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Air purifying jeans
1:30 PM.Sheffield University scientist Professor Tony Ryan is on a team making the world's first pair of air-purifying jeans. Audio
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Lip balm support group
1:10 PM.Lip balm is the greasy stuff that stops our lips from cracking especially in cold weather. But some people are heavy users. With Kevin Crossman of Lip Balm Anonymous and consultant dermatologist Dr… Read more Audio
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Recycling cigarette butts
12:45 PM.Curtis Baffico is offering US$6 a kilo for old cigarette butts. He's trying to kickstart a recycling industry for the trillions of them discarded around the world every year. Audio
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Kaimoana: Oysters
12:30 PM.We're shucking oysters with Rachel Taulelei from Yellow Brick Road. Audio
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Shining cuckoo update
12:25 PM.A quick update on last week's story about sightings of the shining cuckoo. Listener Jen Calder may have made a startling discovery. Audio
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MyMicrobes
12:15 PM.Lots of us have used social networks to find friends, jobs, and even love. Well now people with the same intestinal bacteria can hook up on a new social networking site! Mani Arumugam is a geneticist… Read more Audio
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Birds: Shining cuckoo
1:30 PM.We're on the hunt for the rather devious shining cuckoo with birding expert Hugh Robertson. Audio
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Smartphone checking
1:30 PM.Tye Rattenbury works for Intel Labs in Portland, Oregon. He's studying the habit known as 'checking'; that's the repetitive and some would say obsessive checking of the device that smartphone addicts… Read more Audio
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LEDs and future of the lightbulb
1:10 PM.Dan Koeppel has been writing about the future of the lightbulb. With new LED technology predicted to account for nearly two-thirds of the market by 2020, we'll soon be buying bulbs that last for up to… Read more Audio
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Dance psychology
12:40 PM.How the way you dance can change the way you think, and why some dancers are so much more attractive to members of the opposite sex. Dr Peter Lovatt is the principal lecturer and reader in Psychology… Read more Audio
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Captcha: Luis van Ahn
12:30 PM.Luis van Ahn is one of the inventors of the 'captcha'. They're that box of squiggly letters you have to decipher and type out. Now they're being used to digitise the world's books! Audio
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Hearing challenge
12:15 PM.Audiologist Karen Allen of Bay Audiology reckons she can improve Simon's hearing with a hearing aid. Audio
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Bargain Hunting
1:50 PM.Why pay retail? Todd Alexander shares his tips on how to save you thousands of dollars at the shops. Audio
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Bacterial beginnings
1:40 PM.The Naked Scientist aka Dr Chris Smith beams in with the latest science news. This week, he looks at the origins of antibiotic resistance and the discovery of cooking. Audio
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Barter Village
1:25 PM.John House is an American GP who got fed up with people not being able to pay their medical bills. So he's starting up a whole community called Barter Village based around the idea of producing things… Read more Audio
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Billsticking
1:10 PM.The Christchurch quakes have reduced the amount of display space on offer. This is making life tougher for Jamie Holloway of Phantom Billstickers. Audio
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Beer yeast
12:50 PM.Chris Todd Hittinger of the University of Wisconsin has made a discovery that solves a mystery that's been vexing brewers for ages. It's the secret of a special hybridised lager yeast that strangely… Read more Audio
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Ballantynes bus
12:15 PM.We join Deb, Vincy and the rest of the Ballantynes crew on a coach trip south from Christchurch to its Timaru store. Its flagship store on City Mall has been shut since the February earthquake, so… Read more Audio
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Milk: Deborah Valenze
1:40 PM.Historian Deborah Valenze has written a history of milk. She looks at the way it's moved from being a luxury health product to become one of the world's first industrial foods. Audio
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Farmville demographics
1:15 PM.Naomi Alderman writes about the gaming industry and more in the Guardian. She looks at the hugely popular online farm game, Farmville, and how the profile of people playing these social games is… Read more Audio
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Online shopping with Trent Mankelow
12:50 PM.Trent Mankelow on the rise of online shopping and some of the challenges faced by bricks and mortar stores to survive. Audio
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Trademark chat: Radler, vintage cheese and Bodum
12:35 PM.How can you trademark a word like 'vintage'? We speak to intellectual property lawyer Sally Peart of Mitchell Mackersy Lawyers. Audio
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Molecular cooking: boiling vs frying
12:15 PM.Cooking steak with Kent Kirshenbaum, who's an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at New York University. So what's going on at a molecular level when we fry and boil meat? Audio
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Belly button fluff
1:15 PM.Rob Dunn is running the Belly Button Biodiversity project. He's mapping the lifeforms residing in the world's belly buttons! Plus we get all cultured with microbiologist Mark Jones of Aotea Pathology.
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Naked Scientists
12:50 PM.Dr Chris Smith beams in with the latest science news. Audio