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Fake whisky detector
12:55 PM.A team from a Scottish university's developed a laser scanner to make sure your whisky is the real article and not counterfeit. With Kishan Dholakia from the University of St Andrews. Audio
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Digital death
12:40 PM.Stacey Pitsillides is one of the conference organisers for the Digital Death Day conference held in Amsterdam last week. It looked at some of the uneasy tensions between our digital lives and what… Read more Audio
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Happy campers
12:15 PM.We join the 'campers'; they're a growing section of the workforce who move around the country in their campervans and mobile homes picking and packing fresh produce. With lots of campers…and Geoff… Read more Audio
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Living pesticides
1:45 PM.Fighting dengue fever by breeding mosquitos that kill their own children! Henry Nicholls has been writing about so-called 'living pesticides' for the New Scientist. Audio
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Home Brewing 4: clean beer
1:30 PM.Cleaning and sterilising your equipment properly is really important for brewing. Mike Neilson of the Tuatara Brewery oversees a commercial brewery producing one million litres of beer a year. Audio
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Airdrop irrigation
1:20 PM.Ed Linnacre from Swinburne University in Australia's just won the James Dyson Award for his Airdrop irrigation system. Audio
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China: Great Wall and underground rail
1:10 PM.The Great Wall is falling down, and there's plans to build the world's biggest metro system. Malcolm Moore of The Daily Telegraph lives and works in Shanghai. Audio
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Birds: Harriers
12:45 PM.Harriers with bird expert Hugh Robertson. Audio
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Dark Market: cybercrime and you
12:15 PM.Misha Glenny, the author of 'Dark Market: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You'. Audio
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Naked Science
1:45 PM.More naked science with Dr Chris Smith. This week, the secrets of a good suntan, and why storms in Asia are getting stronger and more likely to hit land. Audio
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Hearing aid funding
1:25 PM.The funding options available for hearing aids - from government subsidies to full funding. With Janet Houghton, President of the NZ Audiological Society and Sue Smith, the General Manager of… Read more Audio
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Japan: changing demographics
1:15 PM.Justin McCurry beams in from Japan where the country's flagging birthrate is forcing employers to get more creative, and changing demographics mean that making porn for seniors is becoming big… Read more Audio
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Home Brewing 3: kitset brew day
12:30 PM.It's home brew day with Yeastie Boy, Stu McKinlay. We're making a classic pale ale from a starter kit. Then the plan's to make one from Stu's all-grain 'mash', and blind test both versions to see how… Read more Audio
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Tech news: first infringement notices
12:15 PM.The first infringement notices have been fired off to the big internet service providers under the new Copyright Amendment Act. So what should you do if you get one? With Paul Brislen, the chief… Read more Audio
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Africa's technology revolution
1:50 PM.How technology's transforming life in Africa with Jane Wakefield of the BBC. Audio
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Eating insects
1:35 PM.With the world's population about to reach 7 billion, Professor Marcel Dicke is trying to persuade consumers to eat insects like locusts and beetles (and their larvae). Audio
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Spices: Cloves
1:25 PM.They're the common spice that feature in everything from mouthwash to mulled wine. Oh and they're good if you've got a toothache too! Audio
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UK news: Singing bins and insurance jobs
1:15 PM.Expat kiwi Chris Parkin lives in the UK where it's better to be a birdwatcher than a professional footballer if you want to keep your car insurance down. Plus Liverpool launches the UK's first singing… Read more Audio
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Trout tales
12:40 PM.New Zealand's got a reputation as one of the world's best trout fishing destinations. We visit a spawning tributary stream, the Waipa, that feeds into the Tongariro River with ranger Mike Nicholson. Read more Audio
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Trout 1: Anders Halverson
12:15 PM.The rainbow trout's one of the world's most popular recreational fish. Anders Halverson is the author of 'An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World'. Audio
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Tomatoes: Modern growing
1:45 PM.With the vast majority of New Zealand tomatoes grown under glass we visit commercial grower Shaun Brannigan, who grows his toms in a large scale greenhouse with constant temperatures and no soil; just… Read more Audio
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Tomatoes: Barry Estabrook
1:15 PM.How a flimsy, highly perishable bag of water, vitamins and flavour compounds has become a mainstay of the modern table. Author Barry Westabrook is the writer of 'Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial… Read more Audio
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Measurement Lab
12:45 PM.Measurement Lab is backed by Google and is meant to be an accurate and transparent tool to measure internet speeds and network performance in New Zealand. We check out the country's M-Lab servers with… Read more Audio
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Targeting new consumers
12:30 PM.The Swiss consumer product giant, Nestle, is using floating supermarkets and an army of 8,000 door-to-door saleswomen to target an emerging breed of Brazilian consumers. Andrew Jack of the Financial… Read more Audio
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Hearing aid test
12:15 PM.We take new hearing aids out for a test drive after a fitting by audiologist Karen Allen. So how does the world sound in digital quality, amplified stereo?! Audio