32-year NSA veteran, Jedi mathematician and whistleblower William Binney claims that software he developed to spy on the former Soviet Union is being used to spy on American citizens and that the NSA’s new data storage facility in Bluffdale, Utah has the capacity to store 100 years’ worth of the world’s electronic communications. According to […]
Last Tuesday, five years after the Supreme Court struck down programs in Seattle and Louisville that used race to assign students to schools, Talk of the Nation broadcast a segment focusing on forced integration. For this segment, host Neal Conan interviewed a Georgetown law professor and a UC-Berkeley public policy professor. The motion was made […]
Loud music and uncomfortable chairs are two of the ways — two among many? — that Jack-in-the-Box, Taco Bell and others of their ilk optimize flow-through. Ride ’em in, ride ’em out. Starbucks, though … Starbucks used to be different. A huge corporation, yes. Cookie cutter interiors, yes. Baristas happy-jacked to a fare thee well, […]
