Dr. Seema Yasmin, director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, joins host Krys Boyd to dispel common rumors and myths about science and medicine, and why facts still don’t tamp down lies.
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Seeing Ghosts Can Actually Be Good For Us
We often hear stories of dead loved ones appearing in dreams to comfort the living. So why isn’t this considered part of normal bereavement?
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Mom May Not Cook (But She Still Loves You)
Sarah Bowen, professor of sociology at North Carolina State University, joins us to take a tour inside the kitchens of everyday American women to uncover the challenges they face in providing even simple meals.
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What Must Be Done Before The Next Pandemic
Jennifer Nuzzo, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, joins us to talk about when politics and science collide during a global pandemic and what an effective response should look like next time.
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How Science Skeptics Create Doubt
Sean B. Carroll, vice president for science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, joins us to talk about how science deniers return to the same strategies over and over to create doubt around new discoveries.
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How Work Has Changed During the Pandemic
Even if who’ve been fortunate enough to not contract COVID-19, the pandemic has affected in some way each of our home lives and careers. This hour, we’ll talk about how work has changed during the pandemic.
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A Covid Vaccine Is Imminent. So Who Should Get It First?
Christopher Cox joins us to think through effective vaccine distribution and if the focus should be on vulnerable populations or super-spreaders.
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Nature’s Greatest Building Material: Your Bones
Roy Meals, clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at UCLA, joins us to talk about the science and wonder of our skeletal framework and explains why bones are invaluable—and have been so since the dawn of recorded time.
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Grocery Shopping As Status Symbol
Benjamin Lorr joins us to talk about his investigations into the highly-guarded inner-workings of how our food goes from field, to truck, to shelf.
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What It Will Take For Texas To Survive COVID
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank president and CEO Robert Kaplan and Joe Straus, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, join host Krys Boyd to discuss the pandemic’s impact on the state in terms of dollars, jobs, and the health of Texans.
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Why You’re Probably Showering Too Much
Dr. James Hamblin, staff writer at The Atlantic and a lecturer at Yale School of Public Health, joins us to talk about how our skin protects us – and how we can better protect it.
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Grief’s Impact On The Grieving
Dorothy P. Holinger is a psychotherapist and a fellow of the Association of Psychological Science, and she joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the psychological and physiological changes grief causes and the processes that help the bereaved move through it.
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