Featured image: Workers in the bracero program in the 1950s. Seasonal migrants like these men circulated from Mexico to the US and back yearly until the border became too dangerous to do so. (courtesy Emory University)
This episode, listen to hear Professor of Sociology Doug Massey in an intensely topical conversation: what happens when borders are militarized? What are the impacts of US immigration policy, and how might a border wall affect our country’s population of immigrants? In this interview, we dig into the xenophobia of our politics and media, and see how sociologists view macroscopic trends in migration in the light of baseless misinformation propagated by our news and in our culture.
In other news:
- By publishing information about endangered species online, scientists are accidentally helping poachers root out the last of some rare animals.
- It’s hard to tell when sheep are in pain, but computers can now get it right about as often as humans: new AI can guess which sheep are in distress 2/3 of the time.
- Individual neurons are responsible for recognizing each part of a face, as detailed in new a new study of chimpanzee brains.
- More LIGO results are in, with measurements of gravitational waves coming from a black hole merger 3 billion years ago.
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