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Recent items from This Way Up
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Old school advertising: Bill-sticking
12:30 PM.We grab some glue and a brush and go bill-sticking with Jamie Holloway. Audio
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Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: the science of pleasure
12:10 PM.Paul Martin's been looking at humankind's hedonistic tendencies. So why does some people's fun come by the chunk? Audio
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Inventions - cheque books, credit cards and cash registers
1:50 PM.Inventions guru David Ellyard with some money and commerce-related inventions. Audio
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Industrial tourism, factory visit anyone?
1:40 PM.Professor John Lennon says industrial tourism is big business. Audio
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Bagels - boiled, baked and bendy
1:20 PM.Foodie Maria Balinska's been researching the bagel's surprising history including the big question.... who put the hole in it? Audio
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Why most pharmacies stay independently owned
12:50 PM.We drop into a local pharmacy with retail analyst Martin Craig. About 75 percent of them remain independently owned. Audio
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Rwanda's pro cycling team pedals for Olympic gold
12:40 PM.Team Rwanda is pedalling for the podium at the 2012 London Olympics. The Observer's Steve Bloomfield reports. Audio
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A buyer's guide to heat pumps
12:25 PM.Winter's here so we crank up the heat with Hamish Wilson of Consumer.org.nz's buyers' guide to heat pumps. Audio
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Tech time - Google's TV ads, browser wars and Windows 7
12:10 PM.Google's first ever TV adverts. Why now? Plus Bill Thompson's had a play with Windows 7, Microsoft's latest operating system. Audio
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Consumer protection in Tokyo
1:10 PM.New laws to protect shoppers by keeping transvestites, buskers and manga fans off the streets. Audio
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Designing T-shirts using crowdsourcing
1:50 PM.Glenn Jones is using his customers' know-how to sell his T-shirts. Audio
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Noise-cancelling earphones: keeping noise at bay?
1:35 PM.Tristan Clark of Consumer.org.nz puts noise-cancelling earbuds to the test. Audio
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The boombox: dancing in the streets
1:25 PM.NPR's Frannie Kelley on the history of the boombox aka the ghettoblaster. Audio
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Drug smuggling submarines
1:15 PM.Smugglers are using homemade submarines to get cocaine from Columbia to Mexico. David Kushner has a ride in one. Audio
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Donkey Pong: smells in computer games
12:55 PM.Computer scientist Professor Bob Stone is using smells to make video games even more realistic. Audio
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Backyard Bee Team: wasps in the hive
12:40 PM.Commercial beekeeper Frank Lindsay pops in to see if wasps are stealing honey out the hive. Audio
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Can you tell dog food from pate?
12:35 PM.Robin Goldstein of the Blind Taste blog on a fiendish test involving meat-based products. Audio
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Writer Jonah Lehrer on"How We Decide"
12:15 PM.Jonah Lehrer's written a book on the internal battle between pleasure and pain called"How We Decide". Audio
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Intro:what's coming up
12:10 PM.Decisions, dog food, donkey pong, drug subs and ghetto-blasters this week. Audio
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Slice of history
1:35 PM.Pizza was a cheap and easy food for the poor that's now conquered the world. Carol Helstosky's written a book about its history. Audio
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Digital TV
1:15 PM.Peter Griffin decodes the latest digital TV offerings. So what to choose? Freeview, My Sky or Tivo? Audio
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Bee deaths
12:50 PM.Spanish scientists think they might have found a cure to colony collapse disorder. Dennis van Engelsdorp weighs up the evidence. Audio
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Sounds random
12:40 PM.22 different hiccups and a crying giant salamander. NPR's Louisa Lim pokes around the sound archive with a difference. Audio
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Chestnuts
12:30 PM.A key energy source for Romans, with nothing at all to do with the game of conkers! Alison Sandle sells chestnuts for a living. Audio
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Testing times
12:15 PM.Baked, crushed, dropped and frozen...Dan Simmons goes inside a secret mobile phone testing lab. Audio