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The bullet business
12:30 PM.Joanna Pearlstein of Wired on the business of bullets. 80 people die every day from gunshot wounds in the USA. While attention focusses on US gun ownership laws, America's huge ammunition industry is… Read more Audio
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Grapefruit and medicine
12:15 PM.Why eating grapefruit or drinking it's juice with some medicines can be seriously bad for your health. Canadian clinical pharmacologist David Bailey made the initial discovery about the interaction… Read more Audio
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Plant power and bees
1:50 PM.How plants talk to bees using electricity. Bright colours, nectar, and also electrical charges play a part in pollination. With Dr Heather Whitney of the University of Bristol. Audio
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Open source living
1:35 PM.Sam Muirhead is living his life for a year using open source principles. He's making his own adjustable underwear and tries 3D printing some new furniture. Audio
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Tech news
12:50 PM.Bits and bytes from the hi tech world with Charles Arthur. Twitter is moving into music, and what your Facebook 'likes' can say about you as a person. Audio
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Firewood
12:30 PM.Norwegians are mad about firewood! There's a TV show marking National Firewood Night, and a bestselling book Hel Ved or 'Solid Wood: All About Chopping, Drying and Stacking Wood - and the Soul of… Read more Audio
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Edible geography
12:15 PM.The New York City 'soda ban' gets overturned. Also redemption canners, and the sound of fatty food with Nicola Twilley of ediblegeography.com. Audio
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Athlete's Foot
1:40 PM.It's smelly, flaky and lives between your toes... causes and remedies for athlete's foot with Jeff Lowe, who's a GP at Karori Medical Centre. Audio
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Tech news: Dotcom and Ultra HD TVs
1:25 PM.Peter Griffin on a fresh twist in the Kim Dotcom saga and the recent launch of Ultra HD TVs; so is this a new product that consumers really need? Audio
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Naked Science: buzzy bees and bendy batteries
1:15 PM.Dr Chris Smith beams in with the latest science news from around the planet. This week, bendy batteries and an amazing study showing that plants are attracting bees by lacing their nectar with… Read more Audio
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Undersea life
12:40 PM.The idea of being able to live, travel and work under the oceans has always had a special place in the popular imagination. Ben Hellwarth is the author of "Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest To Live… Read more Audio
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Insurance phone-in
12:25 PM.We're answering your questions after last week's story on changes to home insurance policies from 'total replacement' to 'sum insured' cover. With Suzanne Wolton, AA Insurance's Head of Distribution… Read more Audio
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NZ's deepest lake
12:15 PM.Our deepest lake is officially Lake Hauroko in Fiordland at an ear-popping 462 metres. Now some irregular depth readings are surfacing at Lake Manapouri. Neil Collinson is the Operations Manager of… Read more Audio
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Myopia epidemic
1:40 PM.Shortsighedness rates are approaching 100 percent in parts of Asia. So what's causing this myopia epidemic and what serious eye problems could this be storing up for future? Professor Chris Hammond of… Read more Audio
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Bread tags
1:30 PM.John Daniels is a synthetic taxonomist. He records and classifies some of the forgotten flotsam of modern life, including the small plastic tags you find on some baked goods! Audio
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Tech news: Apple's in-app purchasing lawsuit
1:20 PM.Charles Arthur beams in with the latest from the tech world. This week, Apple reaches a settlement with parents whose kids have been buying apps on their devices. Audio
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Scoop scandal
1:10 PM.A national ice cream disgrace; New Zealand's hollow scoop scandal! Also what causes ice cream headaches? With Jorge Manuel Serrador of Harvard Medical School. Audio
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Homing pigeons
12:40 PM.For decades Jon Hagstrum has been trying to solve the puzzle of how homing pigeons find their way around so accurately over such long distances. Now he thinks he might have found an answer involving… Read more Audio
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Home insurance changes
12:15 PM.The way New Zealanders insure their homes is fundamentally changing as we move from 'total replacement' cover to 'sum insured'. So what does this mean for consumers? With Karen Stevens, the Insurance… Read more Audio
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Tobacco as biofuel
1:50 PM.The US government's trying to find ways to use tobacco and its existing production system to make biofuel. Christer Jansson, the Senior Staff Scientist at the Berkeley Lab in California is leading the… Read more Audio
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Greek food festival
1:30 PM.We drop in on preparations for the country's biggest Greek food festival and make pastitsio; it's a bit like macaroni cheese crossed with lasagne, and every bit as good! With Stella Bares, the… Read more Audio
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uBiome.com
1:15 PM.uBiome is a crowdsourced and crowdfunded project to sequence the DNA of the bacteria that live on and in our bodies. Jessica Richman is a Phd student at Oxford University who set it up. Audio
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Naked Science
12:50 PM.The latest science news with Naked Scientist Dr Chris Smith. This week, a new flu drug, how prescription drugs that end up in river water are effecting fish, and a new way to fool our immune systems… Read more Audio
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Ice cream scoop sizes
12:30 PM.How big is a single scoop of icecream?! We've been measuring scoop sizes at 6 local dairies and the results are shocking. We also speak to Minna Reinikkala, the Group Marketing Manager for Tip Top. Audio