MP Podcast — 7

Abu-Jamal, former death row inmate, will speak at Goddard College commencement.
Julia Pierson steps down as the director of the USSS.
Is space colonization practical for humanity in the near future?

“NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will investigate ways to collaborate on future missions to Mars, officials said Tuesday (Sept. 30). The announcement comes just one week after India put its first-ever Mars probe in orbit around the Red Planet, becoming just the fourth entity (after the United States, the Soviet Union and the European Space Agency) to do so.”
  ― Mike Wall (Senior Writer, Yahoo News)
“I think there is a strong humanitarian argument for making life multi-planetary, in order to safeguard the existence of humanity in the event that something catastrophic were to happen, in which case being poor or having a disease would be irrelevant, because humanity would be extinct. It would be like, ‘Good news, the problems of poverty a