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Implicit Bias and Principled Policing: Does it work ?
Season 4 Episode 5
Science tells us that 95% of the population has implicit biases yet there is only a 16% correlation between the bias and behavior. So is racist, homo…
5 years, 7 months ago
2084: Was George Orwell's novel 1984, one hundred years ahead of itself ?
Season 4 Episode 4
Mass surveillance and totalitarianism are two prominent themes in Orwell's dystopian novel published in 1949. But there are two major mass surveillan…
5 years, 7 months ago
A Tale of Two States: California and New York amidst Covid 19
Season 4 Episode 3
California's Summer surge in C-19 cases has put the Golden State in the dubious first place position of 452,000 cases versus 412,000 for New York. Wh…
5 years, 7 months ago
Science deniers keep schools closed.
Season 4 Episode 2
California’s powerful teachers’ union the CTA and Governor Gavin Newsom seem to be taking a very slow and hesitant approach to reopening the state’s …
5 years, 7 months ago
Tik Tok, a threat to US security. Really ?
Season 4 Episode 1
Tik Tok the popular lip syncing video app has exploded in popularity globally during the Covid 19 lockdowns. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has t…
5 years, 7 months ago
Let our kids go back to school !
Season 3 Episode 20
Over 20 European countries have re-opened their schools but the US lags far behind. Our decentralized and locally controlled as well as politicized s…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Coming Population Bust
Season 3 Episode 19
The world's population stands at 7.8 billion today and has increased by 5.8 billion since 1950. But the British medical journal The Lancet and the Un…
5 years, 8 months ago
Urban Hiking: Your Gym Replacement.
Season 3 Episode 18
With San Francisco"s gyms closed for four months, hiking the urban environment of one of America's most beautiful cities affords lots of opportunitie…
5 years, 8 months ago
Facebook: a free speech forum or an advertising surveillance app ?
Season 3 Episode 17
The Social Media giant is weathering a month long boycott by some of its advertisers, a critical civil rights audit and controversy about political s…
5 years, 8 months ago
Disinformation and Fake News: How to spot it and How to avoid it.
Season 3 Episode 16
With the 2020 Presidential election less than 4 months away, Social Media and with it Fake News stories will loom large no doubt, much as they did in…
5 years, 8 months ago