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Starting Freshman Year During A Pandemic

College is taking many forms this fall as some students return to campus for remote classes and others login from home. Reporter Kate McGee is following a few freshmen from the Chicago area during their first semester.

Host: Mary Dixon

5 Questions with Alexander Wragge-Morley, author of “Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–1720”

In his new book, Aesthetic Science, Alexander Wragge-Morley explores scientific representation in the early modern period and shows us how vital the role of subjective experience is to the communication of knowledge about nature. It’s a fascinating, groundbreaking reconsideration of the role of aesthetic experience in the history of the empirical sciences, and we sent him a few questions about it. In Aesthetic Science, you explore the relationship between sensory experience and the production of knowledge. What drew you to the topic? What do you like about it? I’d say that there’s a lot to like when you think about the relationship between sensory experience and the production of knowledge. To start, the issue is obviously fundamental—and I like fundamental issues. I don’t think you can give a good account of knowledge production unless you think hard about how the senses—with all the feelings they provoke—give us access to the external world. What’s more, that fundamental question allows you to think about the history of science in new ways. By focusing on how the scientists of seventeenth-century England related to sensory experience, I was able to pull a wide range of disciplines together—disciplines that are usually studied separately. In Aesthetic […]

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Episode 825 – New Android Malware Preying On Fears Of TikTok Ban

A new malware is out in the wild for Android devices claiming to be TikTok Pro app. This episode talks about what the malware is and how malware actors try to spread their malicious software.

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CPS Begins First Day Of Remote Classes

Chicago public school students logged in this morning for their first day of remote school. Reporters were with students and school leaders Tuesday, capturing the mix of hope and nerves across the city.

Host: Kate McGee
Reporter: Minju Park

Grave Of Nancy Green, Original ‘Aunt Jemima,’ Gets Headstone

For decades, Nancy Green played the Aunt Jemima character that has long been on pancake boxes. She died in 1923 and was buried in an unmarked plot of land on the city’s South Side. Over the weekend she got a headstone honoring her life and her legacy.
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Episode 824 – HIPAA Covered Entities Need IT Asset Inventories Per OCR

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) which overlooks HIPAA made a recommendation in their Summer Cybersecurity Newsletter that the industry has been recommending for years. This epsiode goes into the recommendation and talks about the disconnect between security recommendations based on industry.

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CPS Counselor Crowdfunds For A Special Return To School

A social worker in Chicago raised money over the summer so each of her students could get a special basket of things to help them deal with their feelings.

Host: Susie An
Reporter: Sarah Karp

Read an Excerpt from “Tacit Racism” by Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck

As shown every time we read or watch the news, racism is ubiquitous in America. Yet racism is so insidious that it exists on a more micro, common level as well. Effecting all swaths of culture and society, it permeates aspects of day-to-day life, especially when it is unexpected. In Tacit Racism, Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck illustrate the many ways in which racism is coded into the everyday social expectations of Americans. The following is a slightly altered excerpt from the introduction to Tacit Racism.  Racism Is a Clear and Present Danger If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. —Lyndon B. Johnson Since the 1670’s, fifty years after the first Africans were sold into slavery at Jamestown in 1619, racism has steadily and relentlessly wormed its way so deeply into the foundations of the American democratic experiment that we typically don’t even notice it. Racism does not usually take an obvious form that we can see and prevent, rather it masquerades as the most ordinary of daily actions: […]

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What’s Behind The Legislative Probe Into Speaker Madigan

Republicans triggered a House investigation into State House Speaker Michael Madigan’s dealings with ComEd, but the speaker’s ouster appears to be a political longshot.

Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Dave McKinney

Senior Isolation Has Worsened During The Pandemic

Seniors struggle with isolation and the pandemic has only made that worse. Experts say isolation can be risky for their physical and mental health. But organizations around the Chicago area are trying to help with online classes, teletherapy, and visit...

Have An Interest And A Concern Beyond Yourself

Sister Carol Fox is 83 years old, a Dominican nun who lives on her own in suburban Chicago. A few months ago, Lenore Fox Monti asked her aunt to record a remote interview for StoryCorps.

Producer: Bill Healy

Episode 823 – Tools, Tips and Tricks – Do You Ever Change Your Debit Card PIN

This week's tools, tips, and tricks talks about your non-IT security controls, specifically your financial payment PIN codes.

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Episode 823 – Tools, Tips and Tricks – Do You Ever Change Your Debit Card PIN

This week's tools, tips, and tricks talks about your non-IT security controls, specifically your financial payment PIN codes.

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Episode 822 – TikTok Has A New Potential Buyer, You Will Never Guess Who

TikTok is being looked at for acquisition by a couple of large US-based companies. A new buyer emerged and who it is will surprise you. This episode talks about who it is and why it's a smart move.

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Six Questions with Thomas Milan Konda, author of “Conspiracies of Conspiracies”

The viral spread and increasing normalization of incendiary conspiracy theories have been one of the most dismaying and dangerous trends in recent American political life. The QAnon conspiracy is most prominent of today’s Internet-borne fringe theories: its influence has even reached the seats of national governmental power, with at least ten current Republican Congressional candidates expressing support for it. We spoke at length with Thomas Milan Konda, author of Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusional Thinking Has Overrun America—called “the most detailed genealogy of American conspiracy theories yet written” by the American Historical Review—to gain some perspective on our current conspiracy crisis. The QAnon conspiracy is increasingly in the news these days—a formerly fringe phenomena that has now wormed its way into the mainstream. How does its rise fit in with what we know about how conspiracy theories work? How conspiracy theories “work” is really two questions: what is their appeal and how are they spread? Their appeal is always the same, and in this regard QAnon works the same way its predecessors did. Its three-part argument is the one that has always shored up conspiracy theories: (1) An insidious, powerful elite (2) secretly manipulates our various institutions from behind the […]

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Parents Launch DIY Learning Pods

Some families are hiring tutors to oversee remote learning pods, and some worry this could leave some kids further behind.

Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Susie An

Episode 821 – TLS Certificates Now Have Lifespan Of 398 Days, Be Prepared

TLS certificates are used to secure web communications. Each certificate has a time to live which has been usually 2-3 years. As of September 1, 2020 TLS certificates will only be valid for 398 days. This episode talks about why this is good thing and how it will impact security departments going forward.

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Community Raises Funds To Keep Heirloom Books Open

Community members in Chicago’s Edgewater and Rogers Park neighborhoods are trying to keep an independent bookstore open after its owner died last month. A GoFundMe campaign for Heirloom Books has already raised about $13,000.

Host: Melba Lara
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