Education Week reporter Madeline Will joins us to talk about how learning gaps will be addressed, how schools are planning to fully reopen, and which Covid safety measures will remain even after students can be vaccinated.
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Food Companies Don’t Care About Your Health
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss joins us to talk about how food manufacturers have created unhealthy foods we crave and why even the diet options are rarely any better.
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Are Our Personalities Connected To Birth Order?
Lynn Berger joins us to talk about the origins of birth order psychology and whether the roles we’re assigning children are based in fact or fiction.
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The Fight Over Female Virginity
Lisabeth During joins us to talk about the history and ideas surrounding female virginity and why it is associated with both honor and rebellion.
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The Draw Of Death-Defying Adventures
Stockton University professor Kristin J. Jacobson joins us to talk about the rise of a male-dominated, adventure-seeking culture and how it impacts the way we view — and treat — the planet.
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Could The CDC Have Shielded Us From The Pandemic?
Author Michael Lewis joins us to tell the stories of a biochemist, a public health worker and a federal government employee who worked in the White House during the early days of trying to contain the coronavirus.
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The World Expects Too Much From Young People
Rainesford Stauffer joins us to talk about the social media-fueled pressure put on people in their 20s and 30s to find their purpose, and why allowing time to think and be still might be the best way for someone to grow.
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The Links Between Structural Racism And Mental Illness
Dr. Ruth S. Shim joins us to discuss the lack of access to care for people of color and the links between structural racism and mental health.
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The Key To Productivity: Do Less
Behavioral scientist Leidy Klotz joins us to talk about why we need to start thinking as much about what we won’t do as what we will.
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She Lost Her Mom But Kept Her Korean Identity
Michelle Zauner joins us to talk about her caring for her dying mother and how she fought to maintain a link to her Korean heritage after her mother was gone.
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Readying Your Mind For A Post-Pandemic You
Dr. Madhukar Trivedi joins us to talk about what it will take to retrain ourselves to live in a world not dominated by a global pandemic.
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Seeing Ghosts Can Actually Be Good For Us
Patricia Pearson joins us to talk about why we dismiss these phenomena as nonsense and what we miss in the healing process when we do.
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