January 2013
** H5N1 Research Controversy ** Dawson College Expels Hacker ** New Scrabble Scores? ** Jon Ronson on Conspiracies and Alex Jones ** Kathleen Philips on...
Friday, January 25, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
The exact number of civilians killed by US drone strikes isn't known. Some estimates say there may be close to 900 civilian deaths in Pakistan...
Friday, January 25, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
This week, a group of 40 scientists announced they were ending a moratorium on H5N1 research involving mammal-to-mammal transmission of the virus. The self-imposed suspension...
Friday, January 25, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
English is a constantly evolving language, and Joshua Lewis wondered if Scrabble's scoring system was keeping up. He created software that analyzed the frequency of...
Friday, January 25, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Jon Ronson has documented the strange and obsessive for years in books like "The Men Who Stare At Goats" and "The Psychopath Test" and "Them:...
Friday, January 25, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Ahmed Al-Khabaz is a 20-year-old former computer science student who was expelled from Dawson College in Montreal. He discovered a gap in Dawson's online security...
You might have heard about the mysterious hum that has been driving people in Windsor, Ontario a little batty (there's a video about it below)....
Friday, January 25, 2013 | Categories: Riffed |
Riffed from the Headlines is our weekly music-meets-the-news quiz. Can you guess the story that connects the three riffs? Email us at day6 @ cbc...
** Sam Harris on Gun Control ** Terror in the Desert ** Canadian Cleric Calls for Reform in Pakistan ** Are Petitions the Junk Food...
Friday, January 18, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Militants seized hundreds of workers at the remote Ain Amenas natural gas plant in Algeria on Wednesday. Among the hostages were workers from 10 different...
Friday, January 18, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
This week, President Barack Obama announced his new gun law inititiatives. The move comes as the gun control debate has hit a fever pitch in...
We're less than a full month into 2013 and some have already crowned the book of the year. Receiving almost unanimous praise from critics and...
This week, Canadian-Pakistani cleric Tahir ul-Qadri led a four day sit-in outside Pakistan's parliament buildings in Islamabad. He was joined by tens of thousands of...
This week, disgraced cycling legend Lance Armstrong was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, and finally admitted to using performance enhancing drugs throughout his career. But that's something Betsy...
Until this week, any petition on the White House's "We The People" site that crossed a threshold of 25,000 within 30 days would earn a...
Thursday, January 17, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Riffed from the Headlines is our weekly music-meets-the-news quiz. Can you guess the story that connects the three riffs? Email us at day6@cbc.ca. Don't forget...
** Idle No More, Leadership Crisis? ** Trillion Dollar Coin ** Australia's Climate Change Skepticism ** Hixploitation: Southern Reality TV ** Native Land and Private...
Friday, January 11, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
An inescapable dome of heat hovered over Australia this week, stoking wild bushfires and breaking temperature records. Lynnie Plate, owner of the Pink Roadhouse in...
It started as an economists' joke: mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin as a work-around to the U.S. debt ceiling. But now that the idea has...
Friday, January 11, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Prime Minister Harper, Assembly of First Nation's National Chief Shawn Atleo and other government and First Nations leaders sat together in Ottawa Friday. Some chiefs...
First Nations people are contesting a host of issues, and while Friday's working meeting attempted to zero in on a handful, there's plenty of legislation,...
MTV's "Buckwild" (think "Jersey Shore", but in West Virginia) is the latest in a slew of unscripted shows set in the American South. "Here Comes...
Friday, January 11, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Could the Los Roques archipelago be the new Bermuda Triangle? Whispers of a "Los Roques curse" were heard this week as search parties scoured the...
Riffed from the Headlines is our weekly music-meets-the-news quiz. Can you guess the story that connects the three riffs? Email us at day6@cbc.ca. Don't forget...
** Idle No More ** Kaku, Lanier and Egan: Futurists Panel ** Chris Hedges on the Fiscal Cliff ** Damien Echols Revisited ** Syrian Rebel...
Friday, January 4, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
On Friday, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence said she's overjoyed that PM Harper has agreed to meet with First Nations leaders. Her high-profile hunger strike is...
Friday, January 4, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
The way we communicate and interact with each other has changed dramatically over the past few decades, and with future technology that hovers now on...
As 2012 turned to 2013 this week, Republicans and Democrats stopped just short of pulling a Thelma and Louise off the Fiscal Cliff. The compromises...
Friday, January 4, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Damien Echols is a member of The West Memphis Three, a trio of teenagers convicted of murdering three boys in 1993. They denied the charges,...
Friday, January 4, 2013 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Roughly half a million Syrians have been displaced from the violence in their country. Ali Farzat is one of them. He is a popular Syrian...
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