Buried Treasure and King Bluetooth

Buried Treasure and King Bluetooth

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 807 , Segment 5

Episode: Iran Nuclear Deal, Ancient Greek "Computer," Implicit Bias

  • May 8, 2018 11:00 pm
  • 17:14 mins

Guest: Anders Winroth, PhD, Birgit Baldwin Professor of History at Yale University, Author of “The Age of the Vikings” At the start of the year, an amateur archaeologist and his 13-year-old student were metal detecting on an island in the Baltic Sea in northern Germany. They found what they thought was just some aluminum. But it turned out to be silver – a stash, in fact, of Viking treasure with historical significance tied to an ancient king.

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Implicit Bias

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Guest: Calvin Lai, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis On Tuesday, May 29, all the standalone Starbucks stores in the country will close for a few hours in the afternoon “for a mandatory training around unconscious bias.” That announcement came from Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson a few days after a manager in a Philadelphia Starbucks called police on two black men who were waiting for a friend but hadn’t ordered anything. Video of the men being arrested by police went viral, prompting national outrage and an apology from Starbucks. But what’s this “unconscious bias” training the company’s baristas will now be required to take? And what difference might it make?

Guest: Calvin Lai, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis On Tuesday, May 29, all the standalone Starbucks stores in the country will close for a few hours in the afternoon “for a mandatory training around unconscious bias.” That announcement came from Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson a few days after a manager in a Philadelphia Starbucks called police on two black men who were waiting for a friend but hadn’t ordered anything. Video of the men being arrested by police went viral, prompting national outrage and an apology from Starbucks. But what’s this “unconscious bias” training the company’s baristas will now be required to take? And what difference might it make?