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Doping & The Olympics

Guests: Dennis Cardone, Mark Johnson, Eugen Dimant There’s a renewed discussion about doping at the Olympic Gam ...

Air Date: August 10, 2016

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Radio Times in Review: Immunotherapy, White Trash, Henrietta Lacks

Guests: David Porter, Lynn Schuchter, Nancy Isenberg, Rebecca Skloot On today’s edition of Radio Times in Revie ...

Air Date: August 5, 2016

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News Roundup: Zika update, Millennial promiscuity, and NJ’s proposed gas tax

Guests: Donald McNeil Jr., Jean Twenge, Ryan Hutchins The CDC warned pregnant women and their partners not to tra ...

Air Date: August 3, 2016

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Planning for the DNC, What to Expect, Ed Rendell’s Role at the convention, & more

Guests: Julia Terruso, Holly Otterbein, Mayor Jim Kenney, Governor Ed Rendell Radio Times is broadcasting live th ...

Air Date: July 25, 2016

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Hungary for discount dentistry? The European nation feeds the world’s growing appetite for medical tourism

If Bela Batorfi has his way, Hungary may soon be synonymous with complex dental procedures in the way that France is known for baguettes ...

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Christopher Phillips on ‘The Philosophy of Childing’

Guest: Christopher Phillips What are you going to be when you grow up? That’s a question that’s put to every ...

Air Date: July 11, 2016

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Radio Times in Review: “The Elder Boom,” writer Elie Wiesel, traveling with the Fulani

Guests: Ai-Jen Poo, Elie Wiesel, Anna Badkhen Coming up on today’s edition of Radio Times in Review: we’ll he ...

Air Date: July 8, 2016

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Radio Times

The new chemical safety law

Guests: Richard Dennison, Joseph Braun A bill overhauling the way we regulate chemicals was signed into law last ...

Air Date: July 6, 2016

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cadets
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Reaction to the Supreme Court decisions

Guests: Theodore Ruger, Lisa McElroy As usual, the Supreme Court waited until the final days of its term to annou ...

Air Date: June 27, 2016

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Why don’t young doctors want to work in primary care?

Half the money and none of the respect, a first-year resident says no wonder new doctors aren’t choosing to be generalists. ...

9 years ago

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Watching TV you hate, then comedian Doug Stanhope

Guests: Erik Adams, Megan McLachlan, Doug Stanhope You hate a show and you watch every week.  This is the phenom ...

Air Date: June 15, 2016

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Author Mary Roach on the science behind warfare

Guest: Mary Roach Thousands of books have been written about war — the battles, the weapons, the strategy, and the heroes, b ...

Air Date: June 7, 2016

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Sebastian Junger on “Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging”

Guest: Sebastian Junger In his new book, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, journalist and documentary ...

Air Date: May 27, 2016

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In Philadelphia, finding dignity for bodies left unclaimed

At Laurel Hill Cemetery in Northwest Philadelphia, it’s easy to overlook a couple of small patches of grass in the center of the s ...

9 years ago

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Protecting the dead, both body and soul

In the Jewish tradition of shemira, the deceased are comforted until burial. This piece is part of our “Bodies” ...

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