Phone Spying

Guest: Quinn Mecham, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University Regular contributor Quinn Mecham discusses current world events including the currency crisis in Turkey and Iran, protests in Nicaragua, and nation-state law in Israel.

Guest: Jeremiah Wills, PhD, Associate Professor, Political Science & Sociology Department, Queens University of Charlotte College campuses have long been a battleground for political ideology. Students and faculty protest visiting speakers that are too liberal or too conservative – depending on the bent of the campus community. So what about inside classrooms, where the whole point is to explore new ideas and learn to think critically? Do all political viewpoints get an equal chance to be heard?

Guest: Sam Payne, Host of The Apple Seed Sam Payne of The Apple Seed shares a story.

Guest: Dennis Wall, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine  Children with autism often have trouble recognizing emotion in the faces of people around them, which poses a major obstacle to social interaction and making friends. Researchers at Stanford University have experimented with giving the kids high-tech glasses that can help them interpret facial expressions. And it has worked well in a pilot study.

Guest: Michelle Duster, Author, "Ida From Abroad," Speaker, Lecturer of Business Writing, Columbia College Chicago The courageous African American journalist who was born enslaved near the end of the Civil War, sued a railroad for discrimination, and risked her life to expose the violence of lynching in the Jim Crow South, may soon have a proper memorial to her legacy. A driving force behind honoring Ida B. Wells is her great granddaughter, Michelle Duster, who is a lecturer at Columbia College Chicago and member of the Ida B. Wells Memorial Foundation.