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Mourning DIY, Debunking Halo 3 Hype and More
21/09/2007
An entire generation of high-tech hot shots is losing touch with traditional skills, and Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds joins us with some solutions to save the handymen. Plus, we find out what's wrong with Halo 3, office surveillance and the Google Lunar X Prize.
iPod Touch's Future, Steve Fossett's High-Tech Help and More
07/09/2007
After Steve Jobs introduced a new iPod arsenal, our tech team breaks down the slow death of the iconic MP3 player and predicts what a Wi-Fi iTunes Store could mean for media. Plus, we meet the head of the air rescue team searching for a legendary adventurer, break down the physics behind the U.S. Open and get a preview of the power wheels and green tech at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Katrina Two Years Later, Live from Iraq and More
24/08/2007
Despite more than $7 billion in Congressional funding, the Army Corps of Engineers says it's still four years and another $7 billion away from re-building the levees of New Orleans. Robert Bea, a professor of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley who authored the huge National Science Foundation report on why the Big Easy collapsed in the first place, proposes solutions to re-engineer the Gulf Coast. And Leslie Sabbagh, our Iraq blogger, joins us from a military air base for a very candid conversation about the state of the high-tech war. Plus, three easy ways to cut down on your water use this summer.
Bridge Building, Moon Sleepovers, Robot Surgeons and More
10/08/2007
In the wake of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, national security expert Stephen Flynn joins us to propose three steps America must take to rebuild its crumbling infrastructure. Plus, four-time Space Shuttle astronaut Tom Jones scouts out NASA's moon base in part two of our future of space series, we get the latest on battlefield 'bots from DARPATech, and a real-life safecracker tells us why Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were full of it.
Life on Mars, Death of Bees and More
26/07/2007
To commemorate the upcoming 50th anniversary of manned spaceflight, we're looking at the next 50 years. In the first of a two-part series, New York Times astrobiology reporter Carl Zimmer joins us to predict what we'll find when we finally step foot on the Red Planet. Plus, how to save the vanishing honeybees, survive a plane crash and build higher speeds for NASCAR.
