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Your Paintings
1:50 PM.An ambitious plan to photograph and catalogue more than 200,000 paintings held in galleries, stately homes, fire stations, hospitals and police stations across the UK. With Andy Ellis of the Public… Read more Audio
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UK: Blood rain, retail lock-ins
1:35 PM.Anna-Louise Taylor beams in from England. This week, blood rain, traffic lights in the supermarket, and encouraging students to spend more cash by locking them in shopping malls with DJs and free… Read more Audio
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Smell the coffee
1:25 PM.Have you ever noticed that freshly brewed coffee never quite tastes as good as it smells? Well according to Professor Barry Smith it all comes down to how smells enter the body, either through the… Read more Audio
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KiwiSaver 4: Breaking up
1:15 PM.Last year more than 100,000 people changed their Kiwisaver provider. So when and why should you break up with your Kiwisaver fund, and how hard is it to do? With Chris Douglas of Morningstar… Read more Audio
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Electric bikes in Europe
12:45 PM.Europe is going crazy for e-bikes or electric bikes. Last year some 700,000 ebikes were sold in Western Europe alone. Peter Walker from the Guardian's been looking at the phenomenon. Audio
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History of the ringpull
12:30 PM.The history of the ringpull, that easy-to-open tab that sits on top of a fizzy drink can. With Tom Vanderbilt of Slate.com. Audio
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Cooking Garlic
12:15 PM.We're cooking garlic for a taste test with Julie Clark of Floriditas. Crushed, chopped, or sliced- how does the way you prepare garlic affect the overall flavour of a dish? Audio
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Organic screens
1:40 PM.Sir Richard Friend is the Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge University. He's trying to reverse engineer nature to make a new generation of more efficient solar panels, and better screens for… Read more Audio
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Voice lifts
1:30 PM.The human voice changes as we get older, getting weaker, more breathy, and less authoritative. So Dr Robert Sataloff has started offering 'voice lifts'. Audio
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Naked Science
1:15 PM.Dr Chris Smith beams in with the latest science news from around the world; Martian meteorites, a vaccine for herpes, and the neuroscience research that shows why food shopping on an empty stomach is… Read more Audio
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Tech news: Microsoft
12:45 PM.Technology news with Peter Griffin. Microsoft's Windows 8 goes live, hotmail becomes outlook.com and Microsoft's new tablet, the Surface, goes on sale around the world (but not in NZ yet!). Audio
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Instructables.com
12:30 PM.Instructables.com is an online community where folks get together to share tips on how to make things from scratch, and how to modify, hack and improve mass-produced consumer items. With Eric Wilhelm… Read more Audio
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Big Food
12:15 PM.The lawyers who took on the big US tobacco companies have now set their sights on the food industry with a series of class action lawsuits. Susan Watts is the Science Editor for BBC's Newsnight. Audio
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Tech news
1:45 PM.Charles Arthur beams in with the latest from the technology world. This week should Twitter and Facebook have to do more to moderate the content on their social networks? Plus the future of the world… Read more Audio
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Drunk speech
1:35 PM.Professor Keith Johnson is a linguist at the University of California Berkeley. He analyses voice recordings to tell if people are drunk and worked as an expert witness on the Exxon Valdez case, where… Read more Audio
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KiwiSaver 3: Retirement
1:10 PM.How much cash do you really need for your retirement? With Chris Douglas of Morningstar Australasia and Pushpa Wood of Massey University. Audio
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Birds: Kingfisher
12:45 PM.Hugh Robertson stalks the kingfisher. Audio
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Safer Streets
12:30 PM.Australian David Engwicht is on a crusade to make our cities and our public spaces safer and more social. Audio
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Parklets
12:15 PM.Madeline Brozen of the Complete Streets Initiative wants to turn car parking spaces into mini green public areas called parklets. Audio
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Open source living
1:50 PM.Sam Muirhead is an expat Kiwi based in Berlin, living a year of open source. It's getting challenging as Sam hunts for an open source video camera and soap to keep his clothes clean and smelling… Read more Audio
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Hayfever
1:40 PM.'Tis the season to be sniffly, sneezy and red-eyed! Dr Lynn McBain explores what hayfever is, and what you can do about it. Audio
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Sing-along-ability
1:30 PM.What makes people sing along to certain songs? Music buff Alisun Pawley studies sing-along-ability. Audio
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Tech news
1:15 PM.Peter Griffin's here with bits and bytes from the hi tech world. Two Trade Me competitors score an epic fail this week, plus Facebook's rolls out its 'promote your post' service. Audio
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Naked Science
12:50 PM.Dr Chris Smith beams in with the latest sciencey stuff; this week, using snake venom to relieve pain and making healthy eggs out of stem cells. Audio
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Social jetlag
12:30 PM.Till Roenneberg's a German sleep scientist who reckons blackout curtains, computer screens, and artificial lighting are all shifting us away from the natural lighting cycle of sunrise and sunset. Audio