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July 22, 2022 00:29:58
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#1661: American teens threatened by 'The Inner Pandemic'

Matt Richtel is an author and reporter at The New York Times, who’s been pretty busy of late. “The Inner Pandemic,” an examination of...

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July 15, 2022 00:29:58
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#1660: Mass timber buildings could be a part of the climate solution | The Best of Our Knowledge

Jason Korb, the principal architect and namesake of Korb + Associates Architects, makes an interesting distinction about mass timber buildings, structures that largely eschew...

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July 01, 2022 00:29:55
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#1658: Professors and free speech | The Best of Our Knowledge

From the consternation over books in public school libraries — which will be the focus of next week’s episode of The Best of Our...

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June 24, 2022 00:29:58
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#1657: The developing landscape of psychedelics in medicine | The Best of Our Knowledge

The history of psychedelics, and mind and mood altering substances in the United States is a complicated one, rife with bizarre turns and at...

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June 17, 2022 00:29:58
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#1656: Gender equity in jazz education | The Best of Our Knowledge

Terri Lyne Carrington has been playing and recording music in the company of rarified jazz talent for more than 40 years. A part of...

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June 10, 2022 00:29:59
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#1655: Snowpack and drought in the West | The Best of Our Knowledge

There’s a spot atop California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains where research on snowpack and drought began more than 70 years ago. At one point, there...

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