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Hard Truths: The fight on Mauna Kea
On our latest installment of our Hard Truths series, we go inside the fight to build a $2.4-billion telescope on the highest mountaintop in Hawaii. For astronomers, it would mean the chance to answer deep questions about the universe. But for Indigenous Hawaiians, it would mean the desecration of sacred land.
Guests: Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, postdoctoral researcher and scientist at cooperative studies unit at the University of Hawai'i Hilo, and Axios' Miriam Kramer.
Credits: "Axios Today" is brought to you by Axios and Pushkin Industries. This episode was produced by Nuria Marquez Martinez and edited by Alexandra Botti. Alex Sugiura is our sound engineer. Dan Bobkoff is our executive producer. Special thanks to Axios Space editor Miriam Kramer, executive editor Sara Kehaulani Goo and Hard Truths editor Michele Salcedo.
The growing class of alternative social media networks
Remember Parler? Well that alternative social media platform is not the only one. MeWe is another social media network hoping to gain traction with users who feel they’ve been censored by Facebook.
- Plus, new challenges to democracy at home and overseas.
- And, why a fight over a telescope in Hawaii is more than science vs. culture.
- Guests: Axios' Mike Allen, Sara Fischer, and Miriam Kramer.
Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, Amy Pedulla, Naomi Shavin, and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893.
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