Digital privacy is an evolving landscape that too few of us know enough about. On this episode of the Brainwaves podcast, we’re following news of a mobile app getting access to images of your face and more. And given news stories about the government crawling driver’s license databases, what do people out there know about us already? How is the technology still evolving? And what are we doing to protect ourselves? Guests: facial recognition expert Jed Brubaker and former Pentagon official Lloyd Thrall.

Transcript: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/07/24/transcript-whos-watching-you-how-privacy-changing-digital-age

Music credits:

February by Vibe Mountain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15d_LfIaOl4

“Air Hockey Saloon” by Chris Zabriskie; license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/vendaface/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-NEsfl50G7s

Fifty years ago, a mammoth effort by hundreds of thousands of Americans culminated in Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. The Brainwaves podcast takes a look back at how they did it with author Charles Fishman. And we talk with a University of Colorado Boulder geologist who is set to analyze moon rocks that have been tucked away for more than 40 years. Then we hear about our future on the moon—for astronauts and for the first lunar radio telescope, which CU Boulder is helping to create.

Music credits

Greatness by Sirius Beat: http://youtu.be/XqRwAIE7HZ0

Night Snow by Asher Fulero

Tequila Moonrise by Fluchtweg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Q5msOgvRs

This week on the Brainwaves podcast: Gardening. It’s good for your physical health and your food budget. We have an interview with Chris Lowry, an associate professor of integrative physiology at CU Boulder, who wants to make a stress vaccine out of an unseen ingredient hidden deep in the soil. We also talk to Jill Litt, a CU Boulder environmental health researcher, who’s traveled the world and found that getting your hands dirty is good for your neighborhood, too. And we join community gardener John Day on a tour of his plot.

Music credits

“Sand Castles” by The Green Orbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsLLzbb7Y8g

“Air Hockey Saloon” by Chris Zabriskie; license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/vendaface/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-NEsfl50G7s

“Thingamajig” by Audionautix, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/TlFjGbUMAfk

We talk to movie experts about the shifts in Hollywood’s summer movie formula, as well as how seemingly unoriginal titles are breaking new ground in conversations about politics and race in this edition of the Brainwaves podcast.

Music

Operation Intrigue by ProTwoType

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKbg569cPOo

Sunday Spirit by Audionautix (http://audionautix.com) is part of the YouTube Audio Library (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/...) and it's licensed under a Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...).

“Air Hockey Saloon” by Chris Zabriskie; license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/vendaface/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-NEsfl50G7s

Five years after recreational marijuana was legalized in Colorado, the Brainwaves podcast looks at the business side, with an interview with a dispensary owner who tells us about all the rules and regulations his business must follow. Then we look at the science: going along for a ride in the University of Colorado Boulder’s mobile pharmacology laboratory, aka the “Cannavan.” And we talk with a cannabis researcher about the work he does to find out the effects of cannabis on the human body.

Music credits

Funk Game Loop by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/a7nnob_ZpZI

“Air Hockey Saloon” by Chris Zabriskie; license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/vendaface/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-NEsfl50G7s

Snack Time by The Green Orbs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67i9MgZO02I

Sneaky Snooper by Audionautix (http://audionautix.com) is part of the YouTube Audio Library (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/...) and it's licensed under a Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/)

Your house may be worth less. Your stuff might take longer to deliver. Whether you believe in it or not, climate change is changing the world around you. That and more on this episode of the Brainwaves podcast.

An early investor in FitBit, a researcher on energy-saving shoes and an athlete who is rowing alone across the Atlantic give us the latest on fitness tracking and exceeding our bodies’ limits in this episode of the Brainwaves podcast.

We’re hearing about more big wildfires across the country over the last few years and we’re likely to see more this year and that’s not a coincidence.

So why is that?

In this episode of Brainwaves we’ll hear from experts on the explosion of “megafires” across the West, the rising cost of fighting wildfires and we’ll get an update on what the wildfire season will look like this year. And why the wet winter could mean explosive trouble for some parts of the Western U.S.

Jennifer Balch: https://www.colorado.edu/geography/jennifer-balch-0

Michael Kodas: http://www.michaelkodas.com

Bryan Henry: https://www.blm.gov

Music Credits:

“Air Hockey Saloon” by Chris Zabriskie; license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/vendaface/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-NEsfl50G7s

It’s still more than a year out but the 2020 presidential election already is shaping up to be one for the record books. In this week’s Brainwaves podcast, we look at how new rules for how the Democratic nominee is chosen could create some unintended chaos at the convention next year, and concerns persist concerning Russian interference and election security. Then, there’s fake news.

Election 2020 Credits:

CU Boulder Associate Professor Elizabeth Skewes

https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/college-leadership/elizabeth-skewes

Trevor Timmons

Chief Information Officer

Colorado Department of State

https://www.iaca.org/iaca-directory/colorado/

CU Boulder Professor Kenneth Bickers

https://www.colorado.edu/polisci/people/faculty/kenneth-bickers

Music and Audio Credits:

“Air Hockey Saloon” by Chris Zabriskie; license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/vendaface/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-NEsfl50G7s

Free Music Archive

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Thomas_Mudrick/

Hail To The Chief

Public Domain - Dept. of Air Force

https://archive.org/details/HailToTheChief_482

C-SPAN: Sen. Barack Obama’s Full Speech to the DNC

Public Domain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ato7BtisXzE

More than 70 percent of us use social media platforms. We’re increasingly learning, growing, living and dying in a very public sphere. How can we handle all of this in a healthy way?