Eric Garcia is an autistic journalist, and he joins us to talk about what autism is and isn’t, how it’s portrayed, and the support systems that are currently failing.
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Natural Disasters Shouldn’t Catch Us Off Guard
Samantha Montano is an assistant professor of emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and she joins us to talk about the science of emergency management, and why we’re not doing enough to keep the public safe.
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All The Questions She Never Got To Ask Her Mother
Kat Chow is a founding member of the Code Switch podcast team from NPR, and she joins us to tell her story of grief, not only for herself, but for her extended family, spread out across the world.
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Don’t Blame The Bots For Fake News
BuzzFeed News senior reporter Joseph Bernstein joins us to talk about why it’s difficult to root out false information and break information silos.
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A 1968 Report Could’ve Brought Us Closer to Racial Justice, But We Ignored It
Columbia University journalism professor Jelani Cobb has written a new introduction for the Kerner Commission Report, and he joins us to discuss why the document is a landmark of American history and remains salient today.
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There’s No Danger In Strangers
Journalist Joe Keohane joins us to discuss the benefits of breaking down our silos and inclinations to isolate in order to find connection, empathy and a path to happiness.
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Children Are Natural Philosophers
Jana Mohr Lone is director and founder of the University of Washington’s Center for Philosophy for Children. She joins us to talk about why children offer unique viewpoints on life’s philosophical mysteries, and why it’s important to take them seriously.
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Was An Interstellar Object Really An Alien Spacecraft?
Matthew Bothwell is an astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, and he joins us to talk about the rock – named “Oumuamua,” the theories that sprung up around it, and what happens when scarce data leads to wild speculation.
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Why Are Customers Such Jerks These Days?
Amanda Mull, staff writer for The Atlantic, joins us to talk about the flight attendants, grocery store clerks, gig workers and others on the frontlines of a rapidly declining atmosphere of civility, and what’s happening to customer service.
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Inside The Minds Of Murderers
Dr. Taj Nathan is a forensic psychiatrist and director of research for the Britain’s National Health Service, and he joins us to discuss his work with violent offenders and psychopaths as he searches for root causes of their crimes.
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There’s No Such Thing As Foreign Food
G. Daniela Galarza is a staff writer for the Washington Post food section, and she joins us to discuss how food relates directly to culture, and why reframing one’s worldview helps move cuisine beyond old tropes and whitewashing.
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For Centuries, Doctors Really Didn’t Understand The Female Body
Elinor Cleghorn suffered through a long series of misdiagnoses before finally correctly being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. She joins us to unpack the long history of how medicine has failed women.
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