All episodes
Saturday, 4 September 2010
- 12:30 Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals
- 1:10 Urban farming in Detroit
- 1:25 Virgin vs extra virgin olive oil
- 1:40 Tonecheck
- 1:50 World's biggest tidal power turbine
Saturday, 28 August 2010
- 12:15 Watery diet
- 12:20 Kaimoana: Snapper
- 12:45 Recycled island
- 1:15 Connected: Nicholas Christakis
- 1:45 Tech news: Privacy, Google Phone and Samsung's Galaxy Tab
Saturday, 21 August 2010
- 12:15 Invisible Gorilla: Chris Chabris
- 12:40 Food questions: dried pasta and soy milk
- 12:50 Proverbial Wallets
- 1:15 The Better Marriage Blanket
- 1:30 Foraging: cabbage tree
- 1:50 Methane power in Rwanda
Saturday, 14 August 2010
- 12:15 The science of toast
- 12:25 World's biggest wind turbine
- 12:35 Food Additives: emulsifiers
- 12:50 Farmville
- 1:15 Google Maps
- 1:25 Tech News: Net neutrality
- 1:45 The Facebook Effect
Saturday, 7 August 2010
- 12:15 Fish: Paul Greenberg
- 12:40 Bumpology: Pain and blokes
- 12:55 Food: Vinegar and mouldy jam
- 1:15 Pests: Mice
- 1:35 Preserving Virtual Worlds
- 1:50 India: Saffron and cosmetic surgery
Saturday, 31 July 2010
- 12:15 Water sprays on veggies
- 12:30 Nicholas Carr: The Shallows
- 12:55 Italy: Nutella ban?
- 1:15 Inflatable movie extras
- 1:20 Motion capture in computer games
- 1:35 Sauces: Piccalilli
- 1:45 Internet addiction in South Korea
Saturday, 24 July 2010
- 12:15 Geoengineering: Jeff Goodell
- 12:45 Spices: Nutmeg
- 1:15 Touchy decisions
- 1:25 Tech news: iPhone 4 and Google gaming
- 1:40 Selling potatoes to China
- 1:50 World's most expensive instrument
Saturday, 17 July 2010
- 12:15 Voice and strength study
- 12:20 Foraging: geraniums
- 12:35 Dental anaesthetics
- 12:50 Dutch football: David Winner
- 1:15 A global history of cake
- 1:35 Mekong Part 5: Vietnam
- 1:50 Bumpology: learning and sleep
Saturday, 10 July 2010
- 12:15 Tour de France 2009: drug cheats and testing
- 12:30 Food additives: antioxidants
- 12:45 Emerging Technologies: Mobile 3D, social TV, green concrete
- 1:15 Food: olive oil content of spreads
- 1:25 Tech news: Super cookies
- 1:35 Venezuelan retailers and Cuban cigars
- 1:50 Mekong Part 4: Cambodia
Saturday, 3 July 2010
- 12:15 The Nile: battle for control
- 12:25 Sourcemap
- 12:40 Digital classrooms
- 12:55 China: Rent-a-white-guy
- 1:15 Mouldy bread: to eat or not to eat?
- 1:20 Global loo roll
- 1:35 Sugar: a history
- 1:50 Mekong River 3: Golden Triangle
Saturday, 26 June 2010
- 12:15 Yves Behar - free specs
- 12:25 Wasabi
- 12:35 Food additives: citric acid
- 12:50 Japan: Ramen, beard bans and horrid shirts
- 1:10 Newspaper props
- 1:20 Bumpology
- 1:30 TLC for your septic tank
- 1:45 Mekong River 2: Myanmar
- 1:55 New customs charges
Saturday, 19 June 2010
- 12:15 Speed Monopoly
- 12:20 Spices: Cinnamon
- 12:35 Coffee storage
- 12:45 Tech news: Bebo and E3
- 1:15 Foraging: fennel
- 1:25 The Supermarket Guru
- 1:40 Caffeine withdrawal
- 1:40 Mekong River Part 1
Saturday, 12 June 2010
- 12:15 Pests: Bed bugs
- 12:40 Cyber espionage
- 12:50 Penalty kicks
- 1:15 India: Yoga protection
- 1:25 3D TVs
- 1:40 Bumblebees
- 1:50 World Cup: ticket sales and vuvuzelas
Saturday, 5 June 2010
- 12:15 Flies in urinals
- 12:30 Telepresence robots
- 12:40 Toastie pioneer
- 12:50 DEET-resistant mozzies
- 1:10 Scratch
- 1:25 Tech news: Digital books
- 1:50 Bumpology: taste and mum-nesia
Saturday, 29 May 2010
- 12:10 Intro
- 12:15 Fruit and veg ripening
- 12:30 Bed sheets
- 12:50 Burnt Food Museum
- 1:15 10 emerging technologies: Part 1
- 1:25 China: giant hydro project
- 1:40 Annoying phone calls
- 1:50 Ping pong
Saturday, 22 May 2010
- 12:15 Japan: Hostess rights
- 12:30 Interphone cellphone study
- 12:45 Black carrot juice
- 12:50 Keen as mustard
- 1:10 Social gaming
- 1:50 Bumpology: Hi-tech scanning
Saturday, 15 May 2010
- 12:15 What's in our margarine?
- 12:20 Pests: Rats
- 12:50 Norway: The Russ
- 1:15 Rugby World Cup tickets
- 1:30 Tech news: mobile termination rates
- 1:40 Turning chicken poo into power
- 1:50 Mobile phones in Africa
Saturday, 8 May 2010
- 12:15 Dodgy Frenchmen
- 12:25 Foraging: pine
- 12:35 Bumpology baby science: Part 1
- 12:50 Laughing gas
- 1:15 Bits and bytes: Books and music
- 1:25 North Korean Restaurants
- 1:35 Food Culture in the Pacific
Saturday, 1 May 2010
- 12:15 Marmite vs Vegemite
- 12:25 Brand-free cigarettes
- 12:35 Goalkeepers' shirt colours
- 12:45 Tales of things
- 1:15 Cuban mobiles and Coca Colla
- 1:30 Url shortening services
- 1:45 Thanatourism
Saturday, 24 April 2010
- 12:15 Ice cream and hokey pokey
- 12:35 Spread and palm oil
- 12:50 Tech news: ACTA and iPhone
- 1:15 Sniffing out bed bugs
- 1:25 Peanuts
- 1:40 Nail polish
- 1:50 Web Harvest
Saturday, 17 April 2010
- 12:15 Self-shearing sheep
- 12:30 Polaroid revival
- 12:50 Landfill deodorant
- 1:15 Telstra Clear browsing problems
- 1:30 ACTA and the history of IP piracy
Saturday, 10 April 2010
- 12:15 Lactose intolerance
- 12:30 Selenium and Vitamin B12
- 12:45 Tech news: UK digital laws and election
- 1:15 Amazon vs Canada
- 1:15 Vietnam: texting on mopeds
- 1:25 iPad teardown
- 1:35 Social media- good for consumers?
- 1:55 Japanese women getting slimmer
Saturday, 3 April 2010
- 12:15 Mexico: charity pawn chain
- 12:25 Foraging: coprosma
- 12:35 Corned Beef
- 12:50 Driver distraction: electronic billboards
- 1:15 Priceless: what's a fair price?
- 1:45 Tech news: Powershop and mobile phone rates