Episode Description: For today’s tech episode. We’re going to be talking about… the crisis of e-waste and children’s health. We’ll specifically be referencing a report by the World Health Organization from 2021 titled “Children and digital dumpsites: e-waste exposure and child health” The report summarizes the latest scientific knowledge on the links between informal e-waste…
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EPISODE TITLE: #52 The Lasting Impact of Trauma With Professor Esther Villegas-Sandoval EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Esther Villegas-Sandoval is a sociology professor at the College of the Sequoias. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from California State University, Northridge where she focused her studies on the experiences of undocumented college students in Southern California. Her…
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Episode Description: How bananas led to the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government of Guatemala, violently reversing the progressive policies of the civilian governments. A coup that was ordered by the United Fruit Company ushering a 36-year civil war claiming the lives of about 200,000 people. If you aren’t from Guatemala or maybe even…
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Born in Guatemala Luis von Ahn is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, the world’s most popular language-learning platform.
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Mojo Vision has developed a new prototype of its augmented reality contact lenses. Biden warned that the Russian government could use cyberattacks to escalate the crisis. According to reports, Facebook might be underreporting child sexual abuse material.
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Since last September, an Indigenous community, refugees forced off their land by armed groups from Colombia’s ongoing rural violence, has been living in Bogotá’s central Olaya Herrera National Park.
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A decade after Mexico became a testbed for the global spy tool now known as Pegasus, prosecutors still cannot say who ordered the mass surveillance of innocent civilians and government critics.
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In today’s episode, we talk about a bill that is expected to be signed into law by Guatemala’s conservative president within weeks… if passed it would impose the harshest punishments for abortion of almost any country in Latin America.
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The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization.
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Stand-up comedian and tik tok content creator Che Guerrero has been facing his undocumented problem for 30 years. He does stand up and puts out content mainly through tik-tok about being undocumented and has recently released his own podcast called “Myundocumentedasspodcast” where he talks to other undocumented people about their personal struggles with the immigration system in a funny, revealing, and humanizing way.
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