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Alexis Hiniker and Jason Yip, Kids Find Technology Creepy May 24, 2019

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Alexis Hiniker and Jason Yip research the relationships people have with technology, and they have a program where they work alongside children to come up with new designs.

They noticed that the kids described lot of technology as "creepy." But what exactly does "creepy" mean? Hiniker and Yip interviewed them about it, and found fascinating answers about what makes kids uncertain or concerned about artificial intelligence and smart home devices. As this technology becomes more deeply integrated into all of our lives and also increasingly complex, how do we make sure it's not, well ... creepy?

Hiniker and Yip are both assistant professors at The University of Washington's Information School.

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Stephanie Ranade Krider, Abortion and the Alabama Ban May 23, 2019

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Stephanie Ranade Krider is the Executive Director of Ohio Right to Life, a politically strategic pro-life organization. Dave asks her what life would look like for the most vulnerable women in states like Alabama if the constitutional right to abortion were overturned.

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Andrea Rodgers, How to Sue the US Government Over Climate Change May 22, 2019

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Andrea Rodgers is a senior attorney with Our Children's Trust. She represents the youth plaintiffs in Juliana vs. United States, a constitutional climate lawsuit. The plaintiffs claim that the US government knew about the catastrophic effects of climate change years ago and did not act, and the resulting extreme weather events violate their rights to life, liberty and property.

The case will appear before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, June 4th in Portland, Oregon.

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Philip Van Cleave, Red Flag Laws and Making the NRA Look Moderate May 21, 2019

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Philip Van Cleave is the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun-rights organization that some consider more conservative than the NRA. The Virginia Citizens Defense League supports allowing guns on school grounds and college campuses as well as in libraries, government facilities and bars,and opposes universal background checks.

Dave talks with Philip about the red flag laws that have swept across states after the Parkland shooting, laws which allow a state court to temporarily take firearms away from a person if they are reported by family or police as a threat to themselves or others.

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Jared Diamond, Turning Points for Nations in Crisis May 15, 2019

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Jared Diamond is a geographer, historian and author best known for his international bestseller Guns, Germs and Steel. He talks with Dave Ross about his newest book, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, in which he compares how six different countries emerged from periods of immense and historic change. Dave and Jared discuss an existential crisis at the root of Jared's own life work, and that feels particularly relevant as America spirals towards a crisis of our own: can we learn from our history?

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Stacy Mitchell, Amazon, Antitrust Laws and Lower Prescription Prices in North Dakota May 14, 2019

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Stacy Mitchell talks with Dave Ross about how federal agencies are failing to crack down on monopoly businesses like Amazon, and what we can do to protect local, independently-owned small businesses at a state level. She's the co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a policy and advocacy group. They discuss a case study out of North Dakota, where every pharmacy is a small business owned by a real pharmacist, thanks to a law from the 1960s. You would struggle to find a CVS or Walmart pharmacy in the entire state, and it's led to better competition and even lower prescription drug prices.

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Ken Armstrong, A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America May 13, 2019

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Ken Armstrong won a Pulitzer Prize for his work documenting the story of a young woman in Lynnwood who was brutally assaulted by a serial rapist. Her account was doubted by both her foster parents and the Lynnwood Police Department, and she was criminally charged with filing a false police report.

Now, Armstrong examines the history of skepticism towards rape victims in A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America, co-authored with T. Christian Miller. The book is being adapted into a Netflix series, set to begin streaming on September 13th.

Ken Armstrong will receive the 2019 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for excellence in writing and participate in a discussion at Elliott Bay Books on Monday, May 13th at 7:00 PM.

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Janet Napolitano, How Safe Are We? May 06, 2019

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Dave sits down with Janet Napolitano, former Secretary of Homeland Security under the Obama Administration, to talk about how safe our nation really is. They discuss what border security looks like on a practical level, and also what kind of concerns we should have about cyber security as we move ahead to the 2020 presidential election.

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Mark Titus, The Wild May 03, 2019

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Mark Titus is the director and producer of a new film, The Wild. It's about the last fully-intact wild salmon run in Alaska, and the copper mine that might threaten its existence. The Wild premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 19th

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Kan Qiu, Challenging Initiative 1000 May 02, 2019

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Dave spoke several weeks ago on the podcast with Jesse Wineberry about Initiative 1000: an attempt to lift a prior statewide ban on affirmative action. I-1000 has since passed in the Washington state legislature, and it collected a record-breaking number of signatures to get there. This week, Dave talks with Kan Qui who, with backing from Washington Asians for Equality, filed Referendum 88 this week in an attempt to force I-1000 onto the ballot. Washington Asians For Equality has fiercely opposed I-1000, and Qui explains that he sees the initiative as a disguised attempt to discriminate against Asian-Americans at public universities.

You can find Jesse Wineberry's episode about I-1000 here.

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