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Topics - from diabetes smelling like nail polish remover to liver failure smelling of raw fish, doctors say diseases could eventually be diagnosed just using smell. The Herald reports Len Brown's… Audio

Topics - In his first public appearance since leaving Microsoft's CEO role, Steve Ballmer did an interview with the dean of Oxford's school of business. He talked about the best-and worst-advice he… Audio

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Topics - Auckland's Mayor, Len Brown, has suggested that requiring all Aucklanders to pay a council income tax may help elderly people in affluent areas who can't afford their rates. Judith Collins… Audio

Topics - a complaint to NZX of insider trading that seems to have passed by the Minister of Commerce should be a warning for investors in the New Zealand capital markets, according to Labour's Primary… Audio

Topics - Prime Minister John Key says David Cunliffe's leadership is a "shipwreck". He has accused the Labour leader of attempting to "retrofit" legitimacy onto his declaration on the Register of… Audio

Topics - Is your name hard to pronounce? Then people don't trust you. New research from Columbia University presented at the American Association for The Advancement Of Science shows that richer… Audio

The recently developed 'Death Test', the struggling Australian economy versus the positive outlook for New Zealand, and a recent piece in the New York Times about the effects of marriage equality. Audio

Aparrently the beard craze has grown so popular in Brooklyn that men are rushing to doctors for "facial hair transplants" - surgery that helps make beards look thicker and less patchy. The policeman… Audio

Topics - it's been described as the 'Downton Effect' - a revival of more formal dinner parties as the British try to bring back fine dining. Today we learned that insurance companies have completed… Audio

A phenomenon born of the webcam and front-facing smartphone camera, the "selfie" has been subject to a significant amount of media dissection. Yesterday, on The Panel, the Executive Director of the… Audio

Topics - A big study from Harvard and UC Berkeley has looked back into family trees, over centuries, to determine how social mobility has changed. The "Moon man" has used his claimed Christchurch… Audio

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Topics - the film 'Gravity' could happen in real life! A drifting satellite that the European Space Agency lost contact with could break up and spark a deadly debris field. The amazing story of 5… Audio

Eight times a day, a group of nuns files into a chapel in their rural monastery in northwestern Missouri to chant and worship. Quite unexpectedly, this private, prayerful pursuit has made the… Audio

Topics - it turns out that ABBA's crazy costumes were a tax dodge! In Australia you haven't needed warrant of fitness check for some time now, only an initial check when a vehicle is first put on the… Audio

Topics - One in four Americans are completely unfamiliar with Nicolaus Copernicus's 1543 theory that the Earth circles the Sun, according to a study by the National Science Foundation. Long traffic… Audio

The Auckland City Council has backed down on demands for residents to rip out vegetation they've planted on grass berms. A tax on sugary soft drinks? What car is the least reliable? Audio

Topics - the Food and Grocery Council says a Commerce Commission inquiry into supermarkets' treatment of their suppliers could improve the relationship between the two. Is life in Auckland's outer… Audio

Topics - from all accounts Shirley Temple made a pretty good U.S. Ambassador. Green Party leader Tariana Turia says New Zealand has the "sovereign right" to protect its citizens and will not be told… Audio

Topics - John McWhorter, an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, argued that as a new generation of internet users and even some authors become… Audio

Scientific American has come up with a happiness quiz designed to find out if you are one of those people who won't let themselves be happy; Almost half the country's motorists think they can get away… Audio

Topics - the Canadian industrial rock band Skinny Puppy has invoiced the U.S. government upon hearing that their music was being used as a "torture device" on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. As a result… Audio

Topics - "Is there anything more American than America?" Bob Dylan, urging all who watched the Super Bowl to buy American cars. A state primary school is giving each of its students an iPad for their… Audio

Topics - it was a great day for a stroll on the beach in many parts of the country yesterday. The weather was mostly fine and there was the added attraction of a king tide occurring on both the east… Audio