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Conservators scan Ukraine’s wooden churches to help preserve them
2025/01/09
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Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, people have been evacuating and safeguarding Ukrainian works of art and museum pieces. Now, a team of conservators and students are also creating permanent, 3D records of buildings and objects that can’t be moved in case they are damaged or destroyed.
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Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines
2024/12/19
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Back in February, Dylan went to the Philippines for what he thought would be a great Chinese Lunar New Year vacation. Then he found himself held hostage in a gang-run scamming compound. Here's one man’s story about getting out and what the Philippines is doing to shut these operations down.
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Argentina tries to fight the theft of its precious meteorites
2024/11/08
Northern Argentina’s Campo del Cielo is where the world's largest mass of meteorites has been found. And it has also been plagued by theft for years, something Argentina is trying to fight.
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‘We have to care for every soldier, for every civilian’: Ukraine faces major mental health challenges as a result of war trauma
2024/10/29
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After nearly 1,000 days, Russia's war against Ukraine is causing mental health issues for soldiers and civilians, including anxiety, panic attacks and PTSD. Ukraine’s Health Ministry estimates that 15 million people will need psychological support in the future.
The post ‘We have to care for every soldier, for every civilian’: Ukraine faces major mental health challenges as a result of war trauma appeared first on The World from PRX .
Why a megacity in India is reviving the humble water well
2024/10/03
In the Indian tech hub of Bengaluru, water has become a precious commodity. One initiative leverages an age-old, well-digging technique to help residents tap into a forgotten source.
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Seafood cultivated in a lab could help mitigate the next pandemic
2024/08/08
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An Israeli food tech startup, Forsea, is working with Japanese partners to develop artificially grown eel cells, intended to yield edible unagi eventually. Experts hope mass-produced cultivated meat and seafood can help prevent the next pandemic. Host Marco Werman reports.
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New project seeks to solve housing crisis using mushroom byproduct and troublesome weed
2024/07/22
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In Namibia, MycoHAB is hoping to solve two issues for the price of one: make use of a pesky plant known as the encroacher bush and deal with the country's housing crisis. By harvesting the water-intensive weeds that encroach on farmland and combining them with a mushroom byproduct known as mycelium, MycoHAB founder and architect Chris Maurer creates bricks to build homes. The World's Carolyn Beeler spoke to Maurer to learn more.
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Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth
2024/07/10
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An anonymous group of researchers known as Antibot4Navalny are striking a blow against Russian disinformation campaigns by finding and identifying them on Twitter, now known as X. And, as Dina Temple-Raston from the "Click Here" podcast reports, publicizing these Kremlin-backed operations has allowed the group to punch way above its weight.
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This club in the Netherlands offers a much-needed break from technology
2024/06/13
Most people are at least a little addicted to their phones. In the Netherlands, three young Dutchmen came up with an idea to counteract that. It’s called the Offline Club, where attendees pay for the opportunity to spend an evening phone-free.
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Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s internet
2024/06/11
A US-based cyber security expert gets hacked by North Korea. He hacks back. Takes out the entire country's limited internet for nine days. We get the story from Dina Temple-Raston, of the podcast Click Here.
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