This Way Up for Saturday 30 April 2011
Gocta Falls, Peru
Imagine going for a walk in the bush and discovering the third tallest waterfall on the planet. Well this didn't happen hundreds of years ago, but in 2005 in Peru to a German economist. Journalist Joshua Foer reports.
The real life of mannequins
Glen Wilkin-Holland makes mannequins for a living at Purfex in Auckland.
Gocta Falls, Peru
Imagine going for a walk in the bush and discovering the third tallest waterfall on the planet. Well this didn't happen hundreds of years ago, but in 2005 in Peru to a German economist. Journalist Joshua Foer reports.
Food additives: humectants and anti-caking agents
We're shopping for more food additives with food scientist Matt Golding. This week, what are anti-caking agents and humectants and what are they doing in the stuff we eat?
Artificial sweeteners
Carolyn De La Pena has written 'Empty Pleasures'; it's a history of artifical sweeteners from aspartame to saccharin (a byproduct of the coal industry by the way!).