Miles To Go

Miles To Go

31 episodes

Join award-winning journalist Miles O’Brien as he explores developments in technology, science, aviation, space and the environment. A 35-year veteran of the news business, Miles is currently an independent producer, writer, and director for PBS NewsHour, NOVA, Frontline, and the National Science Foundation. An experienced pilot himself, he also serves as aviation analyst for CNN (And he does it all with one arm).

Podcasts

Episode 30: How and Why We’re Sampling Asteroid Bennu – with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Team

Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 9:11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 29: Why Europa is the Most Likely Spot We’ll Find Aliens – with NASA’s Kevin Peter Hand

Published: Nov. 26, 2018, 6:29 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 28: How Average Americans are Fighting Climate Change – with Clean Air Carolina’s June Blotnick

Published: Oct. 29, 2018, 6:05 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 27: Steve Squyres – On Exploring Mars, and Other Celestial Objects

Published: Oct. 23, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 26: The Murky World of Science Transparency – Hash it Out with NYU Professor George D. Thurston

Published: July 26, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 24: The Blessing and Curse of Methane – Hash it Out

Published: July 11, 2018, 7:02 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 23: Inside the Legal Battle to Ban a Deadly Neurotoxin - with Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky

Published: July 2, 2018, 5:20 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 21: The Promise and Peril of AI – Hash it Out with Tech Entrepreneur Lars Perkins

Published: June 19, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 20: Welcome to the Madhouse – with Michael Mann and Tom Toles

Published: June 11, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 19: What is Machine Learning and How is it Used? – Hash it Out with Cameron Hickey

Published: June 7, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 17: The Software We Wrote to Understand Junk News - with Producer Cameron Hickey

Published: May 28, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 16: Inside Facebook - with Tessa Lyons, Head of News Feed Integrity

Published: May 21, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 15: Inside the Filter Bubble - with Eli Pariser, the man who coined the phrase

Published: May 15, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 14: Understanding the Eruption at Kilauea – with Geologist Mike Garcia

Published: May 8, 2018, 2:43 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 13: A Junk News Pioneer - with Cyrus Massoumi, Part 2

Published: May 3, 2018, 7:48 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 12: A Junk News Pioneer - with Cyrus Massoumi, Part 1

Published: May 2, 2018, 8:24 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode 11: Mapping Misinformation and Russian Influence Online – with Data Journalist Jonathan Albright

Published: April 25, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 10: Whose Best Interest - Can Facebook's Business Model Be Repaired?

Published: April 23, 2018, 7:27 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 9: Aviation and the “Tombstone Mentality” - How Southwest 1380 Could Have Been Avoided

Published: April 19, 2018, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode 8: Just the Facts - with Brooke Binkowski of Snopes.com

Published: April 16, 2018, 8:50 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 7: Misinformation on the Internet - Untangling the Web

Published: April 10, 2018, 8:31 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 6: How Your Facebook Newsfeed Works

Published: March 30, 2018, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 5: Astronaut Scott Kelly's Guide To The Universe

Published: March 14, 2018, 5:42 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 4: Entering A New Dimension In 3D Printing

Published: March 5, 2018, 9:46 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode 3: Inside North Korea's Nuclear Complex

Published: Feb. 13, 2018, 3:09 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 2: Talking Trash

Published: Dec. 7, 2017, 4:16 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 1 second

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Pilot Episode: The Worst Airline Accident That Nearly Happened

Published: Nov. 7, 2017, 11:03 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 57 seconds

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