(UPBEAT MUSIC) www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2023 - Tena koutou katoa, welcome to In Case You Missed It. Ko Tane toku ingoa. Time to tahuna te ahi with a look at what's been happening here in Aotearoa and overseas. This week, climate activist Greta Thunberg was fined in a Swedish court for disobeying police during a protest at an oil facility. She admitted the charge, but said the fight against the fossil fuel industry was a form of self-defence due to the threat of climate change. - Right now we don't have any laws that holds the carbon in the ground. We don't have any laws that long-term protect us against the self-destructing greed that we have let in full control over the world. - Also this week, the heatwave continued in Europe, with fires breaking out in Greece, Italy and Spain. On the Greek island of Rhodes, almost 20,000 people needed to be evacuated. In Florida, it looks like the hottest sea temperature ever has been set with a National Weather Service buoy on the tip of Florida recording 38.4 degrees. That's about the same temperature as a hot tub. - The corals are not happy with this level of hot water. They are bleaching. A lot of them are dying, I've heard too. 10 years from now, this will be seen as a relatively quiet summer; certainly a relatively cool summer. - In more positive news, Wellingtonians were treated to a rare sight this week, with a southern right whale swimming in Wellington Harbour, leaving onlookers amazed as it swam through the water. The minute the whale was spotted, locals immediately wondered if it was Matariki, another southern right whale that visited the capital in 2018. However, a local expert believes this is a younger one. Locals were asked to give the whale a wide berth and not to approach it by boat, but to just enjoy watching the beautiful creature from afar. A report released in May by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says social media is changing the way your brains are developing, and wants it to be treated like any other addictive substance. Yes, the report warns that social media use is a main contributor to depression, anxiety and other mental health problems in teenagers, finding that up to 95% of teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 use a social media platform, with a third saying that they're scrolling, posting or otherwise engaged with social media almost constantly. The report saw youth who spent excessive time on social media experienced a structural change in their brains, which experts believe could explain some of the impacts we are seeing on anxiety among young people. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) This week in 1893, a group of female activists, or suffragettes as they were known, submitted a massive petition to parliament demanding the right for women to have the vote. Described as a 'monster' by the petition's main organiser, Kate Sheppard, it contained 25,000 signatures and was over 270m long. The document was so huge that it was rolled down the aisle of the debating chamber. This was just one of 13 suffrage petitions presented at that time, with nearly 32,000 signatures. Their efforts finally paid off when the Electoral Act became law on the 19th of September, 1893, finally giving wahine the right to vote. And it was about time. Great news for local rap artist Melodownz, who's been nominated for a Rolling Stone Global Award, along with a number of other artists from Aotearoa. Congratulations to all the nominees. On the subject of rap and rappers, though, do you know where rap started? Check this out. (PIANO TUNE, RECORD SCRATCHES) Rap ― where did it all begin? The earliest example of rap is the griot from Africa, where the village storytellers told stories to the beat of handmade instruments. When the African slave trade began in 1619, thousands of African people were captured against their will, transported to America, and forced into slavery. To cope with the trauma, they would sing of their lost homes and families, telling their stories through song and chant. Through the centuries, African music influenced popular culture with jazz, blues, ragtime, gospel, soul, rock 'n' roll, funk and hip-hop. By the 1970s, New York block parties held outdoors with DJs and sound systems were popular in the hip-hop community. Enter DJ Kool Herc. Originally from Jamaica, Herc would play two turntables by hand and created a whole new sound that he would rap over. DJ Grandmaster Flash saw Herc perform, and added new sounds by scratching the records and playing them backwards. Flash's sound influenced a new generation, and in 1979, the Sugarhill Gang released Rapper's Delight, the first ever rap song to be played on commercial radio. Next came bands like Run-DMC, who borrowed elements from rock music, and Public Enemy, who replaced scratching with sampling, introducing strong social and political messaging from the Black community into their music. This developed into gangster rap in the 1990s, with groups like NWA, and rappers like Snoop Doggy-Dogg and Tupac. And the rest is history. Today, rap music is one of the most popular genres of music, with approximately 26% of music listeners worldwide listening to rap and hip-hop. Now, do you like Easter eggs? Well, a 32-year-old man from Australia loved them so much that he stole nearly $65,000 worth of Cadbury creme eggs. That's 200,000 eggs. He's been sent to jail for a year, and he will spend half the time in prison, and the other half will see him on probation. Well, sounds like he just couldn't resist that CCE. Well, that's us for this week. Thank you so much for joining me. We'll see you again next week for more In Case You Missed It. Have a great weekend. 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