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Mushroom growing
1:45 PM.We visit commercial mushroom grower Clive Thompson of Parkvale Mushrooms in the Wairarapa. Audio
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Kosher food and CSA fish
1:30 PM.In the US, the Community Supported Agriculture movement is expanding to include fish. Plus kosher food sales to the non-Jewish community are on the rise. So what's driving demand? Sarah di Gregorio… Read more Audio
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Tech news: Future mobiles
1:10 PM.Bill Thompson beams in with the latest from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, plus why cyber-protesters are targetting some Australian government websites. Audio
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The Astronaut's Cookbook
12:45 PM.Preparing food in space is a real challenge. Greg Vogt's a veteran of the US space programme who's just written a cookbook to help you make space food at home. Audio
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Texting sharks
12:30 PM.The sharks sending texts you really do want to get! Shark expert Barry Bruce is setting up a real-time shark detection system relying on tracking tags and text messaging in Australia. Audio
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Spam texts
12:15 PM.Spam messages sent to cellphones are on the rise. Keith Manch of the Department of Internal Affairs and Paul Brislen of Vodafone on the size of the spam text problem in New Zealand, and what mobile… Read more Audio
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Bedroom industry
1:40 PM.Dvice's Wendy Lee examines how technology's changing what toys and devices people are playing with in the bedroom. Audio
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Mumbai tiffin-wallahs
1:25 PM.Every day some 170,000 lunches are collected from homes in Mumbai, delivered to workplaces then everything gets taken back home. Meena Kadri's been looking at this daily miracle. Audio
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Coin toss
1:15 PM.There's more evidence that calling head or tails is not as fair as we might think. Matthew Clark's been studying how humans can influence the outcome through skill and training. Audio
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Beijing bicycles
12:50 PM.China's turning back to the bicycle. It's trying to avoid the traffic and pollution problems caused by the one million new cars hitting the roads there every month. Jonathan Watts reports. Audio
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Home-kill meat
12:30 PM.Most of the meat we buy in the supermarket is neatly wrapped and sanitised, not a speck of blood in sight. Bruce Harkness has been home-killing and butchering sheep for years. Audio
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Future books
12:15 PM.Clare Alexander's a literary agent and was editor-in-chief at the publisher Macmillan. We're talking about the future of book publishing and the industry's hopes of dodging the difficulties faced by… Read more Audio
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Cellphone photo classes
1:55 PM.Phil Hibberd's offering the first mobile phone photography course in the UK. Audio
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Ethiopian land deal
1:40 PM.The Ethiopian government's trying to lease millions of hectares of the country's agricultural land to overseas investors. Xan Rice reports. Audio
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Foraging: kawakawa
1:25 PM.Foraging for more free food with Johanna Knox. This week, kawakawa. It comes from the pepper family, you can brush your teeth with it...it even stops smelly feet! Audio
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Golf cart city
1:15 PM.David Kushner's just been to one of the world's biggest retirement villages in Florida to check out the residents' pimped out golf carts. Audio
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History of curry
12:35 PM.Food historian Colleen Taylor Sen's just written a global history of curry. Audio
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Crow problem
12:30 PM.NPR's Louisa Lim on the radical steps the city authorities in Tokyo are taking to eradicate the city's crow population. Audio
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In-car internet
12:15 PM.Tech companies and US auto-makers are about to offer drivers internet access via their dashboards. Matt Richtel on the move that's angering safety advocates. Audio
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This Way Up - Makeover magic
3:33 PM.Sonia Yee meets image consultant Trudi Bennet who tells her clients what clothes, colours and styles they should wear...and avoid! Audio
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Dynalifter
1:55 PM.Bob Rist is the inventor of the Dynalifter: a helium-filled cross between an airship and a aeroplane. Audio
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LA gang tour
1:50 PM.Enterprising former gang members are offering the first ever gang tour of Los Angeles. We head along for with Madeleine Brand of NPR on the inaugural coach trip. Audio
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Coin toss
1:40 PM.You'd expect the odds of throwing heads or tails to be exactly 50:50 but they're not, according to statistics professor Susan Holmes. Audio
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Makeover magic
1:25 PM.Sonia Yee meets image consultant Trudi Bennett who tells her clients what clothes, colours and styles they should wear...and avoid! Audio
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Japan: silver athletes and paper planes
1:10 PM.An origami master's perfecting a paper plane that can break the 30 second flight barrier. Plus the over-65s taking over Japan's parks and playgrounds. Justin McCurry reports. Audio