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Arts Week: The Literary Magazine Dissecting Health And Healing
Episode 793
New York's Bellevue Hospital is the oldest public hospital in the country, serving patients from all walks of life. It's also the home of a literary …
3 years, 5 months ago
Arts Week: How Art Can Heal The Brain
Episode 792
Arts therapies appear to ease a host of brain disorders from Parkinson's to PTSD. But these treatments that rely on music, poetry or visual arts have…
3 years, 5 months ago
Arts Week: Harnessing Bacteria For Art
Episode 791
Pull out your art supplies because it's time to get crafty—with agar! We're beginning Arts Week at the intersection of biology and art. Therein lies …
3 years, 5 months ago
Happy Thanksgiving, All!
Episode 790
Emily and Aaron wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, and explain how you can help the show. Hint: It's giving us feedback about what you love and think we …
3 years, 5 months ago
Three Takeaways From The COP27 Climate Conference
Episode 789
The climate meeting known as COP27 has wrapped. Representatives from almost 200 countries attended to talk about how to tackle climate change and how…
3 years, 5 months ago
A Taste Of Lab-Grown Meat
Episode 788
The idea came to Uma Valeti while he was working on regrowing human tissue to help heart attack patients: If we can grow tissue from cells in a lab, …
3 years, 5 months ago
A Deeply Personal Race Against A Fatal Brain Disease
Episode 787
In the mornings, Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel's first job is to get their two garrulous kids awake, fed and out the door to daycare and kindergarte…
3 years, 5 months ago
Science Couldn't Save Her, So She Became A Scientist
Episode 786
The first time Sonia Vallabh understood something was very wrong with her mother Kamni was on the phone on her mom's 52nd birthday. She wasn't hersel…
3 years, 5 months ago
Killer Proteins: The Science Of Prions
Episode 785
Prions are biological anomalies – self-replicating, not-alive little particles that can misfold into an unstoppable juggernaut of fatal disease. Prio…
3 years, 5 months ago
Where Do Climate Negotiations Stand At COP27?
Episode 784
Climate negotiations continue at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Tens of thousands of attendees from around the world have gathered in the seaside r…
3 years, 5 months ago