November 30, 2017 Where a Winged Robot May Help Birds and planes don’t mix — so some airports are testing whether drones (with flapping wings) can scare flocks away. The New York Times takes you inside a trial program in Alberta, Canada.
November 29, 2017 A Year Without a President Robert Reich looks at what we've learned so far about the Trump presidency, and who is really running the country.
November 27, 2017 How Trump Turned Sean Hannity Into a Conspiracy Theorist Hannity has transformed from typical right-wing pundit into Fox News' leading conspiracy theorist, and that's making the network's advertisers nervous.
|November 22, 2017 The German Town That's Literally Breaking Apart The town of Staufen, in the south-west of Germany, has a problem: a drilling operation in 2007 that went very wrong. Half a metre of movement might not sound like much, but in this town, that's enough for the buildings to crack and fall apart.
November 16, 2017 Future Library, Katie Paterson Scottish artist Katie Paterson has launched a 100-year artwork - Future Library - Framtidsbiblioteket - for the city of Oslo in Norway. A thousand trees have been planted in Nordmarka, a forest just outside Oslo, which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in one hundred years time. Between now and then, one writer every year will contribute a text, with the writings held in trust, unpublished, until 2114.
November 15, 2017 Lost LA: Coded Geographies What if the stories L.A. told about itself relegated you to the margins? This episode explores two underground guidebooks -- The Negro Travelers' Green Book and The Address Book -- that reveal the hidden geographies many Angelenos had to navigate, exposing Los Angeles as a place of coded segregation and resistance.
November 10, 2017 Lost LA: Dream Factory Los Angeles is often identified with Hollywood, but there's more to the entertainment industry than its facade of movie stars and blockbuster films. This episode explores the career of Lois Weber, a filmmaker who rose to greatness in a nascent film industry that welcomed women into creative leadership positions; as well as a Central Casting Bureau that capitalized on the city's segregated ethnic enclaves when filling background roles.
November 9, 2017 Giant Magellan Telescope - Perfect Mirror Dr. Wendy Freedman, Chairman GMT, and Dr. Pat McCarthy, Director GMT, discuss the Giant Magellan Telescope's mirrors and the science that they will enable.
November 8, 2017 Lost LA: Building the Metropolis Wood, iron, steel, concrete -- these are the materials that gave form to Los Angeles and shaped its identity in the national imagination. This episode also questions the cultural legacy and environmental costs of the city's relentless growth.
November 7, 2017
The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure At the headquarters of Cloudflare, in San Francisco, there's a wall of lava lamps: the Entropy Wall. They're used to generate random numbers and keep a good bit of the internet secure: here's how.
November 6, 2017 Field of Vision - National Disintegrations In his latest film, Braden King ponders the Geneva Freeport, a warehouse complex in Switzerland that is said to house over 1 million works of art. A high-security tax haven for international dealers and collectors, the Freeport's exact contents remain a mystery to the general public. As people crossing borders are more to more and greater scrutiny, NATIONAL DISINTEGRATIONS examines what it means to have untold amounts of wealth and property flow freely through this extralegal space.
November 3, 2017
Why Is There an Opioid Crisis? Last week, the opioid epidemic was declared a ‘public health emergency’ in the United States, but what are opioids, and why is the way they interact with the human brain potentially so dangerous?
November 2, 2017 Trump's Trojan Horse Tax Plan I Robert Reich Robert Reich explains Trojan Horse tax plan is a Trojan horse that will pave the way for deeper cuts to education, health care and other programs.
November 1, 2017 Was the Civil War About Slavery? What caused the Civil War? Did the North care about abolishing slavery? Did the South secede because of slavery? Or was it about something else entirely...perhaps states' rights? Colonel Ty Seidule, Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point, settles the debate.
