When Experts Attack!
Mahbub Rashid says his book is the first to examine how spatial qualities impact health issues for people living in areas that aren’t strictly rural or metropolitan.
info_outline The self-driving future of deliveriesWhen Experts Attack!
Sara Reed, an expert in transportation logistics, has extensively researched autonomous vehicle delivery. She discusses the technology’s benefits for businesses and whether they’ll outweigh potential drawbacks for customers and human employees — as well as other considerations for society’s driverless future.
info_outline People mimic Southern accentsWhen Experts Attack!
Linguist Lacey Wade has discovered many of us shift our speech in expectation of what others might sound like, especially in respect to the U.S. Southern accent.
info_outline Culture shapes how our brains learn (transcript)When Experts Attack!
BRENDAN LYNCH, HOST: We live in a time where nothing is true. An era where reality and hoax look the same on the internet. Whoa, wait a second. There are people who actually know what they're talking about — dangerous people. We call them experts. We're giving these experts a megaphone to drop some truth bombs. If you can handle the truth. I'm Brendan Lynch, and I'm the host of “When Experts Attack!.” We used to think you could teach math to a student in the American Midwest just the same as you'd instruct a student on the other side of the world. But Michael Orosco,...
info_outline Culture shapes how our brains learnWhen Experts Attack!
People don’t learn the same way everywhere — in large part this comes down to culture. Guest Michael Orosco says new culturally responsive studies in neuroscience show working memory, executive function and other cognitive functions are influenced by how we grew up, where we were raised and the languages we speak.
info_outline Wrongful convictions are political (transcript)When Experts Attack!
BRENDAN LYNCH, HOST: We live in a time where nothing is true. An era where reality and hoax look the same on the internet. Whoa, wait a second. There are people who actually know what they're talking about — dangerous people. We call them experts. We're giving these experts a megaphone to drop some truth bombs. If you can handle the truth. I'm Brendan Lynch, and I'm the host of “When Experts Attack!.” If you've watched “When They See Us,” listened to the podcast “Serial” or learned about local cases in the news — maybe you've noticed more stories about...
info_outline Wrongful convictions are politicalWhen Experts Attack!
Public policy expert Kevin Mullinix discusses how policy reforms to reduce wrongful convictions depend on political sentiments in any given U.S. state, along with leanings of the governor and sway held by innocence-advocacy groups.
info_outline AI is an elephant in the classroom (transcript)When Experts Attack!
BRENDAN LYNCH, HOST: We live in a time where nothing is true. An era where reality and hoax look the same on the internet. Whoa, wait a second. There are people who actually know what they're talking about dangerous people. We call them experts. We're giving these experts a megaphone to drop some truth bombs. If you can handle the truth. I'm Brendan Lynch, and I'm the host of “When Experts Attack!.” For Kathryn Conrad, artificial intelligence is the elephant in the classroom, one that can no longer be safely ignored. It's better, she believes, to try to establish some parameters for...
info_outline AI is an elephant in the classroomWhen Experts Attack!
Kathryn Conrad, University of Kansas professor of English, says artificial intelligence can no longer safely be ignored in academia. It’s better, she believes, to try to establish some guideposts in a wild and wooly AI frontier.
info_outline Incentive resentmentWhen Experts Attack!
Robert McDonald resents the intrusion of incentives into virtually every facet of modern life, from healthcare to education to the legal system. He lays out how this happened and offers ways to counter the false choices offered from on high.
info_outlineMahbub Rashid says his book is the first to examine how spatial qualities impact health issues for people living in areas that aren’t strictly rural or metropolitan.