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Joost Bakker is one of the great forward thinkers of the food industry, and today he stopped by to talk about his Farm by Joost project that is planned for a building on Collins St. The urban environment is actually quite well suited to growing food, and with the growth of our suburbs encroaching on traditional farmlands it's time to consider alternatives. Oddly the project has been rejected by the Melbourne City Council, so it's up to state planning minister Matthew Guy to decide whether the project can proceed.

Speaking of rooftops (segue!), Vanessa Kwiatkowski and Mat Lumalasi are in their third year of running Melbourne City Rooftop Honey, which now looks after 75 hives around Melbourne and the 'burbs. We spoke about how critical bees are to agriculture as a whole, and a recent move by the EU to ban neonicotinoid insecticides that have proven to be harmful to bees. We think the Australian government should do the same, and also have a close look at whether glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup cause biological harm to insects.

It's Good Beer Week! The fabulous Dave and Cam from Mountain Goat joined us in-studio, along with Eric Ottaway from Brooklyn Brewery who's in town on a pretty enviable work trip. We spoke about how the burgeoning Australian craft beer industry is also reflected in America, and the differences in beer styles and ingredients encountered as you travel around the world.

unday 19 May marks the beginning of National Archaeology Week 2013. We'll be be speaking with Winthrop Professor Peter Veth and Dr Alistair Paterson from the University of Western Australia who  will be using a $1.17m Australian Research Council Discovery Grant to undertake archaeological investigations on Barrow Island on the Western Australian north west coast, off the Pilbara. Their project researches ‘deep time’ maritime cultures, climate and ecological records over a three year period and will examine 45,000 year old material in caves and rock shelters and on open sites around the island. This significant research has the potential to provide new understanding human behavioural ecology, island biogeography, climate change and historic-era exploitation of this maritime arid zone.

We'll also poke around inside the Federal Budget to see what's there or not there for the marine environment, and catch up with Briny Brett Illingworth for the fortnight's dive diary.

If you think you're weird, on this week's episode Sean The Birdman Dooley talked twitching, then The Breakfasters learnt that what happens under the ceiling rose, stays under the ceiling rose when Marita Dyson from The Orbweavers touched on their intriguing history of ceiling roses, then it was vote 1 Stew Farrell for this week's oration 'Stop the boats!', and Tatiana Mauri from the Immigration  Museum talked about, talking about racism.

Laurel, Hazel and Digga discuss easy medicinal herbs for the home garden. They also discuss their gardens and give advice to callers in thei Mother's Day edition.

On this week's Byte:

• News:
  • The Federal Budget has been released - what does it mean for IT? And what are the implications for Community Radio?
  • Samsung have announced that they have developed 5G mobile technology - before 5G has even been standardised - with speeds "hundreds of times faster than 4G"
  • How much would you pay for coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook? 86 people bid for a 30-60 minute coffee date, with the prize going for $610,000
• Interviews:
  • Lauren Watson and Scott Brewer join the team to discuss the One More Thing Conference, happening May 24 at ACMI
  • Ben Tollady and Andrew Gunstone talking about Melbourne Geek Night, 6:30pm next Monday May 20 at Loop Bar, 23 Meyers Place.
• Dan's Games Wrap-up
  • PAX Australia have announced the Australian games that will be on display at this year's Indie Showcase at the Melbourne Showgrounds, July 19-21.
  • The award-winningly-catchy Dumb Ways to Die public transport campaign has now been released as an iOS game.
• ALSO: Congratulations to Dan Golding on his Best Gaming Journalist win at this year's Lizzie Awards.

Presented by Vanessa Toholka, Byron Scullin, and Dan Golding.

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Laurel and Olive discuss permaculture and organic growing.  They also discuss their gardens and give advice to callers on a variety of topics.

Tracklisting

1. The Don Spencer Blues Explosion

2. Let's Fall in Love

3. Pluralise

4. Clinically Depressed Aerobics Instructor

5. My Family

6. Erotic Chat

7. Taxi

8. Louis CK

9. Ted Talk

10. Lime Champions Non Gig Guide

This Mother's Day edition of Radiotherapy includes an interview with Dr Marie Bismark from the University of Melbourne, who headed Australia's largest study regarding complaints against doctors. The team also look at the myth that is Dr Frankenstein, and chat about the Diagnotic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

EAGG 12^th May 2013

Dr Shane, Dr Dyani, Chris KP

News Items:

Dr Dyani – Genome sequencing study on epigenetic modification.

Chris KP – Danish treatment of spinal pain.

Dr Shane – Bats eat moths! Latest research of the greater wax moth and their extended hearing capabilities.

First Guest:

George Feast, post-doctoral researcher from Material Science and engineering division at CSIRO, waxes lyrical on high-throughput synthesis and characterisation of amphiphilic compounds.

Second Guest:

Sally Sherwin from Zoos Victoria gives insight to the behaviour and welfare of zoo animals. How do we as visitors effect the animals? Find out here…

Third Guest:

Jennifer Henry, PhD, is the Director, Life Sciences at The New York Academy of Sciences. What are the latest natural products used in pharmaceutical products?

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