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Naked Science
12:50 PM.The latest sciencey stuff with Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists. This week, new research linking the time of day with sudden heart attacks, plus how the food that mothers eat in the very early… Read more Audio
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Broken River revisited
12:15 PM.A year after the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch, Simon Morton revisits the Avon River to see how life's progressing along it and in it. Read more Audio
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Kitchen cultivator
1:55 PM.The latest must-have kitchen device, an indoor veggie patch. Tarren Wolfe is the owner of urbancultivator.net. Audio
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Dieting history
1:40 PM.A history of dieting over the past 2,000 years with author Louise Foxcroft, the author of 'Calories and Corsets'. Audio
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Tech talk
1:25 PM.Peter Griffin beams in with the latest bits and bytes from the world of technology. This week, MySpace.com reinvents itself, we'll look at the new Nokia's new Lumia handset, and how does the Prime… Read more Audio
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UK news: straw wars
1:15 PM.UK correspondent Chris Parkin on the bus stops smelling liked baked potatoes, and the man waging war on the plastic drinking straw. Audio
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Weight Watchers- Points Plus
12:50 PM.Weight Watchers' successful diet system's been getting an overhaul. Jeffrey O'Brien of Wired's been looking at the changes, and trying to understand the Weight Watchers phenomenon and its continuing… Read more Audio
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Calories
12:15 PM.An extended look at the calorie. Love it or loathe it it's the global standard when it comes to measuring the amount of energy in our food. With Nick Cullather, Hayley Freeman and Professor Jim Mann. Audio
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The Hearing House
1:30 PM.The Hearing House is a charity based in Auckland that's using hi-tech cochlear implants to help deaf and hearing impaired children to listen and to speak. Audio
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Clean tech and geoengineering
1:15 PM.The Guardian's environment editor John Vidal has just been looking at shortages of the rare minerals that go into things like solar panels and electric car batteries. Audio
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NZ olive oil
12:50 PM.With New Zealanders drizzling and frying their way through about 4 million litres of olive oil every year how easy is it to find fresh, good quality, extra virgin olive oil in New Zealand? Dr Laurence… Read more Audio
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Extra Virginity - Tom Mueller
12:15 PM.Tom Mueller, the author of 'Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil'. Audio
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Guerilla grafting
1:50 PM.Tara Hui is a guerilla grafter who's returning ornamental fruit trees to production one branch at a time! Audio
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Does a Strad sound better?
1:30 PM.Claudia Fritz studies instrument acoustics and is testing if antique violins (think Stradivarius and Guarneri) really sound any better than modern instruments. Audio
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Birds: Black-backed gull
1:15 PM.We chase the black-backed gull with Hugh Robertson. Audio
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Pop-up gardens
12:45 PM.We go urban gardening with pop-up gardener Amanda Yates from Massey University. Audio
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Tech news: Facebook float
12:30 PM.Tech correspondent Peter Griffin goes inside the numbers of Facebook's planned flotation. Audio
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Clean tech boom and bust
12:15 PM.Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post has been watching a cycle of boom and bust in the US renewable energy sector. Audio
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Storify
1:50 PM.Reporting major news stories using social media isn't an easy task. For starters, reliability and accuracy can be a problem. Storify's a way of keeping a news story moving forward by bundling together… Read more Audio
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Cellphone tracking
1:35 PM.Using shoppers' cellphone signals to track their movements inside shopping malls. Sharon Biggar is Path Intelligence's CEO. Audio
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A global history of potatoes
1:15 PM.Culinary historian Andrew Smith reveals the captivating story of a once lowly vegetable that has changed the world – the potato. Read more Audio
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Naked Science
12:50 PM.The latest science research from around the planet with Dr Chris Smith. Today, will seaweed ignite a boom in the biofuel sector? Plus using stem cells to improve people's vision. Audio
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Spices: Coriander
12:35 PM.Alison Sandle on the spice that also lovely eaten green and fresh as a herb. Audio
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NYC taxi medallions
12:25 PM.The right to drive a yellow taxi cab in New York has proved to be one of the best performing investments on the planet. Forget Wall Street or oil or gold, New York taxi medallions are now selling for… Read more Audio
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3D Printing
12:15 PM.Charlotte Wicca-Smith has been looking a 3D printers. These are household devices for 'printing' out any object you want, from a new knob for the kettle to a chess piece. Audio