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The lawyers for computer hacker Gary McKinnon (pictured) intend to challenge the British government’s decision not to block his extradition to the US. McKinnon who has Asperger’s syndrome, has been charged with illegally accessing computers, including at the Pentagon. He says he was seeking UFO evidence. Marco Werman talks with Gary McKinnon’s mother, Janis Sharp. Download MP3
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Tons of fun in this week’s podcast. The highlight is the return of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Eoin Colfer, who you may know as author of the Artemis Fowl series, has taken on the task of writing Book Six of Three in the H2G2 universe. It’s called And Another Thing… and we’ve got an interview with Colfer on this week’s podcast! We also hear about expert windmill builder, William Kamkwamba.
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Our Friday the 13th podcast features a segment on Samasource, a San Francisco based non-profit that’s helping people in the developing world make a little luck for themselves by helping them get employment. Also, we hear about how Sir Winston Churchill’s speeches flunk a new computerized essay marking program. We’ll hitch a ride on a comet, and hear about one listener’s own project to create a low-cost ventilator.
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Who knew there were Soviet women combat pilots in WWII? The BBC’s Lucy Ash tells us how she came to know some of these women and produce a radio documentary about their lives and exploits. Also, we revisit the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979. Hard to believe it’s been 30 years since the 444-day ordeal began. And we try to understand the complicated motivations of Pakistan’s military leaders by looking back at how Pakistan was formed and what its early years were like. Lots to chew on this week, much of it riveting.
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The centerpiece of this week’s podcast is a look at the strange case of Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan. He was jailed a little more than a year ago after returning to Iran. We hear about the twists and turns his life has taken in recent years. We also hear about some new research on Persian blogs, and about the world’s smallest FM transmitter! Oh, and a guy who has most of his life recorded digitally…and loves it.
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Persian language bloggers, both inside and outside the country, have been weighing in on the day’s events in Tehran. Those bloggers are the subject of some new research carried out by The BBC World Service Trust and a Persian social media website called Balatarin. Marco Werman hears more from The World’s technology correspondent Clark Boyd. Download MP3Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
This week, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet. We hear from UCLA’s Leonard Kleinrock (pictured), and others who worked to send that first message between two computers, hundreds of miles apart. We get the international perspective from Chinese blogger and activist Isaac Mao. And we also hear about the ‘Net’s next step, Internationalized Domain Names.
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A listener-centered episode this week. Tech Podcast listener and inventor Eric Zimmerman shares his low-tech solution to a high-tech problem; namely, how do manage to answer your cell phone when you’re eating buffalo wings and your fingers are covered in sauce? Trongs. Also, NASA crashes into the moon (on purpose), and Peru tries to harvest water with fog nets. And, we have a technological nod to the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.
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On this week’s podcast, we take you to France and Britain to look at the prospects of developing a smart electricity meter, one that could change the amount of electricity you consume. Also, one Dutch politician is asking the European Union to take a tough line of sales of Internet filtering equipment to Iran. And we have a lengthy report on nanotechnology.
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Fibre-optic broadband Internet access has come to East Africa by way of an undersea cable. We explore “Connected Africa,” and hear a number of viewpoints. Also, the Iraqi parliament mulls a measure that might restrict what citizens can and can’t see online. We have an interview with Stephen Dukker of NComputing, a company that wants to turn your PC into, well, 10 or 12 PCs. And we end with some software designed to detect early signs of autism in the speech patterns of children.
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Meet Winston, the 11 month old carrier pigeon who is faster than broadband Internet in South Africa. At least, that’s what one company in South Africa set out to prove. You can hear more about that in this week’s podcast. You can also take a ride on the Battambang Bamboo Railway in Cambodia, and follow along with Briton Andy Pag as he tries to circumnavigate the globe in a tricked out bio-truck. We ask you: where else can you find this kind of podcast? Wow.
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On this week’s podcast, we’re off to Linz, Austria to hear about some of the exhibits at annual Ars Electronica Festival. One you can see here at left: that’s right, turn your own urine into fertilizer. If you like that one, wait until you hear the other story from Linz…Also, we hear about the 3D re-creation of pre-war Nagasaki, Japan. And we end with a brief history of GPS drawing, brought to you by listener Brett Stalbaum.
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Any podcast that has artificial trees (pictured) in it has to be good right? We hope so. We’ve also got some other great stories. We hear from one history teacher who is exploring new ways to integrate technology into the classroom. We also talk about how your cell phone is linked to violence in Congo, and we hear from Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales about some new editing guidelines. All that, plus an update on those Brits and their marvelous steam-powered car.
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You want zombies? Well, we’ve got them this week. Some researchers at the University of Ottawa are using a (theoretical, mind you) zombie attack to study disease vectors. Also, botnets, the Russia and Georgia cyber-spat, and a steam powered car. Plus, a deliciously free concoction of flamenco, hip-hop and creative commons.
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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!
