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Right-To-Repair, Exercise Recovery, Gov. Inslee. April 5, 2019, Part 2

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Whenever your smartphone or video game console breaks down, you usually have to go back to the manufacture or a technician affiliated with the company to have your device fixed. Oftentimes, companies don’t release parts or guides to their devices, making it difficult to repair them own your own. 20 different states have introduced right-to-repair legislation, which calls for companies to open up the ability for individuals to fix their own devices. Recently, senator Elizabeth Warren called for a national right-to-repair law for farming equipment made by John Deere and other agricultural manufacturers. Jason Koebler from Motherboard and agricultural lawyer Todd Janzen discuss the debate between right-to-repair advocates who want more choice in the hands of consumers and companies who cite security issues and intellectual property rights for keep devices closed. If you’re a runner, hitting the road after a long winter indoors feels invigorating… until you get back home, 10 miles later, and your legs feel like jelly. How do you start to recover? Ibuprofen, ice, lots of water, and stretching might sound like good place to start. But it turns out that following these seemingly logical steps for a faster recovery achieves just the opposite. Icing your muscles slows down the process of recovery. Too much water can be harmful. And stretching? You can put that in the same category as compression boots and cupping—they don’t help recovery one bit. Science writer Christie Aschwanden, author of Good To Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery, a new book on the science of recovery, joins Ira to share what she discovered debunking our most commonly-held beliefs about recovery with science. “Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.” So goes the saying. And for Washington state governor Jay Inslee, that idea is climate change. He has staked his run for the White House in 2020 on what he calls “America’s Climate Mission,” and his campaign platform says “defeating climate change is the defining challenge of our time and [it] must be the foremost priority for the next president.” For a little historical perspective, however, consider that climate change was practically a non-issue in the last presidential election. There were no specific questions about climate policy in the debates. And only five minutes and twenty-seven seconds—two percent of total talking time—were spent on climate change across all three presidential debates. In this conversation, Ira discusses Gov. Inslee’s presidential ambitions, and the science issues that have defined his time as governor of Washington.

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0:00.0

This is Science Friday. I'm Ira Flato. A bit later in the hour, science debunks your workout recovery routine.

0:08.5

If you have a workout recovery method you swear by, give us a call. Our number, 844-724-8255, or tweet us at SciFry.

0:18.9

We'll have our guest evaluated.

0:22.7

Tell us if you're wasting your time.

0:27.6

But first, whenever you accidentally drop your phone or your gaming console breaks,

0:31.1

you usually have to take it to the manufacturer to get it fixed, don't you?

0:34.6

Or you have to take it to a company-approved repair shop.

0:40.8

But if it's your device, shouldn't you be able to change the screen or tinker with it yourself?

0:47.5

Well, since so much hardware, even cars and tractors, so much of it is controlled by software,

0:52.0

it has been argued that just like the software you don't own, but you license,

0:55.9

well, you really don't own your tractor. So you can't fix stuff. That doesn't belong to you. Twenty states have adopted legislation called Right to Repair

1:02.3

that would let consumers do that, fix their stuff. And last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren called

1:08.6

for a national law that would allow farmers to repair their tractors and farm equipment.

1:14.1

Companies are still pushing back, citing security, and copyright concerns.

1:18.5

My next guest is going to take us through the debate.

1:20.7

Jason Kebler is editor-in-chief at Motherboard here in New York.

1:24.6

Welcome, Science Friday.

1:25.8

Hey, thanks for having me.

1:27.2

When you talk about this right to repair, what are we repairing? Is it the software or the hardware here?

1:32.3

It's usually the hardware. So we're talking about iPhone screens, batteries, refrigerator, filters,

1:38.4

tractors, anything that is electronic and has chips in it.

1:42.0

Now, let's go to the tractors because I know you spent a lot of time with farmers and their tractors.

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