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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Trash & Garbage
Researchers in Seattle will be tagging thousands of pieces of trash with special sensors and tracking their movements through the waste stream, in an attempt to find out where our garbage really goes. Assaf Biderman, Associate Director of the SENSEable City Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains how they'll trace all that trash.
Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now, July 28. Host: Robin Young.
Singer Shirley Manson is Scottish and a redhead. She'll be featured as a playable character in the upcoming release of Guitar Hero 5.
Every year, it's a weekend of emotional ambiguity marking two medical anniversaries with totally different outcomes.
More recently, a life saving surgery. In the distance, a reminder that one of the few potentially life saving amateur tools in which the public is trained fails 9 of 10 times.
The painful truth is that your best may not be enough to save a loved one. But because they are a loved one, you try... And live with the memory through your Sadderdays.
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