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Online learning
12:45 PM.First it was music and films, then journalism and shopping. Now tertiary education is set to be disrupted by the internet as many universities start putting their content online for free. Dennis… Read more Audio
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Kaimoana: Blue Cod
12:35 PM.Rachel Taulelei from Yellow Brick Road chats about the blue cod; the fish that eats just about anything, and is great panfried. Audio
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Consider the Fork
12:15 PM.Food writer Bee Wilson covers a host of kitchen and food-related innovations, including chopsticks and the gas-fired oven, in her book 'Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen'… Read more Audio
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Naked Science
1:50 PM.The latest science news from around the planet with Dr Chris Smith. Audio
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On The Map
1:30 PM.The past, the present, and the future of the map with Simon Garfield, author of 'On The Map'. Audio
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Tech news
1:15 PM.Peter Griffin on the debate over who should control the internet, and new research on the take up of ultra-fast broadband. Plus bad news for the crowd-funding website, Kickstarter; it could be liable… Read more Audio
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Open source:smartphones and sweaters
12:50 PM.Sam Muirhead is trying to live for a year only using open source products. His latest challenge has been to find an open source mobile phone. Audio
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Preserving history
12:30 PM.Professor Helen Leach has been studying hundreds of jam, pickle and chutney recipes in old magazines and cookbooks to uncover this country's hidden history of fruit and veg preservation. Audio
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Photo detective
12:15 PM.Lynette Townsend and Anita Hogan of Te Papa are trying to track down the families of over 100 soldiers who fought in the First World War. All they have to work with are some old glass negatives found… Read more Audio
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Fat travels
1:55 PM.A team of scientists at Oxford University has discovered exactly how long it takes fat to gets from our food onto our waists. We speak to Professor Fredrik Karpe. Audio
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Curious Behaviour
1:30 PM.Coughing, yawning and sneezing are just some of the curious behaviours documented by the American scientist Robert Provine. Audio
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KiwiSaver 5: children and the self-employed
1:15 PM.If you're self-employed, is KiwiSaver worth joining? Plus kids and KiwiSaver; how can you get it working for all your family? With Chris Douglas, the co-head of Fund Research at Morningstar… Read more Audio
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History of the pallet
12:45 PM.Tom Vanderbilt of Slate.com's been looking at the history of the shipping pallet, an object as important as the shipping container in keeping goods moving smoothly around the globe. Audio
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Revolutionary rest home
12:15 PM.For the past 30-odd years, registered nurse Alison Neill has been running Moreh House in Fairlie in Canterbury. It's a rest home with a difference. Audio
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The Spark of Life
1:45 PM.Fran Ashcroft explains the crucial role that electricity plays in the human body. So how do we generate power from within? Audio
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Birds: Shags
1:30 PM.Hugh Robertson is one of the authors of The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand. Audio
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Small solar in Africa
1:15 PM.Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy is training illiterate African grandmothers to be solar engineers at his Barefoot College in India. Audio
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History of the apple
12:30 PM.Erika Janik's written a global history of the apple. Also, Professor Julian Heyes of Massey University on New Zealand's hottest apple varieties, and how they get protected from counterfeiters. Audio
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Apples: crispness
12:15 PM.Dr Roger Harker and Jason Johnston of Plant and Food Research are trying to work out why people like some apples more than others. Audio
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Cooking and brain size
1:55 PM.Why do animals with huge bodies- even primates like gorillas- have far smaller brains than us humans? The key, suggests Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel and her colleagues at the Federal University… Read more Audio
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Naked Science
1:35 PM.Chris Smith beams in with more naked science. This week, easy-peel medical tape, and the British Medical Journal says it won't publish research where the underlying clinical data isn't published and… Read more Audio
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Feathers
1:15 PM.Feathers can keep you warm, and help birds to fly and find a mate. We're speaking to the American biologist Thor Hanson about his book 'Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle'. Audio
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Tech news
12:45 PM.Peter Griffin with the latest from the world of technology. This week, vanity web searching pays off big time as Google loses a defamation case in Australia; and New Zealand becomes the first country… Read more Audio
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Italy: Salvage, Venice, Vatican
12:30 PM.We head to Italy, where the world's biggest shipwreck salvage is underway. Plus the Vatican gives the latest Bond film the thumbs-up! With Tom Kington of the Guardian. Audio
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Surfonomics
12:15 PM.Putting a financial value on waves is proving an effective way to protect a natural resource from construction and development. Dr. Linwood Pendleton is an economist who's used the tactic to protect… Read more Audio