Techpodcast 156: For our podcast today, we'll take a look at two human rights related measures considered by Yahoo shareholders this week. Also, is China becoming the biggest threat in cyberspace? And, we'll go on a hunt for dirty nukes in the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. We'll finish up with a story about a gentleman who is using a blog to publish his grandfather's letters home from the trenches in World War I.

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Host Marco Werman tells us about the "original rock concert," a musical event that took place 40 years ago in Monterey, California. The organizers were determined to put unknown artists on the bill. Two of them went on to become mainstays in what is now referred to as "world music." Ravi Shankar and Hugh Masekela.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is Hanover, Germany.

For today's Geo Quiz we're looking for a northern German City on the river Leine known for its universities, medical school and its world-class zoo.

The list of the seven man-made "Wonders of the World" is up for grabs 2,000 years after the Greeks compiled the original list. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Granada, Spain where the Moorish palace known as the Alhambra is one of the finalists.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks to Iraqi author, Sinan Antoon, whose 2004 novel about a prisoner in one of Saddam Hussein's jails has just been published in English in this country.

After Wednesday's bombing of a Shiite shrine in the Iraq city of Samarra, widespread attacks like the one in Basra today seemed a certainty. But violence between Iraq's warring factions appears to be minimal. Anchor Marco Werman gets more on the story from John Burns, the New York Times' Baghdad bureau chief.

The government of China is worried that the country is running short of family names. Officials say the majority of China's 1-point-3 million people share just 100 family names. So they's come up with ways to create more than a million new names. Host Marco Werman finds out how they plan to do that from Paul Crook, a producer with the BBC's Chinese service.

For years, Bill Lamin kept his grandfather's letters in a drawer. Now, he's turning them into a blog. His grandfather, Harry, served in the British Army during World War One. Bill Lamin is posting those war-time letters online for anyone to read. And he's posting them one by one, exactly 90 years to the day after each one was written. The World's Clark Boyd has the story.

Listen to Bill Lamin reading two letters written by Harry Lamin, both dated June 11th, 1917:

first letter

second letter

A Pentagon task force on mental health today presented its findings today. The task force recommended a number of steps to better address the mental health needs of soldiers. The World's Katy Clark has the story.