Decades into the era of Big Data, researchers are calling for reforms in privacy, predictive algorithms, and more.

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Is It Time For Big Data To Get Smaller?

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I was trying to convey the sense of time moving slowly but also rapidly, like how it feels living the same week on repeat while in lockdown for 112 days.

Featuring ambient recordings sourced from many providers including foley captured many years ago by me and my trusty MiniDisc recorder. This is likely the only track I've produced with me whistling.

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Here’s a link to our transcript: https://bit.ly/36osuwx 

This episode was produced by Nick DelRose with help from Wendy Zukerman, Meryl Horn, Michelle Dang, Rose Rimler, and Taylor White. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard. Music written by Peter Leonard. And special thanks to the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson.

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Space might seem an empty, vast expanse, but satellites in Earth's orbit face the constant risk of collision - with other satellites and rockets, dead or alive, or with fragments of their debris.

It is now routine for operators of spacecraft in busy highways to divert their mission out of harms way. In fact at ESA, each mission flown performs on average two 'collision avoidance manoeuvres' per year.

In this podcast, episode #3 in the ESA-UN space debris series, Benjamin Bastida Virgili and Hazuki Mori discuss the cost of these manoeuvres and what can be done.

While you listen, check out the corresponding ESA-UN infographic that illustrates this topic: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/02/The_cost_of_avoiding_collision

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Is It Time For Big Data To Get Smaller?

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