In Venezuela, anti-government demonstrators clash with forces loyal to the president. 1/18 France deploys a massive police presence, bracing for a repeat of last year's May 1 violence. 2/18 Twenty-seven years ago, L.A. burned after four cops were acquitted for the savage beating
From a 1983 profile in 60 Minutes, Captain Grace M. Hopper, former American computer scientist and Navy rear admiral, and one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, explains a nanosecond. You can skip to 4:00, but the whole thing is good.
Thousands of schoolchildren in Puerto Rico have developed symptoms of PTSD due to the stresses of Hurricane Maria. 1/14 Trump has instructed officials to issue new regulations that would speed up immigration cases in court and impose an application fee for asylum seekers. 2/14 Donald Trump and three
This week's ambience: A neural network generates infinite technical death metal.
"This greatly encourages us and gives us hope." Brief interviews with members of the global climate strike movement. 1/18 France’s Macron promises reforms to the yellow vest movement, but many see Macron as the problem. 2/18 Since 1989, 2,425 wrongfully convicted people in the
Estimates show immigration can lower the Social Security deficit by offsetting record numbers of retiring boomers. 1/20 Trump flip-flopped in his definition of a "great job" on border arrests; though by either measure, Bush and Obama outpaced him. 2/20 UCLA and Cal State LA quarantined
Greenland's ice is melting six times faster than it did in the 1980s. The ice losses are likely to get worse. 1/19 More than 600 million Indians face acute water shortages. Climate change will be a "force multiplier" for the crisis. 2/19 Los Angeles
In 1999, John Peel visited British towns that spawned music trends. Here he is in Cornwall with Richard D. James (The Aphex Twin), David Hodge, a Cornish language poet, and Helen from In Watermelon Sugar.
Botanists found a rare hibiscus flower, Hibiscadelphus woodii, thought to be a extinct, by flying a drone down a cliff face in Kauai (skip to 00:58 for the goods). They’d hiked 700 ft down from the top of the Kalalau Valley cliffs to get there, but couldn’t
Sri Lanka has detained 18 more suspects in its hunt for the bombers who killed more than 350 people on Sunday. 1/18 Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin delays a decision on whether to release Trump's tax returns to Congress, saying he needs until May 6, "after receiving
