Radioactive Oatmeal | MIT’s Experiments on Institutionalized Children
In the mid-20th century, Americans were paying closer attention to nutrition. MIT researchers wanted to determine the nutritional value of oats. But their study required children to eat oatmeal contai...
23 Syys 30min
BenLadner.com | American Universities Drudge Report
The early 2000s on American University, was a time of political intrigue... at least in student government. Eventually, one former student government member decided he'd had enough and created his own...
16 Syys 34min
Behind Closed Doors | Inside the Harlow Primate Lab
Madeline had always loved animals, so she was thrilled to land a job at UW’s primate lab. But what she discovered inside was nothing like she expected -- and ultimately drove her to fight for greater ...
9 Syys 28min
ELIZA | The Worlds First "AI" Chatbot
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one researcher is credited with creating the very first chatbot, a technology that, almost exactly 60 years in the future, would explode into the mainstre...
2 Syys 28min
No Medical Miracle | The Rise and Fall of Paolo Macchiarini
The Karolinska Institute is one of the world’s leading medical universities. When it hired Paolo Macchiarini, it saw a surgeon with a groundbreaking new procedure. But the university ignored warning s...
26 Elo 35min
Bodies Upon The Gears | The Free Speech Movement of 1964 Part 2
After Mario Savio's historic speech, students occupy Sproul Hall, leading to the largest non-war time arrest in US history to that point. The response from administration begins to turn the tide, but ...
19 Elo 28min
Bodies Upon The Gears | The Free Speech Movement of 1964 Part 1
For decades the entire University of California system had strict rules prohibiting all forms of political speech on campus. But after Freedom Summer, a group of students from across the political spe...
12 Elo 33min
