A mass shooting that took the lives of 10 people over the weekend in Buffalo, New York seems to be a racially motivated attack.  An 18-year old gunman seemed to target Black shoppers at a Tops supermarket.  A manifesto was posted online by the shooter where he talked about the ‘Great Replacement’ theory which says that white Americans are being replace with nonwhites through immigration, interracial marriage, and violence.  Ginger Gibson, deputy Washington digital editor at NBC News, joins us for this latest tragedy, and new poll numbers that look bad for President Biden as debates about abortion and student loan forgiveness continue.

 

Next, there’s a new startup that wants to get into your ears and monitor your brain. NextSense wants to eventually have earbuds that can stream music, take phone calls, and pick up brain waves. The startup’s aim is to focus on brain health, improve sleep, and even help patients with epilepsy. The company also hopes to collect data from various users in order to learn more about what’s between our ears. Steven Levy, editor at large at Wired, joins us for the story of how it all got started at Google.

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