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Sinopsis
The podcast of the Center for Environmental Health. Remember to look, before you leap.
Episodios
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Black Lives Matter & Environmental Justice
25/01/2015 Duración: 33minWhat does environmental health and justice have to do with the Black Lives Matter movement? We asked three CEH team members to discuss race, environmental justice, and their concerns around #blacklivesmatter. And, we hear a brief excerpt from CEH Eastern States Director Ansje Miller's remarks at a recent rally on the 5th anniversary of the Citizens United decision.
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Death, Life and Hospice
17/12/2014 Duración: 48minA talk with Dr. B.J. Miller, Executive Director of San Francisco's Zen Hospice Project, and with long-time ZHP volunteer Mary Doane.
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Worse Than Ebola
16/11/2014 Duración: 48minU.S. research labs can create even deadlier strains of Ebola, influenza, and other infectious diseases, in so-called “gain-of-function” research. We hear from biosafety expert Edward Hammond on threats from lab-created superbugs. Also, food safety lawyer Bill Marler and health threats from the hormone-altering chemical BPA, from Connie Engel of the Breast Cancer Fund.
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A Good Death!
27/10/2014 Duración: 33minIt's our Halloween show, and we talk to the most fun mortician on the planet, Caitlin Doughty. You may know her from her popular webcast "Ask a Mortician," hosted on her website "Order of the Good Death." We talk about morbid kids (it gets better), "secondary flaccidity," the greatest death movie ever, and her new book, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Other Lessons from the Crematory."
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Your Brain on Activism (Part 2)
16/10/2014 Duración: 01h08minWhat do animated political cartoons, mass non-violent direct actions, and a global search for humor have in common? Is that the start of a joke? No, it’s today’s episode on creativity in activism! We talk to Peter McGraw, author of The Humor Code; Pulitzer Prize winning animator Mark Fiore and Paul Paz y Miño of Amazon Watch; and activist John Sellers of Agit-Pop Communications.
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Your Brain on Activism (Part 1)
25/09/2014 Duración: 01h03minWe hear from Dr. Charles Limb, who straps jazz musicians and freestyle rappers into an MRI machine and studies their brains while they create musical improvisations. His Ted Talk has over 1 million views. Also, two leading activists tell us how creativity informs their work.
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Lead Wars
03/08/2014 Duración: 53minWe speak to Gerald Markowitz, co-author of Lead Wars, a history outlining the lead industry's 100-year campaign to maintain sales of lead-based paint. Also, CEH Research Director Caroline Cox with tips on avoiding lead threats to your children and family.
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Race or Racism?
16/07/2014 Duración: 01h27minHear Professor Agustin Fuentes explain how New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade gets the science wrong in his new book on race and genetics, and comedian Baratunde Thurston, author of "How To Be Black." Plus we hear about environmental racism and environmental justice.
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A Fracking Mess
10/06/2014 Duración: 01h23minWe speak to Goldman Environmental Prize winner Helen Slottje, scientist Anthony Ingraffea, Professor Mark Jacobson of the Solutions Project, and CEH Energy and Health expert Ansje Miller. Health experts say fracking is damaging communities, and scientists say the fossil fuels from fracking will doom the planet. Hear why fracking can’t work, and how we can protect our children and families from fracking risks!
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Food: Science, Politics, Action!
28/04/2014 Duración: 01h34minWe hear from the country’s leading expert on food politics, Marion Nestle, on the food industry’s influence, genetically engineered and cloned food, and much more. Then food author, educator and advocate Anna Lappé tells us why GMOs won’t feed the world, and how organic farming can alleviate the climate crisis. And Rebecca Spector of the Center for Food Safety gives us updates on the latest food fights in Congress and the states.
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Gulp! With Mary Roach
08/04/2014 Duración: 01h03sWhy does Mary Roach have her arm inside a cow's stomach? What's periblepsis mean? How did I make Mary cry? These and many other questions answered in the podcast, in which we talk about Mary's latest book, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. Plus, science writer Virginia Hughes on new research on gut bacteria and obesity.
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Can You Pass the (Deoxyribonucleaic) Acid Test?
17/03/2014 Duración: 01h16minSome say our genes are our destiny. But what if our biological inheritance is more than just genes? Hear what this means for genetic testing, and our understanding of the basic concepts of genetics, disease and health.
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Satire and Activism, With Harry Shearer (Part 1)
14/01/2014 Duración: 01h29minYou know Harry Shearer from Spinal Tap, the Simpsons, movies, TV and his weekly radio show Le Show. Paul Krassner hung out with Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey, and Lenny Bruce. Negin Farsad tells us about The Muslims Are Coming, and Brian Janosch talks about working with Baratunde Thurston at Cultivated Wit.
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Satire and Activism With Harry Shearer (Part 2)
14/01/2014 Duración: 52minMore from Harry Shearer, including Spinal Tap, The Big Uneasy, and more from Le Show, Paul Krassner on Lenny Bruce, Negin Farsad of "The Muslims Are Coming, and Brian Janosch of Cultivated Wit.
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Breasts: A Bellwether of Health
18/12/2013 Duración: 01h13minBreast cancer and other changes in breast health may be a signal for all human health. With Florence Williams, author of Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, Ted Schettler, author of the Ecology of Breast Cancer, and Connie Engel of the Breast Cancer Fund.
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Poisons By The Dose
14/11/2013 Duración: 01h01minA chat with Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist and author of The Poisoner’s Handbook, which uncovers the birth of modern forensic science. And a leading toxicologist tells us why the dose doesn't always make the poison.
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Blinded By Science
30/09/2013 Duración: 57minWe learn about geoengineering and take a quiz: guess which one is NOT a real proposal to cool the planet. Also, how the chemical industry distorted science for decades, and genetic science clashes with human rights in the Grand Canyon.
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The Buzz About Bees
07/08/2013 Duración: 50minA scientist, a lawyer and a beekeeper on pesticides, Bee Colony Collapse and what we can do about it. Also Queen Latifah, nut farmers, and should worker bees seek OSHA protections.
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When Corporations Attack
29/07/2013 Duración: 52minWe learn about infant formula, hermaphroditic frogs, and why your taint is shrinking. Eveline Lubbers studies corporate campaigns to undermine human rights and environmental activists. We speak to her, and to Dr. Tyrone Hayes, who has been the subject of attacks by a leading pesticide company after his studies shows their blockbuster product feminizes male frogs.