Noam Shpancer, a professor of psychology at Otterbein University, joins us to talk specifically about the roadblocks that stand in the way of developing resilience in anxious children – and how to overcome them.
Read moreRethinking Our Relationship With The Natural World
This hour, we’ll talk about how people’s relationship to the natural world has evolved over time.
Read moreLawrence Wright Predicted This Would Happen
Lawrence Wright joins us to talk about his fiction focused on a pandemic upending the world, written months and months before our current crisis.
Read moreWhat The Oil Bust Means For The Economy
Jim Krane, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute, joins us to talk about the collapse of oil futures, what happened to demand, and how problems in the energy sector affect the larger economy.
Read moreFinding Our Way To The New Normal
Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong joins us to explain why instead of asking “when will life get back to normal?”, we should focus our energies on incremental steps to a more livable future.
Read moreThe Man Who Revolutionized The Way The World Grows Food
Rob Rapley joins us to talk about Norman E. Borlaug, who won praise for his work on disease resistance crops – which also came with unintended consequences.
Read moreOur 100-Year Battle With Pandemics
Medical historian Mark Honigsbaum joins us to talk about why bacterial and viral disasters continue to take us by surprise.
Read moreIn a Crisis, Listen to Your Elders
Dr. Karl Pillemer, professor of gerontology in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, joins us to look at our current crisis through the eyes of people who can say from experience that “this, too, shall pass.”
Read moreVaccine Science, Race And Mathematical Modeling
On today’s show, experts explain some of the more mysterious elements of the coronavirus, including what it will take to develop a vaccine, how epidemiological models work and why black and Latino patients are disproportionately affected.
Read moreIn the ‘America First’ Era, Can The U.S. Lead The World?
Former US Ambassador Nicholas Burns joins us to talk about strategies to align the world in the battle for collective public health.
Read moreWill COVID-19 Spell the End of International Cooperation
Abraham Newman joins us to talk about how smoothing out all the bumps in our international supply chains created an unexpected shock in the system.
Read moreWho’s Still Listening To America?
Graham Allison joins us to talk about how this tricky balance of power is maintained – and about what happens when one superpower steps into another’s turf.
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