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What if, either by the slow creep of technological obsolescence or sudden cosmic disaster, we were cut off from our electronic records? (episode)
NASA's archives faced technological extinction, until a series of happy accidents allowed Keith Cowing to rescue the iconic photograph, Earthrise.
Four decades after he co-developed one of the protocols that made the internet a reality, Vint Cerf is worried about our digital future.
Could a solar flare cause a digital meltdown? Brooke speaks with Lucianne Walkowicz, astronomer at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, about the sun's power to affect our electrical grid.
Rocky Rawlins created the Survivor Library in preparation for a solar flare taking us back to a pre-digital age.
Paper burns. Bits rot. CDs decay. But DNA can last tens of thousands of years. That's why researchers in England have developed a way to code digital data into the code of life.
Novelist Margaret Atwood recently handed in a new manuscript, Scribbler Moon, to the Future Library -- which means we'll have to wait until 2114 to read it.
A guide to moving your data from those obsolete cassettes, tapes and even floppy disks to somewhere you can actually use them.
What if, either by the slow creep of technological obsolescence or sudden cosmic disaster, we no longer could draw from the well of of knowledge accrued through the ages? (episode)
Horror in Charleston, the subversive power of comedy, and the "I'm not a scientist" defense. (episode)
Brooke traces the historical legacy of racially-motivated hate crimes in the wake of this week's shootings in Charleston.
Humza Arshad, a British-Pakistani comedian and YouTube star, makes teens laugh -- and steers them away from religious extremism and ISIS recruitment.
A home-grown cartoon character named Abdullah-X is the face of a grassroots approach to anti-extremism.
Middle Eastern cartoonist Khalid Albaih believes that cartoons can deliver vital political truths in a way that bypass restrictions on expression.
Myths abound about the Supreme Court's imminent ruling on the Affordable Care Act.
Bob raises an eyebrow at the perennial non-denial denial of climate change.
Tell us your story about not being able to access a part of your personal history - photos, files, etc - because they're trapped on old technology. (article)
What you need to know about filming the police and understanding massive data breaches, the importance of coding, and the future of storytelling via virtual reality. (episode)
As another disturbing video of police action goes viral, we provide a handbook for filming police encounters and bearing witness.
Governments get hacked - it's almost inevitable. The bigger the hack - the more acute the subsequent panic. Here's a breaking news consumer's handbook to help you make sense of a hack.
Most of us are familiar with Facebook or Apple products, but don't really understand the code that animates them. Programmer Paul Ford wants to change that.
Brooke speaks with journalist Loren Ghiglione, who believes he might have found some answers about the future of journalism in the science fiction of the past.
Bob takes a tour of an exhibit that lets him soar like bird, visit a refugee camp in Syria, and smell Goldilocks' porridge.
Two newspapers' quests to count every person killed by police in 2015, how librarians shaped the original debate over the Patriot Act, and more. (episode)
Two newspapers have published databases attempting to count everyone killed by police in 2015. Brooke speaks to the reporters behind the investigations.
The police are involved in shootings every single day, but the headlines often obscure their role in violent incidents.
Research shows the media disproportionately portray African-Americans as criminals. Brooke speaks with Nazgol Ghandnoosh of The Sentencing Project about racial bias in news coverage.
The author of a story about an inflammatory report from Colombia explains why he wishes his reporting never got picked up by outside news outlets.
This week, the Supreme Court made its first ruling on a case about the nebulous world of violent online speech.
Once called the "library provision," Section 215 of the Patriot Act forced libraries to become headliners in the battle waged to protect American freedoms.