Fighting Crime with Super Face Recognizers

Fighting Crime with Super Face Recognizers

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 912 , Segment 2

Episode: Trump and North Korea, Super Recognizers, Yellowstone Wolves

  • Oct 2, 2018 9:00 pm
  • 16:20 mins

Guest: Josh Davis, PhD, Reader, Applied Psychology, University of Greenwich Some people turn out to be savants at face recognition. They could see a photo of someone just briefly and then, months later, pick that person out of a crowd. A police department in London even has a team of these “super recognizers,” as they’re called, to nab criminals. British police force

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Trump's Unusual Approach to North Korea: "We Fell in Love"

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Guest: Richard McBride, PhD, Associate Professor, Asian & Near Eastern Languages, BYU Another summit is in the works between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. As recently as the end of August, Trump had put the brakes on meetings between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean officials because there hadn’t been enough progress in negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. But now the talks are back on and President Trump said, at a rally in West Virginia on Saturday, “We were going back and forth, and then we fell in love. No really. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they were great letters. And then we fell in love.” What's going on over there?

Guest: Richard McBride, PhD, Associate Professor, Asian & Near Eastern Languages, BYU Another summit is in the works between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. As recently as the end of August, Trump had put the brakes on meetings between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean officials because there hadn’t been enough progress in negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. But now the talks are back on and President Trump said, at a rally in West Virginia on Saturday, “We were going back and forth, and then we fell in love. No really. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they were great letters. And then we fell in love.” What's going on over there?