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President Obama faces tough choices in Afghanistan. Things are not going well for the US-led mission there. There’s either a long, hard an expensive slog ahead. Or a pull-back that comes with its own risks.
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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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Students at the University of Nagasaki are attempting to recreate a community that a nuclear weapon destroyed. The Urakami neighborhood in Nagasaki was ground zero for the second atomic bomb the U-S dropped on Japan in World War Two. That attack killed 39-thousand people. And it destroyed most pictures of life in Urakami before the war. The students are recreating pre-war Urakami, with the help of memories and 3D technology. Akiko Fujita has our radio story.
Today’s Geo Quiz sends us to a place where you don’t have to pay your taxes. We’re looking for a British territory in the Caribbean that’s been able to survive — make that, thrive — on its status as one of the world’s major tax havens…
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Meet Horst Schlämmer, alter-ego of one of Germany’s most famous comedians, Hape Kerkeling. Schlämmer usually works as the deputy editor of a fictitious German newspaper. But now, Kerkeling’s got his creation running for public office. And not just any public office. Schlämmer wants to be Chancellor. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Schlämmer, and Kerkeling. >>>more about Kerkeling and his book I’m off then >>>More about Horst Schlämmer’s election run.
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Seeking accountability on detainee abuse. Where should the Obama administration go with the allegations of CIA torture? It’s a huge legal, moral and political challenge for a president who says he wants to move on.
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Download MP3Today on The World: The head of a peacekeeping force in Darfur says there is no more war in Sudan’s troubled region; Also, Iran’s opposition leaders continue to accuse the government of torturing and killing citizens arrested during election protests, Plus: why Muslims in Malaysia will have to sit out next month’s Black-Eyed Peas concert.
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Download MP3For today’s Geo Quiz we’re looking for strip of Australian coastline bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Timor Sea to the north. The answer is the Kimberley Coast, where this week an undersea oil pipeline ruptured and is spewing crude oil and natural gas into the sea. Anchor Jeb Sharp finds out more from John Carey, director of the Pew Environment Group’s Kimberley Conservation Project.
We’re going to a remote corner of Australia for the Geo Quiz this time. Most of Australia’s population lives along the country’s southeastern coast. In the middle, there’s the vast and dry outback. Then, all the way in Australia’s northwestern corner, is the place we want you to name.
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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.
