Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

QUICK HITS
12:15 Science of toast
12:20 World's biggest wind turbine
12:30 Food additives: Emulsifiers
12:50 Farmville
13:15 Google Maps
13:25 Tech news: net neutrality
13:45 The Facebook Effect

THE SMALL PRINT
First up this week the science of toast. So why are some breads better for toasting than others?

Then at 12:20pm the race to build the biggest wind turbines on the planet. Some of the latest designs float on the sea, are bigger than a jumbo jet, and can generate 5 times more electricity than wind turbines used today.
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/profiles/f_brennan.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/26/offshore-turbine-britain?intcmp=239

At 12:30pm we're off to the supermarket to look at more food additives. This week, emulsifiers- or 471, 476 and 481 to you and me! These things are in loads of foods from chocolate, bread and mayonnaise to ice cream. So what are they there for?

And before the 1pm news do you know anyone that plays the computer game Farmville in Facebook? Well it's the world's most popular computer game. OK being free probably helps but why is it so darn popular?
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/content/cultivated-play-farmville

After the news how Google Maps handles the touchiest geo-political issues on the planet. Like, is it the Arabian or the Persian Gulf and where exactly is the border between China and India?! Google manages about 30 different versions of the world map but it still manages to offend people!
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.gravois.html

At 1:25pm Bill Thompson beams in with bits and bytes from the world of technology. This week, net neutrality: the concept that all traffic on the internet should get treated equally. Well the idea's getting hotly debated in the US at the moment, where Google and the big telco Verizon have made some proposals about how internet traffic should be handled in the future.

And before we go, the social networking website Facebook has just clocked up its 500 millionth user and is adding new users at the rate of about one million a day. I'm speaking to writer and technology journalist David Kirkpatrick- he had pretty much unfettered access to Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook staff to research his book 'The Facebook Effect'. So what did he find out?

WE'RE PLAYING THESE TRACKS TOO....
Track: He's Frank (Slight Return)
Artist: the Monochrome Set
Album: Perfect Unpop: Peel Show Hits and Long-Lost Lo-Fi Favourites Vol 1. 1976-80
Label: CHERRY RED
Catalog#: 291352
Broadcast at: 12.30

Track: White Mice
Artist: the Mo-dettes
Album: Perfect Unpop: Peel Show Hits and Long-Lost Lo-Fi Favourites Vol 1. 1976-80
Label: CHERRY RED
Catalog#: 291352
Broadcast at: 13.10

Track: Butterfly Crab Walk
Artist: Roots Manuva and Wrong Tom
Album: Duppy Writer
Label: Big Dada Records
Catalog#: to be released September 6th, 2010.
Broadcast at: 13.45

AND OUR THEME IS:
Track: The Green Termite
Artist: Jefferson Belt
http://www.myspace.com/jeffersonbelt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
Catalogue #: RTM 2009