In 1992, something unprecedented happened in Los Angeles: rival gang members negotiated a historic peace treaty, significantly reducing violence across the city. Aqeela Sherrills, one of the key negotiators of that treaty, continues to...

In recent years, podcasts and streaming internet content have been challenging AM radio for listeners. Now, there’s another threat: electric automakers are installing radios without the AM band in new vehicles, citing interference from...

On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting in a movie theater of Aurora, Colorado left the town, and its nation, reeling. To many -- including Tom Teves, who lost his son in the tragedy -- the news coverage that followed focused on all the wrong...

We all want to be safe, and our safety is intertwined, says Tracie Keesee, cofounder of the Center for Policing Equity. Sharing lessons she's learned from 25 years as a police officer, Keesee reflects on the public safety challenges...

When she became the attorney general of New Jersey in 2007, Anne Milgram quickly discovered a few startling facts: not only did her team not really know who they were putting in jail, but they had no way of understanding if their...

As engineer, sometimes lives will be in your hands, so this week we’re exploring safety and its impact on engineering. We’ll discuss the difference between occupational safety and public safety and how to analyze and review a process for...

We try not to get into too much great man history here at Crash Course, but we have to admit: Napoleon Bonaparte is a pretty big deal. Join us as we track the rise, further rise, fall, rise, fall, mortal fall, and posthumous rise of...

Consider the following scenario: a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infects humans for the first time. It spreads rapidly worldwide, and the WHO declares a pandemic. The death toll starts to rise and everyone is...

The common good is at the heart of all healthy communities, and is supported by community rules that promote fairness and safety for all.

Explore how the city of Nice has earned the nickname "Camera City" through its extensive network of surveillance cameras aimed at improving public safety. This report delves into the high-tech control center where the footage from 937...

The Black Lives Matter protests in the US, which escalated in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, have brought the little-known but decades-old campaign to abolish US police into the spotlight. But what are...

The Pacifist who Killed 20,000 | The Life & Times of Robespierre

In this episode streamed on Dec. 20, 2018, we get into the holiday spirit with a special holiday unboxing episode, where we showcase some of the amazing gifts NASA’s Ames Research Center has contributed to the agency’s mission of...

5G is the next big step in connectivity and may prompt major changes on the factory floor, in the retail store and even in the boardroom. What are the clearest enterprise applications and how can CIOs best deploy this new technology?

United States CIO Steven Van Roekel explains that the combination of advances in IT and fiscal pressure may propel IT into a new era. he describes the financial and other opportunities Big Data brings in examples of healthcare, weather...

In this interactive workshop, Adams and Reese Special Counsel Roy Hadley discusses steps to take when an organization is hit with a ransomware attack.

Andrew Frame, founder and CEO of Citizen, discusses the huge rise in people monitoring crimes, protests and other happenings in their local community since the start of the pandemic and what it means for society as a whole.

When people think of the Kennedy Space Center, rockets are what likely come to mind. But we have more than rocket scientists here on the Space Coast. In this episode, we meet a few Ranch hands with odd jobs you may not expect to find...

How do you balance the need to share your health data for the public good in a pandemic but ensure that your most sensitive data isn't compromised in the testing process? Genomic experts discuss and share perspectives on the outlook for...

Olugbenga Ajilore explains the high cost of the American government’s arming of local police with military weapons, which has exacerbated lethal use-of force against black communities.



The acquisition of military...

In 1929, years of wild debt-fuelled speculation over company stocks came to a halt with the worst economic disaster in history. In 2001, years of wild debt-fuelled speculation over technology companies that were apparently going to...

Anthony Gay is the Co-Founder and Director of Curricula Development & Video Production at Welcome 2 Reality LLC. Anthony spent almost two decades in the field of human services and approximately 10 years developing curricula and...

NIST researchers demonstrate techniques for screening illegal drugs for the synthetic opioids like fentanyl that are causing a spike in overdose deaths. More