The Mighty Horseshoe Crab

The Mighty Horseshoe Crab

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 592 , Segment 5

Episode: Venezuela Democracy, Gardening Heals Trauma, YA Romance

  • Jul 11, 2017 11:00 pm
  • 17:51 mins

Guest: John Tanacredi, PhD, Professor of Earth and Environmental Studies, Director of Center for Environmental Research and Coastal Oceans Monitoring, Molloy College Horseshoe crabs have been on the earth for more than 400 million years. They survived the Ice Age and whatever it was that wiped out the dinosaurs, but they may not survive us, even though we owe a debt to these gnarly crabs for our own survival.

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Guest: Laura Gamboa-Gutierrez, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Utah State University The escalating crisis in Venezuela is Top of Mind today. For more than three months now, there have been almost daily clashes in the streets between protesters and security forces in Venezuela. At least 85 people have died, more than a thousand injured as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tries to crack down on protests against him. Last week, an armed group of Maduro’s supporters stormed the National Assembly and beat up some of his fiercest critics. Once one of the wealthiest and most stable democracies in Latin America, Venezuela is now in economic shambles and sliding quickly toward dictatorship. What role could the US play in aiding the Venezuelan people?

Guest: Laura Gamboa-Gutierrez, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Utah State University The escalating crisis in Venezuela is Top of Mind today. For more than three months now, there have been almost daily clashes in the streets between protesters and security forces in Venezuela. At least 85 people have died, more than a thousand injured as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tries to crack down on protests against him. Last week, an armed group of Maduro’s supporters stormed the National Assembly and beat up some of his fiercest critics. Once one of the wealthiest and most stable democracies in Latin America, Venezuela is now in economic shambles and sliding quickly toward dictatorship. What role could the US play in aiding the Venezuelan people?

Even Young Kids Know the Difference Between the Whole Truth and Partial Truth

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Guest: Hyowon Gweon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University America is having a crisis of critical thinking. We’re too easily fooled by fake news stories we read online. We’re way too inclined to believe information only from sources we already agree with and to discount anything that doesn’t jive with our preferred understanding of the world. This problem goes all the way to our nation’s top leaders.   So it’s comforting to learn from some new research out of Stanford that it doesn’t have to be this way. Even kids as young as four know the difference between “the whole truth” and just some of the truth. Maybe harnessing that ability is the key to raising a generation that really can think critically about the information they’re given.

Guest: Hyowon Gweon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University America is having a crisis of critical thinking. We’re too easily fooled by fake news stories we read online. We’re way too inclined to believe information only from sources we already agree with and to discount anything that doesn’t jive with our preferred understanding of the world. This problem goes all the way to our nation’s top leaders.   So it’s comforting to learn from some new research out of Stanford that it doesn’t have to be this way. Even kids as young as four know the difference between “the whole truth” and just some of the truth. Maybe harnessing that ability is the key to raising a generation that really can think critically about the information they’re given.