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This Way Up This Way Up is a two-hour programme which explores the stories and issues around things we use and consume. Entertaining and informative, it includes global and local correspondents, mini features, product tests, studio discussions and a themed feature each week. Digital Life is also part of the show.
Format : News |
The Hearing House Updated: 2012-02-11 00:30:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Clean tech and geoengineering Updated: 2012-02-11 00:15:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD NZ olive oil Updated: 2012-02-10 23:50:00 Description: 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 Eyres is Chairman of the Oils and Fats Speci...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Extra Virginity - Tom Mueller Updated: 2012-02-10 23:15:00 Description: Tom Mueller, the author of 'Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil'. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Guerilla grafting Updated: 2012-02-04 00:50:00 Description: Tara Hui is a guerilla grafter who's returning ornamental fruit trees to production one branch at a time! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Does a Strad sound better? Updated: 2012-02-04 00:30:00 Description: Claudia Fritz studies instrument acoustics and is testing if antique violins (think Stradivarius and Guarneri) really sound any better than modern instruments. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Birds: Black-backed gull Updated: 2012-02-04 00:15:00 Description: We chase the black-backed gull with Hugh Robertson. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pop-up gardens Updated: 2012-02-03 23:45:00 Description: We go urban gardening with pop-up gardener Amanda Yates from Massey University. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tech news: Facebook float Updated: 2012-02-03 23:30:00 Description: Tech correspondent Peter Griffin goes inside the numbers of Facebook's planned flotation. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Clean tech boom and bust Updated: 2012-02-03 23:15:00 Description: Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post has been watching a cycle of boom and bust in the US renewable energy sector. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Storify Updated: 2012-01-28 00:50:00 Description: 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 everything from tweets to photos to Facebook...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cellphone tracking Updated: 2012-01-28 00:35:00 Description: Using shoppers' cellphone signals to track their movements inside shopping malls. Sharon Biggar is Path Intelligence's CEO. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Potatoes Updated: 2012-01-28 00:15:00 Description: We mash up the potato; with more than 4,000 varieties it's the tuber that's conquered the world! Andrew Smith's written Potato: A Global History (Reaktion Books). ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Naked Science Updated: 2012-01-27 23:50:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Coriander Updated: 2012-01-27 23:35:00 Description: Alison Sandle on the spice that also lovely eaten green and fresh as a herb. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD NYC taxi medallions Updated: 2012-01-27 23:25:00 Description: 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 more than US$1 million! We ask taxi historian...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 3D Printing Updated: 2012-01-27 23:15:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BodyWave Updated: 2011-12-17 00:45:00 Description: Peter Freer's the inventor of the BodyWave, a device about the size of an MP3 player that sits on your skin and can measure your brain activity. He reckons it can help people reach peak performance in all sorts of ways and in all sorts of places...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Penny farthing Updated: 2011-12-17 00:25:00 Description: David Wilson's trying to become the first person to cycle from Stewart Island to Cape Reinga....on a penny farthing and dressed from head to toe in Victorian costume! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD UK news: dummies vs models Updated: 2011-12-17 00:15:00 Description: We're off to the UK where fashion models wearing a well-known brand of clothing have been found to be dummies! And plans to conquer London's pollution problems using a sticky road surface. Chris Parkin reports. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011 tech highlights and 2012 predictions Updated: 2011-12-16 23:45:00 Description: Some of the technology highlights of last year and a gaze forward into 2012 with our regular tech head Peter Griffin. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Birds: oystercatcher Updated: 2011-12-16 23:30:00 Description: We're on the hunt for the Oystercatcher with bird expert Hugh Robertson. It's a cheeky shorebird that pretends to be injured just to lead you away from its nest! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Christmas cakes Updated: 2011-12-16 23:15:00 Description: They're full of spice with loads of white ice. Helen Leach has studied the history and evolution of the Christmas cake in New Zealand. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Naked Science Updated: 2011-12-10 00:50:00 Description: The latest science news with Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists. This week, a computer program that detects when photos have been photoshopped, airbrushed or otherwise manipulated. Plus a new study on London taxi drivers shows how their brai...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pippin Barr Updated: 2011-12-10 00:30:00 Description: We're playing video games with Pippin Barr. Pippin's a New Zealander who lectures at the University of Copenhagen's Center for Computer Game Research. He's just written a book called 'How to Play a Video Game'. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Homebrewing: taste test Updated: 2011-12-10 00:10:00 Description: It's taste test time in our homebrewing series. Our two home brewed versions of an Australian Pale Ale go head-to-head with a store-bought version with a proper label! With Stu McKinlay of Yeastie Boys and Jessica Venning-Bryan of Beervana. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cognitive chewing Updated: 2011-12-09 23:55:00 Description: Neuroscience writer Jonah Lehrer on the cognitive benefits of chewing gum. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DNA barcoding Updated: 2011-12-09 23:40:00 Description: The International Barcode of Life aims to create a massive DNA database, meaning consumers of the future will be able to tell exactly where their food and even their garden furniture comes from. We're speaking to Professor Andrew Lowe of the Uni...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Honey fraud Updated: 2011-12-09 23:15:00 Description: A recent US study showed that three-quarters of the honeys sampled had been ultra-filtered. Andrew Schneider of Food Safety News reports on what this means for consumers. So is honey being ultra-filtered here in New Zealand? We test 10 honeys fr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Medical gadgets Updated: 2011-12-03 00:50:00 Description: Aaron Rowe of Wired has been to the TEDMED conference to see the latest medical devices, many of them designed with the home consumer in mind. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Home brewing appliance Updated: 2011-12-03 00:35:00 Description: If James Bond drank homebrew beer and not martinis he'd probably fancy a domestic brewing appliance. Ian Williams of Williams Warn has a hi-tech model costing about $6,000. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Moby Duck Updated: 2011-12-03 00:10:00 Description: It's the true story of 28,800 bathtoys lost at sea nearly 20 years ago and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists and fools (and author Donovan Hohn includes himself in that category), who went in search of them. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mouthwatering food? Updated: 2011-12-02 23:50:00 Description: The science of saliva. Can food really be mouthwatering? Well, not so much, according to new research done by a team including Dr Guy Carpenter of King's College London's Dental Institute. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hearing questions Updated: 2011-12-02 23:35:00 Description: We answer your questions about what to do with old hearing aids, hearing aid batteries and tinnitus with Janet Houghton, the President of the NZ Audiological Society, and Karen Allen who's an audiologist with Bay Audiology. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Flour power Updated: 2011-12-02 23:15:00 Description: If a recipe needs self-raising flour can you just add standard flour with baking powder added instead? We look at flours with Julie Clark of Floriditas. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Naked Science Updated: 2011-11-26 00:50:00 Description: The latest science news from Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Scallops Updated: 2011-11-26 00:35:00 Description: Shucking scallops with Rachel Taulelei. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Insect eating and Yuck! Updated: 2011-11-26 00:10:00 Description: San Francisco's positioning itself as the insect-eating capital of the US. Peter Jamison of the San Francisco Weekly reports. Also why do some of us find the idea of eating insects so disgusting? Daniel Kelly is the author of 'Yuck! The Nature a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Homebrew 6: Bottling the brew Updated: 2011-11-25 23:35:00 Description: The bubbling's stopped and we're bottling our fermented homebrew with Yeastie Boy Stu McKinlay. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Virtual Private Networks Updated: 2011-11-25 23:15:00 Description: Some people are paying to get their hands on the latest TV and film using a virtual private network to make it look like they're living in the US or the UK. So how do VPNs work and is using one legal? With information lawyer John Edwards and our...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Medicated contact lenses Updated: 2011-11-19 00:50:00 Description: Dr Mark Byrne of Auburn University is part of a team that reckons it's cracked the secret of a medicated contact lens. No more eyedrops running down your face; these lenses slowly release a controlled dose of medication while they're being worn....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Homebrew 5: the big mash up Updated: 2011-11-19 00:15:00 Description: Yeastie Boy Stu McKinlay mashes up his all-grain Australian Pale Ale from scratch over 6 hours to compete with our 20L kitset in a bucket. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fake whisky detector Updated: 2011-11-18 23:55:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Digital death Updated: 2011-11-18 23:40:00 Description: 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 happens to all this information after death. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Happy campers Updated: 2011-11-18 23:15:00 Description: 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 Lewis of Tendertips asparagus farm near Levin....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Living pesticides Updated: 2011-11-12 00:45:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Clean beer Updated: 2011-11-12 00:30:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Airdrop irrigation Updated: 2011-11-12 00:20:00 Description: Ed Linnacre from Swinburne University in Australia's just won the James Dyson Award for his Airdrop irrigation system. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD China: Great Wall and underground rail Updated: 2011-11-12 00:10:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Birds: Harriers Updated: 2011-11-11 23:45:00 Description: Harriers with bird expert Hugh Robertson. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dark Market: cybercrime and you Updated: 2011-11-11 23:15:00 Description: Misha Glenny, the author of 'Dark Market: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You'. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Naked Science Updated: 2011-11-05 00:45:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hearing Aid Funding Updated: 2011-11-05 00:25:00 Description: 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 accessable. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Japan: changing demographics Updated: 2011-11-05 00:15:00 Description: 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 business. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kitset brew day Updated: 2011-11-04 23:30:00 Description: 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 they stack up. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tech news: first infringement notices Updated: 2011-11-04 23:15:00 Description: 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 executive of TUANZ, and technology correspondent P...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Africa's technology revolution Updated: 2011-10-29 00:50:00 Description: How technology's transforming life in Africa with Jane Wakefield of the BBC. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eating insects Updated: 2011-10-29 00:35:00 Description: 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). ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Spices: Cloves Updated: 2011-10-29 00:25:00 Description: Cloves, with Alison Sandle. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD UK news: Singing bins and insurance jobs Updated: 2011-10-29 00:15:00 Description: 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 bin! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Trout 2: Tongariro visit Updated: 2011-10-28 23:40:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Trout 1: Anders Halverson Updated: 2011-10-28 23:15:00 Description: 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'. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tomatoes: Modern growing Updated: 2011-10-22 00:45:00 Description: 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 coconut fibre and nutrient-laden irrigation ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tomatoes: Barry Estabrook Updated: 2011-10-22 00:15:00 Description: 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 Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit.' ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Measurement Lab Updated: 2011-10-21 23:45:00 Description: 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 Professor John Hine and Andy Linton of Victo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Targeting new consumers Updated: 2011-10-21 23:30:00 Description: 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 Times reports. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hearing aid test Updated: 2011-10-21 23:15:00 Description: 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?! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Naked Science Updated: 2011-10-15 00:45:00 Description: Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists has 3 discoveries with a medical theme. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD China: cooking oil scandal and million dollar sheep Updated: 2011-10-15 00:30:00 Description: China correspondent Malcolm Moore on the latest food scandal. One in 10 restaurants in China are reportedly using cooking oil recycled from the sewers! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tech news: iCloud and Blackberry crumble Updated: 2011-10-15 00:10:00 Description: The latest from the world of technology with correspondent Peter Griffin. This week the launch of Apple's cloud computing service called iCloud. Plus Blackberry's crumble- why did the Blackberry system crash and what are the implications? ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Homebrew 2: Kitting up Updated: 2011-10-14 23:45:00 Description: Homebrewer turned commercial brewer Stu McKinlay of Yeastie Boys checks out our starter kit before we lay down a brew. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Perfect Kilo Updated: 2011-10-14 23:15:00 Description: The official kilogram weight- a lump of metal carefully stored under a bell jar in a Parisian vault- is getting lighter. So scientists are working on new ways to define it. Jonathon Keats has travelled the world in search of the perfect kilogram...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Crowd counting Updated: 2011-10-08 00:45:00 Description: Accurately estimating the number of people in a crowd is a tricky but important task for all sorts of reasons; for safety, for policing, even for the media who want to report the numbers right. Curt Westergard of Digital Design & Imaging Ser...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Birds Pukeko Updated: 2011-10-08 00:30:00 Description: Bird buff Hugh Robertson on the pukeko. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Luna Ring Updated: 2011-10-08 00:15:00 Description: Patrick Tucker's visited Japan to speak to the people behind an ambitious plan to harvest solar power on the moon and beam this back down to earth. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Antibiotic issues Updated: 2011-10-07 23:50:00 Description: Dr Martin Blaser from New York University reckons the friendly flora living in and on our bodies never recover fully from antibiotic treatments. He says this is creating all sorts of other health problems. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Litre of light Updated: 2011-10-07 23:30:00 Description: Illac Diaz is working on a project to bring free light to 15,000 homes in the Philippines. It uses no electricity, and all you need is water, some bleach and an old soda bottle! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hearing aid choices Updated: 2011-10-07 23:15:00 Description: In-ear, behind-the-ear, or open fitting? We're shopping for hearing aids with audiologist Karen Allen of Bay Audiology. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Smoking and appetite Updated: 2011-10-01 00:55:00 Description: Professor Marina R. Picciotto of Yale University is leading research into how smoking affects appetite and why, on average, smokers weigh 2.5kg less than non-smokers. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Container history (and container love!) Updated: 2011-10-01 00:35:00 Description: A New Zealand history of the shipping container with Gavin McLean. Plus Christine Reitze of Container Love in Christchurch is trying to make the ugly metal boxes dotted round the city look more pretty. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Annoying Updated: 2011-10-01 00:15:00 Description: The science of what bugs us. Joe Palca's just written a book called 'Annoying' with Flora Lichtmann. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Detecting fake reviews Updated: 2011-09-30 23:50:00 Description: Rating and review websites are all over the internet these days. You can rate everything from your local cafe to a childcare centre but how can you tell if the review is real or just someone else's fake opinions? Myle Ott from Cornell University...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Naked Science Updated: 2011-09-30 23:30:00 Description: The latest science news with Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists. This week, using Twitter to map the mood of the world, and the ultimate slippery surface that could be used to fight graffiti. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Homebrewing part 1 Updated: 2011-09-30 23:15:00 Description: Can you make your own craft beer at home for a fraction of the cost of the stuff in shops and bars? That's the challenge, as we kick off a new homebrewing series with Stu McKinlay of Yeastie Boys. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD LED internet Updated: 2011-09-24 01:45:00 Description: Harald Haas from the University of Edinburgh is developing an alternative to wifi that uses LED lights rather than radio waves to carry data. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Global history of whisky Updated: 2011-09-24 01:25:00 Description: Kevin Kosar's written a global history of whisky drinking and its production. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Poisoned rhino horn Updated: 2011-09-24 01:15:00 Description: Lorinda Hern's trialling a novel way to stop rhino poachers in South Africa. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Marae hearing clinic Updated: 2011-09-24 00:40:00 Description: We drop into a mobile hearing clinic at Wainuiomata Marae. With hearing therapist Susan Lennie, Barney Ransfield and William Henare-Tekooti. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Copyright Act latest Updated: 2011-09-24 00:25:00 Description: Tech correspondent Peter Griffin with the latest on the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act which came into force on 1st September. So what's the new act doing to international internet traffic, and has anyone got an infringement n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Beehive fences Updated: 2011-09-24 00:15:00 Description: Dr Lucy King is setting up a network of beehive fences to protect Kenyan farmers and their crops from hungry elephants. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD UK consumer news Updated: 2011-09-17 01:50:00 Description: And before we go we're off to the UK with Chris Parkin where the mini skinless kiwifruit is hitting supermarket shelves, and used nappies are being used as roofing material. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Naked science: overconfidence and fatherhood Updated: 2011-09-17 01:40:00 Description: Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith. This week, overconfidence and how fatherhood, and specifically caring for children, can make testosterone levels fall. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Air purifying jeans Updated: 2011-09-17 01:30:00 Description: Sheffield University scientist Professor Tony Ryan is on a team making the world's first pair of air-purifying jeans. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lip balm support group Updated: 2011-09-17 01:10:00 Description: 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. Louise Reiche. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Recycling cigarette butts Updated: 2011-09-17 00:45:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Oysters Updated: 2011-09-17 00:30:00 Description: We're shucking oysters with Rachel Taulelei from Yellow Brick Road. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Shining cuckoo update Updated: 2011-09-17 00:25:00 Description: A quick update on last week's story about sightings of the shining cuckoo. Listener Jen Calder may have made a startling discovery. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MyMicrobes Updated: 2011-09-17 00:15:00 Description: 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 working for MyMicrobes. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Birds: Shining cuckoo Updated: 2011-09-10 01:30:00 Description: We're on the hunt for the rather devious shining cuckoo with birding expert Hugh Robertson. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Smartphone checking Updated: 2011-09-10 01:30:00 Description: 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 practice. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD LEDs and future of the lightbulb Updated: 2011-09-10 01:10:00 Description: 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 20 years! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dance psychology Updated: 2011-09-10 00:40:00 Description: 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 at the University of Hertfordshire. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Captcha: Luis van Ahn Updated: 2011-09-10 00:30:00 Description: 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! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hearing challenge Updated: 2011-09-10 00:15:00 Description: Audiologist Karen Allen of Bay Audiology reckons she can improve Simon's hearing with a hearing aid. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bargain Hunting Updated: 2011-09-03 01:50:00 Description: Why pay retail? Todd Alexander shares his tips on how to save you thousands of dollars at the shops. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bacterial beginnings Updated: 2011-09-03 01:40:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Barter Village Updated: 2011-09-03 01:25:00 Description: 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 and swapping them for stuff you need. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Billsticking Updated: 2011-09-03 01:10:00 Description: The Christchurch quakes have reduced the amount of display space on offer. This is making life tougher for Jamie Holloway of Phantom Billstickers. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Beer yeast Updated: 2011-09-03 00:50:00 Description: 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 appeared in Bavaria sometime in the 15th centu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ballantynes bus Updated: 2011-09-03 00:15:00 Description: 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 twice a week a convoy of coaches full of loyal c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Milk: Deborah Valenze Updated: 2011-08-27 01:40:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Farmville demographics Updated: 2011-08-27 01:15:00 Description: 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 changing. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Online shopping with Trent Mankelow Updated: 2011-08-27 00:50:00 Description: Trent Mankelow on the rise of online shopping and some of the challenges faced by bricks and mortar stores to survive. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Trademark chat: Radler, vintage cheese and Bodum Updated: 2011-08-27 00:35:00 Description: How can you trademark a word like 'vintage'? We speak to intellectual property lawyer Sally Peart of Mitchell Mackersy Lawyers. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Molecular cooking: boiling vs frying Updated: 2011-08-27 00:15:00 Description: First up this week we're 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? ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Belly button fluff Updated: 2011-08-20 01:15:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Naked Scientists Updated: 2011-08-20 00:50:00 Description: Dr Chris Smith beams in with the latest science news. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ears: Assistive technologies Updated: 2011-08-20 00:35:00 Description: Joslyn Tjeerd looks at some of the assistive technologies on the market; basically gadgets that will amplify the sound that surrounds us. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tech news: user's guide to new copyright law Updated: 2011-08-20 00:15:00 Description: Peter Griffin with a user's guide to new copyright laws due to come into force on September 1st. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Naked Scientist Updated: 2011-08-06 01:30:00 Description: Chris Smith on garlic, making brains from skin and carbon dating humanity through sunshine. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rubber Updated: 2011-08-06 01:15:00 Description: John Tully is author of The Devils Milk - A Social History of Rubber, the substance that spurred on the industrial revolution and gave us the first superbrands. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Coffee Catcha Updated: 2011-08-06 00:55:00 Description: Steve Guiness developed this system for saving valuable coffee when your barista is making your flat white. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD UK news Updated: 2011-08-06 00:45:00 Description: We head to the UK to chat to ex-pat Kiwi Chris Parkin about pub jobs, selling your kidneys and technicolour cauliflowers. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Saffron Updated: 2011-08-06 00:25:00 Description: Alison Sandle on the yellowy orange spice that's worth more than gold but doesn't seem to taste of much. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Otolaryngologist Updated: 2011-08-06 00:15:00 Description: Simon's hearing test is back and otolaryngologist Peter Blake will check if a hearing aid is needed. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Emerging tech Updated: 2011-07-30 01:35:00 Description: Technology Review's top ten emerging technology picks. With editor-in chief Jason Pontin. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chocolate nations Updated: 2011-07-30 01:15:00 Description: Journalist Orla Ryan was based in Ghana for 2 years working as a journalist for Reuters. Her job was to report on the cocoa trade, a major industry with Ghana producing more than half the word's cocoa beans. We speak to her about her new book 'C...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sushi chef Updated: 2011-07-30 00:55:00 Description: David Gelb's the director of the documentary 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi'. The Jiro in the title is Jiro Ono, the first sushi chef to win 3 Michelin stars. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tech news Updated: 2011-07-30 00:40:00 Description: Bits and bytes from the hi tech world with Paul Brislen. This week, can you help transcribe Egyptian gossip? Plus the first retail pricing plans for the ultra-fast broadband network in Northland are announced. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Black Boxes Updated: 2011-07-30 00:30:00 Description: The future of black boxes with Jerry Adler. The indestructible device that records nearly everything on a plane. After a crash the hunt's on to find them, but when we can easily get real time share prices and weather updates on a smartphone is t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Balsamic Vinegar Updated: 2011-07-30 00:15:00 Description: Balsamic vinegar; from the 100-year-old stuff that costs a grand a bottle to the cheapie 5 dollar bottle from the supermarket. We'll find out what's the difference and how it's made with Julie Clark of Floriditas. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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