Laws of War, Chocolate Milk, Sex Trafficking and Tech

Laws of War (1:09) Guest: Eric Jensen, BYU law professor The law of war is Top of Mind today as we kick things of with our monthly visit from BYU international law expert Eric Jensen. He is just back from a conference in Geneva, Switzerland debating the legality of a new generation of drone warfare. We also talk about the Blackwater guards who have recently be sentenced to lengthy prison terms for killing more than a dozen Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad traffic circle back in 2007. We also touch on the desertion charge now facing Bowe Bergdahl - the soldier who was freed nearly a year ago in exchange for several high-value Taliban leaders being held at Guantanamo Bay. “I would like to make a brief distinction between this idea of autonomous weapons and artificial intelligence,” says Jensen. “When people talk about killer robots sometimes what comes to mind is 'The Terminator' or a self-thinking machine. This is not what autonomous weapons are. We’re not talking about artificial intelligence, which is a system that can learn on its own and make its own decisions. We’re talking about an autonomous weapons system which means it’s only applying the alga rhythms and instructions that have been given by the human. There is a human putting all the information into that machine and telling that machine how to respond. That is a key difference.” Positive Effects of Chocolate Milk (35:04) Guest: John Ivy, an emeritus professor in kinesiology and health education at the University of Texas, whose research specializes in exercise and human performance That iconic image of a winning football coach getting a bucket of Gatorade dumped on his head after the game could get a lot messier as new research about the benefits of chocolate milk catches on. Yes, chocolate milk. It is no longer just a childhood favorite or special indulgence. Researchers have found it also just might be the perfect beverage for athletes. “We put the cyclists through two experiments. In the first, they did 1½ hours of intense exercise and at the end