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Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Wildfire Issues with guest Buzz Thompson" Is climate change to blame for recent natural disasters like California’s Camp Fire? Will law and policy make the appropriate adjustments to protect lives and property? Buzz Thompson, an expert in water and natural resources law shares his expertise on the issue. Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 19, 2019. Recorded at Stanford Video.

School's In with Dan Schwartz and Denise Pope: "Learning, Design, and Technology with guest Karin Forsell" Karin Forsell, director of the Learning, design, and technology master’s program, discusses some of the ways in which students and teachers are making the most of technology in the classroom. Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 19, 2019. Recorded at Stanford Video.

School's In with Dan Schwartz and Denise Pope: "Improving Education from the Inside with guest Heather Hough" Policy Analysis for California Education executive director Heather Hough talks about the value of arming local officials with the best information to make great decisions when it comes to improving schools. Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 19, 2019. Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Climate Change and the Law with guest Tom Heller" Stanford Law Professor Tom Heller, faculty director of the new Sustainable Finance Initiative at Stanford, discusses the legal and financial challenges in the effort to solve climate change. Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 19, 2019. Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf: "Launching Students to Adulthood with guest Abby Falik" Global Citizen Year founder and CEO Abby Falik discusses the importance of taking a year off between college and high school to work on projects in a non-classroom environment. Many call it taking a gap year, but she explains why it should be called a launch year. Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 15, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman: "Adina Sterling: How will artificial intelligence change hiring?" New technologies help bring increased efficiency to the hiring process, but also pose significant challenges. The next job search you conduct will likely be shaped by artificial intelligence. In the age of LinkedIn and Monster.com, job hunters can count on their resumes being screened by non-human intelligence. So what does this mean for the future of hiring? At a recent live taping of the Stanford School of Engineering podcast “The Future of Everything,” Adina Sterling, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business who studies labor markets, said that roughly three-quarters of the job applications received by major companies will be touched in some way by artificial intelligence. Because these hiring bots look for very specific criteria, qualified applicants may be screened out early in the process if their resumes don’t contain “the right buzzwords to ge

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman: "Alex Stamos: How do we preserve free speech in the era of fake news?" It’s nothing we haven’t already heard – the news you read is being shaped by the ubiquitous presence of social media. So-called “fake news” spread by bots and social media may continue to influence American elections and, ultimately, democracy. Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer at Facebook and an adjunct professor with Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, explained at a recent live taping of “The Future of Everything” that the emergence of social media has made everyone a potential publisher. “We will never go back to the era in which a small number of people control the flow of information,” Stamos says. While social media can be credited with democratizing the dissemination of information, these platforms have also become a hotbed of false and misleading content spread by domestic and foreign actors. Solving the “fake news” problem is extremely difficult

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Barriers to Voting with guest Rabia Belt" During each election, people with disabilities across the country face hurdles to casting their votes while thousands of formerly-incarcerated citizens are barred completely from this essential democratic act. Assistant Professor of Law Rabia Belt discusses voting rights for people with disabilities and the formerly incarcerated. Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 8, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Religious Liberty in the Workplace with guests Jim Sonne and Liz Klein" Jim Sonne, professor of law and founding director of the Religious Liberty Clinic at Stanford, and law student Liz Klein discuss the constitutional right of religious liberty and how that sometimes clashes with workplace rules. Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 8, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf: "Seeing Around Corners with guest Ann Miura-Ko" Floodgate co-founder Ann Miura-Ko discusses the challenges of building a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. The self proclaimed investment ninja talks about some of the investments that helped build her reputation as one of the most powerful women in start-ups and what makes up the DNA of a great entrepreneur. Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 1, 2018.

Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf: "Rapping with guest KFlay" Stanford grad and hip hop artist KFlay talks about her interest in words and lyrics, her disdain for the music on the radio, and how a budding interest in college lead her to her career in music. Originally aired on SiriusXM on November 17, 2018.

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman: "Greg Beroza: Data helps prepare us for ‘The Big One’" Data is reshaping our knowledge about many things, including earthquakes: how we measure them, what causes them and how we can better prepare for them. Originally aired on SiriusXM on November 17, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman: "Anne Kiremidjian: Cities built to endure disaster" Wind, water and quakes can destroy years of valuable development in an instant, but there are ways to build more resilient cities. Episode Notes Like clockwork, every time a large natural disaster hits and wipes out billions in built infrastructure, public officials, developers and private citizens cry, “never again.” And every time, equally like clockwork, very little gets done, says Stanford civil engineer Anne Kiremidjian, one of the world’s foremost authorities on constructing buildings that can withstand major natural disasters. She says there are technologies available that could move us toward stronger, safer buildings, but a lack of political and economic will is holding us back. What’s needed, Kiremidjian says, is the culture of resilience that has helped certain major metropolitan areas bounce back from disaster stronger than ever. That spirit is lacking in other cities and the result is months or even

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: The Supreme Court after Kennedy (part 1) with guest Dahlia Lithwick Dahlia Lithwick, JD ’96, senior editor for Slate, joins co-hosts Pam Karlan and Joe Bankman for a lively discussion about reporting on the Supreme Court and changes to it after Justice Kennedy’s retirement. Originally aired on SiriusXM on November 10, 2018. Recorded by Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: The Supreme Court after Kennedy (part 1) with guest Dahlia Lithwick Dahlia Lithwick, JD ’96, senior editor for Slate, joins co-hosts Pam Karlan and Joe Bankman for a lively discussion about reporting on the Supreme Court and changes to it after Justice Kennedy’s retirement. Originally aired on SiriusXM on November 10, 2018. Recorded by Stanford Video.

Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf: "A Diversity of Success with guest Miriam Rivera" Ulu Ventures’ Miriam Rivera talks about her journey from discovering her passion for education, to finding her home in the Bay Area, and making waves as managing partner of one of Silicon Valley’s most diverse venture capital firms. Originally aired on November 3, 2018, on SiriusXM Recorded at Stanford Video.

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman: "Paul Oyer: Where, exactly, is the gig economy taking us?" In a search for answers, an economist embedded himself as an Uber driver. Oyer says lessons from the gig economy hold deep lessons for the job market for more traditional jobs. Uber’s surge pricing, for instance, is more than a payment structure – it entices Uber drivers to work odd hours or at times of peak demand. He says Uber is constantly reworking its payment structure to ensure that the company and its drivers’ interests are aligned to reduce workforce turnover. Originally aired on SiriusXM on November 3, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman: "Nigam Shah: Artificial Intelligence transforms health care" Data analytics is revolutionizing health care – quietly, pervasively and in some surprising ways. In hospitals across the world, the unmet need for end-of-life palliative care threatens to overwhelm the few doctors who are equipped to adequately provide counseling that can help patients die on their own terms. There are just too many patients and too few doctors. Stanford’s Nigam Shah, an expert in medical informatics, says that such scenarios may soon become a thing of the past. Artificial intelligence, founded on tens-of-thousands of data points gathered from millions of patients, is flipping such age-old scripts to change how and with whom care conversations happen. It is but one example of the many ways AI is reshaping medicine, but these major advances are not without ethical concerns, Shah says. Originally aired on SiriusXM on November 3, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Conformity and Self-Censorship on College Campuses with Greg Lukianoff" Free speech advocate and FIRE CEO Greg Lukianoff, discusses issues of conformity and self-censorship on college campuses, and his recently-published book, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” co-written with Jonathan Haidt. Originally aired on SiriusXM on October 27, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.

School's In with Dan Schwartz and Denise Pope: "Acquiring Language with guest Mike Frank" Stanford Professor of Cognitive Psychology Mike Frank discusses research on how children learn language and develop speech skills. He shares some tips on what parents and educators can do to provide kids with an excellent environment for learning and understanding language. Originally aired on SiriusXM on October 27, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.