zealand producer Veronika Meduna.

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