Eric Appel is a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University. His lab has designed an improved delivery system for fire retardant to keep fires from starting across hotspots and known ignition areas.

Here are a few additional resources related to this episode:

Wildfire prevention through prophylactic treatment of high-risk landscapes using viscoelastic retardant fluids, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)

Stanford researchers have developed a gel-like fluid to prevent wildfires, Stanford News

Phos-Chek fire retardant

Developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans, US Forest Service

Mitigate Wildfire Risk, US Forest Service

Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.

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Michael Mina is an epidemiologist and immunologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. 

Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:

Additional articles on rapid tests

Trump to Announce $750 million deal with Abbott, CNBC August 27, 2020

@michaelmina_lab

Sample letter about rapid tests to send to your representatives

www.RapidTests.org

Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.

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John McWhorter is a linguistics professor at Columbia University, contributing writer at The Atlantic and hosts the podcast Lexicon Valley. He believes that “cancel culture” is solvable.

Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:

After Ann Coulter Backs Out Of Visit, UC Berkeley Braces For Free Speech Rallies

The Fine Line Between A Bad Date And Sexual Assault: 2 Views On Aziz Ansari

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom

Critical Race Theory

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Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for The Washington Post and formerly the public editor with the New York Times. Her new book is called Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy. She believes that the decline of local news is solvable.

Here are a few resources related to this episode:

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan

Texas Tribune

MinnPost

Voice of San Diego

Buffalo News

Chicago Tribune 

Chicago Sun Times

Saint Francis de Sales

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Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist. He teaches cyber security at the Harvard Kennedy School. Schneier believes that election security risks are solvable.

Here are a few resources related to this episode:

VerifiedVoting.Org

The Brennan Center for Justice

National Electorial Defense Coalition

National Mail Voter Registration Form (multilingual)

Voter Registration and Election Dates (by state)

Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank is the senior producer, Catherine Girardeau is the managing producer and Mia Lobel is the executive producer.

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Kirsten Clarke is the president and executive director of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The committee was established in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to address the inequities confronting African Americans and other minorities. Clarke believes that reversing, or preventing, the disenfranchisement of millions of American voters is central to her work and that voter suppression is solvable.

Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:

National Mail Voter Registration Form (multilingual)

Voter Registration and Election Dates (by state)

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Michael Waldman is the president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. The non-partisan center works to strengthen America's democracy. Waldman is the author of The Fight to Vote. He believes that the United States can have an election that is safe, participatory and with a robust turnout in 2020.

Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:

Voting by Mail / Voting Absentee

National Mail Voter Registration Form (multilingual)

Voter Registration and Election Dates (by state)

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Chiraag Bains is the Director of Legal Strategies at Demos, a think tank focused on strengthening democracy and fighting for racial justice. He previously served as Senior Counsel to the head of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He co-wrote the Ferguson Report. The Department of Justice sued Ferguson, Missouri, over unconstitutional policing and court practices. He believes that the lack of accountability for police violence is solvable.

Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:

Ending Qualified Immunity Act, introduced by Representatives Justin Amash and Ayanna Pressley June 4, 2020

George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, introduced by Representative Karen Bass June 8, 2020

'CAHOOTS': How Social Workers And Police Share Responsibilities In Eugene, Oregon, NPR, June 10, 2020

Fatal Force, a study by The Washington Post (updated daily)

Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, March 4, 2015

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Insha Rahman is the director of strategy and new initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice. She believes that mass incarceration is solvable. 

At Vera, Rahman’s work is focused on prosecutorial reform, bail, and decarceration, with an emphasis on developing advocacy-related strategies and accountability. Prior to Vera, Rahman worked as a public defender at The Bronx Defenders. She currently serves on the boards of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, and the New York State Appellate Division's Indigent Defense Organization Oversight Committee.

Here are a few of the resources mentioned in this episode:

13th, Ava Duvernay

Locking Up Our Own, by James Foreman

Solitary, by Albert Woodfox

How Conservatives Learned to Love Prison Reform, March/April 2014, Mother Jones

Prison reform: A smart way for states to save money and lives, January 2011, Washington Post

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Host Anne Applebaum speaks with Srdja Popovic about how strategic nonviolent action can bring about lasting and meaningful social change.

Srdja Popovic is the executive director of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS). He's a social change educator who draws on his experience as a leader of the student movement Otpor! Optor! is credited with helping to oust Serbian president Slobodan Milošević using creative and strategic techniques that marry humor and coalition building. He is the author of Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World.

Popovic references a series of short educational videos about nonviolent strategies which can be found at www.canvasopedia.org

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