Penn State gender and sexuality studies professor Hil Malatino talks about why embracing feelings of envy and despair can offer a more complete picture of a person post-transition.
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Why it’s hard to eat healthy, even for doctors
Dr. Raj Telhan discusses his quest to give up refined sugar and how it made him question the nature of pleasure and wonder about our capacity for desire.
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Roe v. Wade might end — how did we get here?
Rosemary Westwood is a public health reporter, and she discusses the specific Mississippi abortion ban case that has made it to the Supreme Court.
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How does your brain perceive the world around you?
Neuroscience professor, Dr. György Buzsáki discusses his research into the way the brain computes signals in order to better understand human decision making.
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Did humans evolve to need meat?
Roanne van Voorst is a futures-anthropologist, and she joins us to discuss her vision for a world not reliant on meat for food or clothing.
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Imagine you got transplant surgery in the 16th century
Researcher Paul Craddock discusses 16th-century skin grafts, 18th-century tooth transplants, and modern-day medical breakthroughs.
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How to make your anxiety work for you
Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, a psychology and neuroscience professor, explains why, she says, anxiety is tied to hope, and why linking it to disease is an outmoded way of thinking.
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What we still don’t know about mental illness
Writer Daniel Bergner discusses his brother’s journey with a bipolar diagnosis and the medications he was put on—and how drug-based treatments are still based on a lot of assumptions.
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Hello, sobriety influencers. Goodbye, Alcoholics Anonymous?
Writer Virginia Heffernan discusses our changing relationship to alcohol, from “soberinfluencers” to Dry January, and the new methods of recovery that eschew the 12-step method.
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What medical science didn’t know about vaginas
Science journalist Rachel E. Gross discusses the researchers and biologists working to better understand the uterus, ovaries, and vagina outside of just baby-making faculties.
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What drug companies don’t tell you about antidepressants
Author P.E. Moskowitz discusses the still-murky science behind how antidepressants work and why always prescribing them might not be best serving all patients.
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Can you trust your mental health diagnosis?
Writer Sarah Fay discusses her many diagnoses and offers an examination of psychiatry’s main tool, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—the DSM— and the history behind it.
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