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Google's diversity problem

Aug. 09, 2017

Photo: The Google campus in Mountain View, CA (by Shawn Collins)

From this Episode:

How worried should you be about the rhetoric between North Korea and the U.S.?

It would take 30 minutes for a nuclear missile to travel from North Korea to Los Angeles. How close is that possibility? Many experts are saying the ratcheting up of...

9 min

Google tries -- and fails -- to achieve diversity in Silicon Valley

On Monday, Google fired engineer James Damore, who wrote an internal memo saying “biological causes” are partially to blame for the low numbers of women in tech. Damore has...

7 min

How pop culture is still treating women's lives as fairy tales

Strong female characters are more common in movies and TV now, but women are often still playing stereotypes. They might be hanging with the guys, swilling beer, bragging...

12 min

'Whose Streets:' View of Michael Brown killing from Ferguson residents

Today is the third anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The new film “Whose Streets” tells the story of Ferguson from the perspective of the...

10 min

Will rock band Journey break up over Donald Trump?

The Beatles had Yoko Ono; Journey may have Donald Trump. That’s an observation one journalist made as he wrote about the growing split in Journey. The band’s co-founder and...

6 min