Medicine
Journalist Maia Szalavitz on drug addiction and recovery myths
Guest: Maia Szalavitz Journalist ...
Air Date: December 6, 2016
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Digital distractions and our ancient brains
Guests: Adam Gazzaley, Larry Rosen The average person checks their phone almost 50 times a day. We do it while we ...
Air Date: November 30, 2016
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Puerto Rico is exporting addicts to Philly
Guests: Alfred Lubrano, Maria Quiñones-Sanchez, Andrea Duffy Opioid addiction is the public health crisis of our ...
Air Date: November 21, 2016
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‘Virtual’ refugee journey a somber reminder things could always be worse
How ironic. Just as many Americans were threatening to move to Canada, an installation opened on Independence Mall to replicate the exper ...
8 years ago
Radio Times in Review: Trump’s appeal
Guests: J.D. Vance, Nancy Isenberg, Thomas Frank Coming up on today’s edition of Radio Times in Review; we’ll ...
Air Date: November 11, 2016
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Domestic violence, guns, and coercive control
Guests: Susan Sorenson, Renee Norris-Jones, Jeannine Lisitski, Krista Dahl-Campbell Guns are used in roughly half ...
Air Date: November 7, 2016
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Radio Times in Review: soldiers at war
Guests: David Morris, Eric Fair, Mary Roach On today’s edition of Radio Times in Review; we’re going to talk ...
Air Date: November 4, 2016
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Charles Duhigg on motivation and why some people get so much done
Hour 2 Guest: Charles Duhigg [From the Radio Times archives] In this hou ...
Air Date: November 3, 2016
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Direct-to-consumer drug advertising on TV a growth industry
The pharmaceutical industry spends more than $2 billion a year advertising direct-to-consumer drugs on TV, an increase of 30 percent over ...
9 years ago
James Buchanan, “Worst. President. Ever;” election stress
Guests: Robert Strauss, Lynn Bufka James Buchanan is considered among the worst presidents in our nation’s hist ...
Air Date: October 19, 2016
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Guests: Casey Schwartz, Alan Schwarz, Mikaela Gilbert-Lurie Abuse of prescription drugs like Adderall and Concerta continues to ri ...
Air Date: October 17, 2016
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Fact or cartoon fiction: Can the ‘double conk’ cure amnesia?
Mary Spiers runs the website neuropsyfi.com, which is devoted to how brain science is depicted i ...
9 years ago
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Is there a limit to the human lifespan?
Guests: Jay Olshansky, David Sinclair One hundred and fifteen years – that’s about as old as we can hope to g ...
Air Date: October 11, 2016
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Guests: Duncan Haldane, Mark Peplow, Ravi Amaravadi The Nobel Prizes in ...
Air Date: October 10, 2016
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Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer Bill Lyon & Alzheimer’s disease
Guest: Bill Lyon Three years ago, retired Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer ...
Air Date: October 4, 2016
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