John Naughton discusses his new book, the latest on RIM and Kodak’s troubles as well as the SOPA protests. Plus, Charles Arthur visits Finland’s tech hub and brings back lights to put into your ears…
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What You Really Need To Know About The Internet - Tech Weekly podcast
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Mondo Diablo Episode 334: A Christmas History Timeline
This week I read a list of solstice and Christmas events in history, starting with the Newgrange around 2500 BCE: this is apparently not that far from Noah’s Flood, which was in 2304 BC, according to Ken Ham. Considering Stonehenge was supposed to have started around 2800 BCE and added to for another thousand years is quite curious indeed. Seems that Noah’s immediate family must have made their way there quickly and found it intact, so they immediately adopted or redesigned Druidic customs. Meanwhile, a couple more of the Noah family hurried to assume the Xia dynasty in China. They must have gotten to work on making babies rather quickly! It’s a good thing they brought the pandas with them.
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Mondo Diablo Episode 333: The Large Population of Christmas
This week Alison lectures some more on the origins of Santa. Who knew Santa was a Yeti? Looks like "Bob" really is Santa Claus’ son.
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Mondo Diablo Episode 332: A Reasonable Season
Thrill as Hellbound Alleee lectures on the secular and pagan origins of Christmas, because she’s going to keep doing it until everyone knows it and thinks they thought of it.
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Mondo Diablo Episode 331: Santa is a Wildman
Welcome to an all-new Secular Solstice Season 2011! This year has come to a great start, since I did not have to work on Black Friday! How much better could it be? The clips for this show come from an old article in LA weekly by Jeffrey Vallance. It’s lauded by cryptozoologists for some reason, but I think it’s a great article for fans of the pagan origins of Christmas. You can read the article here: http://www.laweekly.com/2002-12-26/news/santa-is-a-wildman/
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RN Rear Vision - 6 July 2011 - The True Finns: populist politics and Euroscepticism in Finland
In April this year Finland went to the polls — and the right wing populist party, the True Finns, gained almost 20 per cent of the vote. This upset almost 30 years of consensus politics, and shows an upsurge in anti-European Union, anti-immigration, socially conservative values.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/rearvision/stories/2011/3258960.htm
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Mondo Diablo Episode 285: The Boar’s Head
This week, the BBC shares information about Boar’s Heads and Yule logs, which is all incredibly interesting. But I would like to share some information about the Stallo, the Metal Man, who is another in my growing list of Annual Gift-Giving Men other than Saint Nicholas.
You can read the original article here.
http://www.laweekly.com/2002-12-26/news/santa-is-a-wildman/
And yes, it was a story in the Fortean Times.
The Saami await a Yuletide visit from a giant, horned and hairy wildman named Stallo. In Lappish, stallo means "metal man." Sometimes Stallo is dressed in stylish, all-black clothes like an MIB (man in black) or in a metallic suit (as conspiracy theorists conjecture, a robot or ancient astronaut in a space suit). Most likely the metal suit was the chain-mail armor of the berserker Vikings. The amoral Stallo delights in macabre acts of genital mutilation of his innocent victims. (Stallo pokes his staff up the skirts of young girls.) On Christmas Eve, Stallo rides around in his sleigh looking for something to drink. Traditionally, the Saami drive a stake into the ground near a fresh-water supply so Stallo can tie up his sled while having a refreshing gulp of water. If Stallo cannot find anything to drink, he will bash in a child’s skull, sucking out the brains and blood to satiate his thirst. The most dangerous night for Lapp children is Christmas Eve, when Stallo lurks about looking for naughty victims to cram into his sack.
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‘Into Eternity’ Examines Nuclear Waste Dilemma
Nevada’s Yucca Mountain is no longer an option for long-term storage of nuclear waste. But construction of a similar project is under way in Finland. In his film Into Eternity, director Michael Madsen questions the feasibility of safely storing waste for hundreds of thousands of years.
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Tech Podcast 263: Delete, an interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger | Europe | PRI’s The World