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Your Ancestors Were Not Helicopter Parents

March 12, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Environment, History, Race/Identity, Science and Technology, Upcoming

Michaeleen Doucleff, correspondent for NPR’s Science Desk, joins us to discuss her journeys with her daughter, from the Arctic to the Yucatan, to understand parenting best practices around the world and why American parents may be getting it all wrong.

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Can Hospitals Survive Covid?

March 8, 2021 Economics, Health, Science and Technology, Upcoming

Vivian Ho is James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics and director of the Center for Health and Biosciences at Rice University, and she joins us to talk about the knock-on effects of the pandemic, from possible health-care bankruptcies to staffing issues, that hospitals are bracing for after the storm.

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Why Is It Taking So Long To Get Your Covid Shot?

March 4, 2021 Current Events, Economics, Health, Politics, Science and Technology

Kaiser Health News correspondent Rachana Pradhan joins us to explain the very complicated process of producing these vaccines – a process money or even executive orders can only do so much to speed up.

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Better Loving Through Chemistry

March 4, 2021 Culture, Education, Health, Science and Technology

Brian D. Earp joins us to argue that drugs that can help strengthen – and sever – relationships are out there now, and it’s time to understand the ethics and morals behind their use.

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The Scammers On The Other End Of The Line

March 3, 2021 Economics, Language, Politics, Science and Technology

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee is a contributing writer at National Geographic, and he joins us to talk about his journey into the world of telemarketers and their phone mills selling dubious products.

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You Can Achieve So Much More – Here’s How

March 2, 2021 Education, Health, Science and Technology

Steven Kotler, executive director of the Flow Research Collective, joins us to offer accessible strategies for unlocking the potential of our minds and bodies.

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How The Medical Research System Gets Around Informed Consent

February 26, 2021 Current Events, Education, Health, History, Politics, Science and Technology

Harriet A. Washington, a lecturer in bioethics at Columbia University, joins us to talk about her research into a patient’s right to decline a procedure and the ethics of forcing experiments or new treatments in the name of research.

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The ABC’s Of STD’s

February 25, 2021 Education, Health, History, Science and Technology

Dr. Ina Park is a medical consultant at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, and she joins us for an open conversation about how STDs are spread and how they affect the body.

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Extra! Extra! Read All About It! (On Nextdoor)

February 23, 2021 Culture, Economics, Science and Technology, Uncategorized

Will Oremus joins us to talk about how as local newspapers die out, the social media site Nextdoor is filling that need.

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A Post-Mortem On Texas’s Colossal Energy Failure

February 22, 2021 Current Events, Economics, Environment, Health, Politics, Science and Technology

University of Houston energy fellow Ed Hirs and Texas Water Resources Institute associate director Wendy Jepson join us to explain why one of the toughest weeks in Texas history was likely preventable – and what the state needs to do to make sure an energy disaster doesn’t strike again.

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Egg Freezing: Empowerment Or Impediment

February 22, 2021 Education, Health, Politics, Science and Technology

Lucy van de Wiel, research associate at the Reproductive Sociology Research Group, University of Cambridge, joins us to discuss how this reproductive technology offers a chance at parenting but also can lead to a heartbreaking journey into a largely unregulated industry.

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Artificial Solutions To Preserve The Natural World

February 19, 2021 Environment, Global Issues, History, Science and Technology

New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert joins us to talk about how scientists are looking to address climate change by studying the ways plants and animals have already adapted to live alongside humans.

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