the plan would involve separating the military focused u.s. cyber command from its current home of the n.s.a. and elevate it to the status of a unified command under its own commander this move according to the a.p. would relieve the operational tension currently arising between cyber command and the n.s.a. a.p. journalist will lead about door writes that the defense department has been agitating for a separation perceiving the n.s.a. and intelligence community as resistant to more aggressive cyber warfare particularly after the islamic states transformation while the military wanted to attack islamic state networks intelligence objectives prioritized gathering information from them so as the white house and the pentagon prepare to put cyber warfare into the same realm of battle is sea air and land let's take a moment to pause and wonder if our humanity is once again being blinded by military technology and battlefield who bruce as we start watching all.

this. to. you that i got. over there watching the hawks i am tyrone ventura and that i was. they are taken into the cyber taken into ones and zeros reason we need to break free from the benign and i say rather it's they've never done any friends of capabilities of cyber warfare at the end of say it's all just purely just information right. i

don't believe no i don't. and they want to give it its own kind of department commander. of those i would let me as it was how dangerous do you think cyber warfare is a comparable to the atomic ball and the kind of weaponry where we don't quite know how bad it's going to do it until we're too late we're too far down the road what we do know how bad it came to and anybody who's read. out of how many years are seeing things like terminator knows how this this is the problem is that what you're looking at is something that isn't it's not pinpoint it's not you know you send a drone and it shoots a weapon and it's we're dropping a bomb we're sending troops it's something that takes out resources it takes out things that everyone in an area uses and in our current political climate of we have to retaliate everything that's supposedly done to us back and forth that's you know electricity water roads roads there's

a million things that are run off of some sort of digital platform and i also just find the whole like cyber is it's it's it's not a five year old with a gun it's more like a. legally blind it's likely to mentor written person with a cotton. suit and someone who doesn't really know what's going on instead of freaked out about stuff it's just bad if you know that one of those you said it's like offensive defensive and i love in your bio because they ever have thought it was so great because you had that moment of of what they're saying is that well they're just resistant to just using it for warfare i know that we would want to do it ourselves just as a military pedagogical stuff where everything is being intelligence people don't want to do something well i mean i'm not one to say the intelligence community should be listened to but in this case that seems where it's you're saying there are intelligent enough to know whether the users would have what it is like berg.

what it actually. is so cyber command was created in two thousand and nine it was part of the obama administration and they're sort of addressing these these threats of saber espionage everything we've been talking about that's why it's so funny that we sit here and go what have been doing well they've been screaming about oh my god they're going to get us they're going to get us everyone's going to get us for a really long time it was originally this unit under the u.s. strategic command but what they ended up doing is it was just sort of defend its own networks and those used by combat forces and battle will begin with science of all beginnings it gets really bad now it's grown to about seven hundred military and civilian employees. and the idea of. the splitting why they want to split it what they want to do so the goal is to give cyber command more autonomy for a get up to use all these constraints now. this is a point of concern for a lot of people. is this within the government because according to pay a piece or

a says the concerns of splitting it off are you know sweating for the n.s.a. is not going to be all sort of rainbows and butterflies. right now imagine mad so specifically that cyber command. access to the intelligence agencies resources which you know as this person as this source told the a.p. you got three hundred of the one of the country's best top mathematicians and their crazy supercomputers that they say they have that's literally all they can say is. literally gigantic super computers would be limited because they would not the resources of and i was told by by breaking off from the n.s.a. they rightly crippled from basically they wouldn't have the resources to actually do what they need to do what i found fascinating is that this is all playing into once again money because you know money is what makes the. complex world go round six hundred forty seven million dollars is what the requesting that's

a sixteen percent increase from last years to the next two years and this kind of split is where the you know is where they say this will be found the also interesting thing to note in that is that if this does get split currently the n.s.a. and u.s. grant are both run by admiral mike rogers you see there was a guy at the dark circles under his eyes at the testimonies and all that looks like you haven't slept and we do you tell the test. because. you know if these go through you can see the new people being assigned to both these departments including the n.s.a. and we could actually see a civilian in charge of the n.s.a. or you know in terms of pointing out if ever committed to the n.s.a. and then they leave the military up to cyber command which would be a first is having a civilian be put in charge of the n.s.a. will see i'm not all breath. charm city appears to have discovered a new tactic in the war on drugs and it's not all that charming. and i just released body cam video an officer can be seen planting

a bag of heroin capsules in a residential backyard as his two partners stand next to an officer richard pineiro and his team then accepted the alleyway at which point he reactivates the sound on his camera we can only presume he thought the video was previously turned off and as he turns the sound back on he announces he's going to go back there and check met with what sounds like laughter from his team and then lo and behold the officer convincingly a sister some quater before his third try finding a stealth fully hidden bag of heroin he is no doubt shocked to see so while these guys are waiting on their emmy let's take a look at the real world implications of what we just saw tyrrell while the. warre just three when i landed and i'm still say alleged to have officially been good we know there are. videos talked a lot on their way back that you could see the guy like turn this back on after we

stood around and put those there you know if you're going to be the fairest at least least know how the cameras work that you're going to be shutting off and having to do is just like terrible goodman like that is sad thing with this is that the community the police and communities around the country not just in baltimore but we've seen baltimore and that tragedy is taking place of the year of the year but you know they're out of all time low already. you can't get lower right now and a lot of careers close in country in terms of do i trust the police doing that just because another sphere video where you actually have them walk over her and sprint goal hero and you know it's like the old. dave chappelle joke when grow the sport a little crack on him and you were ok there are an example is that bad it is that bad and this is only going to drive more of a wedge between the community especially in baltimore between the community the police i mean remember we just saw. to let the guys who killed.

broca's neck yacob with the rope or they just let those go yes you know why are suing because it's there so i think what's so obviously the case has been dropped against the person that was involved in this clearly but what really becomes problematic in this is where a lot of people this is why they don't want to do they you don't want to prosecute cops and why they don't want to push the cops because what happens when you do that is that everything they touch becomes comes into question so while this case was dropped the officer involved officer pinero. he is a witness on the main officer here is a witness on fifty three other cases so you're going to have to go back now anybody who was if he was even at the scene of the arrest of your every warrior who has a client and every public defender is going to be looking through all of those things just to see if something happened in this is where it is if you don't keep

it clean and do this it's going to cost you a heck of a lot more later when we have a lot a lot of people out and you've taken their lives already planted evidence truly incredible i mean like you said baltimore's didn't hit left to right the baltimore police department legs the guys walk who killed for the great i'm sorry. i don't know how freddy died and the other way it was in their use of the blood figure responsibility again it's always that kind of thing of like well it's the one bad apple or or it's not all of us are oh it's this and all we are is excuse of this gives you've got you know a guy shooting a woman in minneapolis speaker who called him a crime there because he heard a loud noise and she walked up to the car i mean at some point we have to ask ourselves it's time to actually rebuild how we police are selves in the ground up well and we need better psychological and just general social. testing and training of officers before they go on the field because you are base you are add

a scene like in minnesota if you are out a scene of a possible sexual assault and a woman coming out of the dark in her pajamas running toward your car for safety is it scares you you don't belong and i'm sick of hearing about how scared they are exact they're the ones with the guns and the power well and that's why i say bring back police academies we use the police going to this country where you would send people who wanted to be cops you would send them to get proper training that way they were properly trained to go out and operate in the street and they were how to be trained to deal with the community to protect and serve not to you know militarize beat down sprinkle a little drugs in the area when they want to get a conviction or shoot a woman you know running across the street or take people around rough rides and break their necks and this is the thing i want to say is the response of the city officials and the police union officials this is pretty they're apologetic but i want to put this one time one of the facial said. one of the original said that the

actions may have been the officers reenacting how they found the evidence for the camera. wow. no no no. we've heard this before we were just reacting it was part of a of an instagram thing i am going out there are you're on the you're on duty there's no reenacting in police work there's a reaction i see you get so what i'm worried i'm not yesterday's go to break you know it's like that was our you go red card rogers bumper going to let us know what you think of the top of your garbage for good for see our poll shows that are. coming up american planetary scientists and astro businesses so you know ricci enters the harshness to discuss her shocking findings regarding the discrimination of the will struggle to stay true.

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last year caroline sampson at astronomer a professor at the department of physics at florida international university told the blog from the lab bench the first time someone says something sexist you should . i get off the second time someone says something you shrug it off the ninety if you stop shrugging it off in one thousand nine hundred five study of gender equity and science found that seventy three percent of the women they interviewed really had career experiences they regarded as discriminatory such as denial of jobs and tenure and they found that female scientists found that colleagues and superiors simply didn't talk to them or consult them for input nearly as often as they did male scientist in addition twenty seventeen report from the national science foundation from that two thirds of those working in science and engineering are white and only two percent are black women now a new study published in the journal of geophysical research analyzed the workplace

experiences from twenty eleven to twenty fifteen a four hundred seventy four science undergraduate level to senior researchers the findings it woman's experience the chance of experiencing workplace harassment in a science field is a much higher if she belongs to multiple minority groups the intersection of oppression is often brushed aside as simple identity politics but the science tells it's more important than ever joining us now to discuss the study double jeopardy in astronomy and planetary science is the stronger dr christina ricci and also sorry try to go to. dr catherine catherine groups that will trouble you thank you for joining us christina and catherine thank you so i want to i want to start. what inspire what inspired you to talk. to tackle this very important subject matter. yes so i can go ahead and answer that for you. as an

astronomer and astrophysicist i've been working with this field for about ten years in terms of trying to help women within the field find resources to deal and you know tackle harassment issues that they were dealing with on a daily basis and as we were trying to combat this. trying to ask our leadership to really give us the opportunity to give talks and lectures on the topic at larger and larger forums and we were always relegated to the women's lunch and a lot of my leadership would actually say things like oh well you know you just know of the one or two maybe the three people that this is happening to really and guiltily you don't have proof to kind of back up what you're saying and so i wanted to get some proof to shut that down and so when we first started to build the survey myself and one of the other shiners attached dr air corridors really wanted to make sure that we built a survey that included demographics that were really inclusive to understanding all

of the issues of harassment not just sexual harassment and in order to do that we needed a social science expert and dr katherine clancy who is so on here actually just came out with another field study of a different field anthropology and so we we basically asked kathryn we backed her because she's amazing to join this team so that was the motivation behind it well catherine let me ask you this study showed some pretty disturbing perspectives from the participants forty percent of women of color reported that they felt felt on safe that's a pretty big thing unsafe in the workplace because of their gender or sex while another twenty eight percent felt it was felt that way because of their race what kind of a fag does that feeling unsafe it's seems like labs and science that should be the you know there's no reason to feel unsafe in your coworkers what effect does that have on them and the work they're doing. sure thanks for asking i think that has

a pretty profound effect i think that when you have a significant portion of the scientific population. feeling fundamentally unsafe and unwelcome in their workplace it really slows down scientific progress if you do not feel comfortable with the people who work with you because they're committing racial microaggression because they're belittling. because of your gender because they're in any way making you feel like just because of your identity you somehow don't belong it's going to be hard to it's going to be a tough hard to attend professional events it's going to be hard to get your work done it's going to lead to worse mental health outcomes and the literature has shown just you know folks who study workplace aggression more broadly have shown that when people are made to feel that way in the workplace they're a lot more likely to leave their job and so what we're running the risk of by creating these hostile workplaces is ending up with a less diverse workforce which has been shown to lead to you know much poorer problem solving frankly and when you don't have a diverse team you don't end up having to first questions first methods diverse

answers and so you know a field like astronomy is actually poorer for creating this kind of work place one of the interesting things is that the crux of the issue seems to be that we've allowed a culture of hostility to kind of fester in our workplaces i don't think this is just something that you see in him astronomy and in the sciences you see that i was more surprised to see it was where the american management association probably sixty five point six million working americans report you are experiencing or witnessing abuse of experiencing or witnessing abuse of conduct during their work days you know what did you find the effects of that kind of abuse were on the women of color and their coworkers in your research. so sharon so for this paper oh go ahead christina no no it's ok you go ahead catherine. so polite. so. because we're women exactly here not a still at all is this a way or even a culture a that we've been

a culture a to share i know we've been a culture to share the credit right exactly what i think is really important about it. what i think is really important about these findings is exactly what you're saying that they match the broader our broader understanding of workplace culture that we aren't necessarily creating these are for. place values based. you know cultures that were not coming together and saying well given the kind of work we want to do the change you want to make in the world the products we want to sell or the discoveries we want to we want to enable what are what is the kind of professional workplace behavior that would be appropriate. and so instead what we have are these conditions where you know especially people who are in these multiple marginality statuses like women of color that they are less likely to socially interact they're less likely feel welcome and that's why you know the other big finding of ours not just that they're feeling unsafe but that they're skipping a lot of professional events is probably having profound consequences for their

ability to climb the ladder you know sort of like make their way up to senior scientist level. but also again just make it harder for them to be great mentors and. to and to not just house like a huge chunk of their brain occupied every day with dealing with these kinds of things when those of us who have fewer of those kinds of things or enjoy more privileges we don't have to have that running kind of like a background process it's kind of like when your phone gets slowed down by too many apps running at once i just frankly don't have to deal with those things as a white woman. to work with i think your thoughts on that subject as well just kind of the idea of what effect that has. yeah so so one of the major impacts that we see within this field is and just as like kind of a precursor here i should note that this field is majority white much larger than that of the typical traditional united states population and so you have these these environments that are very much based on kind of the white male majority

and the culture that comes with them and so you have these environments where if you are a black woman or a latino woman your experiences are very different than that of the majority which means you tend to become an outsider and become isolated now add to that the fact. that akademi and stem in general have a really tough power dynamic where your reliance upon say advisers for data or team members and you have moments of isolation say in a lab plus moments of socialization in conferences and you just have a unique work dynamic going on so all of these different social interactions that have to occur either on an individual level on a larger level starts to impact what that culture looks like for the entire group and when you have this majority white male culture you start to have these issues crop up and i think the thing that we see from our data and from these results is

that here we have a group that has got an extreme white male culture dynamic in terms of the demographics compared to the united states population and we're seeing these issues on a much larger scale. what's interesting about that as you say that is that eighty eight percent of your respondents said they heard comments they interpreted as racist or sexist that they were just sparing of someone's femininity vascular all that sort of stuff and what's interesting about that is when i looked at the numbers i was looking at your respondents you know it was primarily white on a very large scale so as a weights seven as to looking at this issue i started to wonder what kind of struck me in a positive way was that despite those results do you guys think that the willingness of people to talk about the issue because if it's eighty percent of respondents and eighty four percent of them are white the willingness of white males and white females in that center of privilege for them to talk about this is actually

a pretty big deal yes do you think that's actually these are people who are just fed up with that kind of toxicity in general like they're starting to see why people complain yeah i think that when we first took the survey results i think katherine will agree with me here when we first got those results back we were just a little bit sobered up in terms of i cried and i'm not a cry or trust. but you know it was so disheartening to see those results but i had to remind myself that this is our community trying to let us know of a serious issue and this community itself has been you know really dealing with sexual harassment as one of its four fronts but the last year and a half with a lot of the sexual harassment scandals that have come out of astronomy and i will say that this community has started to really step up we've we've looked at the four pronged approach we have in our paper and i would say that we're tackling at least three of those problems in terms of really stepping up training for members of the community to understand harassment starting to have discussions of the

cultural and social issues that are impacting our science and we're starting to get our leadership more and more involved in the discussion which is really critical so i. yes only as i got to so you guys thank you so i had to cut you off because the right time but but but i can't wait it's not you i know a man don't write a manager in a row i'm sorry i'm not interested i want to thank you so much and thank you for this good work that you're doing here and we definitely will keep to keep in touch on the state you christina and catherine clancy thank you so much for talking to us about this as shank you so much thank you. thank you. the late great george carlin once posited that maybe the answer to that much pondered age old egocentric question of why are we here is plastic you know the earth couldn't invent plastic on its own so we created human beings to make us and while sick well if that truly is why we're here that according to a new study of the researchers at the university of california in santa barbara we

have more than lived up to our end of the bargain in a first of its kind study on the history of mass produced plastics the researchers discovered that from the years nine hundred fifty to two thousand and fifteen human beings have created more than eight point three million metric tons of plastic eight point three billion that's equal to about one ton of plastic for every person living on the earth today and half of that eight point three billion was produced just in the last thirteen years alone and according to the report and was we curtail our current love of all things plastic we are on pace to produce other twelve tons by twenty fifty who arrive that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are not told would love to tell you all i love you i am tired old winter jobs out of the wall heap on watching those hawks in the great day and night.

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