Recent Episodes
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Spark 172 – February 12 & 15, 2012
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Spark 171 – February 5 & 8, 2012
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Spark 170 – January 29 & February 1, 2012
27 January 2012 5:34 PM | 10 Comments
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Tech Headlines from cbc.ca- Environment group testifies on charities' tax status
- Online surveillance bill targets child porn: Toews
- U.S. weighs steep nuclear arms cuts
- Groups to take Ottawa to court over vanishing sage grouse
- Nortel hit by suspected Chinese cyberattacks for a decade
- New iPad anticipated in March
- Higgs boson hunt aided by energy boost
- Google's $12.5B Motorola bid cleared by U.S. and EU
- Canada dropping the ozone ball, scientists warn
- CBC digital music service launched
Archive for December, 2008
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Episode 60 – December 31, 2008 & January 3, 2009
Posted on December 31, 2008 | 9 CommentsFor our New Year’s show, we tried something a little different. Producer Jane Farrow put together a special episode chock-full of fresh ideas to inspire your own thinking in 2009.... -
Episode 59 – December 24 & 27, 2008
Posted on December 24, 2008 | 11 CommentsThis week on Spark, a feature interview with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Clay and Nora talk about the pros and cons... -
Full interview: Ethan Zuckerman on Xenophiles and Cultural Bridge Figures
Posted on December 23, 2008 | 11 Comments“The Internet Age should be a golden age for bridge figures and for xenophiles.” That’s what Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society wrote in... -
Episode 58 – December 17 & 20, 2008
Posted on December 16, 2008 | 5 CommentsOn this episode of Spark: Memory, Wikipedia,and Sewing 2.0 Angela Troyer explains why ballroom dancing can help improve your memory (full interview) Gary Small says you can teach an old... -
TweetmasFuture
Posted on December 16, 2008 | No CommentsLast year, Nora interviewed Jay Baydala about ChristmasFuture, a charity that wants to redirect holiday spending toward the eradication of extreme poverty. Starting today and running through December 24, ChristmasFuture...