最佳Milesobrien播客 (2024)

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Episode 36: The Fight for Secure Elections - with Donna Curling 20:49

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Today is Election Day—at long last. I am exhausted, and I suspect many of you feel the same way. I am in Georgia to cover this important day in history for the PBS News Hour. I'm sure you know by now Georgia is one of the seven swing States where the actual decision will be made on who is our next president. Despite no evidence to support the notio…

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Black Box Episode 3: Inside the Cockpit of JAL 123, The Worst Single Aircraft Accident in History - Part 3 44:35

2+ y ago44:35

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In this three part miniseries, Miles O'Brien and Lars Perkins - along with several special guests - investigate the bizarre circumstances that led to one of the most fatal plane crashes of all time. This is the story of Japan Air Lines Flight 123.由Miles O'Brien

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Black Box Episode 2: Inside the Cockpit of JAL 123, The Worst Single Aircraft Accident in History - Part 2 25:51

2+ y ago25:51

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In this three part miniseries, Miles O'Brien and Lars Perkins - along with several special guests - investigate the bizarre circumstances that led to one of the most fatal plane crashes of all time. This is the story of Japan Air Lines Flight 123.由Miles O'Brien

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Black Box Episode 1: Inside the Cockpit of JAL 123, The Worst Single Aircraft Accident in History - Part 1 34:31

2+ y ago34:31

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In this three part miniseries, Miles O'Brien and Lars Perkins - along with several special guests - investigate the bizarre circumstances that led to one of the most fatal plane crashes of all time. This is the story of Japan Air Lines Flight 123.由Miles O'Brien

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Episode 32: What Happened to China Eastern Flight MU5735 31:27

2+ y ago31:27

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Miles to Go returns after a long hiatus. In this “black box” special, Miles O’Brien talks with two pilots to try and understand why the 737 plummeted to the ground so suddenly and precipitously. Was it deliberate?由MOBIAS Productions

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Episode 31: The Challenge of Robots and Artificial Intelligence, a Retrospective – with AI Pioneer Marvin Minsky 35:23

6y ago35:23

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Marvin Minsky is often regarded as the father of modern AI, but when Miles visited him in 2010, Minsky wasn’t a proud father. In fact, Minsky was disappointed with the lack of progress in the field and had reservations about its future. Unfortunately, Minsky is no longer with us and can’t answer our questions about machine learning and new robots, …

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Episode 30: How and Why We’re Sampling Asteroid Bennu – with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Team 29:39

6y ago29:39

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How did our early solar system form? What are the origins of life? How likely are we to get hit by a dangerous asteroid? A daring NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx hopes to find the answers to these big questions at an asteroid named Bennu. This week, the spacecraft arrives at its destination. To learn more, Miles sits down with members of the OSIRIS-…

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Episode 29: Why Europa is the Most Likely Spot We’ll Find Aliens – with NASA’s Kevin Peter Hand 25:42

6y ago25:42

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Jupiter has many moons, but none are quite like Europa: it has a thick crust of ice and a huge amount of liquid saltwater underneath its surface. In fact, many believe it’s the best place in the Solar System that we could find other lifeforms. To dive deeper into the mysteries of this icy world–and how we plan on exploring it–Miles sits down with K…

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Episode 28: How Average Americans are Fighting Climate Change – with Clean Air Carolina’s June Blotnick 33:51

6y ago33:51

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Hurricane Florence was a perfect example of how climate change supercharges extreme weather events. But climate change also affects us in other more subtle, interconnected, and difficult to manage ways. Thankfully, people like June Blotnick, Executive Director of environmental advocacy group Clean Air Carolina, are working on the ground to help com…

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Episode 27: Steve Squyres – On Exploring Mars, and Other Celestial Objects 46:42

6y ago46:42

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Steve Squyres is the principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover Program, which gave us the plucky and productive rovers Spirit and Opportunity. With the latter on life support and the former no longer with us, I spoke with him about his amazing run on Mars and what he’s working on now. It’s all out-of-this-world stuff.…

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Episode 26: The Murky World of Science Transparency – Hash it Out with NYU Professor George D. Thurston 35:37

6+ y ago35:37

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There are calls in the EPA and in Congress for the use of more transparent science. But what does that mean? Why do scientists seem united against these regulations? And what would it mean if they went into effect? In this special Hash it Out episode, Brian and Fedor talk to vocal opponent of science transparency regulations George D. Thurston, Dir…

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Episode 25: Snorkeling with Some Wild Dolphin Friends – or Another Day in the Office for Denise Herzing 46:00

6+ y ago46:00

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For more than three decades, behavioral biologist Denise Herzing has tracked and observed a pod of wild spotted dolphins that live in the warm clear waters of the Bahamas. She’s learned an awful lot about their behaviors and their communication–or is it a language? Denise has as good a chance as anyone to find out what the dolphins might be saying …

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Episode 24: The Blessing and Curse of Methane – Hash it Out 42:24

6+ y ago42:24

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Methane is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde kind of gas: on one hand, it is the cleanest-burning fossil fuel. On the other, if it leaks, methane itself is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. In this special Hash It Out episode, Brian and Fedor go from 18th century Italian methane guns to present day Google Street View cars that sniff ou…

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Episode 23: Inside the Legal Battle to Ban a Deadly Neurotoxin - with Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky 29:05

6+ y ago29:05

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For several years, environmental advocacy groups have been fighting to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos from agricultural use. A turnover in leadership at the EPA has led to a moment of indecision on what to do about the chemical. Robert Sapolsky is a neuroscientist who’s spent a long time assisting in the legal battle against chlorpyrifos. We discus…

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Episode 22: The Chemical Ban That Got a Reprieve from Trump’s EPA – with Miriam Rotkin-Ellman of the Natural Resources Defense Council 34:59

6+ y ago34:59

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After years of exhaustive research linking the pesticide chlorpyrifos to a host of developmental and cognitive deficiencies in children, the EPA was poised to ban the chemical in November 2016. But something else happened that same month; the election of Donald Trump. As a result, this potent neurotoxin is still in use. Miriam Rotkin-Ellman is a se…

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Episode 21: The Promise and Peril of AI – Hash it Out with Tech Entrepreneur Lars Perkins 46:25

6+ y ago46:25

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not off in the distant future... in some ways it is already here. How is AI already changing our lives? Does it work independently of us or does it also have our all-too-human biases? After hashing out machine learning on Episode 19, Brian and Fedor sit down with Picasa founder and serial tech entrepreneur Lars Perki…

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Episode 20: Welcome to the Madhouse – with Michael Mann and Tom Toles 37:46

6+ y ago37:46

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Communicating the science of climate change, with its overwhelming expert consensus, seems like it should be easy. However, a science-averse media and strong fossil fuel lobby make it exceedingly difficult. Climatologist Michael Mann and cartoonist Tom Toles have teamed up to put climate change in context in their new book, The Madhouse Effect: How…

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Episode 19: What is Machine Learning and How is it Used? – Hash it Out with Cameron Hickey 52:09

6+ y ago52:09

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What is machine learning? How does it work? What are these artificially intelligent algorithms useful for? Considering they are used by Amazon, Google, Netflix, Facebook and many other companies we interact with on a daily basis, what are the benefits and drawbacks? Thanks to a listener suggestion, we decided to delve deeper on the subject. Miles O…

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Episode 18: Searching for Methane, the Other Greenhouse Gas - with Robert Green of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory 26:51

6+ y ago26:51

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Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than Carbon Dioxide. It is more short-lived than CO2 (about a decade as opposed a century), but it is 85 times more effective at warming. Robert Green is a world-renowned expert in spectroscopy, which is a great way to find methane on distant planets, but also ours, as I learned in this interview.…

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Episode 17: The Software We Wrote to Understand Junk News - with Producer Cameron Hickey 51:38

6+ y ago51:38

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In the final episode in our series on Junk News, some wisdom from one of the leading experts in the murky world of online misinformation. He also happens to be the producer of the series that we aired on the PBS NewsHour. Now he’s taking the software he wrote to Harvard, where they hope to find new ways to combat Junk News. I hope you enjoy this ta…

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Episode 16: Inside Facebook - with Tessa Lyons, Head of News Feed Integrity 45:23

6+ y ago45:23

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Facebook was created for people to share family photos and memories. But as ads entered the mix, the platform was refined to hold our attention for as long as possible. Quality was not a consideration - until recently. But how to fix the junk news mess without editing it? Maybe Facebook needs a newsroom.…

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Episode 15: Inside the Filter Bubble - with Eli Pariser, the man who coined the phrase 37:05

6+ y ago37:05

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The Internet was supposed to provide a utopian virtual world where all of us could come together in peace, love and harmony to better understand each other and our differing viewpoints… But we got derailed on the road to utopia, didn’t we? Eli Pariser, the man who coined the phrase “filter bubble”, knows as much about this as anyone. I hope you enj…

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Episode 14: Understanding the Eruption at Kilauea – with Geologist Mike Garcia 37:46

6+ y ago37:46

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As Hawaii trembles with earthquakes and the Kilauea volcano continues to spew forth lava and gas, residents and the wider world watch and wonder: how long will this renewed activity continue? To find out, we turn to Mike Garcia, professor of geology at the University of Hawaii and funded by the National Science Foundation. He has been following the…

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Episode 13: A Junk News Pioneer - with Cyrus Massoumi, Part 2 53:48

6+ y ago53:48

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Russian actors may have run an online disinformation campaign during the 2016 US presidential elections, but they likely learned their tactics from Americans. As part of our investigation, PBS NewsHour series producer Cameron Hickey tracked down one of these junk news pioneers, Cyrus Massoumi. He runs liberal and conservative junk news sites, which…

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Episode 12: A Junk News Pioneer - with Cyrus Massoumi, Part 1 55:07

6+ y ago55:07

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Russian actors may have run an online disinformation campaign during the 2016 US presidential elections, but they likely learned their tactics from Americans. As part of our investigation, PBS NewsHour series producer Cameron Hickey tracked down one of these junk news pioneers, Cyrus Massoumi. He runs liberal and conservative junk news sites, which…

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Episode 36: The Fight for Secure Elections - with Donna Curling 20:49

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Black Box Episode 3: Inside the Cockpit of JAL 123, The Worst Single Aircraft Accident in History - Part 3 44:35

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Black Box Episode 2: Inside the Cockpit of JAL 123, The Worst Single Aircraft Accident in History - Part 2 25:51

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Black Box Episode 1: Inside the Cockpit of JAL 123, The Worst Single Aircraft Accident in History - Part 1 34:31

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Episode 32: What Happened to China Eastern Flight MU5735 31:27

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Episode 31: The Challenge of Robots and Artificial Intelligence, a Retrospective – with AI Pioneer Marvin Minsky 35:23

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Episode 30: How and Why We’re Sampling Asteroid Bennu – with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Team 29:39

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Episode 29: Why Europa is the Most Likely Spot We’ll Find Aliens – with NASA’s Kevin Peter Hand 25:42

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Episode 28: How Average Americans are Fighting Climate Change – with Clean Air Carolina’s June Blotnick 33:51

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Episode 27: Steve Squyres – On Exploring Mars, and Other Celestial Objects 46:42

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Episode 26: The Murky World of Science Transparency – Hash it Out with NYU Professor George D. Thurston 35:37

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Episode 25: Snorkeling with Some Wild Dolphin Friends – or Another Day in the Office for Denise Herzing 46:00

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Episode 24: The Blessing and Curse of Methane – Hash it Out 42:24

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Episode 23: Inside the Legal Battle to Ban a Deadly Neurotoxin - with Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky 29:05

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Episode 22: The Chemical Ban That Got a Reprieve from Trump’s EPA – with Miriam Rotkin-Ellman of the Natural Resources Defense Council 34:59

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Episode 21: The Promise and Peril of AI – Hash it Out with Tech Entrepreneur Lars Perkins 46:25

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Episode 20: Welcome to the Madhouse – with Michael Mann and Tom Toles 37:46

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Episode 19: What is Machine Learning and How is it Used? – Hash it Out with Cameron Hickey 52:09

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Episode 18: Searching for Methane, the Other Greenhouse Gas - with Robert Green of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory 26:51

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Episode 17: The Software We Wrote to Understand Junk News - with Producer Cameron Hickey 51:38

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Episode 16: Inside Facebook - with Tessa Lyons, Head of News Feed Integrity 45:23

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Episode 15: Inside the Filter Bubble - with Eli Pariser, the man who coined the phrase 37:05

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Episode 14: Understanding the Eruption at Kilauea – with Geologist Mike Garcia 37:46

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Episode 13: A Junk News Pioneer - with Cyrus Massoumi, Part 2 53:48

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Episode 12: A Junk News Pioneer - with Cyrus Massoumi, Part 1 55:07

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