Small Business Cybersecurity (15:28)

Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University.  When we hear about a business having their computers hacked it is a big company like Target, Chick-Fil-A, or Sony. What you don't hear about are the small companies that suffer a data breach. The damage can be more devastating because the company may not be able to protect themselves from future attacks. Scott Shackelford talks about the three “Bs” of small business cyber security.

 

Are We Evolved for Happiness? (59:26)

Glenn Geher is Professor and Chair of Psychology as well as Founding Director of Evolutionary Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Motivation is something that we all need but what exactly drives the motivation? Anxiety, for instance, is a common drive that we experience. It encourages us to get to work on time, go to school, or to meet deadlines. Now from an evolutionary standpoint this is why anxiety actually exists, to keep us safe from some things and motivates us to do others. Glenn Geher has taken this perspective of evolution and applied to happiness. Just as anxiety evolved to help motivate adaptive behaviors, happiness has also evolved to help motivate adaptive behaviors.

 

Is the US immigration court system broken? (1:47:19)

Lindsay Harris, an assistant professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia Law School.  In the United States, we have a shortage of law clerks, judges, and asylum case officers to assist people seeking asylum and people who don’t want to get sent back to their home country. Even if we hired 300 more asylum officers, it will still take us to the year 2020 for us to get through all of our back log.  Is our immigration court system broken?  Lindsay M. Harris explains.