Casey Schwartz joins us to talk about her experience of once being addicted to drugs that promised her better thinking, and about the pluses and minuses of distraction.
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How A Food Writer’s Dream Job Became A Nightmare
Essayist Wyatt Williams joins us to discuss his journey to Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska, to join a community’s traditions of eating whale, and what it signifies for food culture for the rest of us.
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Our 2,000-Year Obsession With Makeup (from 8/3/21)
Rae Nudson joins us to discuss the power of the powders and creams with which we adorn our skin, and how they’ve created the powerful beauty standards currently being challenged.
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How William Randolph Hearst Made The Media
Stephen Ives joins us to tell the story of William Randolph Hearst – the subject of a new American Experience documentary.
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What’s Really Going On Along The U.S.-Mexico Border
Alfredo Corchado is a correspondent for The Dallas Morning News who covers the border, and he joins us to talk about the situation – and the realities of immigration and life along the border amid ever-shifting policies.
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How Should We Remember 9/11?
Andrew Levy, professor of English at Butler University, joins us to discuss how the many iterations of “Never Forget” events and monuments have created new narratives of the power and presence of America, and why those need to be reexamined.
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Losing My Religion
Jessica Wilbanks talks about how her decision to leave her childhood church alienated her from her fundamentalist parents – and about the difficult process of charting her own spiritual path, which she writes about in “When I Spoke in Tongues: A Story of Faith and its Loss.”
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How Cancer Doctors Are Tailoring Treatment
Science journalist Fran Smith joins host Krys Boyd to talk about a new way of treating disease called precision medicine, in which prevention, diagnosis and treatment are targeted to a patient’s unique biochemical makeup.
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A Lesson In Texas Mythology
W.F. Strong joins guest host John McCaa to tell some tales – some tall, some not – and to talk about the mythology that surrounds the Lone Star State. His new book is called “Stories from Texas: Some of Them Are True”.
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