{"id":48238,"date":"2015-10-05T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T17:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48238"},"modified":"2015-10-05T11:03:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:03:05","slug":"the-pentagons-brain-an-uncensored-history-of-darpa-americas-top-secret-military-research-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/10\/05\/the-pentagons-brain-an-uncensored-history-of-darpa-americas-top-secret-military-research-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon&#8217;s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America&#8217;s Top Secret Military Research Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601506.us.archive.org\/27\/items\/20151005Uprising\/2015_10_05_Annie_Jacobson.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601506.us.archive.org\/27\/items\/20151005Uprising\/2015_10_05_Uprising.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Annie Jacobson<\/strong>, author of The Pentagon&#8217;s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America&#8217;s Top Secret Military Research Agency.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A recent headline in late September on the Popular Science Magazine&#8217;s website read, &#8220;DARPA Gives MIT Lab $32 million to Program Living Cells.&#8221; DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a secretive government agency that spearheads bizarre sounding scientific research. That headline was fairly typical of the type of project the agency oversees. <\/p>\n<p>On its website it says, &#8220;DARPA pursues opportunities for transformational change rather than incremental advances.&#8221; But the question is, what sort of transformation and why? <\/p>\n<p>While DARPA has been the subject of speculation by conspiracy theorists since its founding in 1958, no one has actually written a definitive history of the agency. Until now. <\/p>\n<p>Find out more about her book at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/anniejacobsen.com\" target=\"_blank\">anniejacobsen.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Annie Jacobson, author of The Pentagon&#8217;s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America&#8217;s Top Secret Military Research Agency. A recent headline in late September on the Popular Science Magazine&#8217;s website read, &#8220;DARPA Gives MIT Lab $32 million to Program Living Cells.&#8221; DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a secretive government agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48255,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48238\/revisions\/48255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}