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This Way Up 15 August 2015: Part 1
12:01 PM.Touchscreen pest detection, tips for managing your digital afterlife, and cellphone credit checks. Audio
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Olympic frisbee?
1:55 PM.The Executive Officer of New Zealand Ultimate, Iain Stewart is stoked about the IOC's decision to recognise disc-based sports. Read more Audio
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Spain: Solidarity Fridge
1:40 PM.Ashifa Kassam lives and works in Spain, where the Solidarity Fridge is helping communities reduce food waste. Also the Canary Islands is trying to get its 11 million tourists off their resorts and… Read more Audio
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Chorizo
1:25 PM.Chorizo is the smoky sausage from Spain that's eaten either fresh or cured. Javier Garcia makes them in Christchurch. Read more Audio
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Science: early life and faster healing
1:15 PM.Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists. Scientists have uncovered the trigger that helps organs, skin and tissue regrow rather than form a scar. Also, how the earliest multi-cellular lifeforms… Read more Audio
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This Way Up 8 August 2015: Part 2
1:01 PM.Naked science, chorizo, fighting food waste in Spain, and Ultimate Frisbee could be part of Olympics. Audio
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Tech: Apple security flaw?
12:45 PM.Apple users might be a feeling less smug about never getting computer viruses. Also the right to be forgotten; so far it's primarily been a European issue, but now the right to be forgotten could be… Read more Audio
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Mark Essig: Lesser Beasts
12:20 PM.Mark Essig is the author of 'Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig'. Read more Audio
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Metal Yoga
12:15 PM.Saskia Thode is a metal yoga instuctor in New York. Read more Audio
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This Way Up 8 August 2015: Part 1
12:01 PM.Metal yoga, porcine history and Apple security flaws. Audio
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The drought shamer
1:50 PM.Tony Corcoran is a "droughtshamer" on a crusade to name and shame Californian water wasters by posting videos of what they are doing on social media. Read more Audio
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Tech: Windows 10 and FreeviewPlus
1:35 PM.Our technology correspondent Peter Griffin has been having a play with Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 10. Read more Audio
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Science of ageing
1:10 PM.Bill Gifford studies the science of ageing in his book 'Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever or Die Trying' (Grand Central). Read more Audio
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This Way Up 1 August 2015: Part 2
1:01 PM.Science of ageing, Microsoft Windows 10 review and Californian drought shaming. Audio
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(Very) micro wind power
12:50 PM.Charlotte Slingsby, the designer of Moya, has come up with a novel way to generate power using small movements of air. Read more Audio
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Paracetamol
12:35 PM.New Zealand's most widely consumed drug, paracetamol. With John Ashton of the Otago School of Medical Sciences. Read more Audio
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Microbial moods
12:25 PM.Dr Chris Smith on how your gut microbes could be affecting your mood. Also the discovery of the earliest evidence yet of Earth's magnetic field, found in some 4.4 billion year old Australian rock. Read more Audio
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Passing lanes
12:15 PM.Why do some people seem to speed up just as you're about to overtake them in a passing lane? With Carl Davidson from Research First, Colin Brodie of the NZ Transport Agency, and Samuel Charlton who… Read more Audio
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This Way Up 1 August 2015: Part 1
12:01 PM.Passing lanes, how the microbiome affects mood, paracetamol, and micro wind harvesting for power. Audio
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Wine crime
1:50 PM.Wine crimes, including wine adulteration and the theft of highly priced vintages, are on the rise. Maureen Downey is a wine fraud expert consulted by the FBI, who also acts as an expert witness in… Read more Audio
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Rio Olympics countdown
1:35 PM.Jonathan Watts in Brazil as the country is about to start the one year countdown to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Read more Audio
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Tech: Apple Watch, drone laws and tiny transistors
1:25 PM.Technology correspondent Peter Griffin on the imminent launch of the Apple Watch in New Zealand, bad news for drone owners with tighter regulations, and the tiny transistor that could mean the end of… Read more Audio
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Eyedrop cure for cataracts
1:10 PM.Dr Chris Smith with a new approach to treating cataracts with eyedrops not surgery, and the clearest link yet between sugary drinks and diabetes. Read more Audio
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This Way Up 25 July 2015: Part 2
1:01 PM.Cataract treatment, technology news (Apple Watch and drone laws), Rio Olympics countdown and wine crimes. Audio
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The Water Book
12:30 PM.Alok Jha is a science journalist and the author of 'The Water Book: The extraordinary story of our most ordinary substance'. Read more Audio