Many parents feel that schools are under-educating their kids, while others push them into ‘hyper-education’ – after-school learning centers, national spelling bees, and math competitions. Amherst College professor Pawan Dhingra talks about the complicated world of parental expectations and its effects on kids.
Read MoreA prison sentence can be a death sentence in our overcrowded penal system, not only for inmates but the correctional officers and other workers who carry the corona virus both into facilities and back out to our communities. Kathy Boudin from the Center for Justice at Columbia University offers a solution that most governors are more afraid of than the disease itself.
Read MoreHome DNA tests are inexpensive and fun, but they can also upend everything you ever thought about your life. In The Lost Family, Washington Post reporter Libby Copeland explains how one person spitting into a vile can open a trove of secrets for themselves and everyone in their family.
Read MoreHumans are screwed right now. What else is new? But what about the squirrels and rabbits; the mice, foxes, and shore birds? The Executive Director of Cape Cod Wild Care talks about the effects of the shutdown on the animals that live in our woods, beaches, and backyards.
Read MoreIn New England Michael Wood is known as a personal trainer to the stars. Nationally, he’s been selected One of the 100 Best Trainers in America. As soon as we were advised to shelter in place due to the Corona virus I asked him to talk about all our various options to workout at home.
Read MorePhysician, geneticist, and bio-tech inventor Sharon Moalem explains why having two X chromosomes gives women an enormous advantage in surviving the corona virus…and almost every other health hurdle life throws at us.
Read MoreAfter interviewing an economist, a therapist, a trainer, a physician, and other experts about how to get through the corona virus crisis, a comedian was definitely in order.
Read MoreThe Provincetown Independent began publishing less than a year ago, in response to a national trend which saw all but two of the Cape’s local newspapers gobbled up and gutted by large corporations. They were doing just fine until the pandemic hit. Here’s what happened.
Read MoreSam Shem is the Harvard-trained intern who back in 1978 wrote House of God, the wildly influential novel that changed medical education forever. He’s back with a sequel exposing the ways nonprofit healthcare systems, insurance companies, Big Pharma, and hedge funds are working in tandem to destroy hospitals now.
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