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July 15, 2016 Horror in France, Podcast Picks, Millennial Radio
July 15, 2016:
1. Horror in France: What We Know About the Nice Attack (9 min)
2. Donald Trump Picks Gov. Mike Pence as Running Mate (7 min)
3. Why Rio Needs the Olympics Now More Than Ever (6 min)
4. Millennial Radio Station Tackles Violence By and Against Police (8 min)
5. Five Podcasts For Summer Getaways (4 min)
6. Films to Catch and Skip at the Box Office This Weekend (5 min)
41 min
July 14, 2016 Ani DiFranco, Self-Inflicted Gun Violence, The GOP's Swing Right
July 14, 2016:
1. Gun Culture Lets Self-Harm Fester in the Quiet Darkness of American Homes (13 min)
2. With Party Platform, The GOP Shifts Further to The Right (7 min)
3. After Voter Complaints, Florida Polling Station Moved From Mosque (3 min)
4. Famine Could Come to Venezuela as Food Crisis Grows 'Dire' (4 min)
5. Bridging the Global News Gap With Citizen Reporters (6 min)
6. Ani DiFranco on Using Music for Social Change (9 min)
47 min
July 13, 2016 The Fake 'War on Cops,' Pokémon GO, Bryan Cranston
July 13, 2016:
1. Data Shows That the 'War on Cops' is Fake (7 min)
2. Expressions of Hope From the Streets of Baltimore (6 min)
3. How Pokémon GO Became a Gaming Phenomenon (9 min)
4. Actor Bryan Cranston on His Creative Process (8 min)
31 min
July 12, 2016 Bernie's Legacy, Unrest in South Sudan, Anna Deavere Smith
July 12, 2016:
1. Now That He's With Her, Can the Sanders Revolution Still Bern On? (6 min)
2. Another Civil War? Fighting Escalates In South Sudan (6 min)
3. Get to Know Theresa May, The U.K's Next Prime Minister (4 min)
4. Investigation Reveals Dark Side of Private Prisoner Transport (7 min)
5. Anna Deavere Smith: We Must Come Together in This National Moment of Pain (9 min)
37 min
July 11, 2016 Race and Tension, Gary Johnson, Hidden Lunar Code
July 11, 2016:
1. Is America Headed for a Race War? (12 min)
2. What Gary Johnson Would Do as President (6 min)
3. Hidden Messages Found in Computer Code of Apollo Moon Mission (4 min)
4. Carl Zimmer's 'Game of Genomes' (6 min)
5. Youth Actors Chronicle a Struggle to Heal in 'The Sandy Monologues' (7 min)
42 min
July 08, 2016 Dallas Shooting, Guns' Racial History and the 'Undeclared War Against Blackness'
On today's show:
President Obama gave an early-morning address on Friday, calling the sniper attack on police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest "vicious, despicable, calculated attack on law enforcement. Five officers were killed and another six were wounded in the shooting, which came at the end of a peaceful rally. What should a gun owner who is armed do when pulled over to avoid a deadly encounter. Texas police detective and author Nick Selby will discuss who police operate in a country awash with guns.
There are 13 million concealed carriers in the United States. Of that gun-owning population, 41 percent are white and just 19 percent are black. This week, two black men who reportedly were licensed gun owners were shot and killed by police. Carol Anderson, professor and author, will discuss whether a black man can even safely own a gun.
The coordinated sniper attack in Dallas killed five police officers and wounded seven, and the violence carried over into Friday morning when police used a robot to detonate a bomb inside a parking garage where a sniper was holed up. Chris Connelly, reporter for KERA News, tells the latest from Dallas.
Meanwhile, in Minnesota, Gov. Mark Dayton said Thursday that he didn't believe Philando Castile would have been killed if he had been white. It's the "strongest language he's used in two terms," says Tim Nelson, Minnesota Public Radio reporter. Nelson gives the latest from St. Paul.
It's Friday, so Rafer Guzman, film critic for Newsday will talk about this weekend's new releases. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, The Secret Life of Pets and Hunt for the Wilderpeople will be opening this week.
Michael Eric Dyson, author of The Black President and The New York Times piece "What America Fails to See," says the violent 72 hours are "America in a nutshell."

40 min
July 07, 2016 2016's Police-Involved Shootings, Ballot Confusion and Conservatives on Mass Incarceration
On today's show:
There have been over 500 officer-involved shootings in the United States since the beginning of 2016. Steven Rich, the database editor of The Washington Post, discusses the number of shootings and if we can see any evidence of reform.
Police officers arrest more than 1.2 million people across the nation on charges of illegal drug possession. But a new investigation from ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine finds that every year, tens of thousands of people are sent to jail based on false positive results of these tests, and a majority of those leading to felony convictions. Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders, the reporters for ProPublica who conducted the investigation, discuss the findings.
The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act was one piece of legislation that seemed to have a good change of passing Congress this session (although time is running out before summer recess next week), primarily due to the conservatives who have embraced criminal justice reform. David Dagan, author of Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration, says the current embrace of prison reform is being led by conservatives like Newt Gingrich.
Can democracy be too much of a good thing when representative governments are compelled by the populace to put a question up to vote? The United Kingdom experimented with this with Brexit, but it's unclear how many of the 52 percent of people who voted to Leave the EU understood the economic and political ramifications.
Wendy Underhill, program manager at the National Conference of State Legislatures, discusses if this is how the ballot imitative system was conceived.
How many of those ballot initiatives do you really read? This election, California has 17 measures approved for the November ballot. Marisa Lagos, KQED public radio government and politics reporter, will explain what these measures are--and who's behind them.
Let's test your Baltic Sea geography: Tucked between Lithuania and Poland, there is a separated piece of Russia called Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad has become the latest hotspot in the escalating tensions between Vladimir Putin and NATO. Łukasz Kulesa is research director at the European Leadership Network, assess the situation in Kaliningrad.
Welcome to Williamstown, in northern Kentucky. The tiny town is now home to a seven-story, 500-foot long theme-park replica of Noah's Ark. You may recognize the creator of it: Ken Ham, who also founded the nearby Creation Museum. Cheri Lawson, reporter and local host for "All Things Considered" at WEKU in Richmond and Lexington, has been covering the Ark and the surrounding community.
45 min
July 06, 2016 Dissecting the Chilcot Report, Texting 911, and the Modern Protest Music
On today's show:
Veterans and their family members have branded the delay of the Chilcot Report “morally reprehensible.” Kristofer Goldsmith, who served as a sergeant with the Army's third infantry division from 2004-07, says a civilian inquiry would be an appropriate thing for the U.S. to do.
Police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were captured by cell phone footage shooting Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man who was selling CDs outside a convenience store. The Department of Justice will be investigating the shooting, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced on Wednesday. Meanwhile, protests have grown outside the convenience store where Sterling was shot. Maya Lau, reporter for the Advocate, discusses the incident and the aftermath.
The World Health Organization has launched an emergency yellow fever vaccination campaign in Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo after an outbreak of the disease has sickened thousands killed upwards of 400 so far this year. Dr. William Ross, a professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the head of epidemiology at the International Vaccine Access Center, tells us about the challenges of vaccinating these communities.
Should 911 calls be made via text? During the Orlando shooting, some people who were held hostage in the club were afraid that calling 911 would draw the attention of the attacker, but Orlando does not have 911 texting. Only one-tenth of the nation's 6,000 911 dispatch centers can accept text messages, while another 150 are upgrading this year to accept texts. Joseph Giacalone, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a retired New York City police sargent, discusses the benefits and the downfalls of 911 texting.
Rikers Island holds 10,000 inmates, and around 800 of them are 21 years old and younger. In 2013, Literacy for Incarcerated Teens came to the prison complex. It was through this program that Robert Galinsky, who now leads LIT's personal development programs, met Marla Riera, who was incarcerated at Rikers Island for 8 months.
Protest music has come a long way since the days of Woody Guthrie. Kraig R. Moss is a country singer and a Trump supporter, and he says "music has changed the world.
43 min
July 05, 2016 The Human Toll of the Baghdad Bombing, Reaching Jupiter's Orbit, and Inter-partisan Marriages
Today on The Takeaway:
Abel al-Jaf has been identified as one of 165 dead in the ISIS bombing in Baghdad on July 3rd. Jonathan Hollander, President and Artistic Director, Battery Dance Company and Dancing to Connect, knew Adel well. He shares his memories of al-Jaf, how they became communicating--and the importance of the connection outside of Iraq.
There were 44 people killed at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul last week, followed by a brutal attack in a restaurant in Bangladesh. Rukmini Callimachi, foreign correspondent for our partner The New York Times is here to set the three attacks into context.
It's taken Juno 5 years to get to Jupiter. What will it discover? Jason Kendall, adjunct professor of astronomy at William Patterson University, tells us some of the things they are expecting to find.
FBI director James Comey announced Tuesday that while Hillary Clinton was "extremely careless" in handling classified information, they are recommending no charges be filed. Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich explains what this means.
Thanks to the pioneering work of scientists, computers and other devices have become increasingly clever about reading and understanding human emotions. In the future, the information that our digital devices will be able to glean about our inner selves will no doubt be valuable to many, but could it also make us vulnerable because of privacy concerns? Rana el Kaliouby, a pioneer in the emerging world of emotional technology and the co-founder and CEO of the emotional recognition company, Affectiva, tells us that Affectiva has collected over 4 million videos of faces from 75 countries around the world.
Our everyday rituals are the results of thousand of years of human behavior, but it's harder to study them than you'd think. Greg Jenner, historian and author of "A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age," talks about the quirky connetions between hair care and tooth care and warfare and manners.
46 min
July 04, 2016 The Future of the 'Smart City' (R)
Rebroadcast: Over 85 percent of the world’s population will likely live in a city by the end of the century. In this special podcast, we're exploring what the urban centers of the future will look like.
53 min

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