Episodios

  • BN+: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, "Smarter Healthcare with AI"

    BN+: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, "Smarter Healthcare with AI"
    Apr 22 2025
    Dr. Hassan Tetteh, in his latest book, opens the introduction with a question: "How do we prepare for the future with AI?" His primary focus is on healthcare and AI, but it's subtitled "Harnessing Military Medicine to Revolutionize Healthcare for Everyone Everywhere." Dr. Tetteh is currently based at Howard University and Inova Hospital in Fairfax, Virginia, after serving 25 years in military medicine. His specialty is as a thoracic surgeon doing heart and lung transplants. He retired from the Navy in 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 16 m
  • Q&A: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"

    Q&A: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"
    Apr 21 2025
    Technology reporter Nicole Kobie, author of "The Long History of the Future," talks about how technology evolves and discusses why many predicted technologies – including driverless and flying cars, smart cities, hyperloops, and autonomous robots – haven’t become a reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 9 m
  • AW: Viet Thanh Nguyen, "To Save and to Destroy - Writing as an Other

    AW: Viet Thanh Nguyen, "To Save and to Destroy - Writing as an Other
    Apr 20 2025
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen reflected on how society can build allegiances beyond racial identity & have more global solidarity. He's interviewed by author Ijeoma Oluo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 4 m
  • BN+: Phil Tinline, "Ghosts of Iron Mountain"

    BN+: Phil Tinline, "Ghosts of Iron Mountain"
    Apr 15 2025
    British writer Phil Tinline has written a book titled "Ghosts of Iron Mountain." The publisher Scribner calls it "an investigative masterpiece for readers curious about the surprising connection between John F. Kennedy, Oliver Stone, Timothy McVeigh, QAnon, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump." In his introduction, author Tinline says the book is the true story of a hoax. A hoax that shocked the nation in the late 1960s and that once created seemed impossible to extinguish. Those involved in the hoax included Victor Navasky, E.L. Doctorow, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Leonard Lewin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 11 m
  • Q&A: Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"

    Q&A: Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"
    Apr 14 2025
    Travel writer Rick Steves talks about his 1978 journey along the "Hippie Trail" and the 60,000-word journal he kept of the trip which he recently published as a book. During the 3,000-mile trek, the then 23-year-old Steves and a friend visited Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal. He talks about the people he met along the way, the challenges of travelling in foreign countries in the 1970s, and the lifelong impact the trip had on him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 9 m
  • AW: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), "Turnaround - America's Revival"

    AW: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), "Turnaround - America's Revival"
    Apr 11 2025
    Senator James Lankford (R-OK) speaks about his faith, the challenges the country faces, and what he believes needs to happen to improve the country. He's interviewed by Wall Street Journal congressional reporter Siobhan Hughes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 9 m
  • BN+: Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin"

    BN+: Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin"
    Apr 8 2025
    Richard Overy is a British historian who has spent most of his professional life writing books about war, primarily World War II. Professor Overy's current work is called "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan." Liner notes on the cover of the book say: "With the development of the B-29 Super Fortress in the summer of 1944, strategic bombing, a central component of the Allied war effort against Germany, arrived in the Pacific theater. In 1945 Japan experienced the three most deadly bombing attacks of the war." Professor Richard Overy is 77 and lives in Great Britain and Italy. He has written close to 30 books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 1 m
  • Q&A: Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"

    Q&A: Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"
    Apr 7 2025
    Journalist and musician Lee Hawkins, author of "I Am Nobody's Slave," talks about the impact that slavery and Jim Crow have had on his family through multiple generations. Mr. Hawkins examines the relationship between the past violence experienced by family members, often at the hands of white people, and the way his parents raised and severely disciplined him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 11 m
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