Chris Turney - Race to the South Pole

Without her fans, holographic pop star Hatsune Miku would literally be nothing. It's now the same story for organisations, says Zoe Fraade-Blanar.

The empty jargon of the management world is symptomatic of a deeper cultural malaise, says the author of Business Bullshit André Spicer.

Samoan New Zealander Li'I Alaimoana, South African New Zealander Urzilla Carlson and Icelandic comic Ari Eldjárn explore comedy and culture.

Hearing devices have for years been an expensive and somewhat unfashionable necessity for those with hearing troubles, but as the tech improves, hearables are becoming a cool functional accessory. For one thing, translating languages, in real time, could soon be a reality. In the US, legislation has been passed could see devices like this sold over the counter - making them cheaper and far more accessible. Jason Galster leads the audiology research at Starkey Hearing technologies and says the technology of hearing aides is so advanced it's no wonder there's a push it to be more widely available.

2018's Auckland Pride Festival is all about peace. They've got the usual parties that people flock too... the Ponsonby Road parade, the family-friendly 'Bay Gay Out' plus dozens of other events. Co-chair Lexie Matheson takes Simon Morton through the programming.

Synthetic drugs sold as MDMA and ecstacy and oversized MDMA pills cause the most drug-related harm at NZ gigs and festivals, a volunteer with the drug checking service Know Your Stuff says.

At the winter Olympics next month, the Koreas will march under one flag - united, after so long apart. They'll also compete as one in women's ice hockey. This comes out of the first real talks between the countries in more than two years. International reaction has been mixed, with some concerned about the North's motives.

It's been dubbed the biggest advance in the world of genetic engineering but scientists are still trying to discover more about what the gene-therapy CRISPR-Cas9 can do. It's often described as molecular scissors, and can be used to find and cut out a specific short DNA sequence with a gene. Now new research has found many humans are immune to the main protein of CRISPR, which means they would reject it. Simon Morton asked the lead author of the study, Matthew Porteus from Standford University about the latest findings.

For the health of your brain, exercise is even better than thinking, Harvard psychiatry professor John Ratey says.

What do you do when when you're looking for love but but most people don't share your views on the world and society? Up This Way's Shaun D Wilson spoke to truther Jenny and writer Florence Wilkinson - who for Broadly looked into how people who subscribe to conspiracy theories are trying to make connections.