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What does the rest of the world think of the U.S healthcare debate? Some American critics of healthcare reform are suggesting the U.S. will end up with a bureaucratic and inefficient system, which they say would be like Britain. How do Brits feel about this label? Also aging doctors in Japan and the recession in Europe is over! (Maybe.)
Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain is home to some of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, including the one we’re looking for in today’s Geo Quiz. This particular volcanic island roared to life a year ago.
That was bad news for the plants and animals living there. But scientists report signs of life on this volcanic moonscape.
A List of Music Featured Between our reports for August 14, 2009
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On this week’s show, castle builders in France use medieval technologies and techniques to build a castle…from scratch. Also, we have an interview with Bertrand Piccard, who wants to one day fly a solar-powered plane, non-stop, around the world. And we end with one podcast listener’s amazing art project. He and his buddies use GPS and their bikes to make geo-spatial art!
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In this week’s World in Words podcast, the rise and rise of Rosetta Stone. With big government contracts and a huge advertising campaign, Rosetta Stone is now American’s #1 language teacher. If you learn the Rosetta Stone way, you’ll absorb a language an infant does. Well, that’s the theory. Also, non-native English speakers from around the world take part in an English Spelling Bee in New York. And, Hillary Clinton’s not-so-lost-in-translation moment in Kinshasa, Congo. Download MP3
