This Way Up for Saturday 27 March 2010
Mineral collecting
We visit Ian Godfrey and some of the other rockhounds at a local rock and mineral club.
Jamaica: chicken pill diet
The Kitchen Sisters and NPR explore a strange and potentially dangerous Jamaican dieting trend. To get more curvy, women are taking nutritional supplements normally used by farmers to grow bigger chickens!
Tech news: Google and ACTA
Bill Thompson beams in with the latest tech news and this week Google versus China. Plus global anti-counterfeiting talks come to New Zealand next month.
What happens to our milk?
Listener Heather want to know more about our milk- what goes into it, what gets taken out, and can humans drink rat milk?! Dairy expert Dr Alistair Carr from Massey University has the answers.
Wireless access
Vinny Kumar's leading a team of local inventors who've come up with a neat way to distribute information wirelessly using existing FM and AM radio networks.
India: Autorickshaws, coffee culture
Jason Burke lives in Delhi in India where city authorities are trying to take the capital's 80,000 auto-rickshaws off the streets. Plus what social changes and the arrival of the big coffee chains are meaning for the local coffee house scene.