Archives: Episodes
Financial fraud and the Madoff scheme
Investors large and small are confronting losses of staggering amounts as a result of the what is believed to be a Ponzi-style scheme cre ...
Air Date: December 17, 2008
Would you take a pill to make you smarter?
A new article published by a group of scientists and policy experts suggest that taking drugs to improve the brain’s performance is ...
Air Date: December 16, 2008
A health professionals moral beliefs vs. the professional obligation to provide care
The federal government has proposed a new rule which would protect a health care professional from providing care that violated his or he ...
Air Date: December 16, 2008
MICHAEL LEMONICK – The Georgian Star
Self-taught 18th century scientist William Herschel and his sister, Caroline hunted comets, cataloged thousands of stars and were the fir ...
Air Date: December 15, 2008
Auto Bail-Out – UAW, The Big Three Congress and the Fed
Are the US automakers too big to fail? Congress and Bush administration officials are considering using some of the existing $700 billion ...
Air Date: December 15, 2008
Talking with your family about money.
The current economic crisis has forced many families to scale down their holiday plans – everything from extravagant celebrations t ...
Air Date: December 12, 2008
It’s Friday, so we’re talking about politics. We’ll start with the political corruption scandal involving Illinois gove ...
Air Date: December 12, 2008
Many of us who surf the internet enter into a kind of personal contract that our tastes are tracked because we see more custom ads of thi ...
Air Date: December 11, 2008
How does our current economic crisis impact consumer credit?
We’re told that since consumer activity accounts for 70% of the economy we need to spend yet credit card interest rates are rising ...
Air Date: December 11, 2008
Tom Sugrue on the history of racial equality in the northern US
We talk with historian TOM SUGRUE about the history of civil rights and racial equality in the northern United States. His new book is ...
Air Date: December 10, 2008
The EPA under the Bush Administration
We talk with Inquirer writers JOHN SULLIVAN and JOHN SHIFFMAN about the EPA under the Bush Administration, the topic of their four-part s ...
Air Date: December 10, 2008
Recent developments in the Media and Journalism
We take a look at recent developments in the media including the Tribune Company’s bankruptcy filing, how journalism will fare in t ...
Air Date: December 9, 2008
Can the Detroit automakers change?
As the Detroit automakers’ bailout takes shape we get an update from Businessweek Detroit Bureau Chief DAVID WELCH. Then, with incr ...
Air Date: December 9, 2008
Conflicts of interest in health care and medical research
There is movement within the medical research and health care communities for scientists and physicians to provide full disclosure of the ...
Air Date: December 8, 2008
Investigating human rights violations in the Bush Administration
With pressure on president-elect Barack Obama to abolish torture, there are increasing calls for the establishment of a commission to exp ...
Air Date: December 8, 2008