Bestselling British journalist Johann Hari traveled the world to study the heroin epidemic. After years interviweing scientists, users, activists, politicians, and cops he came to the conclusion that just about everyhing we think we know about addiction is wrong.
Read MoreNeil Shubin is a paleontologist who co-discovered Tiktaalik, sometimes called The Missing Link, an ancient fish with elbows and a neck composed of the same bones as the upper arm, forearm, and wrist in a human.
Read MoreIn her book Whitewash investigative journalist Carey Gillam talks about glyphosate, the world’s best selling herbicide, deemed a probable human carcinogen by the UN that Monsanto and friendly federal regulators have assured us is perfectly safe.
Read MoreA professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School outlines a new system of dealing with people who behave badly: not by treating them as self-centered losers who are willfully pissing us off but as people who lack the skills to act otherwise.
Read MoreTicks have changed our lives, made us sick and made us prisoners of the indoors, potentially turning a walk in the woods into a life-changing experience at worst and at best a time consuming search and destroy mission as we strip and probe our bodies. Mary Beth Pheiffer is an investigative journalist who reports on the reasons for the world-wide spread of tick-borne diseases and the inadequate medical response.
Read MoreMary Beth Pfeiffer conducted over 300 interviews over six years investigating one of the most damaging epidemics in recent decades: Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. In this, the second of two conversations she talks about the prevention.
Read MoreThrere’s a real rift between those who have served in the US military and those who have not; between men and women who return home with trauma and a population that doesn’t know how to talk to them. It’s called the civilian military divide and it’s a miscommunication that threatens our democracy.
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