Tension Over Taiwan Elections; Electronic Voting; Psychological Experiments Of The 20th Century; The Height Gap
Tension Over Taiwan Elections
Taiwanese in Southern California have been sharply divided by the results of the March 20 presidential election in Taiwan. Larry Mantle talks about the election and its polarizing effects on the local Taiwanese community with Richard Baum, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA, and April Kuan, News Director and Anchor at KSCI-TV Channel 18.
Electronic Voting
Political Scientist Michael Alvarez joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss his new book, Point, Click and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting. The 2002 Presidential election put electronic voting in the spotlight, offering an alternative to chad-style paper ballots. In his new book, Alvarez examines the ways in which Internet voting could affect the American electoral process.
Psychological Experiments Of The 20th Century
Psychologist and author Lauren Slater joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss her new book, Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century. These include the noted behaviorist B.F. Skinner, who studied how rewards and reinforcement shape behavior, and Stanley Milgram’s studies of obedience to authority, in the context of the Holocaust, using the “shock machine.”
The Height Gap
In the late 19th century Americans were the tallest people in the world. Today, Northern Europeans are 3 inches taller than Americans, and growing, while the growth of Americans has fallen flat. The answer is a complex one, and scholars who study the phenomenon are not united in their hypotheses. Larry Mantle talks with the Burkhard Bilger of the New Yorker about “the height gap.”