Screening Sunscreen? with Amanda Mull
It’s early August–it’s hot and sunny. And for many people, it’s sunburn season. But the long-term consequences of sun exposure can be a lot worse than just a sunburn. Americans have fewer and worse su...
9 Aug 202233min
50 years after Tuskegee with Prof. Rueben C. Warren
50 years ago, it was discovered that the United States Public Health Service and the CDC–the federal government–had left nearly 400 Black men with syphilis untreated for 30 years to study the long ter...
2 Aug 202248min
Presidential COVID with Dr. Megan Ranney
The president of the United States has COVID. Again. Abdul reflects on what this signals in the pandemic–and our politics. Then he sits down with Dr. Megan Ranney, Emergency Medicine physician and Aca...
26 Jul 202247min
Big Leaky Tech with The Markup
The fall of Roe has opened up the risk that authorities could use data from period tracking apps or internet searches in legal proceedings in abortion ban violations. But Big Tech may already be track...
19 Jul 202236min
What the Discovery of Blood Flow Can Teach Us About Science Itself with Dr. Dhun Sethna
For most of human history, people believed that blood flow was a one-way thing. The discovery that blood flowed two ways–that there was a circulatory system–didn’t happen until the mid-1600s. And it t...
12 Jul 202246min
How AIDS Activists Weaponized Art to Fight a Pandemic with Jack Lowery
As HIV/AIDS ravaged the gay community in the 1980s, the federal government was slow to respond owing to anti-LGBTQ stigma. ACT UP–the “AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power”–sprang up to hold government off...
5 Jul 202243min
The Fall of Roe. Mailbag & Interview with Attorney General Dana Nessel
Roe v. Wade — the Supreme Court Decision protecting reproductive rights in America for half a century — was dashed last week. Abdul sits down with Prof. Kate Shaw, co-host of Strict Scrutiny to answer...
28 Jun 20221h 18min
The Kids Are Not Alright with John Woodrow Cox
Another school shooting, more thoughts and prayers. But maybe this time its different. Abdul talks about the way that school shootings have shaped the lives, fears, and anxieties of a whole generation...
21 Jun 202247min
