The Digital Divide

How do the latest technologies affect our communities? How can we use science to benefit society and how do we keep it from harming us?

KBOO's The Digital Divide attempts to answer these questions and ask a few of our own through interviews, recordings, and commentary. The show touches upon such issues as open source, privacy, transparency, intellectual property, free speech, accessibility, hacking, net neutrality, file sharing, piracy, social networking, pollution, bioethics and more.

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Digital Divide for August 13, 2010

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Fri, 08/13/2010

If you use computers and internet, chances are you use open source software. Whether its word processing with OpenOffice, browsing the internet with Firefox, or serving up web pages with Apache, there's an open source solution for just about any problem. But can open source help us build a better voting system?

Dave DeAngelis speaks with Greg Miller of the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation about creating an open source, publicly owned, and trustworthy voting technology for any U.S. elections jurisdiction.

We'll also hear a recorded talk with Howard Rhinegold, Professor at Stanford and Berkeley, about how open source software encourages collaborative thinking and development.

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Digital Divide for July 2010

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Sun, 07/11/2010

Jeff Hylton Simmons of Radio23.org and Cherie Blackfeather of VoxPopPDX talk with Rabia Yeaman about live internet radio. Have you dreamed of producing your own radio program, now you can on the internet. Listen in and learn how.

Dave DeAngelis speaks with Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research about what it would take to phase out fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Learn how we can use wind, solar, and biomass energy sources to achieve this goal and transition to a carbon-free and nuclear-free economy.

www.radio23.org

http://feeds.feedburner.com/VoxPopPdx

 

 

  • Length: 55:14 minutes (25.29 MB)
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Digital Divide for May 2010 - Jim Brau on Particle Physics

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Fri, 05/14/2010

Dave DeAngelis speaks with Jim Brau of the University of Oregon about the latest news in high-energy particle physics including the unification of forces, the mystery of dark matter, and the nature of mass.

Jim Brau's website

US Atlas experiments at CERN

More mysterious dark matter experiments

  • Length: 20:34 minutes (8.24 MB)
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TSA Full Body Scanners and Carbon Credits and Corporate Environmental Injustice

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Fri, 04/09/2010

The Digital Divide Archive for April 9th on KBOO 90.7 Fm.

Dave DeAngelis speaks with Michael German of the ACLU. Michael is National Security Policy Counsel with the ACLU Washington Legislative Office, and a former FBI agent who specialized in domestic terrorism cases. Michael will discuss the constitutionality of the TSA's new full body image scanners.

Rebecca Yeaman interviews Michael Dorsey, Professor at Dartmouth College. He'll explain what carbon credits are, how countries cheat, and the resulting environmental injustice of polluting on poor countries.

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Interview with Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear

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Fri, 03/12/2010

Dave DeAngelis interviews Kevin Kamps on Obama's plan to build new nuclear power plants and the impact on our environment.

  • Length: 23:26 minutes (21.46 MB)
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Nuclear waste expert Kevin Kamps and therapeutic trials with MDMA & LSD.

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Fri, 03/12/2010

This month Dave DeAngelis interviews Nuclear waste expert Kevin Kamps regarding President Obama's plans to build new nuclear power plants. We'll also hear Rabia Yeaman interview MAPS Kevin Henkin, about his organization's federally approved research with MDMA, Psyllosibin and LSD in clinical theraputic settings. And well listen to a talk with Howard Rheingold, Professor at Stanford and UC Berkely on "Search engines, critical thinking and elementary school students." So tune in to the Digital Divide, this Friday at 11 am on KBOO 90.7 FM, kboo.fm on the web.


The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
http://www.maps.org/

Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/

Howard Rheingold
http://www.rheingold.com/howard/

Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic
http://www.skaut.org/metaphysics/

MATRIX: The Center for Humane, Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online
http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/about/

  • Length: 47:37 minutes (32.7 MB)
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The Science Behind Greenhouse Gasses and Climate Change

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Fri, 12/11/2009

The corporate media has created a frenzy around leaked emails between climate scientists.  Meanwhile, global leaders and community activists convernge in Copenhagen.  Yet this month we take a step away from the politics to look at the science behind studying climate change.  While the concept of global warming has emerged from once being viewed as an unfounded cause from the environmental left to now a global concern unifying the naitons of the world, sceptics still claim that "bad science" is being used to support this effort.

We hear from Andrew Rice, a professor of physics at Portland State University who studies greenhouse gasses, to learn exactly what concepts and techniques scientists have used to produce data that supports the evidence that climate change is occuring in direction that will negativly impact the planet.  He and his students have been comparing the carbon dioxide levels of Portland's atmosphere to surrounding regions, as well as studying the carbon footprint of PSU.

Scientific Resources
Environmental Protection Agency's Findings
Oregon's Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reductions
RealClimate Blog by Climate Scientists
Opinion Study of Climate Scientists
YouTube Video Series Explaining Basics and Debunking Myths

Activism Resources
56 Newspapers Publish Editorial Calling for Action
Rising Tide
Climate Justice Action

 
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Nikki Giovanni Talks about Going to Mars

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Fri, 10/09/2009

Renowned Grammy-nominated poet, Nikki Giovanni, discusses going to Mars from a Clark College performance on our space-themed show.

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Gathering Outside OMSI Moon Simulcast

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Fri, 10/09/2009

NASA's bombing of the moon was set to take place at 4:31 AM.  For our membership drive special, we'll covered the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite or LCROSS mission.

In this audio, we hear from the crowd gathered outside OMSI, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.  OMSI had announced that they would be providing a video simulcast of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite impact on to the Moon.  However, many who showed up to watch were locked out and stuck in the cold to try and look up and view with the naked eye.  As the crowd grew restless, a group of protesters and mock counter-protesters arrived to debate the moon's plight.

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Reactions on Eve of Moon Bombing

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Fri, 10/09/2009

On the eve of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite or LCROSS mission, we ask people around Portland how they feel about the moon's bombing.

The purpose of the LCROSS mission is to send a spacecraft to impact the moon at high velocity and observe the impact and resulting cloud of debris to detect water.

You can read more about LCROSS on the NASA website.

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