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Private gigs
12:15 PM.Sofar Sounds is offering free and secret live music perfomances held in private homes around the world. Rafe Offer is one of its founders. Audio
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Slow coffee
3:10 PM.Aklesha Morrison is a cold drip coffee fan who takes 10 hours to make a single brew! Audio
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Naked Science
1:50 PM.Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith. This week, combining cochlear implants with gene therapies to restore people's hearing, and the role of smell in physical attraction. Audio
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Tech news: Net neutrality
1:15 PM.Peter Griffin on the battle for net neutrality, trying to keep the internet neutral and free from commercial interests. Also with more uncapped internet plans appearing on the market how are internet… Read more Audio
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Junkyard planet
12:15 PM.In his book 'Junkyard Planet' Adam Minter looks into the massive global business of rubbish and recycling. We also do the rounds with scrap metal collector Aidan Bognuda of Ingot Metals. Audio
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India: car horns and climate change
1:50 PM.Anu Anand lives and works in Delhi, home to some seriously loud car horns and where traffic noise is sending city dwellers to an early grave. Audio
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Happy cities?
1:25 PM.In his book 'Happy City, Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design' Charles Montgomery argues that cities can be happy places to live. With the world's urban population forecast to nearly 5 billion… Read more Audio
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Wikihouses
1:15 PM.The "Wikihouse" is a new global open source building movement that's trying to revolutionise how we build our homes. Designers Danny Squires and Martin Luff are hoping wikihouses can play a part in… Read more Audio
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Tech news: open Office
12:45 PM.Peter Griffin on some alternatives to Microsoft's Office 2003 suite of office products now technical support's been withdrawn. Audio
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Birdstrike
12:15 PM.In New Zealand there are around 400 birdstrike incidents every year, and globally they are on the rise. We visit the bird management team at Christchurch Airport to see how they're dealing with the… Read more Audio
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3D printing food
1:50 PM.A 3D printer for food called the Foodini is trying to take over your kitchen; but do we really need it? We speak to Lynette Kucsma of Natural Machines. Audio
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Egypt: pigs and rubbish
1:40 PM.Patrick Kingsley lives and works as a journalist in Cairo where pig farming is making an unlikely comeback, and where the city's informal army of rubbish collectors is taking control of waste… Read more Audio
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Exoskeletons
1:30 PM.A mind-controlled exoskeleton will allow a paraplegic to stand up and kick a football at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup in June. We speak to Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University and the… Read more Audio
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Bird Sense
1:10 PM.In his book 'Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be A Bird' the British zoologist Tim Birkhead examines how birds see and hear and experience the world around them. Audio
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Army ration packs
12:35 PM.New Zealand servicemen and women worldwide chomp their way through 80,000 ration packs every year. We look at what's on the menu in the standard NZ ration pack with Major Nicola Martin and Captain… Read more Audio
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Rails girls
12:15 PM.Rails Girls is a global, non-profit volunteer community that organises workshops to teach women how to write code and to programme. Simon Morton drops into a Rails Girls workshop to meet the… Read more Audio
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Brand value
1:45 PM.Itamar Simonson is a Professor of Marketing at Stanford University, and in his book Absolute Value he argues that brands are becoming less important in the digital age. Audio
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Street Child World Cup
1:35 PM.The Street Child World Cup has just taken place in Brazil, aiming to highlight the plight of children sleeping rough worldwide. Jo Griffin was there. Audio
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3D printing
1:15 PM.Roberto Carvalho loves 3D printing. He builds his own from scratch at home in Lyttelton, and is trying to spread the word on 3D printing in schools. Read more Audio
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Heartbleed
12:45 PM.Peter Griffin with a users' guide to the latest online security threat called Heartbleed, and a new survey on New Zealanders downloading and streaming practices. Audio
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Artificial light
12:15 PM.How is artificial light changing the world we live in? We're speaking to Paul Bogard about his book "The End of Night" and to astronomer John Field of the Carter Observatory. Audio
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Bionic olympics
1:40 PM.Professor Robert Riener from the University of Zurich is organising Cybathlon, a bionic olympics taking place in Switzerland in October 2016. Audio
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Teenagers' tech use
1:15 PM.danah boyd's a technology researcher for Microsoft who looks at the way teenagers use technology in her book "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens". Audio
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Snakeskin trade
12:55 PM.The illegal global trade in snakeskins. Sarah Butler of The Guardian reports. Audio