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Tech: Semble, Tidal and Netflix update
1:15 PM.Peter Griffin on technology, with news of Jay Z's Tidal music streaming service taking on Spotify and Apple. Also a new contactless payment system called Semble hits the New Zealand shops, and an… Read more Audio
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Shopping while hungry
12:55 PM.Professor Norbert Schwarz from the University of Southern California has studied shopping while hungry and he thinks you could save money on all sorts of stuff if you simply have a feed before… Read more Audio
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Cider: history and making
12:15 PM.Its apple harvest and cider sales are booming, so busy times to be a cider-maker. The British beer writer Pete Brown gives us the drink's long and fascinating history. Then we pay a visit to local… Read more Audio
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Ebola vaccine and pollution health effects
1:55 PM.Dr Chris Smith with the latest science news; this week tests on a new vaccine for ebola, and studies linking air pollution to stroke and higher anxiety levels. Audio
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Necrobiome
1:40 PM.The emerging study of the necrobiome; that's the community of bacteria that live on and in us after we die. Jeff Tomberlin is a forensic entomologist at Texas A&M University who's studying the… Read more Audio
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An elephant's sense of smell
1:30 PM.Training African elephants to sniff out TNT and landmines. The US military's even interested in Sean Hensman's studies in South Africa. Read more Audio
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Alcoholics Anonymous: does it work?
1:10 PM.Alcoholics Anonymous has been around for 80 years, but can the support group for recovering alcoholics really claim to be effective? We speak to journalist Gabrielle Glaser who says it's outdated… Read more Audio
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CriticaLink app in Bangladesh
12:45 PM.Jennifer Farrell of CriticaLink is trying to improve emergency medical care in Bangladesh using mobile technology, and a location-based system to get trained medics to the scene of crashes quickly. Read more Audio
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Tech: Netflix NZ
12:30 PM.Peter Griffin looks at Netflix's launch of a local service. How does it stack up against the US version and the other streaming-video-on-demand services on the market? Read more Audio
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Desexing Caravan
12:15 PM.Husband and wife team Alistar and Sue McKellow travel the country running the SPCA's desexing caravan. Read more Audio
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Amazon dam and Nicaragua canal
1:45 PM.Jonathan Watts of The Guardian is covering the building of a massive dam in the Amazon. Also plans for a huge canal in Nicaragua that would be 3 times as long and twice and wide as the Panama Canal. Audio
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Tech: GST on digital products
1:35 PM.Technology correspondent Peter Griffin on the government's plans to impose GST on digital goods and services, Also Facebook launches a new payment service, and the end is nigh for Microsoft's Internet… Read more Audio
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Quick charging batteries
1:25 PM.A way to speed up the long and drawn out process of charging up a battery for your phone or digital device. Doron Myersdorf of StoreDot is developing an ultra-fast charging battery you can power up… Read more Audio
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Faster 3D printing
1:15 PM.Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith and an amazing new technique for 3D printing that's 100 times quicker than today's technology. Read more Audio
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Self-medicating Monarchs
12:50 PM.Jaap de Roode from Emory University in the United States is a biologist studying how a whole host of animals from chimps to insects (including Monarch butterflies) use plants to self-medicate. Read more Audio
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Museum visits for the blind
12:35 PM.What's it like to visit a museum or gallery if you're blind? We go for a tour with qualified audio describer Bruce Roberts and Lisette Wesseling around the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Audio
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Antibiotic advice
12:15 PM.If you're prescribed antibiotics can you just stop taking them when you feel better? With Dr Richard Everts, a medical microbiologist and specialist in infectious diseases in Nelson. Also Dr Mark… Read more Audio
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Seeing Robots
1:50 PM.Training robots to see more like humans. Syed Saud Naqvi, a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington, is working on an algorithm under the supervision of Will Browne, an associate professor in… Read more Audio
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Birds: the bar-tailed godwit
1:35 PM.We head out with Hugh Robertson to an estuary, on the trail of the bar-tailed godwit or kuaka. Read more Audio
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Tech news Apple Watch
1:15 PM.Apple is in the news this week with the launch of the Apple Watch, and the prospect of its electric vehicles driving around by 2020. With technology correspondent Peter Griffin. Audio
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Food spies
12:50 PM.Mitchell Weinberg is founder and CEO of Inscatech. Its aim is to fight food fraud and adulteration with its network of food spies dotted around the globe. Audio
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Could ultrasound scans be used to treat Alzheimer's?
12:40 PM.Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists with research showing that medical ultrasound could break down the toxic protein in the brain thought to cause Alzheimer's disease. Also evidence of a hot ocean… Read more Audio
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Do hallucinogenic drugs have therapeutic effects?
12:15 PM.Stephen Ross of New York University's School of Medicine is involved in studies looking at the potential therapeutic effects of the hallucinogen, psilocybin. Read more Audio
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Exploring taste
1:35 PM.John McQuaid explores the complexities of our sense of taste in his book "Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat" (Scribner). Audio
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DNA in flies
1:20 PM.Annalisa Durdle is a New Zealander working as a forensic scientist in Australia who's discovering that fly excrement can help the police solve crimes. Audio