Episode 53 - Who Responded to COVID Best?
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We will review the national government responses to coronavirus by these countries:
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Emergency Episode - Coronavirus Outbreak
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Surprise! I did not expect to be doing anymore podcasts. But the recent outbreak of coronavirus known as COVID-19 demanded an explanation. We are seeing a global pandemic on a colossal scale and taking precautions that few people remember before in their lifetimes. In this episode we will explore how we got here, what is going on now and what the future could possible hold. I guarantee you, that this is a topic you will never forget.
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Episode 51 - A Podcast Announcement
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A not so brief announcement about future podcast episodes.
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Episode 50 - The Boxing Day Tsunami and Earthquake
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On December 26, 2004, an earthquake measuring approximately 9.1 struck just off Sumatra. The shaking lasted between 8 and 10 minutes, displaced hundreds of billions of gallons of seawater. The death toll was enormous, at 280,000 people. Fatalities took place in 14 countries when oceans waves pushed inland, crushing and flooding everything in its path. The tsunami also caught by surprise thousands of western tourists who had flocked to those coasts to enjoy their beautiful beaches.
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Episode 49 - The Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle Disasters
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NASA suffered 2 space shuttle disasters: Challenger and Columbia. In both cases all seven crew members died. In both cases the true source of the problem was organizational not mechanical. The failure of parts without negative consequences was so common in the space shuttle program, there was a name for it, "normalization of deviance."
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Episode 48 - The Killing Fields of Cambodia
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In 1975, the Communist Party Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia, and began a series of measures to eliminate their perceived internal opponents and to transform their country into an agrarian-based, communist society. Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge, tried to cleanse Cambodian society along racial, social, religious and political lines. They would eventually be overthrown by a foreign army, but only after they had killed 1.5 to 3 million people.
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Episode 47 - The Armenian Genocide
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As the Ottoman Empire went into decline in the early 20th century relations between Muslim Turks and Christian Armenians deteriorated. Demands for reform were met with violence. After the Ottomans entered into World War I the battlefield losses mounted and blame was focused on the Armenians marking the beginning of a genocide that would ultimately take 800,000 to 1.5 million lives.
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Episode 46 - The Donner Party Tragedy
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In 1846, a wagon train left Illinois for California. They would need to make it past the mountains by early October. Instead, they were delayed by death, injuries, conflicts, and an ill-advised short cut. They arrived at the Sierra just as the season's first blizzard blew in. Cut off by massive snow drifts the members of the Donner Party could only look at each other for food.
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Episode 45a - Charmed Times
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An announcement of the next five episode topics and an analysis of the current state of the world.
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Episode 45 - Hurricane Katrina
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On August 29, 2005, Louisiana and Mississippi were hit by the full force of Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm that had been a Category 5. Close to 2,000 people died including residents trapped in their attics and patients in hospitals. Thousands of people were left trapped on their roofs with no food or drinkable water, while tens of thousands crowded into the Superdome and Convention Center, where they suffered for days.
info_outlineOn August 21, 1986, a giant cloud of carbon dioxide rose from Lake Nyos in Cameroon, Africa. As the cloud filtered down it displaced all of the air in its wake. Sixteen miles away it settled into three villages killing some 1,700 people. Lake Nyos was the first known large-scale asphyxiation caused by a natural event.