Dr. Uma Naidoo is founder and director of the Nutritional Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital and on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She joins us to talk about how science shows foods like blueberries –-and sadly, not cookies — are keys to mental health and cogitative function.
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Christopher Ryan joins us to talk about how our ancestors might not have enjoyed some of the perks of the 21st Century, but they also didn’t have some of the worries that we do today.
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Filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine join us to talk about a national program for high school students to learn the nuts and bolts of U.S. government by creating it themselves, which they capture in their documentary.
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Dana Thomas joins us to talk about how the pandemic is reshaping our shopping habits and forcing the fashion industry to figure out how to survive on selling baggy tees.
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Stephen Rodrick, senior writer for Rolling Stone, joins us to talk about the love of the chase to find aliens.
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Michael D’Antonio joins us to talk about his research into how one woman, identifiable by her first name only, became a symbolic cudgel for modern politics.
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Washington Post’s national political reporter and Washington Week moderator Robert Costa joins us to talk about the Biden and Trump campaign strategies to woo voters ahead of Election Day.
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Journalist Lisa Selin Davis joins us to talk about how tomboys have pushed our ideas about gender conformity.
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Harvard Business School professor Debora L. Spar joins us to talk about how technological advancement has reshaped the nuclear family.
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Richard Kreitner, contributing writer to The Nation, joins us to look at past and present attempts to dissolve the United States.
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Sara Hendren teaches design for disability at Olin College of Engineering, and she joins us to talk about the idea that disability isn’t about a person, so much as the way a person must navigate an unhelpful world.
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Peter N. Stearns, University Professor of History at George Mason University, joins us to talk about using shame as an emotional disciplining tool.
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