Tag Archives: Africa

Media Mining Digest 58 – Dec 21, 2012: Africa Insights, Agricultural Impact, Anzac, Apprenticeships, Arduino Makers, Argentina’s Inflation, Birth Control, Cuban Investment, Dangerous Prototypes, Disaster Equipment, Disaster Equipment, DNR Talk, Energy Evaluation, Energy Management, Ernesto Quinonez, Fiber or Wireless, Filibustering, Food Ingredients, Football Tragedy, Fracking, Ghana Election, Haiti Lessons, Justice Defined, Killam Symposium, Lawrence Guyot Dies, Maker Movement, Mammograms, Media Gender Bias, Media Monopoly, Medical Commons, Medical Hotspots, Middle East Nuclear Arms, Muslim Comic Zayid, Newspaper Columnists, Nigerian Finance Minister, Nuclear Power Control, Openness Defined, Organophosphate Hazards and Chagas, Prison Debt, Psychosis Insider, Pullman Porters, Sensor Evolution, Somalia History, State Health Programs, Tissue Engineering, Utility Assets Management, Video Game Impact, Violence Against Women, Vulture Value, Web Marketing, Wildlife Protection, Whooping Cough Returns, Women Revolutionaries, Working Longer

The following audio files were selected from a larger group of 247 for the last week. The link to each podcast is at the highlighted topic and reached by double-clicking or ctrl-clicking the topic. All 58 podcasts converted to 1.5x … Continue reading

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Media Mining Digest 43 – Sep 7, 2012: Romanian Gold, Afghanistan and Sharia Law, Paraguay’s Forests, Copernicus, Cloning HeLa Cells, Sports Economics, Pain, PTST, Nerve Repair, Ethiopian Internet, Hospital Infections, Library E-books,Tim O’Reilly, Africa’s Blackmarket Oil, Diagnostic Tests, Evidenced Based Medicine, Future of EBM, Ethics for Beginners, Life and Death

The following audio files were selected from a larger group of 238 for the last week. The link to each podcast is at the highlighted topic and reached by double-clicking or ctrl-clicking it. All 19 podcasts converted to 1.5x speed … Continue reading

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Media Mining Digest 27 – May 18, 2012: Finances, HarperCollins, Low Carb Diet, Linked-In, Science Writing Careers, Banana SLAPP, Belgium Slaves, Stopping Warlords, Africa Jobs and Exports, Health Care in the 21st Century, E-predictions, Cyberthreats, School Change and Cyber Threats, and Vaccine Scares

The link to each item’s podcast is at the highlighted topic and reached by double-clicking or ctrl-clicking it. Actual podcasts for this edition are assembled here at 1.5x speed for four months. Finances  33 mins  -  Education, wine, housing, sports, … Continue reading

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Media Mining 18 – Mar 16, 2012: Drones, Wikileaks, Government Science Advisers, Cellphone Eye Exam, Favela Rehab, Radio Netherlands, Aboriginal Opera, Haiti, Circumventing Communications Blackouts, A War We Need, Fact Checking, Salamworld, and LuminAID.

Drones – The maker of drones and two lawyers discuss drones in Drones – Privacy Paradox: Privacy and Its Conflicting Values (28 mins). The audience is made up of engineers and lawyers. The FAA is noted as a big player … Continue reading

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Media Mining 15 – Feb 24, 2012: Corruption in Equatorial Guinea, Jenner’s Smallpox Article, New York Smallest Carbon Footprint, NYC Improves Commo, Networked Knowledge, Journals Under Fire, Smoking Hazard, AIDS Vaccine, Injecting Tumors, Homeless Tunnels in Las Vegas, Thermoelectric Generators, and Spice History

Corruption in African nations isn’t remarkable news and is based on the sale of oil, but it does provide another example to compare with previous entries in an earlier blog. In this one Rob Walker investigates what’s happened to billions … Continue reading

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