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Kettle test results
1:10 PM.The lab test results are back. Plus a more detailed explanation of how kettle discolouration happens with Chris Nokes of ESR. Audio
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Gail Steketee
12:30 PM.Gail Steketee's been studying compulsive hoarding for years. She's just written 'Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding And The Meaning Of Things'. Audio
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Black Ops and gamification
12:15 PM.The launch of the computer game 'Tour Of Duty: Black Ops' has been huge. Plus how life's turning into one big game; it's called gamification. Keith Stuart of the Guardian reports. Audio
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Translating the web
1:50 PM.The search is on to automatically translate the world wide web into your mother tongue. Plus how cell phones are being used to predict flu outbreaks. Jim Giles of the New Scientist reports. Audio
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Honeybee Democracy
1:25 PM.Thomas Seeley's book 'Honeybee Democracy' looks at why bees swarm in the spring and the decision-making processes that go on when thousands of bees and a queen decide to leave their hive and find a… Read more Audio
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Pests: Bumblebees
1:10 PM.Out and about with pest controller Paul Chapman from Pestproof, and this week a call-out to a house with a bumble bee nest that's bugging the neighbours. Audio
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Tide tables
12:45 PM.Rob Bell of NIWA explains how he can make tide forecasts going into next century. Audio
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Apps: personal productivity tools
12:30 PM.Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb.com looks at personal productivity apps; from online calendars to digital to-do lists. Audio
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The kettle's black!
12:15 PM.Does your stainless steel cordless kettle have a discoloured ring on the inside? We find out what it is with John Fairclough, Cliff Carr and Dr David Weatherburn. Audio
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Product design
1:45 PM.Product designer Dick Powell has designed everything from the cordless kettle to a hydrogen-powered motorbike. The changing role of the product designer in a digital and more environmentally conscious… Read more Audio
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Ah-Choo!: the uncommon life of the common cold
1:10 PM.Writer Jennifer Ackerman's been deliberately catching colds all in the name of research for her book. She looks at some of the weird and wonderful tests for how colds spread- including the one hour… Read more Audio
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Tech news: cyberbullying and Facebook
12:50 PM.Bill Thompson on a new US plan to crack down on cyber-bullying and Facebook takes its location-based services to another level. Audio
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Silverbeet stalks and growing under glass
12:35 PM.Professor Julian Heyes of Massey University answers more food-related questions. Including, will growing veg under plastic or glass effect their nutritional value? Audio
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Spices: Ginger and Galangal
12:15 PM.Alison Sandle on two fragrant rhizomes rooted in Asian cooking. Audio
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Time to shop?
1:55 PM.Professor Karen Pine is studying how women's spending habits are influenced by their menstrual cycles. Audio
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Food questions: dark chutney
1:40 PM.Louise's chutney's looking a bit off colour. Sam Heenan of Otago University reckons he knows what's going on. Audio
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Foraging: jasmine
1:30 PM.We're foraging for jasmine with Johanna Knox. Audio
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History of artificial light
1:10 PM.Jane Brox has looked at our relationship with artificial light and how it's shaping our lives in her new book,"Brilliant". Audio
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NZ pies in the USA
12:55 PM.Alka Patel's an expat New Zealander who's trying to wean Americans off apple pies and convince them that savoury pies really are a good idea! Audio
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Golf by the numbers
12:45 PM.Every golf shot on the PGA Tour is getting recorded using lasers and logged on Shotlink's giant database; it has over 7 million golf shots stored away. Michael Agger's been to see the Shotlink system… Read more Audio
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Buyer's guide to cricket bats
12:30 PM.The cricket season's upon us- ah, the sound of leather on willow! But do you go English or Kashmir willow? Scott Lindsay of Kilbirnie Sports with our buyer's guide to cricket bats. Audio
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Driverless cars
12:15 PM.With big players like GM and Google getting serious about the driverless car, we ask Raja Sengupta how soon human drivers could be taking a back seat. Audio
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Ultrafast broadband and Windows Phone 7
1:45 PM.Ben Gracewood with the latest on the government's ultra-fast broadband plans. Plus Microsoft makes a belated entry into the smart phone market. Audio
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Buyer's guide to tennis rackets
1:25 PM.Anyone for tennis? Greg Jolliffe with a buyer's guide for tennis rackets. So do you go hollow core, graph-alu or composite? Audio