The Current Weekly

Desmond Cole; locusts; the secret life of second-hand stuff; caught on a cruise ship; using AI to track the coronavirus


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Activist and writer Desmond Cole talks to us about his his new book The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power. We check in with a Kenyan helping lead the fight against the near-unprecedented swarms of locusts in eastern Africa. Adam Minter guides us through the surprising second life of your stuff, after you dump it at the Goodwill; a man quarantined on a cruise ship due to a coronavirus outbreak tells us how he's holding up; and we speak to the Toronto doctor behind Blue Dot, a company using AI to help predict where the virus will go next.
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