ProPublica health reporter Caroline Chen joins us to talk about how we should interpret the numbers to get a sense of where we’re headed.
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The Best Way To Listen To This Show Is While Walking
Trinity College Dublin neuroscientist Shane O’Mara joins us to talk about why ditching the car is great for your body, your mood and your connection to your fellow man.
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What’s Standing In The Way Of A COVID Vaccine
Dr. Seema Yasmin joins us to talk about the latest research on COVID-19 antibodies, treatments, and the development of a vaccine.
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Grow A Garden, Tend Your Mind
Psychiatrist Sue Stuart-Smith joins us to talk about the therapeutic qualities of horticulture.
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Why Leprosy Was Always Misunderstood
NPR news correspondent Pam Fessler joins us to talk about the history of a Leprosy colony in Louisiana.
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Eat, Sleep And Breathe … Better
This hour, we talk with experts about simple ways to get healthier.
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Citizens Of Other Countries Trust Their Governments. Why Don’t We?
Wired magazine contributor Gideon Lewis-Kraus joins us to talk about how other nations have more successfully contained the coronavirus thanks to a shared trust with citizens – and about what it will take for the U.S. to rebuild a similar level of trust.
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Can We Safely Reopen Schools?
Education Week reporter Madeline Will joins us to talk about what it will take to safely welcome students back to school amid the pandemic.
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The Psychology Of Victimhood
Humanistic psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman talks to us about the relationship between victimhood and our sense of how much control we have of our lives.
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Why Science Is So Easy To Dismiss
Adrian Bardon, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, joins us to talk about how identity, political affiliation, culture and rationalization have led to science denial.
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For The Dying, Dreams Offer Comfort
Dr. Christopher Kerr, CEO and chief medical officer at Hospice Buffalo, joins us to talk about observing end-of-life patients and how their dreams and visions provide moments of beauty and affirmation.
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How having an abortion — or not — affects women
Researcher Diana Greene Foster talks about her book “The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion.”
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