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Tech Podcast: Living with and without the internet
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This week, the tech podcast brings you a study in contrasts. As part of a series of reports on the power of the Internet, the BBC brought mobile phone connections to these two farmers in rural Nigeria. They’d never surfed the web before. Listen in to find out how they got on. At the same time, the BBC asked some South Koreans to disconnect from the ‘net for an entire week. Painful, considering South Korea is one of the most connected countries on earth. Also this week, we hear about how Indians are finding the love of their lives…online.
Can genetically modified crops help feed the world?
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Last week India rejected what would have been the country’s first genetically modified food crop, a transgenic eggplant. What does this mean for the future of genetically modified crops in India and other parts of the world? And can such crops help feed the world’s hungry? Talk with biologist Lisa Weazel of Portland State University. She’s the author of Food Fray: Inside the Controversy of Genetically Modified Food, and our guest on the latest The World Science Forum. The discussion is live through February, 19th. Download MP3
Retirement in India
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While retirement homes for the elderly are commonplace in the US, they are a new, and growing, phenomenon in India. Reporter Elliot Hannon visits one of the newly constructed Indian retirement communities to see who’s moving in. Download MP3
Romance and Freedom… Making Sales
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The Global Economy Podcast was recently voted one of iTunes top podcasts for 2009! Quite an honor. Thank you, good folks at iTunes.
Some of the themes on this edition of the podcast: love and freedom. Or rather, using love and freedom to sell products. How can you not tune in for that? Now you see why this is one of the year’s best podcasts!
Assessing India’s green energy promises
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As climate negotiators huddle in Copenhagen, India is promising to reduce its greenhouse emissions with a big boost in green energy. But as Miranda Kennedy reports, there are big question marks as to whether India can deliver. Download MP3 (AP Photo: Rafiq Maqbool)
Pride vs practicality in India’s climate stance
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As negotiators gather for global climate talks in Denmark this week, India is resisting steep binding cuts in greenhouse emissions. Reporter Miranda Kennedy tells us why. Download MP3 (Photo of Kolkata factory: Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images)
Bhopal: An unlikely legacy
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The 1984 gas leak in Bhopal India destroyed the lives of more than half a million people. But in the United States, the disaster led to a sea of changes that have made for a safer environment. The World’s Multimedia Science Journalist, Rhitu Chatterjee, has the report. Download MP3
World Science Forum: Preventing future Bhopals
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A quarter century after the disaster at Bhopal, toxic chemicals continue to threaten lives in the developing world. Chemical spills poison Chinese rivers. Toxic waste sickens people in West Africa. What can be done to safeguard the public in developing countries? What role can consumers and investors in the developed world play? In the World Science Forum we talk to Henrik Selin. He’s a professor of international relations at Boston University. Download MP3
Bhopal disaster: 25 years later
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25 years after the world’s worst industrial accident, The World’s Rhitu Chatterjee looks at the legacy in India of the toxic gas release that likely killed more than 20,000 people. Download MP3
Business in the Developing World, Part II
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A year ago, inflation in Zimbabwe was a mind-blowing 231 million percent. (And that was before the government stopped bothering to update the figure!) A new government came to power in February and life has much improved. The Zimbabwe dollar, or Zim dollar, is gone. But that has spawned problems of its own.
Stories from Zimbabwe and other parts of Africa, Bangladesh, India and Peru on Part II of this two-part podcast about econonics and business in the developing world.
Mumbai remembers
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Ceremonies are being held in Mumbai to mark the first anniversary of a series of devastating terrorist attacks. Police have paraded in the Indian city, a memorial has been inaugurated and a candle-lit prayer service held.The attacks, which began on November 26, 2008 left 174 people dead, including nine gunmen. Marco Werman talks with correspondent Tinku Ray, who is in Mumbai for the commemoration. Download MP3
India’s Muslim community – part 3
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Mumbai is marking the first anniversary of coordinated terrorist attacks on the Indian city. On Thursday, a few big-name movie stars will join an inter-faith ceremony commemorating the dead. Mumbai dominated by Bollywood, and there are many Muslims both behind and in front of the camera. But the film industry rarely depicts their lives, in the final part of her series on India’s Muslim minority, Miranda Kennedy reports from Bollywood. Download MP3
India’s Muslim community – part 2
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India is on high alert this week as the country marks the one year anniversary of strikes that paralyzed Mumbai last year. As we heard in part one, Muslims in India have largely not been radicalized, however that hasn’t stopped the police from targeting suspected homegrown terrorists. In the second part of her series, Miranda Kennedy reports on the growing alienation of Mumbai’s Muslims. Download MP3
India’s Muslim community
One year ago, 10 militants arrived from Pakistan in Mumbai, India. They fanned out across the city to attack hotels and other targets. It took almost three days for the Indian authorities to end the violence. The Muslim community was terrified of a backlash, fortunately it never came. Miranda Kennedy reports on the lives of India’s Muslims in a three part series.
India’s Muslim community – part 1
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One year ago, 10 militants arrived from Pakistan in Mumbai, India. They fanned out across the city to attack hotels and other targets. It took almost three days for the Indian authorities to end the violence. The Muslim community was terrified of a backlash, fortunately it never came. Miranda Kennedy has the first in her series of reports about the lives of India’s Muslims. Download MP3
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