Casey Gueren, former executive editor and health director at Self magazine, joins us to talk about separating medical fact from fiction – and about how to choose a healthy lifestyle.
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The heart is a bloody amazing organ
Bill Schutt of the American Museum of Natural History joins us for a fascinating look at what scientists are learning about how the hearts of creatures big and small function very differently than the human heart.
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How to keep drug users alive long enough to recover
Maia Szalavitz joins us to discuss a new approach to drug treatment created by drug users and public health experts ready to think outside the box.
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A Head Start On The Next Pandemic
Dr. Scott Gottlieb joins us to discuss what he calls a system-wide failure of government to control Covid-19, and what needs to happen to prepare for the next global health emergency.
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We Can’t Have Medical Progress Without Risk
Dr. Paul A. Offit joins us to talk about the risks medical researchers must take to develop the lifesaving therapies we rely on.
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In A World Of Distraction, Your Attention Is Precious
Casey Schwartz joins us to talk about her experience of once being addicted to drugs that promised her better thinking, and about the pluses and minuses of distraction.
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The Future Of Warfare
Seth G. Jones is director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and he joins us to talk about American adversaries who are changing the game when it comes to international conflict.
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How The Texas Abortion Law Is Like The Fugitive Slave Acts
Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a chancellor’s professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, and she joins us to talk about how weaponizing the citizenry takes a cue from the Fugitive Slave Acts, and how the practice might affect liberty today.
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The Science of Mind Control
Joel E. Dimsdale, distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, joins us to talk about mind control in the realms of religion, politics and society.
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The Latest On Coronavirus Mutations
Dr. James Cutrell, associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, joins us to discuss how the virus is changing and spreading, and what it means for the future of the pandemic.
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The Gender Politics Of Contraception
Krystale E. Littlejohn, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, joins us to discuss why cis-gendered women are expected to prevent pregnancies, and how that reality underscores the gendered role of labor in America.
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Your Developmentally Delayed Child Has Finished School — Now What?
Cammie McGovern joins us to discuss “the disability cliff” – when education ends and the hard realities of limited jobs and housing set in – and about her own experience raising a son who has autism.
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