Top US intelligence agencies agree that Russia meddled in the 2016 US Presidential election using an organized campaign of online trolling and misinformation. The details of exactly how are harder to uncover. … LISTEN NOW »
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Whose Best Interest – Can Facebook’s Business Model Be Repaired?
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has placed Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook at the center of the data privacy debate. But is Facebook’s ad-driven business model fundamentally incompatible with protecting users’ personal … LISTEN NOW »
Aviation and the “Tombstone Mentality” – How Southwest 1380 Could Have Been Avoided
The uncontained engine failure of Southwest flight 1380 reminds us once again that commercial aviation is a business that does not always put safety first - and regulators seem reluctant to change that. Jennifer … LISTEN NOW »
Just the Facts – an interview with Brooke Binkowski of Snopes.com
Long before Facebook, Twitter or even Google existed, the fact checking website Snopes.com was running down the half-truths, misinformation, and outright lies that ricochet across the Internet. Today it remains … LISTEN NOW »
Misinformation on the Internet – Untangling the Web, an interview with danah boyd.
How did the internet become a tangled web of misinformation? Miles speaks to danah boyd, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, founder of Data & Society, and Visiting Professor at New York University. boyd … LISTEN NOW »
How does the Facebook News Feed work? An interview with Dan Zigmond, head of Facebook News Feed analytics.
Who or what determines what's in your Facebook News Feed? It's a complex algorithm that aims to put what interests you most at the top of the queue. Increasingly, Facebook is focused on trying to determine what … LISTEN NOW »
What does a year in space do to your DNA? A conversation with astronaut Scott Kelly.
In this episode of Miles To Go, Miles catches up with astronaut Scott Kelly and learns about what it’s like to spend a year in space. Kelly talks about the physical and emotional toll of his historic mission, the … LISTEN NOW »
Entering A New Dimension in 3D Printing
When you think of 3D printing, you may envision useless trinkets, a cheesy iPhone cover, or extruded cheese doodles. But that would be so 2014 of you! In this episode of Miles To Go, Miles sits down with John Hart, an … LISTEN NOW »
Inside North Korea’s Nuclear Complex
Siegfried Hecker is a Metallurgist and Nuclear Scientist. He served as the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986-1997 and is a professor at The Center For International Cooperation at Stanford … LISTEN NOW »
What Happens After The Garbage Truck Takes Away Your Trash?
Eugene Tseng describes himself as the most “overeducated garbage man” in the world. An environmental engineer and lawyer who teaches at UCLA and Cal State Northridge, he has spent decades understanding what we throw away … LISTEN NOW »