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In An Italian ER, A Doctor Soldiers On

May 18, 2020 Current Events, Global Issues, Health, Science and Technology

Filmmaker Sasha Achilli joins us to tell the story of one ER doctor in Nothern Italy and her battle to save a daily swarm of incoming patients inside a besieged hospital.

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The Survivors Of Sutherland Springs

May 18, 2020 Culture, Current Events

Houston Chronicle columnist Joe Holley joins us to tell the story of a small Texas town learning to trust again after experiencing the worst mass shooting inside an American place of worship.

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Even Silly Scientific Questions Have Answers

May 15, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Science and Technology

Randall Munroe joins host Krys Boyd to talk about all the ways you can reach the wrong conclusion – and how we can get to the correct answer.

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Teaching Doctors To See Patients As People

May 14, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Health

Dr. Saul J. Weiner, professor of medicine, pediatrics, and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, joins us to talk about practicing medicine that goes beyond medical charts.

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How We Set Ourselves Up To Be Cheated

May 14, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity

J.M. Fenster joins us to talk about a system of fibs, infidelities and fraud that permeates every corner of our society and why, big or small, they matter.

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How COVID Complicates Farm To Table

May 13, 2020 Culture, Current Events

Yossi Sheffi, director of the M.I.T. Center for Transportation and Logistics, talks to us about how COVID-19 is impacting the U.S. food supply chain and what that means for your family’s shopping list.

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What Will Cities Look Like Post-Pandemic

May 12, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics

Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson joins us to talk about how COVID-19 is changing our relationship with the businesses in which we spend our disposable income – and about how that shift affects the places we live.

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One Woman’s Quest To Tame Her Depression

May 11, 2020 Current Events, Health

Anna Mehler Paperny she joins us to talk about investigating the complex world of depression treatment in order to save herself.

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Fear Is Natural–But It Can Be Controlled

May 7, 2020 Current Events, Health, Science and Technology

Eva Holland, correspondent for Outside magazine, joins us to talk about her own battle with fear and the methods she employed to overcome it.

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Tips For Parenting In A Pandemic

May 4, 2020 Culture, Current Events

KJ Dell’Antonia, former lead editor of The New York Times Motherlode blog, joins us to provide strategies for moms and dads who must now be both parent and teacher.

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Lawrence Wright Predicted This Would Happen

April 30, 2020 Current Events, Global Issues, Literature

Lawrence Wright joins us to talk about his fiction focused on a pandemic upending the world, written months and months before our current crisis.

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What Does It Mean To Be Asian-American?

April 30, 2020 Current Events, Health, Race/Identity

Cathy Park Hong, poetry editor of the New Republic and a professor at Rutgers-Newark University, joins us to talk about the stereotypes, suspicions, successes and fears wrapped up in her identity.

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