Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIn a country where alcohol is banned, Pakistan’s top brewery is betting on soft drinks
A pungent fog of malt and yeastiness hangs over Murree Brewery, Pakistan’s biggest and oldest producer of alcoholic drinks. The company is an outlie…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
How space is becoming a trillion-dollar marketplace
The future of space is privatized. Exploring the solar system is now not just the preserve of government agencies—private companies are finding it’s…
7 months ago
Vaccines have all but erased the memory of diseases like rubella, but not for one mother
Vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. is pushing immunization rates down, fueling a rise in illnesses like measles and whooping cough. Devastating infectiou…
7 months ago
Trump vents online about service provider after conference call marred by glitch
On June 30, the president of the United States was just another person complaining online about his service provider. Donald Trump wrote in a pair o…
7 months ago
Morocco bets on video game industry to provide jobs and diversify economy
Morocco is laying down foundations to build a homegrown gaming industry by establishing a developer hub in the capital, training coders and launching…
7 months ago
A classical drive: Road rumble strips play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in UAE emirate of Fujairah
The humble road rumble strip, used around the world to alert drifting drivers to potential hazards or lane departures, can play Beethoven on a mounta…
7 months ago
Inside Three Mile Island’s nuclear restart with Microsoft, now targeting 2027 launch, one year ahead of plan
The operators of the last operating nuclear power reactor at Three Mile Island say they will re-open it, now a year ahead of schedule, in 2027, inste…
7 months ago
Sweden’s ‘Banksy Mouse,’ Anonymouse, unmasked after 9 years in the shadows
After nine years scurrying in the shadows, the two-person Swedish street art collective known as “Anonymouse”—dubbed “Banksy Mouse” by Swedish media—…
7 months ago
Greenland’s message to the world: Come visit
Greenland’s tourism industry is expecting a boom this year following the launch of its first airline route between its capital, Nuuk, and the U.S. T…
7 months ago
How ChatGPT and other AI tools are changing the teaching profession
For her sixth-grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students, "who live and breathe soccer," wo…
7 months ago