Benjamin Ryder

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  • Username: The_Benjamin
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  • Role: Producer Group Staff

Recent Pieces from Benjamin Ryder

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Panopticon (02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions

On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, announced the debut of the World Wide Web, marking the first time that the ...
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Who Decides (02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions

What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean anything anymore in an age of ...
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Health (02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions

In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rate, blood pressure, ...
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Consumer (02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions

Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?
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Permanent Record (02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions

Today, we hear increasing talk about Big Data, supposedly about to revolutionize everything from the way wars are fought and policies are shaped to the way we buy products. ...
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Too Much Of A Good Thing (02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions

For most of human history, famine was only a single bad harvest away. Now, thanks to modern agriculture and fertilizers, we’ve almost eliminated hunger from the Western ...
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The Burden of Care (02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions

Diabetics suffer from many health complications and disabilities, but they’re not the only ones who are affected by their condition. In this episode we explore the cost to ...
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Pig Insulin (02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions

Around the world millions of people suffer from diabetes. The personal and economic costs are enormous. What if we want to do more than treat insulin; what if we want to cure ...
Caption: Dr. Ray Rajotte, Scientific Director at the Alberta Diabetes Institute.

The Edmonton Protocol (04:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions

Edmonton, Alberta isn’t the place you’d necessarily expect to be making breakthrough medical advances. But that’s just what has been happening in the labs of the Alberta ...
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What Triggers Type 1 (02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions

The causes of Type 2 diabetes are well known (obesity, ingesting too many carbohydrates, a sedentary lifestyle). But what about Type 1 diabetes, the one people are born with? ...