EP 342 How To Lose the War on Cancer: Keep Doing What We’re Doing

EP 342 How To Lose the War on Cancer: Keep Doing What We’re Doing

https://www.amazon.com/First-Cell-Human-Pursuing-Cancer/dp/1541699521 There are some who will tell you that we’re making great strides in fighting cancer with more of the same approaches we’ve been trying for the last four decades. Dr. Azra Raza is not one of those experts. An oncologist and the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at …

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EP 341 The Federal Reserve’s Impact on You and Its Extraordinary Response to the Pandemic

EP 341 The Federal Reserve’s Impact on You and Its Extraordinary Response to the Pandemic

https://dimartinobooth.com/ It is really hard for most of us to understand what the Federal Reserve actually does and means to the our pocketbooks. After all it was the former Fed Chairman, Alan Greenspan, who famously quipped ‘never explain, never excuse’. The invisible hand of the Fed became more apparent during the financial meltdown in 2008 …

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EP 340 Breaking the Two Party Stranglehold on Our Politics

EP 340 Breaking the Two Party Stranglehold on Our Politics

https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Two-Party-Doom-Loop-Multiparty/dp/0190913851 Politics in America has become a zero sum game. My team wins. Your team loses. And this polarization results in a downgrading of our democracy from a ‘full democracy’ to a ‘flawed democracy’ in the eyes of international experts and, more importantly, it results in nothing getting done, which brings on even more frustration. …

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EP 339 Are Trump’s Trade Policies Working?

EP 339 Are Trump’s Trade Policies Working?

https://alantonelson.wordpress.com/ Economist Alan Tonelson writes the independent blog Reality Chek and is author of the book, ‘Race to the Bottom’. He wrote that book many administrations back when he saw the practice of outsourcing growing and manufacturing losses pile up. He was critical of a trade policy that was built more on foreign policy objectives, …

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EP 338 Are You Among the Growing Legion of Political Hobbyists?

EP 338 Are You Among the Growing Legion of Political Hobbyists?

https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Power-Beyond-Political-Hobbyism/dp/1982116781 Okay, so you watch a lot of cable news, chime in with your political take on Twitter or Facebook, text witty banter back and forth with friends during an impeachment hearing and give an occasional donation to a political candidate, there’s a name for that. It’s called being a political hobbyist. Don’t worry, I …

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EP 337 Privacy: America’s Most Endangered Right in the Digital Age

EP 337 Privacy: America’s Most Endangered Right in the Digital Age

https://lawrencecappello.com/ While the right of privacy may not be explicit in the United States Constitution, as a tenet it is sprinkled liberally throughout and the U.S. Supreme Court has concurred time and again, particularly as it relates to married couples’ access to contraceptives in Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 and subsequently in cases relating to …

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Special Edition #7 Disruptive Technologies Further Unleashed in Wake of the Pandemic

Special Edition #7 Disruptive Technologies Further Unleashed in Wake of the Pandemic

https://www.amazon.com/Disruption-OFF-Technological-Coming-Company-ebook/dp/B07XBVK5YF Our guest is Terry Jones, founder of Travelocity.com and co-founder of Kayak.com. He has written a new book called ‘Disruption Off: The Technological Disruption Coming for Your Company and What to Do About It’. Having this conversation with him during the coronavirus pandemic begged us to spend time imagining what impact this will all …

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EP 336 The 9-11 Generation Comes of Age

EP 336 The 9-11 Generation Comes of Age

https://www.garrettgraff.com/ Each generation has its capstone event defining the way it looks at the world. As a baby boomer, with the civil rights movement, the first moonwalk, as well as the Vietnam War and the assassinations of our leaders, it was a complicated mix of hope and despair. For those now going off to college …

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EP 335 Birds Are Vanishing From North America

EP 335 Birds Are Vanishing From North America

https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/staff/ken-rosenberg/ Backyard birdwatchers, you’re eyes aren’t deceiving you. The number of birds in the United States and Canada has dropped by 29 percent since 1970. The head of the National Audubon Society, calls it a ‘full blown crisis’. Birds are the most studied group of animals on Earth given the ease by which they can …

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EP 334 The Impact of Changing Urban Design

EP 334 The Impact of Changing Urban Design

https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Places-Science-Urban-Planning/dp/0691195218 With many young people deciding that the city, once again, is their destination of choice, we wanted to find out whether urban planning today is meeting the needs of this generation. Generations past gave us public water and sanitation, zoning, building codes and roadways that did more to influence our health and well being …

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