Why Science Is So Easy To Dismiss

July 13, 2020 Current Events, Health, Politics, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

Adrian Bardon, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, joins us to talk about how identity, political affiliation, culture and rationalization have led to science denial.

For The Dying, Dreams Offer Comfort

July 8, 2020 Health, Science and Technology

Dr. Christopher Kerr, CEO and chief medical officer at Hospice Buffalo, joins us to talk about observing end-of-life patients and how their dreams and visions provide moments of beauty and affirmation.

How Having An Abortion — Or Not — Affects Women

July 6, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Health, Race/Identity

Diana Greene Foster is the director of research at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH). She joins us to talk about her book “The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion.”

They Had 12 Kids – Six Had Schizophrenia

June 16, 2020 Health, Science and Technology

Robert Kolker joins us to talk about the Galvin family, which saw schizophrenia take over six of 12 kids – drawing interest from the National Institute of Mental Health.

COVID-19 And The Future Of College

June 10, 2020 Current Events, Education, Health

Paul Quinn College president Michael J. Sorrell joins us to talk about how COVID-19 complicates the way institutions of higher learning welcome back their students and staff.

Why No One Listens to You

June 3, 2020 Health, Language

Reporter Kate Murphy joins us to talk about why listening—even to gossip—is good for our brains and human connection.

When The People We Elect Don’t Talk, This Is What We Get

June 2, 2020 Current Events, Health, Politics

Journalist Ed Yong joins us to talk about the unique challenges of addressing the coronavirus – and about the urgency for local, state and federal governments to figure out ways to coordinate their plans.

Poor And Pregnant In Texas? You Might Want To Move

June 1, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Health, Race/Identity

ProPublica reporter Nina Martin joins us to talk about the critical links between maternal mortality and Medicaid and why limited to no access means pregnant and new mothers are dying at an alarming rate.

In Search Of A Fuller Breath

May 28, 2020 Health

Science writer James Nestor joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how clues on better breathing can be found not in research labs, but in choir rooms, smoggy streets and even centuries-old practices.

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.

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.

One Women’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.