Episode 169: Slaughter in Central African Republic, Climate Targets Winter Sport, Microchip Me and more
Slaughter in the Streets
"I have never really seen as much hatred... Here in Central African Republic, it's neighbour against neighbour... and now they're killing each other. They're going from house to house...
We went to the morgue one day. There were 28 bodies lying there and the records in the morgue read like Dante's Inferno. Stabbed. Throat slit. Burnt. Mutilated."
-Marcus Bleasdale, National Geographic photojournalist
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Implant Your Info
"More and more we rely on machines to grant us access in everything we do in life. Whether it's logging into your email or getting on the metro or getting into your house or accessing your bank. There are machines who are gatekeepers for that kind of service. And if they can recognize you using this kind of microchip then obviously that's a big advantage."
-Frank Swain, science writer, considers his very own microchip implant
Winter Goes AWOL
"Skiers have described (Sochi's snow) as oatmeal, others would call it a white slushie ... and that's what we're left with for elite competitions, which is not what we want for athletic performance or the fairness of the competitions."
-Daniel Scott, professor of global change and tourism at the University of Waterloo
Undercover Expose of Performance Drugs
"I just want to show the audience that all the doping control propaganda from the International Olympic Committee, from the World Anti-Doping Agency, is maybe a good try, a good effort to fight against doping. But the reality behind the stage is really worse."
--Hajo Seppelt, sports journalist with the German TV network A-R-D
Should I Read It?
"It is noir - it is about a bad-slash-maybe-not-so-bad guy doing really quite violent things. But it's also really about language. It's almost all written in dialogue - it really is a high velocity, fast read ... it's more sci-fi, noir, cyberpunk."
-Becky Toyne, books columnist on Day 6 reviews Shovel Ready, a novel by Adam Sternberg
Ron James on Winter Sports
"For viewers like me, the Olympics are a confusing two week learning curve about as steep as the half-pipe itself! Don't get me wrong, I love watching the games but occasionally, I'm just not sure what's going on. Truth is, I spend more time trying to figure out the judging, than how a free style snow-boarder, can twist themselves into a pretzel 30 feet in the air, without throwing hurlin' in their helmet."
-The Ron James Show returns to CBC on Monday February 24 at 9:30 p.m
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