Worldwide, more than a billion people live in slums. As many as one million of them in the Kenyan slum of Kibera. Slum Survivors tells the stories of a few of them and charts their remarkable courage in the face of extreme poverty.

UNICEF correspondent Amy Bennett reports on the award winners and nominees from UNICEF-supported workshops at the Stranger Festival in Amsterdam.

UNICEF correspondent Elizabeth Kiem reports on UNICEF-supported 'recreation days' restoring childhood to young people in Gaza.

At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and stories collected from the Internet, including his amazing "We Feel Fine."

By now we all know about the couple of days it took for the .Mac to MobileMe transition to happen. I didn t really complain about it - during the whole time, email was working fine (from a mail client), and sync was working most of the time. It was just the new web apps that took a while to come up. More recently, on Friday, there was a complete mail outage for 1% of MobileMe users, and said outage has still not been fixed (as of Wednesday mid-morning). I m in that 1%. I m not really too upset for myself; I m watching this more from an academic perspective. I use the MobileMe sync a lot between two Macs and an iPhone, and I do use the email, but not often. The fact that mail is down doesn t dramatically affect my life at the moment. And in general, I ll be the first to say I really like MobileMe and what they re doing with it. But after the email being down for 5 days so far, the techie in me can t help but wonder what is wrong. Apple put up a KB article about it, saying: On Friday, July 18, 2008 (2008-07-18) we experienced a serious issue with one of our MobileMe mail servers. This issue is currently affecting approximately 1% of MobileMe members. Affected members are unable to send or receive email at www.me.com or access email using any email client software such as Mail on a Mac or Microsoft Outlook on a PC. Let s look at what could perhaps cause something like this: 1. Complete server failure. Well, in 5 days, you could for sure have another server in there. Actually in more like a couple of hours, assuming their service contract with Sun (they appear to be using Sun s mail servers) is up to date. 2. Disk failure. Perhaps the entire disk array that this 1% of mailboxes is stored on melted down. Even if this was true, you could almost certainly restore from backups in hours, or worst case days. 3. Centralized disk failure. If they re using large storage arrays, it s possible there was a systemic failure and they can t get it back online. However, they d probably have a much bigger problem than a 1% outage if this was the case. 4. Multiple storage failures. If multiple drives all failed at one time, causing an array to come down, and there was no usable backup, then they might send the failed drives out for data recovery - eek. But still - I would think this could be completed in a day. I ve never done it, though, so perhaps this takes a while. 5. Data corruption. If something went terribly wrong, and the server was writing corrupted data, it could conceivably destroy a lot of data before your monitoring knew something was wrong. Hmm. Restoring from backup is the obvious thing to do, although you might have incremental data loss from the window since the last backup (assuming transaction logs corrupt also). Like I said, I like MobileMe, although it s certainly taking a PR beating right now. But I m definitely curious what s going on, and what could possibly take 5+ days to recover from. Any ideas?

Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankind -- and suggests a stunning new vision of our competing ancestors.

UNICEF correspondent Stephanie Wang-Breal reports on the school re-openings in Myanmar's cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta region.

In this short, image-packed talk, Marisa Fick-Jordan talks about how a village of traditional Zulu wire weavers built a worldwide market for their dazzling work.

Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?

Iraq, Baghdad / Taji Another neighborhood in the north of Baghdad named Taji is suffering from weak security since the beginning of 2004. Taji was a very dangerous area and overrun by militias. Further, one of the largest joint US/Iraqi military bases in Iraq is in Taji. Because of this there have been many attacks on the convoys coming in and out, attacks on the trucks and drivers delivering supplies to the Taji base. Lots of raids and firefights were happening in Taji in order to control the security situation. Until late 2007, if you will ask a cab driver to take you to Taji they would refuse because it's too dangerous for them. If they were Shi'a they may reasonably be afraid of being kidnapped by one of the Sunni militias and found dead a few days later. The Iraqi Ministry of I established more than 100 police checkpoints in the area of Taji along with checkpoints from the Iraqi National Guard in order to control militias and unknown groups. Another well known problem in the area of Taji were the gangs. It is very common in Iraq that if you are driving a modern car and you are driving in a dangerous area such as that around Taji, there is a high possibility that you will return home on foot, if you were lucky and not killed. Tribes in Taji such as Al-Tammimi decided to fight Al-Qa'eda and all groups that were related to them. Sheikh Nadeem Hatem Sultan Al-Tammimi, the head of Al-Tammimi tribe in Taji, asked all the sons of the Al-Tammimi tribe to fight Al-Qaeda and to join Al-Sahwa Council in order to restore security in the area. One of the first things this tribe did was to establish checkpoints to search the cars coming in and out of the area around Taji. These new checkpoints were established because there were doubts about the checkpoints belonging to the Iraqi MOI. There were many rumors about the MOI checkpoints not interfering with the work of Al-Qa'eda or stopping cars that were laden with guns or explosives. Shops and some schools were closed due to the lack of security, students were killed as well as headmasters and teachers. Many families living there decided to stop sending their children to school in Taji in order to keep them alive. Families became especially worried after 50 students were killed on a road near Taji that lead to the area around the Taji military base. Even for students coming from colleges like Baghdad University or others used to be stopped at fake checkpoints and asked for their identity to know if they were Sunni or Shi'a. If they were found to be Shi'a they might be taken to an unknown area and killed the next day, something that happened many times frome 2006 to 2007. *** If you appreciate the insightful content provided by Alive in Baghdad, which you won t find anywhere else, please consider becoming a paying subscriber, or making a donation to Alive in Baghdad. You can also purchase Alive in Baghdad T-shirts and DVDs to spread the word!

UNICEF correspondent Quinn Lundberg reports on the healing capabilities of integrating movement and dance into treatment for children affected by war or natural disasters.

Over much beer and boredom, some friends of mine came up with moto polo. It is basically similar to Polo on horseback, only on the back of motorcycle taxis. The rest is documented in this video...

In this week's Wired Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Jose Fermoso, talk about atomic watches, and no, these have nothing to do with bombs. They're especially interested in the automatic synchronization with atomic clocks around the world, as well as the other cool, high-tech features like shock resistance, solar re-charging, and altimeters. In addition, they discuss the latest contender in the mini-notebook royal rumble, the HP 2133 Mini Notebook. They decide that along with its ample hard drive and sleek appearance, the best thing about it is its comfortable, full-sized keyboard. Finally, they'll quickly go over the iPhone 3G's early launch-week problems, including a few buggy apps. Thanks for listening to the weekly podcast. If you'd like to subscribe to the feed, point your feed reader or podcast downloader to the Gadget Lab podcast RSS feed. The audio player widget above requires Quicktime (you can download it at Apple's page here). If you prefer, you can also download the MP3 file for this episode with this link: Gadget Lab Podcast #38 MP3. Check out the previous thirty-seven Gadget Lab podcasts after the jump. Note: The HP 2133 Mini includes a 1.2-GHz Via processor, instead of the Atom processor mentioned in the podcast.The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #37: iPhone 3G Launch, GammaTech Durabook, and the Openmoko Neo Freerunner The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #36: Wired's Summer Test, JVC Everio Camcorder, and Asus' U2E Ultralight The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #35: 3D Holograms, The Image Fulgurator, and New Phone Reviews The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #34: Samsung Instinct, Toshiba's Portege R500, and the Nikon D60 DSLR Gadget Lab Podcast #33: iPhone 3G, POV Racing Toy Cars, and the Polaroid Pogo Printer The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #32: Mini-notebook Smackdown, Olympic Speedsuits, and the Eye-Fi Catches a Thief The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #31: Dell's Mini Laptop, Nokia N96, and Fake GPS Art The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #30: The OLPC 2.0, iPhone 2.0, and Roku Netflix Player The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #29: The Lowdown on the iPhone 2.0, The Flip 2 Camera Gets Tested, and The Week's Best Reviews The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #28: Maker Faire, Samsung Glyde and Olympus E-420 The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #27: Psystar, T-Mobile 3-G, and AT&T TV The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #26: The Optimus Maximus Keyboard is Released, Asus Ships a Boosted Eee PC, and The Science of Walking Barefoot The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #25: The Latest on the Psystar Apple 'Hackintosh' Story, Hybrid Cameras, and Rumors of a 24-megapixel Nikon! The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #24: Bold Predictions for the 3G iPhone, the Week's Top Reviews, and Crazy Paintball Tanks The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #23: The 2008 CTIA Conference, Product Naming Trends, and Beckham's Tacky Gadget The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #22: Motorola's Split, The Sony Crapware Saga, and More The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #21: The Wireless Spectrum Auction, HTC's Googlephone, and Evil Keyboards The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #20: Exploding Batteries, Lost Gadgets, and the Week's Best Reviews (For links to podcasts episodes #1-19, hit the link for #20, above.)

It seems lot of folks are having problems getting Exchange push email working reliably with the new iPhone 2.0 software. For me, it worked flawlessly when I was outside of the office, but when I was in the office and connected to our corporate LAN via wi-fi, it was unreliable at best. If I instead connected to another wi-fi network (like the guest network from the folks two floors below us), everything worked fine. There is an Apple KB article talking about this: When roaming between home and office networks with Wi-Fi enabled, push may stop working if your company s Exchange ActiveSync server has a different IP address for intranet and Internet clients. Make sure the DNS for your network returns a single, externally-routable address to the Exchange ActiveSync server for both intranet and Internet clients. This is required so the device can use the same IP address for communicating with the server when both types of connections are active. A workaround to avoid this issue is to disable Wi-Fi on the iPhone. Yep, that sounded like the problem. Our internal and external DNS for our corporate mail server is different, just as the article surmised. But it turns out in our case, it was non-trivial to change them to be the same thing. But it turns out there is a workaround that works for me. If you go into Settings / Wi-Fi, find your wi-fi network, and click the blue button next to it, you ll see something like the following: And here s the tricky part. Tap on the DNS setting, and edit it. In my case, rather than using the internal DHCP-assigned DNS servers, I typed in two external DNS servers. These new servers will override whatever is returned from DHCP, and when asked for the IP of our mail server, they will return the externally-facing IP, since that s all they know about. And that was it! The push email is now working 100% reliably. A little too reliably, actually. :-) Note - I obviously no longer have internal DNS resolution within my corporate LAN, but that s not a problem for me. Your mileage may vary. Note 2 - this also assumes your external mail server IP is accessible from your LAN. This may or may not be the case, depending on how your firewalls and the rest of your network are configured.

First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.

Last time, we looked at how clippings work in NewsGator Enterprise Server.  At the end of the video, I mentioned that there are other ways to share clippings with other folks I was referring to a feature called group clippings. Group clippings are basically clippings that are shared among all the members of a group.  That group might be an Active Directory (or LDAP) group, or it might be an ad-hoc group defined in NGES.  The clippings for that group are, by default, private to that group - so you can have a confidential conversation among the members. View QuickTime video YouTube version: And as always, you can try all this out for yourself by downloading the free 20-user version of NewsGator Enterprise Server.

Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible.

UNICEF Chief of Water and Environmental Sanitation Clarissa Brocklehurst discusses the latest UNICEF-WHO Joint Monitoring Programme report on water supply and sanitation.

UNICEF correspondent Guy Degen reports on the water supply in the Maradi region of Niger.

Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to improve lives and change the world -- but says the end of evil, suffering and death will come only after the world accepts Christ. A legendary talk from TED's archives.

Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped.

Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like -- and how we might find it.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ When members of the National Evangelical Baptist Church in Baghdad celebrated Christmas at the end of 2007, they were also closing their fourth year of existence in Iraq. While many news stories today focus on the dissolution of Iraq s 2000-year old Christian communities, today there are few articles examining the activities of evangelicals.A recent report again denominated the many dangers facing Iraq s Christians, death, kidnapping, extortion, and torture among them. However, the nearly complete absence of mention of Christians other than Iraq s traditional Chaldean, Assyrian, and Syriac sects is telling. Although it is clear to any observer that these communities are the largest and thus those most at risk, it is also clear that there continues to be underlying conflict between Iraq s traditional Christians and newcomers, evangelical or otherwise.One report gave a 100% breakdown of Iraq s Christians that included only the three main groups in its numbers: Of the remaining 800,000 Christians, 65 percent are Chaldeans, 25 percent Syriacs, and 10 percent Assyrians. Statements such as this, and the vast disparities in total population of Iraqi Christians quoted by the many reports and articles about the dangers they face further muddy a complicated situation. The estimates of Christians remaining in Iraq since the American invasion range from 800,000 to less than 300,000. Even more dramatic, numbers of Christians living in Iraq prior to 2003 range from 800,000 to 1.35 million or slightly more.Although there have been many articles in 2008 examining the ongoing struggles of Iraq s Christian minority, they focus almost entirely on the largest portions of the minority, Assyrians and Chaldeans, as well as examining almost exclusively their future in Iraq s north and the potential for a protected autonomous area for Iraq s historic Christians. It appears that Evangelicals and other newcomers have not been investigated in depth since early in the war, between 2003 and 2005. This hole in reporting on Iraq s Christians is made even more dramatic given the veracity, if infrequence, of reporting on the repression of Iraq s larger Christian communities.Alive in Baghdad s depiction of Iraqi Evangelical Baptists celebrating Christmas mass and discussing their hopes and difficulties does not aim to provide a wide depiction of Christian life in Baghdad or Iraq, but will hopefully provide further insight into one of Iraq s newest Christian minorities.

One of the first Mac apps I bought was Delicious Library. Not that I desperately needed it, but it was just too darn pretty not to buy, especially for a new Mac owner to use to show his friends. And when version 2 came out, I was super excited about being able to publish my library on the web. Here s my use case. I travel a lot, and I like to read books on the plane, rather than do my usual work somehow I feel more relaxed when I arrive to where I m going. Anyway, so I ll be in the book store in the airport, and I ll see an interesting book. But if it s not a new release, then I often can t remember whether I ve read it before; I know I like the author, and I know I ve read a lot of his work, but not positive about this particular book. So DL2 and the iPhone to the rescue, right? Pull up my library, do a quick search, and I d be all set. But herein lies the problem. The out-of-the-box templates can be seen on Adam Betts blog. While pretty, here are the issues with the iPhone templates, at least for my particular use case: 1. There are only 12 books per page. Yikes - that means I have 20-some pages, and I m not sure which page I need to go to. Or with the other template, all the books are on one page - which is nice, but leads to problem #2. 2. See all those pictures of the book covers? Those are coming to about 90KB each. Each! That means a page of 12 books is over half a meg. That s a lot on a phone. 3. I don t need the book descriptions and links to Amazon in there either. Those are pretty big also, although down in the noise compared to the image sizes. What I really wanted was one page with all my books, or at least 100 or so of them, and have the page be small enough that I could load it over EDGE without having to sit down. I d like search features too, and I d like to be able to sort by author s last name (so Tom Clancy would be before Brad Meltzer), but hey, there are bigger problems to worry about. While I was browsing around, trying to figure out a way around this problem, I saw Mark Burgess site, and he had some sample templates. While his template wasn t what I wanted, it showed me how to make one. So I worked on it for a bit, basically just modifying the one that ships with DL2, and this is what I ended up with: Over 200 books on one page, and it s coming in at just over 200KB including the images on the page. Now that I can live with! As to how to install it it s not super easy. Here s what you need to do: 1. Install Mark Burgess s HTML template, and install it per his instructions (in the readme file). 2. Download my changes, and replace the files in the iphone directory in Mark s template with the contents of this zip file. No warranty, of course this is at the it seems to work for me stage. :-) If there is some documentation somewhere about how to make DL2 templates and get them installed without resorting to such hackery, I d love to know about it, and then I can make this into a real template. Anyway - hope this is helpful for someone!

In this week's Wired Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Jose Fermoso talk about the iPhone launch – what else? In particular, they focus on the global scale of the event, Apple fans that will be lining up all the way in New Zealand, and why the breakthrough features of the gadget somehow live up to the excessive hype. In addition, they review the GammaTech Durabook D15RS Rugged Notebook, which rough-testing veteran Terrence Russell put through the wringer (Well, not literally. Not yet at least.) Finally, they will talk about the best new gadget for the hungry app developer, the Openmoko Neo Freerunner. Despite the fact that it's a very beta product (with crazy booting bugs), the phone's potential seems fairly bright. Thanks for listening to the weekly podcast. If you'd like to subscribe to the feed, point your feed reader or podcast downloader to the Gadget Lab podcast RSS feed. The audio player widget above requires Quicktime (you can download it at Apple's page here). If you prefer, you can also download the MP3 file for this episode with this link: Gadget Lab Podcast #37 MP3. Check out the previous thirty-six Gadget Lab podcasts after the jump.The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #36: Wired's Summer Test, JVC Everio Camcorder, and Asus' U2E Ultralight The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #35: 3D Holograms, The Image Fulgurator, and New Phone Reviews The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #34: Samsung Instinct, Toshiba's Portege R500, and the Nikon D60 DSLR Gadget Lab Podcast #33: iPhone 3G, POV Racing Toy Cars, and the Polaroid Pogo Printer The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #32: Mini-notebook Smackdown, Olympic Speedsuits, and the Eye-Fi Catches a Thief The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #31: Dell's Mini Laptop, Nokia N96, and Fake GPS Art The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #30: The OLPC 2.0, iPhone 2.0, and Roku Netflix Player The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #29: The Lowdown on the iPhone 2.0, The Flip 2 Camera Gets Tested, and The Week's Best Reviews The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #28: Maker Faire, Samsung Glyde and Olympus E-420 The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #27: Psystar, T-Mobile 3-G, and AT&T TV The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #26: The Optimus Maximus Keyboard is Released, Asus Ships a Boosted Eee PC, and The Science of Walking Barefoot The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #25: The Latest on the Psystar Apple 'Hackintosh' Story, Hybrid Cameras, and Rumors of a 24-megapixel Nikon! The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #24: Bold Predictions for the 3G iPhone, the Week's Top Reviews, and Crazy Paintball Tanks The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #23: The 2008 CTIA Conference, Product Naming Trends, and Beckham's Tacky Gadget The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #22: Motorola's Split, The Sony Crapware Saga, and More The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #21: The Wireless Spectrum Auction, HTC's Googlephone, and Evil Keyboards The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #20: Exploding Batteries, Lost Gadgets, and the Week's Best Reviews (For links to podcasts episodes #1-19, hit the link for #20, above.)

The wonderful Nellie McKay sings "Feminists (Don't Have a Sense of Humor)" and "If I Had You" from her sparkling set at TED2008.

UNICEF Correspondent Elizabeth Kiem reports on a young man's athletic endeavours to help those in need.

The development of NetNewsWire for iPhone just might be the worst-kept secret in NewsGator s history. But hey - that s ok, especially since today is launch day! NetNewsWire for iPhone uses the NewsGator Online sync platform, so you can use NetNewsWire on your Mac, FeedDemon on Windows, NewsGator Online on the web, or any of our other applications, and they will all sync together. I ve talked about this a lot in the past but this is really the only reasonable way to build a mobile reader, IMHO. We use mobile devices as companion devices, in addition to our desktop and/or laptop computers - they re not the only devices we use. The first thing to do is head on into the iTunes App Store (click the image below): Assuming you have iTunes 7.7 installed, that link will take you to the App store, where you can download NetNewsWire: And then you re all set. Here are a few screenshots while you re waiting for your iPhone 2.0 firmware to download! Main screen: News items: Reading an article: This new app also supports clippings - so you can find articles on your phone that you d like to read later, and save them in your clippings folders. Those folders are also synchronized to your desktop apps and the online system as well. If I sound excited, it s because I am. :-) So stop reading now, and go to it! And did I mention it s free?

Onward, I say. Time for the next installment in the series, this one covering clippings. There s a lot of buzz about clippings in NewsGator Online (and shared items in Google Reader), especially with apps like ReadBurner making them easy to discover. There are similar use cases for clippings in the enterprise. NewsGator Enterprise Server supports two kinds of clippings - personal clippings, and group clippings (which are shared by a group). This video covers personal clippings; group clippings will be coming next time. View QuickTime video YouTube version: And don t forget you can download a free 20-user version of NewsGator Enterprise Server. :-)

Nine days before TED2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of passionate collecting. He looks back at a life that's been wiped clean in an instant -- and looks forward.