Rnz: Afternoons With Jesse Mulligan

Online safety campaigner Rob Cope has written his own online safety bill to protect young people online and is lobbying MPs for support. 

MenzShed chairman David Broadhead says the charity needs more land, buildings and funding

This week's critter is a common inhabitant of ponds. You may have seen them before, swimming under the surface upside down! The New Zealand backswimmer is cute little bug shaped like a boat with oars for legs. They are voracious predators, eating anything they can get their straw like mouthpart in to suck up the juicy insides. Males will court females by singing to them, using a special part of the foreleg which they drag on a part of their mouth to create a chirping noise. How romantic!

Our DIY expert Stan Scott answers your DIY questions. Sent them in to afternoons@rnz.co.nz

Sean shares the recipe for his Wedge Salad with Buttermilk Dressing

Film reviewer Dom Corry shares is take on new Nicolas Cage thriller 'The Surfer' & 'Mountainhead' a new comedy from Succession creater Jesse Armstrong.

Rochelle joins us to share some spooky occurrences that took place in her first home. If you have a Freaky Friday story to share please send it to Afternoons@rnz.co.nz

In March, the government made it easier for community housing providers to borrow money in a bid to address our chronic affordable housing shortage. The $150 million the government has promised to providers will arrive via the Community Housing Funding Agency and should address the 21,000 households currently waiting on the Housing Register. Last night, the Community Housing Funding Agency team picked up three gongs at the Mindful Money ethical investment awards for their work in the area. Community Housing Funding Agency chief executive James Palmer joins Jesse.

Ruby Keegan is working on a prosthetic limb which can be worn in and out of the water - giving amputees the freedom to move easily between land to sea. She's just won Massey University's Grand Ideas competition for student-driven innovation that tackles real world challenges.

Today marks 10 years since All Black Jerry Collins and his partner Alana Madill were both killed in a fatal car crash in the south of france. At 6pm tonight Porirua's Jerry Collins Stadium hosts a special memorial match, put on by his first amateur club Norths United RFC.

Dogs with flat faces and bulging eyes have become a popular choice for pet owners, but we're being warned their selective breeding puts them at risk for a large number of health problems.

This week, a quiz to test your financial literacy. How many questions can you get right?

This week we're launching a new Thursday feature and each fortnight from today (alternating with NZ Sporting History) we'll be taking a look at a subject close to our collective kiwi hearts - starting with A and working out way down to Z. Whether that's Pies, Forestry, xylophone clubs, or Zorbing... which was invented in Rotorua apparently. Today we're kicking off with A for Avation. If you've got any ideas, especially for the tricky letters send them to me on 2010 or Afternoons@rnz.co.nz

Regular Afternoons podcast critic Alan Doak has been listening to Instant Genius by the folk that make BBC Science Focus Magazine and The Economics of Everyday Things hosted by journalist Zachary Crockett.

Muso and Afternoons regular Chris Schulz says we need big artists, major shows and large-scale touring to return to Aotearoa - immediately. Recently, the likes of Taylor Swift, Oasis, Billie Eilish, Green Day, The Killers, Katy Perry, Korn and Kylie Minogue have toured the globe extensively, including Australia - but then gave New Zealand a wide berth. Xzibit, Nelly, Blink-182, Tenacious D and Public Enemy have announced New Zealand shows and then pulled the plug. Festivals Bay Dreams and Splore are on hiatus, while we've already lost Nest Fest, Morningside Bloc Party, Juicy Fest and the Timeless Tour for various reasons. Chris has vented his frustration on his Boiler Room blog and joins Jesse for a rant.

Limpets, which are technically a type of snail, are found on rocks, boat hulls, glued to the side of jetties. In spite of - or maybe because of - their ubiquity, we often overlook them in favour of assuming they just sit there doing nothing. But it turns out that isn't the case. They're surprisingly active and adaptive. Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Canterbury and Limpet expert Dr Spencer Virgin joins Jesse to explain how limpets are adapting to warming seas.

We all know e-bikes are increasingly popular - but they're not cheap. Research shows it's financially well-off households which lead the way in e-bike sales. But three pilot programmes have just wrapped up - looking at how to get more communities charged up and onto a bike. Dr Caroline Shaw is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago in Wellington. She joins Jesse to talk about the pilots and economics of it all.

Today on Our Changing World – we have a piece from the archives – from 15 years ago. Chatham Island tūī once were common on the main Chatham Island, but from the 1930s their numbers started to decline, and by the 1990s they were all but gone. In 2009 fourteen tūī were transferred from nearby predator free Rangatira island to the main island. They all survived the winter, and some started to breed. Following up on this success, local conservation group the Chatham Island Taiko Trust decided to translocate more in 2010. We join Alison Ballance and the tūī team just after they’ve caught and contained 40 birds.

"Start procreating or start panicking." That's the core message of a once-fringe ideology now pushing its way into the mainstream called pronatalism. Elon Musk is one of the movement's loudest voices, boasting 14 kids and calling population decline humanity's biggest threat. The pronatalist movement is largely led by white conservatives and tech elites. Critics say it's not just about babies it's about power, and control. Dr. Karen Guzzo is a sociologist, fertility expert and the director of the Carolina Population Center. She argues that solving the "birth rate crisis" isn't about pushing people to have more kids, it's about building a society where they actually can.

Kelly Gibney shares her easy recipe for Baked fish with olives, capers, chilli and cherry tomatoes. Get the recipe here