Shayla Love, a senior staff writer at Vice, joins us to talk about the psychology of why we’re all a little disoriented since our 9-to-5 routine disappeared.
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How To Live Better As We Live Longer
Daniel Levitin is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University, and he joins us to talk about what he calls human life’s two stages: “healthspan” and “diseasespan,” and explain how brain science can promote the former.
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Finding Our Way To The New Normal
Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong joins us to explain why instead of asking “when will life get back to normal?”, we should focus our energies on incremental steps to a more livable future.
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What We Can Learn From The First U.S. Coronavirus Hotspot
Miles O’Brien joins us to talk about his coast-to-coast reporting on the people affected by the coronavirus – and about how inaction by elected officials contributed to the outbreak.
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Our 100-Year Battle With Pandemics
Medical historian Mark Honigsbaum joins us to talk about why bacterial and viral disasters continue to take us by surprise.
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In a Crisis, Listen to Your Elders
Dr. Karl Pillemer, professor of gerontology in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, joins us to look at our current crisis through the eyes of people who can say from experience that “this, too, shall pass.”
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Vaccine Science, Race And Mathematical Modeling
On today’s show, experts explain some of the more mysterious elements of the coronavirus, including what it will take to develop a vaccine, how epidemiological models work and why black and Latino patients are disproportionately affected.
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In the ‘America First’ Era, Can The U.S. Lead The World?
Former US Ambassador Nicholas Burns joins us to talk about strategies to align the world in the battle for collective public health.
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How To Be Brave
Catherine A. Sanderson, Manwell Family Professor of Life Sciences at Amherst College, joins us to talk about the psychology of groupthink and how to become a leader.
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Will COVID-19 Spell the End of International Cooperation
Abraham Newman joins us to talk about how smoothing out all the bumps in our international supply chains created an unexpected shock in the system.
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During Social Distancing, We’re All In This Together
NYU sociology professor Eric M. Klinenberg joins us to talk about how making it through Covid-19 will require buy-in from everyone.
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To Work Better, Work Less
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, a visiting scholar at Stanford and Oxford, joins us to talk about redesigning the workday.
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