Health

You Can Achieve So Much More – Here’s How

March 2, 2021 Education, Health, Science and Technology

Steven Kotler, executive director of the Flow Research Collective, joins us to offer accessible strategies for unlocking the potential of our minds and bodies.

Unfriendly Skies: The Lives Of Flight Attendants

March 1, 2021 Culture, Economics, Health, History

Journalist Darryl Campbell joins us to talk about the modern airline industry and how angry passengers and harsh working conditions are undermining efforts to protect the health and safety of both customers and staff.

How The Medical Research System Gets Around Informed Consent

February 26, 2021 Current Events, Education, Health, History, Politics, Science and Technology

Harriet A. Washington, a lecturer in bioethics at Columbia University, joins us to talk about her research into a patient’s right to decline a procedure and the ethics of forcing experiments or new treatments in the name of research.

The ABC’s Of STD’s

February 25, 2021 Education, Health, History, Science and Technology

Dr. Ina Park is a medical consultant at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, and she joins us for an open conversation about how STDs are spread and how they affect the body.

Why The Nice People You Barely Know Are Important

February 24, 2021 Culture, Health

Amanda Mull joins us to talk about how we’ve traditionally undervalued these acquaintances and how the loss of these occasional interactions has caused our lives to shrink.

A Post-Mortem On Texas’s Colossal Energy Failure

February 22, 2021 Current Events, Economics, Environment, Health, Politics, Science and Technology

University of Houston energy fellow Ed Hirs and Texas Water Resources Institute associate director Wendy Jepson join us to explain why one of the toughest weeks in Texas history was likely preventable – and what the state needs to do to make sure an energy disaster doesn’t strike again.

Egg Freezing: Empowerment Or Impediment

February 22, 2021 Education, Health, Politics, Science and Technology

Lucy van de Wiel, research associate at the Reproductive Sociology Research Group, University of Cambridge, joins us to discuss how this reproductive technology offers a chance at parenting but also can lead to a heartbreaking journey into a largely unregulated industry.

What Is Appalachia Without Coal Mining?

February 11, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Environment, Health, Race/Identity

Jeff Young is managing editor of Ohio Valley ReSource, a regional journalism collaborative reporting on economic and social change in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. He joins us to discuss his investigations into the struggles of the people and businesses there, and why they don’t bode well for the future of the nation.

Life As A Black Vegan

February 10, 2021 Culture, Health, History, Race/Identity

Amirah Mercer is the founder of Other Suns, a wellness guide for Black women, and she joins us to talk about her switch to a vegan lifestyle, the isolation from community she initially felt, and her subsequent deep dive into the long history of plant-based diets in the Black diaspora.