"Do you fear an arms race over the arctic?" the host of The Current Podcast asked an Inuit representative during a recent episode. The gentlemen spoke at length about the problems of the Inuit population in the high arctic and his concerns about the Canadian federal government doing military...
Part II of my interviews with hackers at HAR2009 earlier this month. Once again I'm asking people from different countries how their healthcare system works. This time I speak with a Brazilian, a Slovakian, a Dane, and a Swiss person, who tell me their experiences with insurance, doctors, hospitals...
Australia's ABC Radio National (Background Briefing) recently featured one of those speeches that I consider a huge must-listen no matter who you are. The topic: The US's place in the world, empire, the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, education and the interconnectedness of all these concepts. The speaker, retired...
Anytime you find yourself at an open air international hacker festival you are sure to be surrounded by people from all over the world. Being located in the Netherlands, most campers come from somewhere in Europe, though plenty of North Americans and a few South Americans as well...
In many ways it is as if we never left. 2 years ago I sat at a picnic table under a tarp on the Polish-German border on the site of a former East German military base with a couple of thousand hackers and general purpose nerds. 2 years later...
