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For farmers, climate change is complicated

December 18, 2023 Current Events, Environment, Science and Technology, Think, Upcoming

Laura Reiley, who covers the business of food for The Washington Post, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the ways U.S. farmers are approaching modern problems of output and how the industry is working to do more with less.

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Could facial recognition software send you to jail?

December 7, 2023 Current Events, Science and Technology, Think

Eyal Press, a contributing writer for The New Yorker, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss cases of mistaken identity that sent innocent people to prison, all on the authority of tech that is still new and has unintended bias built in.

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What the Hamas-Israel war means for Iran, Saudi Arabia and us

December 6, 2023 Current Events, Global Issues, Politics, Think

Maria Fantappie, head of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Africa Program at Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss shifting political realities in a region with uneasy alliances.

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Inside the siege of Mariupol

December 5, 2023 Current Events, Global Issues, Think

Frontline producer and editor Michelle Mizner joins host Krys Boyd to discuss Chernov’s first-person account of life under siege, the horrors of a bombed maternity hospital and, ultimately, the power of the press.

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War through the eyes of a child

November 30, 2023 Current Events, Global Issues, Health, History, Mental Health, Politics, Think

Zarlasht Halaimzai joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her life growing up amid the bombs and guns of the war in Afghanistan, and her work to help heal the trauma of children living through conflict worldwide.

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Where avocados are illegal

November 28, 2023 Current Events, Environment, Global Issues, Think

Harper’s contributor Alexander Sammon joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how drug cartels are getting into the avocado business – and how one town is fighting back to protect both its safety and natural resources.

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The rough road to driverless cars

November 27, 2023 Current Events, Economics, Science and Technology, Think

Texas Monthly writer Dan Solomon joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the progress being made by tech companies producing driverless cars, as well as the safety concerns that still have yet to be addressed.

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Remember Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

November 20, 2023 Current Events, Health, Think

Health and science reporter Benjamin Ryan joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how carpal tunnel became an epidemic and what its disappearance says about how seriously we take workplace injuries today.

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Can a democracy survive minority rule?

November 9, 2023 Current Events, History, Politics, Think

Harvard government professor Steven Levitsky joins guest host John McCaa to discuss how minority rule undermines democracy and why the U.S. is vulnerable to partisan takeovers from both the left and the right.

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Who would benefit from breaking up Big Tech?

October 26, 2023 Current Events, Politics, Science and Technology, Think

Elizabeth Nolan Brown, a senior editor at Reason, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why this focus on anti-trust lawsuits isn’t popular with the general population and may be blowing the problems created by big tech well out of proportion.

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Could Kamala Harris be president?

October 24, 2023 Current Events, Politics, Think

Elaina Plott Calabro, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the work the vice president has been doing the last three years.

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Can execution ever be humane?

October 24, 2023 Culture, Current Events, Think

Elizabeth Bruenig, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her reporting about the incompetence in America’s death chambers.

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