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The Perfect Meal?
1:20 PM.Charles Spence's book 'The Perfect Meal' looks at how we eat, and how things like lighting, music, plates and cutlery can make us enjoy our food more. Read more Audio
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Clever raccoons
1:10 PM.Michael Pettit of York University in Toronto is interested in the city's raccoons, and how clever they're getting. Audio
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Alaska Maps
12:50 PM.Lori Montgomery of The Washington Post on why the maps in Alaska are so bad, and what's being done about it. Audio
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Speed skating
12:25 PM.Bill and Cheryl Begg are a husband and wife team training generations of speed skaters in Timaru. Read more Audio
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Salt tolerant potato
12:15 PM.Dr Arjen de Vos of Salt Farm Texel in The Netherland has just won a major international award for the development of a potato that can grow in salty soils. Audio
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Age of Aquaria
1:40 PM.Phil Delamore is a goldfish collector who cleans and maintains 600 aquaria in doctor's and dentist's waiting rooms up and down the country. Read more Audio
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The Dark Net
1:15 PM.We head inside 'The Dark Net', taking a journey into the digital underworld with author Jamie Bartlett. Audio
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Naked Science
12:50 PM.Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith; two exciting bits of research that explain how we learn things, and how we can keep our brains youthful. Audio
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Tech news
12:40 PM.Technology news with Peter Griffin. South Korea's troubled national ID system. Also HBO cuts the cable and goes online. Audio
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Could we be entering a post-password era?
12:15 PM.How your voice can be used to identify yourself to the government, banks or other organisations. With Ed Pilkington, Clive Summerfield, Jared Mortlock and Souella Cumming. Read more Audio
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Signs
1:55 PM.A restaurant where you have to use your hands, because you have to order in sign language. Audio
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Mexican Love Motels
1:50 PM.Spicing up the love life in these themed motel rooms that are rented by the hour. Audio
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Naked science
1:42 PM.Three Nobel prizes for Science announced earlier this week; making the invisible visible; and white LED lights. Audio
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Stay up late with a gig buddy
1:30 PM.Gig Buddies hooks socially isolated people with learning disabilities up with a buddy to go to gigs, clubs, sports events and even church. Read more Audio
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Soylent
1:15 PM.The total meal replacement system - it's called Soylent and means you'll never have to plan another meal. But is it edible? Read more Audio
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Penguin watch
12:55 PM.Spotting penguins in Antarctica - another citizen science project that needs your help. Read more Audio
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Grafting vines
12:50 PM.Grafting grape vines - it's a simple way of fighting disease. It saved the wine industry here and around the world. Audio
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Tech news
12:20 PM.Tech news with Peter Griffin. Another broadband provider enters the NZ market and another new mobile payment system. Audio
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Pot hackathon
12:15 PM.Kim Gittleson has been to the first ever hackathon for the marijuana business - the green rush is on in Colorado and Washington states where cannabis has been legalised. Audio
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Bits and bytes with Peter Griffin
1:50 PM.Bits and bytes from the tech world with Peter Griffin. Mobile payment systems and why ebay is about to spin off paypal, plus a preview of Windows 10. First, Kim Dotcom's out of politics and now he's… Read more Audio
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Animal Language
1:35 PM.Dr Arik Kershenbaum explains the new research that looks at animal communication and the link to human language - at the moment no one knows how language has evolved. Read more Audio
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Chips to help curb obesity
1:10 PM.It's the biggest pandemic the globe's seen, according to Professor Sir Stephen Bloom. He links obesity back to human evolution and has a couple of solutions that might be able to trim our waistline… Read more Audio
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Soul Cycling
12:50 PM.The latest exercise is a mix between a disco party, a work out and a visit to the psychologist with instructors yelling positive affirmations at you while you're trying to climb a mountain on your… Read more Audio
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Naked Scientist Chris Smith
12:40 PM.How our sense of smell is a pre-cursor to death, the brain and the development of human intelligence and the latest on Ebola. Audio
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The art of making sauerkraut
12:15 PM.The Chinese were eating it 6000 years ago, the Ancient Romans consumed it and it was a staple for Captain Cook. Pip Martin and Emily Williams teach the art of sauerkraut fermentation. Read more Audio