Podcast Episodes

Mic Drop: Take two chatbots and call me in the morning

Dr. Stephen Xenakis has spent years treating veterans and pushing the bounds of psychiatry. Now, he’s asking if artificial intelligence could become a kind of digital therapist for veterans strugglin…

Published on 1 month ago

AI and the secret lives of whales

What do you get when you cross a marine biologist with a machine learning engineer? Someone who is convinced that humpback whales may have something to say—and that artificial intelligence might be t…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the Internet

Billionaire Frank McCourt wants to buy TikTok. Not to go viral—but to rewire the web. He says 170 million users could help him turn the Internet into something less addictive… and more democratic. Is…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Introducing "Understood: Who Broke Internet"

An episode from "Understood: Who Broke the Internet" from CBC podcasts:

We were promised a digital utopia. What we got was a pay-to-play hellscape of pop-ups, bots, and algorithmic sludge. Writer and …

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom

In Russia, military families are cashing in on a wartime housing surge. Defense budgets are ballooning, property values are rising… and beneath it all, a troubling question: what happens when the war…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Return to Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms

Before the war, Serhii Zenin played Metallica and joked with listeners on Ukraine’s Radio ROKS. Now he wears fatigues. And the station? It's still playing heavy metal—but now it’s also broadcasting n…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs

While most of us were staring at the auroras lighting up our Instagram feeds last year, a small group of analysts at the Space ISAC were focused on something a little less… pretty. Think solar flares…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

The space debris strikes back

In this week’s CyberMonday crossover with WAMU’s 1A, we revisit a Click Here episode and take your calls—this time, about the cluttered chaos orbiting above us. Space debris isn’t just a cleanup prob…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Mic Drop: Predator mode

Drones promised progress — as lifesavers in floods, storytellers in newsrooms, even assistants to archaeologists. But somewhere along the way, they took a darker turn. Now they hover over protests, s…

Published on 2 months ago

ICE leans on high tech monitoring to make quotas

Today: A story about a technology that began in the fields — tracking cattle — and is now on the ankles of immigrants. It’s part of a program called “alternatives to detention.” And these ankle monit…

Published on 2 months ago