People have long underestimated goldfish. Their mental capacities and memories are assumed to be deficient. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Adelaide Sibeaux, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Oxford, about what goldfish are actually able to recall.
Mexico has severed ties and recalled its ambassador to Ecuador following that country’s invasion of the Mexican embassy in Quito. The attack on the embassy resulted in the arrest of the Ecuador’s former vice president, Jorge Glas. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Sebastian Hurtado, a political risk analyst, about how the move to detain the […]
South Carolina beat Iowa by 11 points Sunday night to claim the NCAA March Madness Championship title. Senior center Kamilla Cardoso led the team to victory with a career-high 17 rebounds. She was born in Brazil and moved to the United States at 14 years old to pursue basketball. It's likely she's headed to the WNBA. Host Carolyn Beeler has more.
Linux, the operating system for a vast number of computers, internet servers, and other devices all over the world, had a secret backdoor built into it. Andres Freund, a Microsoft programmer, found it and alerted the world to the insidious vulnerability. The World's Carolyn Beeler talks with Andy Greenberg, a senior writer at Wired, about the vulnerability, how Freund found
Sunday marks 30 years since genocide engulfed the central African nation of Rwanda. That’s when Hutu extremists began the systematic slaughter of 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis. The international community largely ignored the Rwandan genocide, and considered it an “internal conflict.” To find out why, The World’s host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Philip Gourevitch, author
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler about his first stop after having walked through the Middle East. On Cyprus, he found beaches with baking European tourists, a busy port city and a checkerboard of olive groves and yellow hay fields. But he also found the vestigial border line that divides the island's Greek and Turkish communities, and walked
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan Wednesday morning, with the worst damage located in the east coast city of Hualien. Early reports say that nine people have died, with nearly a thousand injured. With many still trapped, The World's Asia correspondent Patrick Winn tells host Carolyn Beeler that the death toll is expected to rise.
Legal issues have been raised by the March 26 collision of a Singapore-owned ship into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. Because the accident took place on the water, international maritime law may pertain to the rights of the crew and the owners of the container ship M/V Dali. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Jason Chuah, professor of commercial and maritime law at
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Botswana's tongue-in-cheek threat to send 20,000 elephants to Germany was a response to the German government for seeking a ban on the import of hunting trophies. But it brings up something important: Elephants are tricky neighbors and Botswana is home to 130,000 of them, the largest elephant population in Africa. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Amy Dickman, a professor of