RNZ: This Way Up

Andrew Forsthoefel set out at the age of 23 to walk across America, East to West, 6500 kilometres and wearing a sign that said, "Walking to Listen." Andrew didn't intend to make a radio story, he just wanted to listen to people and he did just that.

Project Loon is Google's plan to provide internet access to the world from balloons that float around in the stratosphere, a bold idea and the concept was recently tested in Canterbury.

therestartproject.org is teaching consumers to repair and reuse their broken devices, and hopes to change our relationship with the stuff we buy.

Dr Paul Offit and his new book 'Killing us softly: the sense and nonsense of alternative medicine' explains why mega vitamins can be bad for your health.

Anu Anand lives in India where state-run telegrams are about to come to a stop STOP Also the Indian government plans one of the world's biggest cheap food programmes.

Peter Griffin spent a chunk of last week at Nethui, where geeks and peeps get together to discuss all things digital. We'll look at hot hui topics, including proposed changes to the way the government gets its hands on our data.

Do you get anxious before getting an injection or before surgery? Well that's good news, because new research by Firdaus Dhabhar at Stanford University shows that we respond better to vaccinations and heal faster if we get a bit stressed out beforehand!

The latest science news with Dr Chris Smith. This week, the way the H7N9 flu virus can pass from bird to human is revealed. Plus a way to safely sterilise medical equipment in the remotest parts of the world, using only the sun and a few million nanoparticles!

Using insects to solve crimes and other mysteries. We meet forensic entomologist Dallas Bishop.

Charles Arthur's been trying out some wearable computing. He's just had a play with Google Glass and gives us his verdict.

Professor Cary Mitchell at Purdue University is working on a new way of lighting indoor crops with coloured LEDs, developed so astronauts could grow veggies in space.

225-million people worldwide belong to this professional networking website LinkedIn. Jesse Hempel of Fortune is looking at the LinkedIn phenomenon.

Dr Richard Mann from the University of Uppsala is studying applause and how it spreads.

Norway's trying to put the slow and the sedate back into TV entertainment! Ellen Emmerentze Jervell of the Wall Street Journal's a big fan of this boring TV genre.

As the owner of Premium Game in Blenheim, Allan Spencer works with a team of other hunters to bring wild pigs, rabbits, goats and deer into our food shops.