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Protein Overload?
12:45 PM.Dr. Valter Longo of the University of Southern California has led a study looking at how too much protein from meat, eggs and dairy can harm your health. So how much is too much, and does your age… Read more Audio
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Wastewater analysis
12:15 PM.From toothpaste to amphetamines, what our wastewater reveals about the chemicals and other stuff we use and consume. With Daniel Burgard of the University of Puget Sound and Sally Gaw of the… Read more Audio
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Battling butlers
1:55 PM.Frances Robinson is based in Brussels and has looked at the competition between new and more traditional training schools for domestic servants. Audio
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Urban archaeologists
1:15 PM.Katharine Watson of Underground Overground Archaeology is an urban archaeologist using the Christchurch rebuild to find out what life was like in 19th century Canterbury. Read more Audio
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Tech news
12:35 PM.Our technology correspondent Peter Griffin on Telecom's moves into the TV and music content market. Audio
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Bitcoin
12:15 PM.After this week's meltdown at Mt. Gox, one of Bitcoin's biggest trading platforms, we ask Brian Patrick Eha if Bitcoin has a future. Audio
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Naked Science
1:50 PM.Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith. Researchers think they've worked out why air pollution can trigger strokes and heart attacks. Also how stockbrokers' and sharetraders' moods can move the markets. Audio
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Smelly phone calls
1:35 PM.The oPhone's a mobile phone that transmits smells as well as texts and voices. Professor David Edwards of Harvard University is its creator. Audio
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Canelés de Bordeaux
1:15 PM.We make the French sweet treat Canelés de Bordeaux with Eric Hausser, the owner and head patissier at the French Can Can bakery. Read more Audio
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Chilli genetics
12:55 PM.A team of scientists including Allen Van Deynze at the University of California Davis has cracked the genome of the chilli pepper. Now it's been published can growers breed tastier chillis and even… Read more Audio
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Tech news: WhatsApp and medical records
12:45 PM.Bits and bytes from the hi tech world with Peter Griffin. So why did Facebook pay $19 billion dollars for the messaging app, WhatsApp? Plus taking medical records into the digital age. Audio
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Favela Street
12:30 PM.Favela Street is encouraging street kids to play football to escape gang life in Rio de Janeiro. Jo Griffin is a freelance journalist who's visited Brazil to see Favela Street in action. Audio
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Underground farming
12:15 PM.Steven Dring's set up a subterranean farm using a disused air raid shelter in London. Audio
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World Water Shortages
1:50 PM.New satellite images from space are showing scientists the full extent of the world's water woes. Suzanne Goldenberg is US Environment Correspondent for The Guardian. Audio
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Why Diets Fail
1:35 PM.Nicole Avena's a neuroscientist who looks at what happens to the brain when we eat in her book 'Why Diets Fail'. Audio
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Acoustic Archives
1:25 PM.Ryan Schimmenti of Acoustic Archives is preserving the acoustics of America's historic spaces and places for future generations to hear. Audio
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Coding in schools
1:15 PM.From September, every school pupil aged 5 and up in England will be taught computing as part of a new computing curriculum. Dr Dan Crow is a computer scientist and an adviser to the Year of Code. Audio
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Tech news: cellphone use and Flappy Bird
12:50 PM.Our tech correspondent Peter Griffin looks at a new UK study on possible links between cancer and mobile phone use. Plus the story of Flappy Bird shows the power of the app economy. Audio
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Arduino: open source hardware
12:15 PM.Arduino is a cheap microcontroller, a bit like a computer, that you can program to do things. We're speaking to one of Arduino's inventors, Massimo Banzi, and also to Mayur Panchal and Baxter and Kahu… Read more Audio
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Space syntax
1:50 PM.Tim Stonor the Managing Director of Space Syntax is mapping pedestrian behaviour to build better, and more sociable, cities. Audio
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Swarm sensing
1:35 PM.Paulo de Souza of the CSIRO is working on a 'swarm sensing' project that involves fitting 5000 tiny sensors to honeybees in Australia to understand more about colony collapse disorder and how insects… Read more Audio
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Naked Science
1:25 PM.Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith. This time, a discovery that pinpoints the benefits of breastfeeding, and a new desensitisation treatment for potentially fatal peanut allergies. Audio
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Astronaut Microbiome Project
1:15 PM.Hernan Lorenzi of the Astronaut Microbiome Project is trying to understand how the bacteria living in and on astronauts respond to zero gravity. Audio