Can Kids Get Too Much Education?

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.

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Prisons and the Pandemic

A 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.

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Who's Your Daddy?

Home 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.

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Wild Care in a Wild Time

Humans 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.

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Staying in Shape While Staying at Home

In 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.

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The Pandemic and the Independent

The 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.

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Why Managed Care Kills Health Care

Sam 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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