The online legacy of 'To Catch a Predator'

Kurt Gödel was a genius mathematician and logician, considered by many scholars to be as influential as Aristotle. He was also buddies with fellow geniuses Albert Einstein and Oskar Morgenstern, the co-creator of Game Theory. In 1947, Gödel told Morgenstern and Einstein he had id ...  Show more

The climate crisis is escalating. We have to decarbonize our economy, but we’re moving too slowly. So, what’s the backup plan? This season of How We Survive is about engineering nature: large-scale interventions that could be our last hope. We’ll explore technology that could alt ...  Show more

“To Catch A Predator” steps:

The internet’s biggest recreation zone for kids is fighting to keep pedophiles away, and it's not always winning.  By Olivia Carville and Cecilia D’AnastasioSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Original Airdate: April 15, 2009 Computers, mobile phones and social networks are just some of the tools that these sexual predators have at their fingertips. Oprah talks with the families of children who were preyed upon online, sharing their stories with the hope that parents w ...  Show more

Could thousands of people keep a secret? Common sense says no—secrets spread, and people talk. But for over a decade, from 2006 to 2017, a website managed to stay under law enforcement’s radar, despite the fact that its many users were participating in illegal activities. The web ...  Show more