And we're back. This week's podcast features a report from a school in Nigeria where children are taking OLPC's XO-1 laptop for a test run. We'll also discuss whether bloggers are the new foreign correspondents. Then, to Italy where one company is giving people a chance to download their favorite holy images to their cell phones. And we'll finish with a look at a new theory of everything that comes courtesy of a physicist who spends as much time riding the waves as he does thinking Big Thoughts.

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Anchor Marco Werman tells us about Swedish singer- songwriter Jens Lekman. His music often find significance in life's most mundane moments.... such as getting a haircut.

We're searching for a remote and icy body of water at the edge of Antarctica for our Geo Quiz today. Host Marco Werman gets the answer from Jon Bowermaster who is planning a 5 -week kayak trip on the Weddell Sea starting in January to study the impact of global warming on the sea ice there. Its part of the OCEANS 8 project to explore the health of the world's seas.

The World's daily geography puzzler.

We ask Daniel Franklin of The Economist to give more of his economic predictions for 2008.

The World's Lorne Matalon reports on Mexico's telecommunications king and the investigation into his cell-phone empire by Mexican authorities.

Anchor Marco Werman tells us about a new word for climate change that was selected as the "word of the year" by the Society for the German Language.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Deborah Balk, Associate Director of the Institute for Demographic Research at the City University of New York. Balk's research focus is how urban areas -- especially in low-lying coastal regions -- could be affected by climate change.

The World's Jason Margolis reports on what could be in store for Bangkok in the not so distant future. Thailand's capital is built on swampland, and it's sinking. It also lies next to where a major river meets the ocean. Climate experts worry the city could be completely flooded by the expected rise in global sea levels.

French politician, Jean Marie Le Pen, says the Nazi occupation of France was "not especially inhumane" and his words have landed him in a French court. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Henry Samuel of Britain's Daily Telegraph whose covering the story.