NBA Referees, Invisible Women, Research Bias

What It’s Like to be a Professional Ref and Inside the NBA Replay Center (0:36) Guest: Joe Borgia, Senior Vice President, Referee Operations, National Basketball Association No matter the call in sports, someone is always mad at the referee. But NBA refs have an out–no matter what stadium they’re in, they can signal a team in New Jersey to review the call. There, they have nearly 100 TV screens to analyze the play from every possible angle and break it down to 1/60th of a second. It seems pretty hard to dispute that. (Originally aired 11/21/2019). Invisible Women (17:02) Guest: Caroline Criado Perez, Activist, Author of "Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men" The typical safety features in a car are not designed with the typical woman in mind. Did you know that? Up until about 8 years ago all the crash test dummies used in safety tests were based on man’s body. Engineers have found that makes women a lot more likely to be injured in an accident. And it’s not just cars. Cell phones, musical instruments–even voice recognition software –are optimized for men. (Originally aired 06/05/2019). How “The Wolf Whisperer” Trains Wolves for the Big Screen (37:45) Guest: Andrew Simpson, Animal Trainer, Instinct for Film It's a dark, winter-filled wood. A lone woman huddles by a fire. Her horse is skittish. Something's in the air. Something foreboding. She draws her sword and suddenly she’s surrounded . . . by a pack of snarling wolves-white, black, grey. Fangs bared. And the giant leader of the pack steps up. The woman is doomed. Or is she? That’s a scene from the HBO series Game of Thrones. It may seem like those wolves would be some greeen screen magic, but it turns out they’re real and they belong to Andrew Simpson. (Originally aired 12/19/2019). Biomedical Engineers Pave Way for Prosthetic Arm That Can Move and Feel the Same as a Human Arm (52:50) Guests: Gregory Clark, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Univ of Utah; Keven Walgamott, Participant of the Study and Real Estate Agent from West Va