Twitter and Trump, Art Forgery, Human Testing

President Trump Takes Aim at Social Media (0:33) Guest: Kate Klonick, Assistant Professor of Law, St. John’s University School of Law “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” President Trump tweeted that ominous line on Friday morning in reference to protests turning violent in Minneapolis. He’s since said he didn’t know it was a phrase used by white supremacists during the Civil Rights movement. Regardless, Twitter determined that the President’s words violated its rules against “glorifying violence” and placed a warning on it. It was the first time Twitter’s done that on a tweet from President Trump. And days earlier, Twitter had placed a fact-checking notice on some of the President’s tweets about voting by mail. That too, was a first. So, on Friday, President Trump issued an executive order intending to punish social media sites he says unfairly target his free speech and other Republican voices. New Method of Dehydrating Blood to Improve Shelf Life (19:49) Guest: Jonathan Kopechek, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Louisville School of Engineering If you’ve ever given blood, you’re probably now on the email distribution list for the organization you donated through and get frequent requests to come in and give again. That’s because a pint of blood expires after about six weeks in a refrigerator and so far there’s no alternative to donated human blood for treating a very sick person in need of a transfusion. If only freeze-drying were possible. Then blood could be stored at room temperature for much longer – just think how that could be helpful for war zones and even astronauts in space. Former Art Forger Now Sells His Fakes as Reproductions (34:25) Guest: Ken Perenyi, Art Forger, Author of “Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger” For decades, until about 1998, American painter Ken Perenyi copied famous artists and passed his fakes off as the real thing. Some even ended up in fine art auction catalogs at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. They’re undoubtedly still hanging on t