Aug 07 TARP Top Cop Neil Barofsky on Drug Lords and Mortgage Fraud EmbedVideo(4082, 482, 304); On Making Sen$e lately we've been featuring outtakes from my encounters with especially intriguing interviewees. The most recent was Neil Barofsky, appointed by President Bush and retained by President Obama to prevent fraud in the… Continue reading
Aug 06 Watch NASA Study Links Extreme Summer Heat to Climate Change A new statistical analysis from NASA reveals that the extreme summer heat felt by many Americans this year is the result of global warming. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Columbia University's James Hansen who says the greatest barrier to public recognition… Continue watching
Aug 06 Watch Food Stamps at Heart of ‘Unfinished’ Fight Over Farm Bill U.S. farmers have suffered greatly from drought this year, but the farm bill, promising help, failed to pass Congress before summer recess. In contention: food stamps. Judy Woodruff speaks to Daniel Newhauser of Roll Call about Congress' unfinished business and… Continue watching
Aug 06 Watch For NASA Rover Team, Many Years of Work and ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’ Paid Off For NASA Rover Team, Many Years of Work and 'Seven Minutes of Terror' Paid Off… Continue watching
Aug 05 Curiosity Rover Lands Safely on Surface of Mars After a 354 million-mile journey, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and its rover Curiosity succeeded in a risky, sophisticated landing on the surface of Mars, and began beaming back photos of its own shadow against the soil of its… Continue reading
Aug 04 James Hansen: Extreme Heat Events Connected to Climate Change By Hari Sreenivasan James Hansen of NASA, one of the world's most outspoken scientists on the topic of climate change says there is now enough evidence to connect global warming to some of the extreme weather events of the recent past. Hansen tells… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch Privacy in a Digital Age: When Twitter Followers Can Track a Lost Phone Privacy in a Digital Age: When Twitter Followers Can Track a Lost Phone… Continue watching
Aug 03 Watch Mission to Mars: Anticipating NASA Rover ‘Curiosity’ Touchdown Mission to Mars: Anticipating NASA Rover 'Curiosity' Touchdown… Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch California Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests Divert More Water? California Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests Divert More Water?… Continue watching
Aug 02 The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers On average, Americans eat three hamburgers a week. That's a national total of nearly 50 billion burgers per year. And burgers typically cost only a few dollars from fast food joints. That seems pretty cheap. But what we don't… Continue reading