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Selling potatoes to China
1:40 PM.Lauren Keane of the Washington Post on the attempts being made to persuade the Chinese to eat less rice and more potatoes. Audio
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Tech news: iPhone 4 and Google gaming
1:25 PM.Bill Thompson beams in with technology news and we're looking at the problematic launch of Apple's iPhone 4. Also Google moves into online gaming. Audio
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Touchy decisions
1:15 PM.The role of touch in our decision making, Josh Ackerman's shown that sitting on a hard seat when negotiating a deal means you more likely to stick to your guns when it comes to price. Audio
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Spices: Nutmeg
12:45 PM.Forget about Kiwisaver or your retirement savings plan, once upon a time all you needed was a couple of nutmegs to set you up for life. Alison Sandle with the history and uses of nutmeg. Audio
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Geoengineering: Jeff Goodell
12:15 PM.Geoengineering is the science of using technology to change the earth's climate. Jeff Goodell's new book 'How To Cool The Planet' explores the ideas out there. Audio
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Bumpology: learning and sleep
1:50 PM.Bumpologist Linda Geddes is looking at how much babies hear and remember in the womb. Plus sleeping- why does it always seem like they wake up just as you're going to bed?! Audio
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Mekong Part 5: Vietnam
1:35 PM.The final part of our 5,000 km odyssey down the Mekong River in South East Asia. This week, NPR's Michael Sullivan ends his journey at the mouth of the river in Vietnam. Audio
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A global history of cake
1:15 PM.Nicola Humble's been looking at when, how and why cake's become a food that shouts out 'celebration'. Audio
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Dutch football: David Winner
12:50 PM.David Winner, the author of 'Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer', with his thoughts on the Netherlands' 1-0 defeat to Spain in the World Cup Final. Audio
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Dental anaesthetics
12:35 PM.Lisa Wilson of Chemical and Engineering News has been finding out what goes into those dental anaesthetics that make you comfortably numb before the dentist gets his drill out. Audio
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Foraging: geraniums
12:20 PM.We're foraging for geraniums (aka pelargoniums) with Johanna Knox. Audio
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Voice and strength study
12:15 PM.Aaron Sell of the University of California in Santa Barbara is looking at what your voice says about you, specifically how strong you are. Audio
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Mekong Part 4: Cambodia
1:50 PM.The fourth part of our 5,000km trip down the Mekong River in South East Asia. NPR's Michael Sullivan has a look round the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Audio
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Venezuelan retailers and Cuban cigars
1:35 PM.It's crisis time for the Cuban cigar- exports have fallen by two-thirds in just 3 years. Plus Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has a crack at private food retailers. Rory Carroll reports. Audio
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Tech news: Super cookies
1:25 PM.Peter Griffin's looking at super cookies. They live on your hard drive and are a lasting record of where you've been online. So should you be worried and what can you do about them? Audio
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Food: olive oil content of spreads
1:15 PM.How can a spread with olives all over the carton and the words 'spread with the goodness of olive oil' contain just 21 percent olive oil? With Margaret Brooker (NZFSA) and Professor Murray Skeaff… Read more Audio
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Emerging Technologies: Mobile 3D, social TV, green concrete
12:45 PM.Jason Pontin of The Technology Review runs through three ideas on its list of top 10 emerging technologies. This week: mobile 3D, social TV and green concrete. Audio
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Food additives: antioxidants
12:30 PM.We head to the supermarket looking for food additives. In the first part of a new series we're hunting for antioxidants with Associate Professor Matt Golding of Massey University. So what are they and… Read more Audio
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Tour de France 2009: drug cheats and testing
12:15 PM.The Tour De France is underway and already there's talk of doping. But would a new approach that flags up super-human performance work any better than random testing? Jim Giles of the New Scientist… Read more Audio
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Mekong River 3: Golden Triangle
1:50 PM.Part three of Michael Sullivan of NPR's odyssey down the Mekong River from China to Vietnam. We enter the notorious drug producing region, the Golden Triangle, on the Laos/Thailand border. Audio
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Sugar: a history
1:35 PM.Sugar's history hasn't always been all that sweet. In the early days it was produced by slave labour and now it's implicated in obesity issues. Elizabeth Abbott's the writer of 'Sugar: A Bittersweet… Read more Audio
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Global loo roll
1:20 PM.The average American wipes their way through 23 kilos of toilet paper a year, but demand's rising fast across Asia and Africa. Noelle Robbins has been researching the global toilet paper market. Audio
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Mouldy bread: to eat or not to eat?
1:15 PM.Most of us have found a bit of mould on a slice of bread. But is it safe to eat it or should you throw it in the bin? Professor Phil Bremer is the Head of the Department of Food Science at the… Read more Audio
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China: Rent-a-white-guy
12:55 PM.Mitch Moxley recently got paid US$1,000 a week for being a suit-wearing foreigner in China, no other qualifications required. All he had to do was act like the quality control manager at a Chinese… Read more Audio
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Digital classrooms
12:40 PM.David Glover of Learning Media's just got back from a gathering of the world's largest educational publishers. So how will the good old school textbook survive in the digital age? Audio