Managing Harmful Content on Social Media

Guest: Tarleton Gillespie, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Associate Professor at Cornell University, Author of “Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media”

Australia has passed a law that slaps huge fines on social media companies –and also threatens to jail executives –if they fail to quickly remove “abhorrent violent material.” It’s a direct response to the live Facebook video made by the shooter who killed 50 people at two New Zealand mosques last month. Facebook says the video was viewed 4,000 times before the company took it down. How much should social media companies be held responsible for the material people post on their platforms? 

 

Not All Seizures Are from Epilepsy, Psychotherapy Helps Sufferers of Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures

Guest: Benjamin Tolchin, Neurologist, Yale School of Medicine

If someone has seizures, they must have epilepsy, right? Turns out, more than five percent of patients diagnosed with epilepsy actually have something else called "psychogenic non-epileptic seizures" or PNES. That means thousands of people are getting the wrong medical treatment, and that can have serious consequences.

 

Shipwrecks and Sunken Cities: The Work of Underwater Archaeology

Guest: Peter B. Campbell, Underwater Archaeologist, Assistant Director of The British School at Rome

Most archaeologists don’t put their lives on the line like Indiana Jones. But underwater archaeologists aren’t most archaeologists. And when you’re diving deep in the sea, exploring shipwrecks or slithering into caves, winging it like Indiana Jones is definitely not recommended. 

 

Apple Seed

Guest: Sam Payne, Host, The Apple Seed, BYUradio

Thoughts from a master on sharing and preserving family stories.  

 

What We Can Do to Support Mothers Running for Public Office

Guest: Caitlin Clarkson Pereira, 2018 Candidate for State Representative in Connecticut

A record number of women are currently serving in the US Congress – they fill a quarter of the seats. To boost that ratio, many women candidates say they need more flexibility in campaign laws. Specifically, they want to be able to use campaign donations to pay a babysitter. Federal Election authorities last year granted that permission. But mothers running in most state elections can’t. 

 

Hoist the Sails! And Sing a Sea Shanty with David Coffin

Guest: David Coffin, Performer, Music Educator

Before there were planes and trains and steamships, the world ran on the wind in the sails of sailors and whalers. America was born in the Age of the Sail, and if you were aboard one of the many whaling ships departing form New England at the time, you might have heard a boisterous call-and-response song called a "shanty." There's much history to be learned from the music of the sea.