Police Shootings, Preventing Metastasis, Mauna Kea

The Complicated Story of Racial Bias and Fatal Police Shootings Guest: David Johnson, Post-doctoral Researcher in the Lab for Applied Social Science Research, University of Maryland As Gilroy, California reels from a mass shooting that killed three and injured at least a dozen at a community festival yesterday, we’re going to focus on another aspect of gun violence in America–fatal shootings of civilians by police officers. A black person in America is more than twice as likely to be fatally shot by a police officer as a white person is. That troubling discrepancy helped give rise to the Black Lives Matter movement and has prompted police departments across the country to hire more officers of color and require racial bias training.  New Discovery Could Prevent Cancer from Spreading Guest: Andre Levchenko, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. But what typically makes cancer so deadly isn’t the initial tumor. It’s when the tumor cells spread throughout the body. If scientists could figure out how to stop that spread, it’d be a game-changer for cancer treatment. Protests and Telescopes on Mauna Kea Guest: Noenoe Silva, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Author, “Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism” A massive new telescope is planned for the top of Hawaii’s highest peak –the Maunakea volcano. The conditions atop the mountain are so good –and the planned telescope so big –that astronomers believe it will unlock mysteries of the universe and provide views of space even better than the Hubble telescope which is up in space. But Maunakea is sacred land to Native Hawaiians. Thousands have spent the last week blocking the access to the site where construction is set to begin. Brain Scans Often Misinterpreted in Criminal Justice System Guest: Eyal Aharoni, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, & Neuroscience, Georgia State University If someone commits a crime and, afterward,