RNZ: This Way Up
Summary: This Way Up is a weekly two-hour show that explores the things we use and consume.
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Podcasts:
For the past 21 years Professor Tim Spector and researchers at the Department of Twin Research have been studying 3,500 pairs of twins worldwide.
We talk to Craig Robertson about the passport's past and how it's changing in the digital age.
Chris Wagner works for NeuLion, a US company that broadcasts 40,000 live events every year online. Now NeuLion's beaming English Premier League football games into New Zealand homes via the web; so what can viewers expect?
The latest science news with Dr Chris Smith. This week, aspirin's anti-cancer properties, and a new glue to keep hip replacements and other artificial joints in place.
Alex Herbert hand-makes skis. We drop into the Kingswood Ski factory in Christchurch to see how it's done.
Why the time of day's important when it comes to eating your fruit and veg. Professor Janet Braam of Rice University's monitoring picked cabbages under different light conditions.
Dr Adam Burgess has been looking at why people wear surgical facemasks in Japan, where about 10 percent of the population wear them regularly. Also pathologist Mark Jones tests out a few masks to show if and how they work.
How some American cliff swallows have evolved to avoid ending up as roadkill. Mary Bomberger Brown of The University of Nebraska has been studying groups of these swallows for the past 30 years.
A listener's question about how fresh our milk is, and what goes into it. With Dr David Everett.
Ted Meredith with a history of garlic and John Murphy's a commercial garlic grower based in Blenheim.
Peter Griffin on what the move to screening English Premier League football matches online means for internet TV here in New Zealand.
The latest science news with Dr Chris Smith. This week, a new gene therapy to treat eye disease and an interesting theory about how people choose their children's names.
Scandinavian and Nordic cuisine has become the next big thing over the past few years. Now Danish brewers are applying similar principles to their beer. Helen Russell lives and works in Denmark.
The Earth Microbiome Project is a bold initiative to catalogue all of the microbes that live with us here on earth. Professor Janet Jansson is working on the project.
Charles Arthur's the tech editor of The Guardian. It broke the story about the US National Surveillance Agency's secret Prism surveillance program. We ask him how the story's moved in the past week.
