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The Lown Institute's Dr. Vikas Saini and Ms. Judith Garber Discuss Nonprofit Hospital CEO Compensation (March 7th)
Listeners of this podcast are aware the US suffers from extreme wealth and income inequality. (E.g., see my “The Unrecognized Tragedy of Working Cla…
4 years, 2 months ago
Prof. Robert Costanza Discusses Ecological Economics (January 25th)
Our economy is frequently defined as one of unpaid costs. (Think: Garret Hardin and the tragedy of the commons.) Nature or natural resources are co…
4 years, 4 months ago
Engineering Professor John Abraham Discusses Rapidly Rising Ocean Temperatures and Their Contribution to the Climate Crisis and Health Harm (January 18, 2022)
Over the past several years the earth's oceans, that cover 70% of the planet's surface, have dramatically warmed. In a paper published last week in …
4 years, 4 months ago
Professor Kristie Ebi Discusses The Lancet Series, "Heat and Health" (November 23rd)
The climate crisis threatens human health in innumerable ways including injury from extreme weather events, respiratory illness, zoonoses, water-born…
4 years, 6 months ago
250th Podcast: Harvard's Dr. Aaron Bernstein Discusses COP 26, the National Academy's Climate Crisis Effort and Related Issues (November 19th)
Concerning the recent United Nation’s COP 26 meeting in Glasgow, again unverifiable pledges were made moreover to cut methane gas emissions by 30% by…
4 years, 6 months ago
Brookings' Carol Graham Discusses America's Crisis of Despair (November 8th)
Last November 9th I discussed declining life expectancy in the US with Dr. Steven Woolf, i.e., US life expectancy stopped increasing in 2010 and had …
4 years, 6 months ago
Austin Whitman, Climate Neutral's CEO, Discusses Climate Crisis-Related Greenwashing (September 27th)
Greenwashing is generally defined as a public relations or marketing practice used to deceptively persuade the public an organization is environmenta…
4 years, 8 months ago
Professors Gibson-Davis and Hill Discuss The Effects of Wealth Inequality on Child Development (September 21st)
This interview discusses the recently published series of ten articles edited by Professors Gibson-Davis and Heather D. Hill titled, "Wealth Inequali…
4 years, 8 months ago
Daniel George and Peter Whitehouse Discuss Their Just-Published Book, "American Dementia, Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society" (September 14th)
Ken Langa's dust jacket summary appropriately states, the authors, "make clear that, in order to understand health and cognitive decline more fully, …
4 years, 8 months ago
245th Interview: Dan Troy Discusses 3D Bioprinting Human Organs and the FDA's Regulation Thereof (September 7th)
Approximately 100,000 Americans are waiting an organ transplant. The vast majority will are awaiting a a kidney - that, on average, will take five y…
4 years, 9 months ago