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284 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsSpectrum features conversations with an eclectic group of fascinating people, some are famous and some are not, but they all have captivating stories.
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NPR Editor Breaks Down the Chaos after the death of Iranian Gen. Soleimani
January 08, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutes - 56.2 MBThe Friday killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani by an American drone has thrown the Middle East into chaos. Philip Ewing, the former national security editor for National Public Radio (NPR) and currently an election security editor on the NPR Washington Desk, sorts out some of the possible short term and long term consequences of this action. Even after Iranian officials have pledged “revenge” for the death of their national hero, United States President Donald Trump continues to t...
Abdul Williams Shares Insights About his Career, Work, & Creative Process
December 11, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBAbdul Williams has had a hot decade of screenwriting for both the big screen and television. Over the past 10 years, he has written a feature film and two award winning series for the Black Entertainment Network (BET). In 2010, his first feature film “Lottery Ticket” was released and in 2017 and 2018 BET released major series – “The New Edition Story” in 2017 and “The Bobby Brown Story” in 2018. Both are winners of NAACP awards. Williams was the recipient of NAACP Image Award for Outstand...
Investigative Reporter Explains How She Covers Trauma and Trauma Victims
November 20, 2019 08:00 - 43 minutes - 59.4 MBSince 2002, Rachel Dissell has been a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. During her 17 years at the newspaper, she has covered trauma and trauma victims and one major tragedy after another. Her career has focused on complex and emotionally draining issues such as the impact of violence on women and children, life-changing environmental topics, corruption and several instances of social injustice. Her reporting has instigated major policy changes, new governmental procedures, and legi...
Foreign Correspondents Have Played Critical Roles in American Journalism
November 13, 2019 08:00 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBThe concept of using foreign correspondents housed in other countries to help inform the American public of the news is a concept that goes back to Colonial days. Yet today, news organizations have drastically cut back on full-time correspondents abroad opting instead for a smaller reporting corps and the use of free-lancers and citizen journalists. So says long-time journalists and authors John Maxwell Hamilton and Peter Copeland as they discussed the history, present and future of using ...
Reporter Tania Rashid: Covering Human Tragedies Takes Toll on Journalists
October 30, 2019 07:00 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBFreelance journalist Tania Rashid says covering human tragedies can take a psychological toll on reporters who face human misery day-after-day. She says it is immensely distressing to see people suffering, through no fault of their own, simply because of their race or ethnicity. Rashid has spent a great amount of time covering the Rohingya refugee crisis as the Rohingya people flee Myanmar into Bangladesh to form the world’s largest refugee camp. Her reporting of the trials, tribulatio...
Analyst Examines Impeachment Inquiry Poll Results on 2020 Presidential Race
October 16, 2019 07:00 - 39 minutes - 53.5 MBAuthor and election analyst Kyle Kondik, from the University of Virginia Center for Politics, says the latest poll results are tipping toward favoring impeachment because voters can more easily grasp the issues comprising the Ukrainian controversy. The elements surrounding President Trump asking Ukrainian officials to provide political dirt on his potential Democratic opponent Joe Biden are much easier for voters to understand than the muddled and legalistic report from Special Counsel Robe...
Trump’s Syrian Policy Fosters Chaos & Supports ISIS Resurgence Expert Says
October 09, 2019 07:00 - 35 minutes - 49 MBPresident Donald Trump’s newly announced withdrawal of American troops from Northeastern Syria opens the door for Turkey to attack America’s Kurdish allies in the region, says Dr. Nukhet Sandal, Chair of the Political Science Department at Ohio University. The potential of Turkey attacking an unprotected U.S. ally is dangerous at many levels, according to Dr. Sandal. Primarily it sends a message to other U.S. allies that we will not stand behind them during times of international upheava...
Chris Thile Highlights the Creative Process behind His Work on “Live from Here”
October 04, 2019 07:00 - 10 minutes - 15 MBChris Thile is an acclaimed musician and songwriter, as well as the host of American Public Media’s nationally syndicated live, weekly variety show “Live From Here.” WOUB’s Emily Votaw speaks with Thile about the creative process behind his work for “Live From Here”, what it’s like to host a live radio show in 2019, and what he enjoys about performing on college campuses. Besides being a solo artist, Thile was one of the co-founders of the Grammy-winning acoustic trio, Nickel Creek, and is...
College/University Enrollments Go Down as Potential Students Question Value
September 11, 2019 07:00 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MBCollege and university student enrollments are in a downward spiral because of multiple factors including parents and students questioning the value of a college education, according to Dr. Richard Vedder, author, historian, columnist, and emeritus professor of economics at Ohio University. Demographically, there is a decline in the number of traditional college eligible students born during a period of low fertility in America and the numbers are expected to get worse. The number of tradit...
Chagas Disease Is Being Battled By Ohio University Researchers and Students
September 04, 2019 07:00 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBOhio University researchers and students are fighting to prevent the dreaded Chagas disease in Ecuador and its spread to the United States. Each year, according to the World Health Organization, over 8 million people are infected with Chagas disease mostly in Latin America. However, nearly 300,000 people in the United States are also infected. The disease kills nearly 20,000 people each year. Additionally, some 15,000 babies are born infected with the disease. Chagas disease is spread by ...
Science Journalism Is Important to Understanding Emerging Technologies
June 26, 2019 07:00 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBAmy Nordrum, a veteran science journalist, feels that fact-based science reporting helps an audience navigate through new technologies and new discoveries that will impact people’s daily lives. Nordrum currently is news editor of “IEEE Spectrum,” an award-winning technology and engineering magazine based in New York City. She also is a frequent guest on Public Radio’s “Science Friday” with Ira Flatow talking about a wide-range of science topics. Nordrum writes and edits news stories about ...
Midwest TV/Media Critic has Rich Career Despite His Heartland Location
June 19, 2019 07:00 - 49 minutes - 67.5 MBMost entertainment news is generated on the east or west coasts and not in the heartland. Yet, John Kiesewetter spent 40 professional years at the “Cincinnati Enquirer” and three decades as its “Television Critic” writing everything from local criticism to major features. After his job was eliminated at the Enquirer, his career continues to this day. He is now the TV/Media reporter for Cincinnati Public Radio, WVXU FM and wvxu.org. There he writes an almost daily blog, and contributes on-a...
Journalist Maria Gallucci Touts the Importance of Environmental Reporting
June 12, 2019 07:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBScience reporting and writing has become the mainstay of award-winning journalist Maria Gallucci. She feels that factual writing about the environment and in-depth science reporting is important and necessary in a world clouded with concepts of “alternative facts” and “spin.” Gallucci is a bi-lingual reporter who has had global experience with an emphasis on reporting about energy and the environment. One of her specialties is reporting about the environmental footprint and issues facing...
Famous Astronomer Explains the Expanding Universe in Understandable Terms
June 05, 2019 07:00 - 43 minutes - 59.4 MBThroughout his 31 years as an astronomer on the faculty at Harvard Dr. Robert Kirshner has been a leader in using supernovae to map the universe and chart the universe’s expansion over time. Some of his discoveries gave him Science Magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year Award in 1998 and led to a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011. He is one of the leaders in the concept that the universe is not only expanding but it is doing so today at an accelerated rate compared to years past. This expansion ...
Live Weather Storytelling is the Domain of Weather Group’s Angela Massie
May 29, 2019 07:00 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBAs storms, tornadoes and flooding ravage the Midwest and The Plains and as a new and scary hurricane season approaches, more and more people rely on The Weather Channel and the Weather Group to provide them live coverage of major weather events. We count on up-to-the-minute, live weather storytelling to keep us abreast of the latest developments and whether we, or our friends and relatives, are in harm’s way. Most of us who watch the Weather Channel during times of live weather coverage re...
Media Innovator Explains How Pulitzer Prize Winning ‘The Wall’ Was Created
May 22, 2019 07:00 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MB“The Wall: Unknown stories. Unintended consequences.” is a Pulitzer Prize winning multimedia series from USA Today Network and Gannett that delves into life along the southern border of the United States – the same border where President Donald Trump proposes to build his wall. “The explanatory report, led by then Arizona Republic’s vice president of news and editor Nicole Carroll, recently named editor in chief of USA TODAY, provides an in-depth look at the border through immersive technol...
New “Defining Moments Podcast” Tells Stories of Living Well During Adversity
May 15, 2019 07:00 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBA new podcast will launch on Memorial Day – “Defining Moments Podcast: Conversations about Health and Healing. The podcast is created by Dr. Lynn Harter and is produced by WOUB Public Media. Dr. Harter is a Communication Studies professor, Emmy-winning documentarian, storyteller and the co- founder of the Barbara Geralds Institute for Storytelling and Social Impact in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. Her academic specialty is narrative theory and storytelling practi...
Al Letson: Podcaster, Poet, Writer & Actor Chats about Talking to One Another
May 08, 2019 18:41 - 20 minutes - 27.8 MBListening is the key to important and difficult conversations, according to Al Letson the current host of “Reveal,” the first hour-long public broadcasting show and podcast produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Public Radio Exchange (PRX). He claims with the explosion of social media and cable news shows that Americans have lost the ability to listen to each other. We talk past one another instead of with one another. He also claims that sometimes the best way to deal ...
Royal Society President Explains Ribosomes & Charts His Career for Podcast
May 01, 2019 07:00 - 36 minutes - 49.4 MBDr. Venki Ramakrishnan, a molecular biologist, is president of the Royal Society in Great Britain, the same organization formerly headed by Sir Isaac Newton and Ernest Rutherford. He feels it is the duty and obligation of top scientists to explain, in understandable terms, their discoveries to the general population to extend understanding and knowledge. Dr. Ramakrishnan, in this Spectrum Podcast, explains ribosomes. They exist in every living cell to synthesize proteins. For his work i...
‘Tank Man’ Photo: The Story Behind the Picture and How Jeff Widener Shot It
April 24, 2019 07:00 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBDespite covering major stories in over 100 countries, award winning photojournalist Jeff Widener is best known for his iconic photograph of a lone Chinese protester standing in front of a column of tanks during the Tiananmen Square protest in Beijing, China in 1989. The ‘Tank Man’ photo won Widener worldwide acclaim. He was a Pulitzer Finalist and his photo was picked by America Online as one of the top 10 photos of all time. More interesting than the photo, however, is the backstory of h...
Kashmir is a Pivotal Area of South Asia & its History & People are Complex
April 17, 2019 07:00 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBKashmir is a region located high in the Himalayan Mountains between two historical adversaries: India and Pakistan. It was partitioned in the 1940’s at the end of British colonial rule but it remains a point of unrest even today. Over the past decades, Kashmir has been a battleground for skirmishes and armed conflict between the two nuclear powers of India and Pakistan. It is part of the geo-political tug of war between these two powers. However, many groups within Kashmir are pushing for...
Tania Rashid, Freelance Journalist, Targets Human Rights and Women’s Issues
April 10, 2019 07:00 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBTania Rashid views storytelling focusing on human rights and women’s issues through her own personal lens of experiences. Her life encounters have molded her into the journalist and filmmaker that she is – tracking down stories of the enslaved, the impoverished, and women who are abused, raped, trafficked and discounted by various societies. As a young girl, Rashid grew up in Saudi Arabia where she witnessed her Bangladesh mother be deprived of even the most basic rights – such as the righ...
Storytelling Can Build Community and Bridge Cultural and Religious Divides
April 03, 2019 07:00 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MBJennifer Rudick Zunikoff believes in the power of stories and storytelling to build communities and to bridge cultural and religious divides in our country. Zunikoff is a storyteller, poet, educator, facilitator and coach and is the founder and director of The Golden Door: Storytelling for Social Justice. “It is an organization that brings storytellers and facilitators to schools to coach teachers and to educate students and build safe, encouraging classroom communities,” says Zunikoff. ...
“Seven Days of Heroin” Reporters Talk about Series and Aftermath
March 27, 2019 07:00 - 39 minutes - 53.9 MBA group of reporters at The Cincinnati Enquirer worked together to create a multimedia series that would tell the real story of one week of the heroin epidemic in the Cincinnati metropolitan area from many different aspects. To tackle this voluminous task, it would take the commitment of the whole newsroom, says Dan Horn the leader of this reporting and photographic entourage. Once the group got approval from editors for this project, they launched into a massive effort to look at the heroi...
Trump is Transparent Whether You like It or Not - Says Time Inc. Correspondent
March 20, 2019 07:00 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MBWhether you like the content of his tweets or not, President Donald Trump will go down in history as one of our most transparent Presidents, according to Philip Elliott, a veteran Washington correspondent for Time, Inc. Elliott claims that people know what the President is thinking or focusing on in real time if one follows the nature of his tweets on Twitter. This is especially true of this past weekend when the President delivered over 50 tweets on a variety of topics from Saturday Night ...
Rural Women Have Started and Led Monumental Women’s Movements
March 13, 2019 07:00 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBUntil about 1920, rural women in the United States outnumbered urban women and they were the genesis of many historic women’s movement initiatives. For example, rural women took the lead in temperance, women’s suffrage and gaining educational opportunities for women, according to Dr. Katherine Jellison, the Chairwoman of the History Department at Ohio University. Dr. Jellison also is co-chair of the national Rural Women’s Studies Association whose purpose is to “improve the visibility of r...
India-Pakistan Conflicts Ratchet Up Tensions in an Already Volatile Region
March 06, 2019 08:00 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBThe recent conflict between Pakistan and India makes an already volatile region of South Asia even more unstable. Over the past two weeks, the two countries have battled with air strikes into each country provoked by a suicide bombing that killed 40 people in India on February 14. It was executed by a terrorist from the often contested Kashmir region. This rare use of air power is a major concern because both of these neighboring countries are nuclear powers, says Michael Kugelman, a lead...
Libel Laws Protecting Media Assailed by Trump and Justice Clarence Thomas
February 27, 2019 13:49 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBDecades long protections afforded media against libel actions are being threatened to be upended by the duo of President Donald Trump and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. President Trump repeatedly has said that is should be easier to successfully sue the news media for libelous stories and that protections now afforded the media should be eradicated. He claims he will lead that charge. Just this month, he was joined in that belief by public statements made by Supreme Court Just...
Iran’s Strength is the Primary Target of the Trump Team in the Middle East
February 20, 2019 08:00 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MBWhen the dust settles from U.S. troop withdrawals in Syria and Afghanistan and troop build-ups in Iraq, the primary target of American hostility in the Middle East is Iran, according to Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, an expert in Middle East history, social movements, popular protests and U.S. Middle Eastern policy. He says, that while other troops are coming home, some of President Donald Trump’s advisors are “openly calling for military action and more sanctions against Iran.” Dr. Abu-Rish, the dire...
Blackface and Other Racist Symbols Still Plague Our 21st Century Society
February 13, 2019 08:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBDespite advances in civil rights in our country’s history, our society, in the 21st Century, is still plagued by racist symbols such as “blackface” and other racial stereotyping. It has been recently brought to the public’s attention through the publication of a blackface photo involving the Governor of Virginia and the admission by that State’s Attorney General that he appeared in blackface while in college in the 1980’s. Such denigration has continued in various forms to allow Caucasian...
Religion & Science are Bound Together by Public Policy and Political Authority
February 06, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBA new study will examine how the relationship between science and religion impacts political power, social authority and culture, according to Dr. Myrna Perez Sheldon, assistant professor of Gender and American Religion at Ohio University and editor of “Cosmologics,” a magazine that is the project of the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Perez Sheldon believes that too often we become fixated on whether science and religion are polar opposites of one ano...
Immigration Deadlock Strangles Congressional Initiatives & Real Reform
January 23, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBAs President Trump is deadlocked with Congress over border wall funding, the government suffers a partial shutdown and true immigration reform is put on the back burner. The fight over border wall funding is distracting Washington from making true immigration reform, according to Dr. Andrew Selee, the President of the Migration Policy Institute – a fact-based institute seeking to improve immigration and integration. Most Americans are in favor of controlled immigrations, according to Dr. S...
Wildlife Conservation in a Warzone: Perils and Triumphs in Afghanistan
January 16, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32 MBA new book, “The Snow Leopard Project and Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation” has been recently authored by Dr. Alex Dehgan. Dehgan is an entrepreneur, expedition leader, diplomat and development official who specializes in creative science, technology and leadership. The book is about his efforts as the Country Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Afghanistan Biodiversity Conservation Program. In the middle of a warzone, Dr. Dehgan helped created the first national pa...
Historical Documentary Building Blocks: People, Place, Stories and Events
January 02, 2019 08:00 - 47 minutes - 43 MB“Story” is tantamount when a filmmaker decides whether to make a film. If the story doesn’t resonate with the film’s creator, then the project will just be a jumble of parts. Story is the linkage that brings the chapters together to make a coherent film that is both informative and entertaining. This is the documentary filmmaking philosophy of Evan Shaw, a young award-winning producer of documentaries designed for public broadcasting. His films have ranged from athletic profiles and behi...
Historical Documentary Building Blocks: People, Place, Stories and Events
January 02, 2019 08:00 - 47 minutes - 43 MB“Story” is tantamount when a filmmaker decides whether to make a film. If the story doesn’t resonate with the film’s creator, then the project will just be a jumble of parts. Story is the linkage that brings the chapters together to make a coherent film that is both informative and entertaining. This is the documentary filmmaking philosophy of Evan Shaw, a young award-winning producer of documentaries designed for public broadcasting. His films have ranged from athletic profiles and behi...
Storytelling is Becoming More Experiential with New Available Technologies
December 26, 2018 08:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBJust reading a story, watching it on video, or listening to it on a podcast or audio book may be too static and traditional for new experiential story consumers. With the maturation of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, holographics, and other forms of non-traditional storytelling, soon consumers will be able to control their own interpretation of a story and experience the story through senses beyond sight and sound, according to Beth Novak, associate professor in the School of Medi...
Congressional Paralysis Caused by Must Win Mentality & Non-Stop Campaigning
December 19, 2018 08:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBThe consolidation of power in House of Representative leadership positions has spurred on the devolution of Congress from a “respected legislative institution to a body plagued by a win-at-all-costs mentality and a culture of perpetual campaigning,” says Donald Wolfensberger, author and scholar. Wolfensberger, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., also was a former Congressional staffer for nearly three decades...
Adult Literacy Efforts Make a Real Difference in Impoverished Areas of USA
December 12, 2018 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBAlthough much of this country’s educational focus is on P-12 grades, adult education cannot be ignored and adult literacy education is proven to be valuable in breaking links to poverty and improving job possibilities for those who participate. Adult literacy education improves a student’s abilities and possibilities across a lifespan. Recently, the Patton College of Education at Ohio University became the first four year institution in Ohio to receive a special Aspire Grant from the Ohio ...
Climate Change: USA Once a Leader in Solutions but Now an Outlier to China
December 05, 2018 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBThe United States once was a leader in recognizing and combatting the threats of climate change. But, under the Trump Administration, America has become the global outlier in the efforts to solve climate change problems, according to expert Dr. Geoffrey Dabelko. Dr. Dabelko is a professor, director of the Environmental Science Program and Associate Dean at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University. Previously he served 15 years as director of the Environmental...
Climate Change: USA Once a Leader in Solutions but Now an Outlier to China
December 05, 2018 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBThe United States once was a leader in recognizing and combatting the threats of climate change. But, under the Trump Administration, America has become the global outlier in the efforts to solve climate change problems, according to expert Dr. Geoffrey Dabelko. Dr. Dabelko is a professor, director of the Environmental Science Program and Associate Dean at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University. Previously he served 15 years as director of the Environmental...
NPR Editor Shares Insights into Trump’s Border Issues and Other Trump Policies
November 28, 2018 08:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBConfusion has been a feature of the Trump Administration’s policies toward immigration and especially the current border issues with migrants and the caravan from Honduras. Philip Ewing, national security editor for National Public Radio (NPR), says the recent tear gassing of migrants at the southern border of the United States was a result of some of that confusion. He notes specifically that the gassing was administered by border law enforcement officers who allegedly felt threatened by o...
Innovation Disruption in the Beverage Business? You Bet, Says Coke VP
November 21, 2018 08:00 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBWhen we hear the words “innovation” and “entrepreneurship” we don’t always think of well-established brands like Coca-Cola. However, Coke is one of the world’s leaders in developing new beverages and cutting-edge technologies to deliver them to customers. Chris Hellman, global vice president and general manager of the Coca-Cola Freestyle Division, is the embodiment of innovation within the highly competitive beverage industry. Hellmann says it is Coke’s goal to be a “total beverage compan...
Health Deserts Plague Rural Areas but Specific Programs are Addressing Needs
November 14, 2018 08:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBRural Health Day is November 15 and it’s designed to throw a spotlight on health care problems facing rural areas and some of the solutions being proposed. Currently, over 60 million Americans live and work in rural areas. That equates to nearly one in five Americans or 20 percent of the population. Yet, many health issues facing rural communities are still unresolved. Local hospitals are closing in large numbers, doctors are disappearing from rural regions, and certain medical conditions ...
Midterms Meaner and More Costly than Ever says TIME Correspondent Elliott
November 07, 2018 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBIn addition to President Donald Trump’s scorched-earth campaigning, overall political races in 2018 have been meaner and more costly than ever, according to TIME, Inc. Washington Correspondent Philip Elliott. Most candidates, at least on the Republican side, attempted to mimic the President’s combative campaign style, Elliott says. However, many did not feel comfortable with that type of overly harsh campaigning which often was not factually based. Democrats also found it difficult to respo...
Hate Speech from the Top Can Heighten Chances for Violence
October 31, 2018 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBAs a nation, our population is divided into political and ideological tribes who only listen to others who agree with them and demonize anyone who is different from them, according to Dr. Scott Titsworth, dean of the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. Thus, we have a nation of rhetorically warring camps who do not agree even on the basics and find the opposition to not only be wrong but dangerous and evil, according to Dr. Titsworth. As the verbal attacks ratchet up and t...
Medicine & Innovation Combine at the Cleveland Clinic through Dr. Frank Papay
October 24, 2018 07:00 - 37 minutes - 33.8 MBDr. Frank Papay is the chair of the Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Health System. He also is a physician who combines innovation with the healing arts of medicine. Dr. Papay has spearheaded the Cleveland Clinic’s work in the emerging field of face transplants among other notable surgical breakthroughs. He and a team of gifted surgeons have been featured for this work in National Geographic. Here is the full story: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magaz...
Trump Inflames His Base to Raise Enthusiasm for Nov. 6th Midterm Elections
October 17, 2018 07:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBSince the successful vote putting Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court of the United States, President Trump has been characterizing the events surrounding that confirmation to fire the fears of his political base, according to Philip Elliott, a Washington correspondent for Time, Inc. Trump has been using the protests of various citizen groups and the challenges by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to characterize the Democrats as an “angry mob” out to still “get” Justice ...
David Brooks, NYT Columnist, Explores the Grassroots for Trust & Connection
October 10, 2018 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB“New York Times” columnist and PBS NewsHour and NPR commentator David Brooks is searching for the heart, soul and future of America by traveling to smaller communities examining how they are successfully addressing issues. In March 2018, Brooks was appointed Executive Director of “Weave: The Social Fabric Project” sponsored by the Aspen Institute. The project is searching for local initiatives that build trust, connection and relationships among local groups with sometimes disparate backgr...
Higher Education Still Has Value Says an Emeritus President of Two Universities
October 03, 2018 07:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBHigher education still has value either in preparing someone for a career or enhancing his/her worldview through general studies. So says Dr. Robert Glidden, President Emeritus at Ohio University and California Polytechnic State University. He has had a career of over four decades in higher education administration. Despite the rising costs of a university education, Dr. Glidden feels that a college education pays off for the student both through enhanced career opportunities and broader k...
Healthcare is Boosted by Artificial Intelligence Innovations, Says Expert
September 26, 2018 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBArtificial intelligence may be on the brink of revolutionizing worldwide healthcare says digital strategist and award winning journalist Randy Rieland. Data being analyzed by artificial intelligence have allowed improved diagnostics and more targeted treatments for many types of diseases, including cancer. Artificial intelligence also has markedly improved medical record keeping and advanced radiological procedures, Rieland says. In addition to improved diagnostics, record keeping and rad...