Archive for 2010
Could robots take over mining work?
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Download MP3Lisa Mullins talks to Mechanical Engineering Professor Mark Yim to find out whether robots can one day do the dangerous mining work that humans now do.
Geo Quiz
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Geo answer
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Download MP3The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is the Loop Peninsula, Country Clare, Ireland. That’s where a message n a bottle washed up recently, carried all the way from Florida (3700 miles away) by the Gulf Stream. The bottle belongs to a student at Melbourne High School in Florida who was studying ocean currents.
Message in a bottle
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For this Geo Quiz, follow the ocean blue. The warm ocean we know as the Gulf Stream originates near the southern tip of Florida. It heads north up along the US coastline and up past Newfoundland. There, it’s called the North Atlantic Drift, because it sweeps across the Atlantic.
About a year ago, some high schoolers in Melbourne Florida focused on the the Gulf Stream for their marine science project. They wrote messages in bottles and tossed them into the Atlantic. A year later, some of the bottles washed up far from Florida.
The question is where? One turned up 37-hundred miles away near a small fishing village on the west coast of Ireland. County Clare to be more precise. Now see if you can pinpoint the peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic there where the bottle washed up. Download MP3
Music Heard on Air for October 11, 2010
Tunes Spun On The World Between Our Reports For October 11, 2010. Artists featured are Chicha Libre, Moriba Koita, Charbel Rouhana, Hani Siblini, Kila.
Entire program – October 8, 2010
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Download MP3Today on The World: Reaction in China to the news that jailed Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Also, former Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt describes her 6 years of captivity in the jungle. Plus we have an update on Hungary’s toxic sludge spill; those stories and more today on The World.
Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel
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Author and political activist Liu Xiaobo has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Liu, who is known as one of China’s leading dissidents, is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence for “subverting state power” after helping write a manifesto, called Charter 08, which calls for political change in China. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has the story. Download MP3>>Read 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo’s final statement
Ingrid Betancourt recounts Farc kidnapping
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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Ingrid Betancourt, who describes her time as a hostage in the Colombian jungle and comments on the challenges facing Colombia today. (Photo:Fabio Gismondi) Download MP3>>Audio Extras: Hear more of our conversation with Ingrid Betancourt
The Belgian Brand
If Belgium breaks apart, who gets the “Belgium” brand – Belgium beer, Belgian chocolate, Belgian waffles, you name it. The World’s Clark Boyd has the story. (Photo: Beer Planet)
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Dusseldorf bans beer bikes
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A court in Dusseldorf, Germany, has banned beer bikes. If you’re not familiar with beer bikes they are kind of like bars on wheels. You and up to 21 friends hop on stools on the sides, and pedal.The court banned the bikes because they encourage raucous behavior. More from Anchor Marco Werman. (Photo: Digital Journal) Download MP3>>Video: See the beer bike in action
Senegal’s Carlou D
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Anchor Marco Werman tells us about one rapper from Senegal, Carlou D who has made the successful transition from rapping to singing. Download MP3 >>Watch a video of Carlou D performing liveSupport for Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Download MP3Jailed Chinese writer and civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. China’s government is not pleased. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Chinese novelist, Diane Wei-Liang, about what she thinks has inspired this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner to challenge the Chinese government’s human rights record. The novelist herself is a veteran of the pro-democracy movement in China.
Palestinian president calls for end to peace talks
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Download MP3The World’s Matthew Bell reports on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ appeal to the Arab League to quit peace talks after Israel’s refusal to extend a freeze on settlement building in the West Bank.
Vienna’s anti-immigrant party courts Serb immigrants
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Download MP3Vienna, Austria, is holding municipal elections this weekend and a far-right anti-immigrant party is likely to gain the support of one immigrant group: Serbs. Reporter Jelena Kopanja has the story.
Geo Quiz
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