Jan
27
WTP 137
Posted by PRI's The World: Technology from BBC/PRI/WGBH
Gas hydrates... hot new fuel source or environmental menace? A blanket of pollution covers a village in rural China. And the role of immigration in American hi-tech startups. Plus the return of The Plastic People of the Universe.
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Jan
20
WTP 136: Ancient air conditioning in Dubai, Cleaning up oil in the Philippines, Weird weather, Temperate Moscow, Small solar, and A special delivery of snow.
Posted by PRI's The World: Technology from BBC/PRI/WGBH
Everybody's favorite topic: The weather. It's warm in Moscow. There's no snow in the Alps; no problem. The Philippines worst environmental disaster: How to clean up an oil spill? Ancient air conditioning in Dubai. And our main man in Prague is using the sun to power his cellphone.
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Jan
13
WTP 135: The Apple iPhone, Recording your phone calls, Answering them in Manila, Cars in Detroit, Observing the Sabbath in Israel, and Video Games in the Holy Land.
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Two tech podcasts this week. This one about gadgets, phones and games. The new iPhone from Apple. New software to detect angry callers, and when those angry calls go halfway around the world to the Philippines. Cars in Detroit. And two stories in Israel: Observing the Sabbath high-tech style and video games for Israelis and Arabs.
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Jan
11
WTP 134: A special Technology Podcast about Climate Change
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A special Tech Podcast exclusively devoted to the topic of climate change. What does all this weird weather really mean? How are the world's governments tackling greenhouse gas emissions? What YOU can do to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And a few examples of the impacts of climate change from Brazil and Australia.
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Jan
6
WTP 133: Folk music in Georgia, Flooding in Venice, A bad year for Nuclear Weapons, Mobile phones in Kenya, AIDS in Cameroon.
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It's flooding in Venice: What to do? 2006: A bad year for nuclear proliferation. Need to make a phone call in Kenya? Buy a mobile. Fighting AIDS in Cameroon. And they're listening to restored music in Georgia that's a century old. How'd they do that?
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