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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Mental Health

Brooke Gladstone
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Brooke Gladstone of “On the Media”

Guests: Brooke Gladstone On the Media’s ...

Air Date: July 10, 2017

Listen 00:48:58
 Four of the five Marx brothers, from left, Chico, Groucho, Harpo and Zeppo, pose in 1930.  (AP Photo)
Speak Easy
Health

Humor is a powerful tool in a doctor’s arsenal

There’s a body of opinion that believes that laughter might, for some illnesses, be the best medicine.

8 years ago

The Pulse
Health

The Quest for Sleep

Sleep is the new skinny. Americans are obsessed with a good night’s rest — after decades of viewing sleep as a waste of time for ...

Air Date: July 7, 2017

Listen 46:54
a gun
Radio Times
Courts & Law

Gun violence and children; gun shops and suicide prevention

Guests: Ruth Abaya, Scott Charles, Ralph Demicco, Marty Vriniotis The statistics around guns and children are sta ...

Air Date: July 6, 2017

Listen 00:49:01
During sleep paralysis, many people see a strange presence in their room. (Illustration by Steve Teare)
The Pulse
Health

Sleep paralysis: How a deep-sleep glitch can conjure the boogeyman

There’s an unnerving, specific kind of dream — a nightmare, really — that can happe ...

8 years ago

Listen 7:00
Vashti DuBois stands over her bed. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Reclaiming a good night’s sleep after trauma-induced insomnia

A museum exhibit helped Vashti DuBois finally sleep after nearly 3 years of unrest. Standing in her living room — a serene, dark ...

8 years ago

Listen 3:52
Mitch McConnell
Radio Times
Money

Dissecting the Senate health care plan

Guests: Margot Sanger-Katz, Julie Rovner, Ralph Muller The Senate released their health care plan to repeal and r ...

Air Date: June 26, 2017

Listen 00:50:44
Bill Maher and Ice Cube
Radio Times

“How dare you!” – on political outrage

Guests: Angela Nagel, Jillian Jordan, Conor Friedersdorf Political discourse has turned into an outrage machine. ...

Air Date: June 21, 2017

Listen 00:48:59
Philadelphia School District headquarters at Broad and Spring Garden streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Speak Easy
Education

Philly schools must prioritize trauma-informed learning

Powerful and surprisingly prevalent horrors are blocking access to education and ravaging children’s lives. Sadly, they remai ...

8 years ago

Research show keeping a journal about things we’re grateful for makes us happier, and that’s good for our health. Reporter Shuka Kalantari shares journaling about skipping rocks on the beach with her toddler makes happy. (Shuka Kalantari/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

‘Positive scientists’ say you can learn to be happier

A busy journalist and mom test drives tools from “happiness science.” When the architects of America wrote about the p ...

8 years ago

Listen 6:11
 Omar was a familiar face in West Philadelphia. (Yoni Kroll)
Speak Easy
Community

West Philly’s ‘Crazy drunk Omar’ troubled and troubling in death as in life

Something about crazy drunk Omar being dead. On a friend’s facebook page. That’s how I got the news last week. That’s one of the ug ...

8 years ago

kids jumping
Radio Times

“Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World”

Guest: Mitch Prinstein Most of us have some painful memories from our school days – maybe we were always the la ...

Air Date: June 12, 2017

Listen 00:49:00
a discarded syringe
Radio Times
Courts & Law

The gray area of drug recovery homes

Many recovery homes in Philadelphia are not licensed, unregulated and are illegally receiving thousands of dollars per month from drug tr ...

Air Date: June 8, 2017

Listen 00:49:00
Protesters argue during a May Day protest
Radio Times

Breaking down ideological battle lines

Guests: Emile Bruneau, Dannagal Young, Kevin Arceneaux In these increasingly polarized times, it can be difficult ...

Air Date: May 23, 2017

Listen 00:49:30
a frat house
Radio Times
Health

Fraternity hazing culture

Guests: Doug Fierberg, Gentry McCreary 18 members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Penn State University face c ...

Air Date: May 12, 2017

Listen 00:49:21
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