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The Restart Project
12:40 PM.therestartproject.org is teaching consumers to repair and reuse their broken devices, and hopes to change our relationship with the stuff we buy. Audio
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Mega vitamins warning
12:15 PM.Dr Paul Offit and his new book 'Killing us softly: the sense and nonsense of alternative medicine' explains why mega vitamins can be bad for your health. Audio
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India: cheap food and telegrams
1:45 PM.Anu Anand lives in India where state-run telegrams are about to come to a stop STOP Also the Indian government plans one of the world's biggest cheap food programmes. Audio
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Tech news: Nethui
1:25 PM.Peter Griffin spent a chunk of last week at Nethui, where geeks and peeps get together to discuss all things digital. We'll look at hot hui topics, including proposed changes to the way the government… Read more Audio
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Positively stressed
1:15 PM.Do you get anxious before getting an injection or before surgery? Well that's good news, because new research by Firdaus Dhabhar at Stanford University shows that we respond better to vaccinations and… Read more Audio
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Naked Science
12:45 PM.The latest science news with Dr Chris Smith. This week, the way the H7N9 flu virus can pass from bird to human is revealed. Plus a way to safely sterilise medical equipment in the remotest parts of… Read more Audio
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Forensic entomology
12:15 PM.Using insects to solve crimes and other mysteries. We meet forensic entomologist Dallas Bishop. Audio
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Tech news: wearable computing
1:50 PM.Charles Arthur's been trying out some wearable computing. He's just had a play with Google Glass and gives us his verdict. Audio
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LED 'pinkhouses'
1:35 PM.Professor Cary Mitchell at Purdue University is working on a new way of lighting indoor crops with coloured LEDs, developed so astronauts could grow veggies in space. Audio
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LinkedIn
1:15 PM.225-million people worldwide belong to this professional networking website LinkedIn. Jesse Hempel of Fortune is looking at the LinkedIn phenomenon. Audio
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Contagious clapping
12:50 PM.Dr Richard Mann from the University of Uppsala is studying applause and how it spreads. Audio
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Boring TV
12:40 PM.Norway's trying to put the slow and the sedate back into TV entertainment! Ellen Emmerentze Jervell of the Wall Street Journal's a big fan of this boring TV genre. Audio
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Wild Meat
12:15 PM.As the owner of Premium Game in Blenheim, Allan Spencer works with a team of other hunters to bring wild pigs, rabbits, goats and deer into our food shops. Audio
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Twins
1:40 PM.For the past 21 years Professor Tim Spector and researchers at the Department of Twin Research have been studying 3,500 pairs of twins worldwide. Audio
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Passports
1:25 PM.We talk to Craig Robertson about the passport's past and how it's changing in the digital age. Audio
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Streaming sports
1:10 PM.Chris Wagner works for NeuLion, a US company that broadcasts 40,000 live events every year online. Now NeuLion's beaming English Premier League football games into New Zealand homes via the web; so… Read more Audio
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Naked Science: joint replacements and aspirin
12:50 PM.The latest science news with Dr Chris Smith. This week, aspirin's anti-cancer properties, and a new glue to keep hip replacements and other artificial joints in place. Audio
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Making skis
12:20 PM.Alex Herbert hand-makes skis. We drop into the Kingswood Ski factory in Christchurch to see how it's done. Audio
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Circadian cabbages
12:15 PM.Why the time of day's important when it comes to eating your fruit and veg. Professor Janet Braam of Rice University's monitoring picked cabbages under different light conditions. Audio
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Facemasks
1:35 PM.Dr Adam Burgess has been looking at why people wear surgical facemasks in Japan, where about 10 percent of the population wear them regularly. Also pathologist Mark Jones tests out a few masks to show… Read more Audio
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Rapid Evolution
1:25 PM.How some American cliff swallows have evolved to avoid ending up as roadkill. Mary Bomberger Brown of The University of Nebraska has been studying groups of these swallows for the past 30 years. Audio
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What's in our milk?
1:15 PM.A listener's question about how fresh our milk is, and what goes into it. With Dr David Everett. Audio
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Garlic: history and NZ grower
12:30 PM.Ted Meredith with a history of garlic and John Murphy's a commercial garlic grower based in Blenheim. Audio
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Tech news: internet TV
12:15 PM.Peter Griffin on what the move to screening English Premier League football matches online means for internet TV here in New Zealand. Audio
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Science news
1:50 PM.The latest science news with Dr Chris Smith. This week, a new gene therapy to treat eye disease and an interesting theory about how people choose their children's names. Audio