Digital Village Radio

Leilani Albano is back and interviews journalist for The Intercept Micah Lee about Zoom security flaws.
Dr. Peretz Partensky is here talking about his piece for Wired, "To Beat the Coronavirus, Raise an Army of the Recovered" where he coins the CoronaCorps, "civilian army that may be able to fill in gaps in public services, insulate the vulnerable from infection, help map the spread of the virus, and give our medical system room to breathe."
In the last part of the show, Dr. Cosmo Mielke is here to talk about his efforts with Quarantine@Home a project that lets you donate your spare compute power to find drugs that target SARS-CoV-2.

Ric Allen interviews Tyler Sandness of Rideshare Drivers United about their work and how COVID-19 has affected Rideshare drivers.
Nothing is Secure's Roy Natian is here to talk about phishing scams in age of COVID-19, how to recognize them and how to avoid them.
Dr. Casey Handmer is here to talk about how isolation may help prepare us for longterm space travel.

COVID-19 is uprooting our routine way of life. Lydia Laurenson of The New Modality talks with economist Tyler Cowen about potential cultural shifts due to COVID-19.

Then Leilani Albano speaks with Aaron Mackey, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about the unethical practice of wireless companies selling our location data and what we can do about it.

Finally, we dive into election season with Jessica Alter, the co-founder and board chair of Tech for Campaigns. Jessica talks about the technology they're providing political campaigns, volunteer opportunities and more.

In the first part of the show Dr. Addison Killean Stark of the Bipartisan Policy Center is back to talk about the Crescent Dunes Solar Plant filing for bankruptcy and how we need space for failure to tackle climate change.
In the last part of the show I am joined by author Gemma Milne to talk about her book, Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It.

Dr. Addison Killean Stark of the Bipartisan Policy Center discusses how some Congressional Republicans may be shifting gears on climate change.
Dr. Casey Handmer talks Space X's Starship and how it may be the way we get back to the moon and even Mars.
Dr. Jun Axup, the scientific director and partner at biotech incubator IndieBio, goes beyond Beyond Meat.