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Game on: the Tokyo Olympics

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The Economist

News, News & Politics

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Tokyo Olympics are due to begin in just over two months. But with coronavirus cases climbing in recent months, 80% of Japanese people want the games to be cancelled. The navigation signals sent by satellites like America’s GPS constellation are surprisingly weak. What happens when they’re jammed—or tricked? And in America cicadas have emerged from their underground redoubts for the first time in 17 years, for a frenzied few weeks of mating. How do you study a species that emerges fewer than six times in a century? For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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1:06.8

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

1:10.6

I'm your host, Shashankank Joshi filling in for Jason Palmer.

1:14.2

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

1:20.7

We all rely on that little blue dot on our phones map to guide us.

1:25.5

But the satellite signals that produce GPS are surprisingly feeble.

1:29.3

We look at what happens when people mess with satellite navigation.

1:33.8

And if you think you've been lazy during the pandemic, just look at cicadas.

1:38.2

After 17 years underground, they're emerging in droves along America's east coast.

1:43.8

But how do you study a group

1:45.4

that only shows itself fewer than six times a century?

2:03.8

After a year, After a year's delay, the 2020 Olympics are scheduled to begin in Tokyo on July 23rd.

2:10.8

Yesterday, Thomas Buck, the president of the International Olympic Committee,

2:14.8

appeared in Tokyo by video to reassure an uneasy public about the

2:18.4

summer's games.

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