Today on the show, California comes in dead last in Pew's latest election performance report. Then, are women in politics subject to a double standard? Plus, Michael Lewis's "Flash Boys" shows how Wall Street is rigged by high-frequency trading, SDSU offers its first zombies class to reanimate students, the long path of reconciliation for victims of the Rwandan genocide and much more.
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Last week, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton berated the media -- she said powerful women were treated with a double standard. She got a lot of flack for that remark, but recent events make one wonder if there wasn't something to that statement.
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• 5:59
A new national study done by the Pew Charitable Trusts ranks California near the bottom when it comes to election performance.
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• 11:07
Michael Lewis's latest book is "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt." It's the story of Brad Katsuyama, a banker from Canada, who's discovered that the stock market is rigged by traders -- known as high frequency traders -- who set up their computers to pre-empt other trades by milliseconds.
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• 4:20
Beth Accomando from KPBS says San Diego State University has found a way to put the zombie renaissance to good use this semester.
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• 4:27
After years of replacing man with machine on the production line, carmaker Toyota has recently decided to go back to humans.
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• 10:54
This week on Tuesday Reviewsday, Oliver Wang from Soul-Sides.com and music supervisor Morgan Rhodes, join us to talk about the latest in music.
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• 7:45
Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide, the memories of these horrific events can still be fresh to survivors who've lived through the violence and to perpetrators who committed it.
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• 6:50
Los Angeles is known for good weather, Hollywood, and the most concentrated area of homelessness in the country. It's in the 52-block area of downtown known as Skid Row, and this week, city officials are proposing a big cleanup of the area.
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• 10:46
New state regulations have been suggested to crack down on rampant drug and alcohol abuse in the prison system, but just how big of a problem is addiction behind bars?
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• 4:15
Farmers coping with the drought may decide not to plant crops like tomatoes or onions this year. But for farmers with tree crops, not watering could cripple their businesses for years to come.
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• 6:33
Just south of the San Joaquin Valley Delta lies some of California's most fertile farming lands in the world. But to keep the crops green, farmers use groundwater, they pump it from wells deep underground.