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Scary smartphone story
1:25 PM.Peter Etchells of Bath Spa University, and the science blog network coordinator for The Guardian, on the real story behind a scary headline linking smartphone and tablet use to brain damage in… Read more Audio
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United Noshes
1:15 PM.Jesse Friedman is hosting 194 dinner parties, celebrating the national cuisine of each member state of the United Nations in alphabetical order. Read more Audio
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Invisible Girlfriend
12:50 PM.Matthew Homann is co-founder of Invisible Girlfriend, a paid service offering you a virtual partner to send you texts and tweets. Read more Audio
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Spain's cycling boom
12:40 PM.Peter Walker of The Guardian has been for a ride on Seville's cycle network. It's the centre of a cycling boom in Southern Spain. Audio
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Tech: clickbait
12:25 PM.Listener Mona-Lynn has a question for our tech correspodent Peter Griffin about 'clickbait'. Read more Audio
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Twins in space
12:15 PM.Jeffrey Kluger of Time's covering a NASA mission involving two twins, that will study the effects that a year in space has on the human body. Read more Audio
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Reading maps
1:35 PM.Julie Sweetkind-Singer from Stanford University works at the intersection of the analog paper map, and new digital mapping technology. Audio
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Tech news: Apple and app sales
12:45 PM.Peter Griffin with tech news; including Apple's monster profits, what the most popular apps were in 2014, and new regulations for foreign tech companies working in China. Audio
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Gamergate and online harassment Zoe Quinn
12:30 PM.Zoe Quinn's a video game developer who last year found herself at the centre of Gamergate, when a small but very nasty part of the gaming community turned on her. She's helping others deal with online… Read more Audio
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Unboiling eggs and asteroids
12:20 PM.Dr Chris Smith with the latest science news, and the discovery of how to 'unboil' an egg. Also Asteroid 2004 BL86 passes so close to the Earth that it's classified as a "near Earth object". Read more Audio
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Urine trouble
12:15 PM.Uri Friedman is the Global Editor of The Atlantic. A court in Germany's just ruled in a case over the right of men to stand up when they urinate. It reflects a long-running debate about the issue in… Read more Audio
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New kettle
1:50 PM.Designer Nils Chudy's Miito kettle can boil exactly as much water as you need so no more wasted power. Read more Audio
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Read and Ride
1:40 PM.Scott Ertl of Read and Ride uses old exercise bikes to get kids pedalling while they read. Read more Audio
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Birds: kakariki
1:30 PM.The kakariki, or New Zealand parakeet, with Hugh Robertson. Read more Audio
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IVF Babies
1:10 PM.Professor Daniel Brison is conducting a study looking at IVF babies to assess their long term health compared to naturally conceived babies. Read more Audio
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Seeing with Sound
12:50 PM.Peter Meijer's vOICe takes images captured by a camera in a visor and translates these into sounds played to the user via headphones. Read more Audio
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Tech Uber, P2P lending and space
12:30 PM.Tech news with Peter Griffin; Uber the taxi app, peer-to-peer lending, and why Google has invested a billion dollars in space exploration. Audio
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Why does rain smell good?
12:20 PM.Cullen Buie of MIT has been studying rain, and why it can smell so good when it hits the ground. Read more Audio
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Naked Science: snails and scrolls
12:15 PM.Dr Chris Smith with news of a discovery that the most deadly creature on the planet uses insulin as a weapon of mass destruction. Also scientists use technology to uncover the secrets contained in… Read more Audio
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Professional cuddling
1:50 PM.We speak to professional cuddler, Samantha Hess. She's opened a cuddling shop in Portland in Oregon and is being deluged with enquiries Read more Audio
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UK news: pay inequality
1:45 PM.Tracy McVeigh on a proposed UK law to make big companies publish what they pay their male and female workers; a first step to abolishing gender pay inequality perhaps? Read more Audio
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UK news: pay inequality
1:45 PM.Tracy McVeigh on a proposed UK law to make big companies publish what they pay their male and female workers; a first step to abolishing gender pay inequality perhaps? Audio
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The Spotted Shag
1:30 PM.On the hunt for the spotted shag. With bird expert Hugh Robertson. Read more Audio
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Information Doesn't Want to Be Free
1:10 PM.The writer and internet activist Cory Doctorow wants to overhaul the world's copyright laws to make them fit for purpose in the digital age. His new book is called 'Information Doesn't Want to be… Read more Audio