WHO Radio Show Notes - 2009
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2009
January 3, 2009
(top technology breakthroughs in 2008...saving old family movies to DVD...MP3s and podcasts)
January 4, 2009
(incentive deals and your bottom line...long-term planning...problems we should get to fixing)
January 10, 2009
(no big news from MacWorld...Windows 7 on the way...radio on your iPhone)
January 11, 2009
(incremental steps towards better living...quarter-millennium businesses...the price of a kidney)
January 17, 2009
(Obama's Twitter page...Windows 7...a ban on plasma televisions)
January 18, 2009
(getting a lid on spending...sending more Iowans to school...what the NYC plane crash says about progress)
January 24, 2009
(the coming of 3D-TV...the President keeps his BlackBerry...the Vatican appears on YouTube)
January 25, 2009
(why Chicago should try not to get the Olympics...the flying car may soon be real...making real investments for the future)
January 31, 2009
(knowing which language you're using...more online education is needed...how to use antivirus software)
February 1, 2009
(Keynes vs. the free market...turning down a dictatorship deal...the Cedar Rapids Gazette boldly goes somewhere)
February 8, 2009
(vertical farms...Internet access around the world...Texas at 50 [million])
February 15, 2009
(records on X-ray films...size of the stimulus...the "somebody do something" fallacy)
February 21, 2009
(universal cell-phone charger...Iowa's almost-record-height towers...the space elevator)
February 22, 2009 (notes missing)
March 1, 2009 (notes missing)
March 8, 2009
March 14, 2009
(regulating flash mobs...Wozniak dances with the stars...choosing the right baby name)
March 15, 2009
(development and preservation of institutions...the national credit limit...trade wars)
March 21, 2009
(closed captioning in theaters...speeding up your computer...bacteria in space)
March 22, 2009
(podcasts only - show pre-empted by basketball)
March 28, 2009
(Internet Explorer 8 and standards compliance...thermal imaging of your home...universal broadband by mobile phone)
March 29, 2009
(the three-legged stool of American debt...breaking monopolies...the President fires the president of GM)
April 5, 2009
(taxes on top of taxes...how Communism might make Google better...teaching about technology in the classroom)
April 12, 2009
April 19, 2009
April 26, 2009
May 3, 2009
May 10, 2009
May 17, 2009
May 24, 2009
May 31, 2009
(the judgment economy)
June 6, 2009
(security in the air at the cost of privacy...saving digital and non-digital photos...innovation without domination)
June 7, 2009
(the government takeover of GM...eroding trust in the economy...debts we can't pay down)
June 14, 2009 (notes missing)
June 21, 2009
June 26, 2009
(cap and trade...innovation prizes...too much celebrity worship)
June 27, 2009
(opinion exhaustion...upgrading Windows...Steve Jobs and his liver transplant)
June 28, 2009
(brand loyalty over the long term...institutional memory and baseball...China's Great Firewall)
July 5, 2009
(adding new states to the USA...paying for our entitlement programs...how a two-party system always works)
July 11, 2009
(the Air France black box...cloud computing...the Google operating system)
July 12, 2009
(eating well at the State Fair...reforming health care...health care investment trusts)
July 18, 2009
("One Week in June"...tethering cell phones...the future of skyscrapers)
July 19, 2009
(reforming health care)
July 25, 2009
(Redbox for road trips...Google Voice...going back to the Moon)
July 26, 2009
(reforming health care - part 2)
August 1, 2009
(fixing India's problems with technology...General Fusion...imperfect searches)
August 2, 2009
(cash for clunkers...debt...iPhones versus refrigerators)
August 9, 2009 (notes missing)
August 16, 2009 (notes missing)
August 23, 2009
(great oratory comes from distilling great ideas down to simple messages, not starting from the distillation)
August 29, 2009
(netbook hacking meets social engineering...copying the crooks to stay safe...the Zune player gets help)
August 30, 2009
(why Japan's election matters to us...fraudulent conveyance...stock-charting hocus-pocus returns)
September 6, 2009
(neuroscience and music...online identity...downloading the brain)
September 13, 2009
(archiving Congressional websites...saving institutional memory...fixing airport security)
September 20, 2009
(three cheers for the red marks on school papers...put more effort into investing than into buying a TV)
September 27, 2009
(it's better to know a reporter's bias than to keep it buried)
October 4, 2009 (notes missing)
October 11, 2009 (notes missing)
October 18, 2009
(it's not hard to make things work better, so we should try harder...a hot-air balloon stunt rewards the wrong people...fix copyright)
October 25, 2009
(across-the-board spending cuts aren't very efficient...spending "multipliers" are faulty)
November 1, 2009
(the Cubs are out to win a World Series...the White House didn't "save" a lot of jobs...take H1N1 seriously)
November 8, 2009
(public options for insurance may crowd out private options...that which cannot go on forever must stop)
November 14, 2009
(Google Alerts can help watch your reputation)
November 15, 2009
(don't trust the government to "create jobs"...regulating alcoholic beverages with caffeine)
November 22, 2009
(velvet suits and Velvet Revolutions..."recovery" spending isn't transparent...too much debt)
November 29, 2009
(falling computer prices...tax breaks that don't work...iPhones in an emergency)
December 6, 2009
(halfway between 1990 and 2030...Google officially gets into the energy business...General Motors boots its CEO)
December 13, 2009 (notes missing)
December 20, 2009
(honesty shouldn't be a news event...how much we owe...replacing the Metrodome)
December 27, 2009
(Future Scale update...really bad advice from the financial news media...risk-free investing)