EP 172 HOW COMPANIES CAN BETTER MANAGE CATASTROPHIC RISK

EP 172 HOW COMPANIES CAN BETTER MANAGE CATASTROPHIC RISK

Whether it’s a 9-11 calamity or a financial meltdown or product recall, companies must be prepared to respond in real time to emerging threats to their business.  With the speed at which information travels, getting behind a crisis means sustaining losses from which you may never recover. In their book, ‘Mastering Catastrophic Risk’, Professors Michael …

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EP 171 ARE WAYWARD KIDS CHANGEABLE?

EP 171 ARE WAYWARD KIDS CHANGEABLE?

  It’s seems as if we have a lot of young people today who are adrift, particularly our boys, and they have no direction home.  And the ways we go about trying to ‘reform’ them don’t work. Jails aren’t the answer. Detention doesn’t result in changed behavior..  So, what do we do? Dr. J. Stuart …

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EP 169 YOUR HAPPINESS HAS BEEN HACKED

EP 169 YOUR HAPPINESS HAS BEEN HACKED

You’d think that Americans would be a very happy people. We have the world’s greatest economy, more entertainment options than ever before, a big land to traverse and enjoy and mobility.  And, yet, we rank very poorly on indices measuring the happiness quotient. And while our discontent cannot all be traced to technology, it is …

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EP 168 IT’S TRUMP’S LAW NOW

EP 168 IT’S TRUMP’S LAW NOW

Even if the Trump presidency ended today in the muck of scandal, his impact will be felt for years to come.  Why is that you ask? He, the White House counsel, Don McGahn and Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell have executed a brilliant strategy to quickly fill the U.S. district and appellate courts with young …

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EP 167 WILL MAN WONDER IN FIFTY YEARS WHY WE ATE MEAT?

EP 167 WILL MAN WONDER IN FIFTY YEARS WHY WE ATE MEAT?

  There’s a growing ‘clean meat’ and vegan movement focused on the many destructive and unethical practices involved the production and consumption of meat. At the same time, as economies improve worldwide the global meat business is at an all time high. How do we reconcile these two divergent trends? Renee King-Sonnen joins us to …

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EP 166 LIVING IN INTEGRATED NEIGHBORHOODS UNLOCKS POTENTIAL

EP 166 LIVING IN INTEGRATED NEIGHBORHOODS UNLOCKS POTENTIAL

Unraveling racial segregation is the key to reducing racial inequality.  Let that concept sink in for a moment.  Analyzing historical data from 1865 to the present, Richard Sander, our guest on this podcast, and his co-authors Yana Kucheva and Jonathan Zasloff, prove that racial integration has an enormously powerful effect on lifting people out of …

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EP 165 HOW DID SEX AND THE CITY CHANGE AMERICA?

EP 165 HOW DID SEX AND THE CITY CHANGE AMERICA?

  Twenty years after its debut, it’s a good time to assess the impact that the women of the acclaimed HBO series had on the dating, sexual mores by women, fashion and, well, even cupcakes.  According to Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, author of ‘Sex and the City and Us’ these four single women changed the way …

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EP 164 WILL RIGHT TO TRY HELP FEWER DIE?

EP 164 WILL RIGHT TO TRY HELP FEWER DIE?

President Donald Trump boldy proclaimed that new federal legislation he signed will save hundreds of thousands of lives. It’s a bold assertion(what would you expect), but is it remotely true?  The answer is no, according to Dr. Alison Bateman-House, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University. The legislation, already …

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EP 163 BRING BACK THE ASYLUM FOR THE MENTALLY ILL

EP 163 BRING BACK THE ASYLUM FOR THE MENTALLY ILL

Well, not really. However, America must re-think its approach to treating the mentally ill and can’t make prisons, tent cities and the streets of America the default mode for those suffering with it. Howard Husock, vice president for research and publications, at the Manhattan Institute,along with colleague Carolyn D. Gorman co-wrote a provocative op-ed piece …

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