Stanford Radio

School's In with Dan Schwartz and Denise Pope:

"Global Effort to Educate Girls with guest Kathryn Moeller"

Kathryn Moeller is a visiting scholar at the Lemann Center at Stanford Graduate School of Education. She is the author of the 2018 book, The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development. She discusses the global effort to educate girls and women, and how empowerment programs are sometimes based on questionable evidence.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 16, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman:

"Gene-edited Babies with guest Hank Greely"

Hank Greely, an expert in ethical, legal, and social implications of new biomedical technologies, discusses gene-edited babies and DNA testing on this episode of Stanford Legal.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 16, 2019

Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman:

"Doing Business with China"

How has China managed to grow in the world economy? Stanford Law Professor Curtis Milhaupt, an expert in Asian legal systems and state capitalism, discusses his research into Chinese state-owned businesses -- and the implications the Chinese planned economy has for policy makers in the U.S.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 16, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman:

"Robert Reich: Is it time to rethink philanthropy?"

Philanthropy is often driven by the idiosyncratic pet notions of the very rich. It is an exercise of power that deserves our scrutiny, not our automatic gratitude.

Why do well-off public schools often demand that parents supplement school programs with personal contributions? Why do many rare diseases receive the lion’s share of donor attention and money? Is basic science being driven by the whims of big donors?

These are questions that keep Stanford political philosopher Rob Reich up at night. Reich says that philanthropy is at an ethical crossroads in which the heart often leads the head in determining which causes get showered with money while other, perhaps more deserving, ones go without.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 9, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf:

"Disrupting Group Healthcare with guest Ali Diab"

Ali Diab, co-founder of Collective Health, a company which works to find new ways to address the intractable problem of rising healthcare costs, explains why he believes every CEO in America is in the healthcare business, and how to balance the needs of companies and employees.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 9, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman:

"The Rights of Immigrants with guest Katrina Eiland"

Katrina Eiland, staff attorney with the ACLU's Immigrants’ Rights Project, discusses the Trump administration's termination of DACA, and family separation policy.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 2, 2019.

Recorded by Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman:

"Democracy on the Ballot with guest Nate Persily"

Voting law expert Nate Persily discusses gerrymandering, the 2018 midterms and the 2020 census.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 2, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman:

"Toomas Ilves: Lessons in digital democracy from Estonia"

The former president of Estonia discusses how a small Baltic state became a world leader in digitization of everything from voting to medicine.

Of the many nations that have implemented some measure of digital democracy, none perhaps has had more success than Estonia. Toomas Ilves, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, would know: He served as president of the Baltic state for two terms. Ilves says that all Estonians have verifiable digital identities and they use them to vote, sign legal documents, order prescription medication, file taxes and more online.

Estonian digitization began with schools and banking in the 1990s. Online voting followed in the early 2000s. Today, a third of Estonians vote online. Faith in the system is high, Ilves says. The country has a single voter registry and voters can confirm – and even change – their votes right up to the deadline. Estonia’s latest effort is a comprehensive genome project that will fuel a new era of personalized medicine.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 26, 2019.

Recorded by Stanford Video.

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman:

"Carlos Bustamante: Genomics has a diversity problem"

A geneticist explains how the relatively young science of genomics has the potential to reveal the mysteries of the living world, but first it has to be more inclusive.

Carlos Bustamante is an expert in genomics—the study of genetic variation and its effects on the living world. He says genomics holds tremendous promise but, so far, virtually all sequenced DNA comes from European blood lines and this presents a problem.

Without greater diversity in the genomic data that is collected, he notes that we cannot fully reap the benefits of this knowledge, particularly in areas such as healthcare.

"Genomics is the new oil," Bustamante says, of the opportunities that lie ahead. It's being used for everything from studying rare diseases to developing more effective drugs. Before its potential can be fully realized,however, genomics will have to address its diversity problem. The more genetic variants that are represented in the genomic data collected, the better equipped we'll be to understand and improve human health.

Originally aired on January 26, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf

"Giving Better with guest Rob Reich"

Rob Reich, professor of political science at Stanford and author of "Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better.”, explains how the current laws and policies that structure philanthropic activity tend to favor the interests of wealthy individuals.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 26, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.