Alondra Nelson, dean of social science at Columbia University, spoke with Your Health Radio about her book The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome. In this clip, she shares the story of how she learned the results of her own DNA test—on stage, in front of a huge audience—and what that meant for her family.
One journalist's search for the answers behind strange contagions
Science journalist and author Lee Daniel Kravetz joined us on Your Health Radio, and here discusses the passion for psychology that inspired his career in science writing and the tragedy that drew his attention to the topic of his new book Strange Contagion: Inside the Surprising Science of Infectious Behaviors and Viral Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves.
a mother-daughter writing duo
"She believed...zealously, messianically...that YOU have a story to tell that nobody else can tell..."
Author and physician Perri Klass, on her mother, with whom she co-wrote a memoir. Klass joined us on Your Health Radio to talk about how science and the arts have converged in her career.
Challenging the Assumption that cars rule the road
James Sallis, Ph.D. and director of Active Living Research, dropped by Your Health Radio to discuss the relationship of urban design and public health. In this clip, he describes how events such as open-street events help us rethink the how we use the streets in our cities.