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The Handshake Experiment from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Neil deGrasse Tyson and microbiome science help answer this question: when we touch greatness, how much of it stays with us?
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Meet Your Microbes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Radiolab and Only Human have partnered with uBiome, a company that can identify the bacteria that live on you.
**We've run out of kits. Thanks so much to uBiome for generously donating ov...
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Five Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Flu Shot from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
While researching this week’s episode of Only Human, I learned a lot about the flu vaccine. Here are my top five takeaways:
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Group Think at the Inauguration? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How does being in a big crowd change your mind?
The inauguration struck us as a unique moment to test these ideas about identity, identity formation and group think with a massive number ...
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Meet Crowd Safety Expert, Paul Wertheimer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
To understand crowds, Paul Wertheimer threw himself into the mosh pit — literally.
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The Art of Political Discourse, Brought to You by Science from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This election has walked right into our homes, our relationships —we’re even talking to our therapists about Donald and Hillary. Our episode this week looks at Listen
Five Things about the Wild West of Dietary Supplements from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
1. Before they are sold on the market, dietary supplements are not reviewed or approved by the FDA.
However, 54 percent of surveyed consumers believe that the government approves...
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How Our Understanding of Gender Has Changed Over Time from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
North Carolina's so-called bathroom bill, HB2, put the state in the middle of a national fight about gender. But the state is also home to one of the few Listen
Five Things I Learned When I Got Swabbed for Science from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The video above is a discussion moderated by Mary Harris at the American Museum of Natural History about the initial findings of a study on the healthy microbiome.
Back in June,...
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Germaphobic or Germagenius? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the heat of summer, everywhere in the city can feel sweaty, sticky, and smelly. It’s enough to make you want to douse everything in sanitizer to kill off all the germs. But which of the littl...
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Hang Out with Only Human! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Remember how, every year, in elementary school you’d have to do that fitness test? The Presidential Physical Fitness Challenge. You’d have to do sit ups and pull ups – you’d even have to run a m...
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What a Microbiologist Has to Say About Your Home from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Our host Mary Harris invited microbiologist Susan Perkins into her home to talk germs, mold and what exactly makes...
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Reddit's Role in Suicide Prevention from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Reddit is not just a website on the internet – it’s a thriving, expansive community with about 243.6 million visitors...
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A "Dadvocate" Speaks Out for Down Syndrome from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When Kurt and Margie Kondrich’s second child entered the world, the doctor told the couple that the baby had the characteristics of Down syndrome.
“And that was very sterile, very clinica...
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Diabetes Hacking 101 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this week’s episode we met a woman whose pancreas is changing medicine. Dana Lewis has Type 1 diabetes, and when...
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What We Learned from Stick to It from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
At the start of 2016, thousands of people resolved to exercise more, just like they do each year.
We were among them. We knew our motivation would waver – it happens every time. But with...
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A Guide to Donating Your Body to Science from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week our reporter Fred Mogul took us into the world of medical school cadavers. He explored how someone’s life – in this cas...
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The Godfather of Fitness and… Feminism? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In America, the women’s rights movement took off in the late 19th century – it was the time of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; of women fighting for the right to vote. And it wasn’t...
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What HIV Disclosure Laws Look Like By State from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
More than 30 states in America have laws that punish people with HIV if they fail to disclose their virus when having sex, kissing or even spitting on people.
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When it Comes to Lead in School Drinking Water, Newark Isn't Alone from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ivelisse Mincey's son, Adam, is a seventh grader at Abington Avenue School, in Newark. For the last week, Mincey has sent Adam to school with a liter of water each day; his school is Listen
What Women Want (In a Pill for Sex) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you're a woman, or have had sex with a woman, you might know that female sexuality is not always straightforward. In our latest e...
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In Our Words: Speaking While Autistic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On Tuesday’s episode we talked to Michelle Dunn and Larry Harris, a researcher and former NFL-player-turned-opera singer who teamed up...
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Taking Painkillers All the Time Doesn’t Make Me an Addict from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In our latest episode we talked to Peter Grinspoon, a Harvard doctor who struggled with painkiller addiction, about the dangers o...
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Busted: 5 Food Myths Proved Wrong from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When it comes to diet advice, Americans are fed plenty of junk. Many jaw-dropping reports that vilify or glorify a food areListen
Stick to It! A New Year’s Fitness Project from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This project is now closed, and Ariely's team is crunching the data. Here's what they found.
How many times have you res...
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Listen Up! A Classroom Activity on Sound from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Noise is one of the most common causes of hearing loss in the United States, but it is largely preventable - which is what motivated audiologist Deanna Meinke, a professor at University of North...
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Women, Drugs and Biosynthetic Creatures: My Favorite Talks from TEDMED from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Last month I went to TEDMED, the TED talks of the health and medicine world. TEDMED is like House crossed with Google plus a hint of Wall Street: geniuses fr...
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Listen Up! What to Make of Your Hearing Age from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A hearing test, like many health tests, can be a little intimidating.
If you've ever worried at about your hearing, you probably don’t want to really know for sure because then it’s r...
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We're All Hearing Differently, and Here's the Proof from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, Only Human introduced you to Professor Nina Kraus. Kraus is convinced: all of us are probably hearing the world a little bit differently. And the proof is in our brain waves.
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36 Questions That Can Lead to Love - and Happier Thanksgivings from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Arthur Aron runs the “Interpersonal Relationships Lab” at SUNY-Stony Brook. (And, by the way, he does that alongside his wife, Elaine Aron. They’ve been together 47 years.) I called him up becau...
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Listen Up! When to Worry about Your Hearing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
More than 4,000 of you took us up on testing your hearing with the Mimi Hearing Test app — which is remarkable, considering the nat...
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Listen Up! How to Participate from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Has anyone ever complained that you’re not listening to them?
No matter how well we might hear (and if you don't know, click he...
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Listen Up! How Old Are Your Ears? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This month on Only Human, we're telling stories about how different people hear the world. And we want you to be a ...
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VIDEO: Every Body Has a Story from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Health is something we often choose to ignore — until we can't.
Hosted by Mary Harris, on Only Human is a place where we're not afraid to have uncomfortable conversations, or ex...
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Join Us on 'The Stakes' from 2019-04-25T12:00
The team that brought you Only Human and The Realness are teaming up with Listen
Only Human Presents: Undiscovered from 2018-09-27T12:00
Only Human presents: Undiscovered, a podcast from WNYC Studios about the left turns, missteps, and lucky breaks that make science happen. In this episode, a new life support technology leaves a ...
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The Realness Ep6: Missing You from 2018-08-10T12:00
Prodigy is supposed to fly back home right after a show in Vegas, but he never gets on the plane. As the world of hip hop mourns, there are still questions surrounding his death. We try to...
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The Realness Ep5: Go See About the God from 2018-08-06T12:00
It's The Alchemist's birthday, but thanks to the NYPD's "Rap Intelligence Unit," he and Prodigy are forced to celebrate in a jail cell, and soon after, P is headed upstate. But even Prodigy says...
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The Realness Ep4: The Most Racist Judge in Nassau County from 2018-08-03T12:00
When Prodigy goes on trial for violating probation, his lawyer files over 90 pages of P's medical records in his defense. We find those records buried deep in a Brooklyn courthouse, and they ope...
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The Realness B-Side: Roxanne Shanté from 2018-08-01T12:00
Roxanne Shanté is the queen of Queensbridge rappers. As a teenager in the 1980s, she lyrically demolished all comers. In this B-side outtake, we talk with Roxanne about meeting Prodigy, encourag...
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The Realness Ep3: Son, They Shook from 2018-07-30T12:00
Someone is shot inside Def Jam. A rap star chases Mobb Deep through Lower Manhattan. And Prodigy convinces a hip hop mogul to sneak weapons into one of New York's most decadent nightclubs. Mobb ...
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The Realness Ep2: T'Chaka from 2018-07-28T12:00
As a kid with sickle cell anemia, Prodigy was told he'd barely make it to adulthood. The work of doctors, athletes, Hollywood stars and The Black Panthers help transform his fate. But what kind ...
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The Realness Ep1: This Sunny Day Right Here from 2018-07-27T12:00
Prodigy and Havoc begin laying down rhymes together in high school. When their first album flops, they come up with a new sound that's directly influenced by P's sickle cell, and it helps define...
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Aftereffect Ep8: “They call him Cheese” from 2018-07-20T12:00
One day in February, a group of staff packed up Arnaldo's belongings, moved him out of Carlton Palms and into a three-bedroom house in a suburban neighborhood. On its face, it's the type of sett...
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WNYC Studios presents: The Realness from 2018-07-19T12:00
Rap star Prodigy is best known for The Infamous, an album he released when he was just a teenager as half of the venerable Queens duo, Mobb Deep. But as Mobb Deep took over the world, s...
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Aftereffect Ep7: “The man behind an empire” from 2018-07-16T12:00
For decades, Carlton Palms' elusive founder, Ken Mazik, has wielded his power and influence to sway members of Congress and state legislatures into bending the rules in his favor, from scuttling...
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Aftereffect Ep6: “When they don't behave” from 2018-07-13T12:00
A cup of hot water thrown on a developmentally-disabled resident. Another kicked in the ribs. A tooth knocked out by a staff member. Carlton Palms had a dark history long before Arnaldo arrived....
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Aftereffect Ep5: “I need to believe” from 2018-07-09T12:00
A year and a half after the shooting, there are signs of trouble at Arnaldo's new home, Carlton Palms. The staff isn't keeping an eye on him. There are unexplained injuries. His mother isn't all...
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Aftereffect Ep4: “I Baker Act you. You Baker Acted me.” from 2018-07-06T12:00
The day of the shooting wasn't Arnaldo's first encounter with the police. In fact, they'd loomed large in his life for years before that. Even as he bounced from one group home to another, the p...
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Aftereffect Ep3: “He was definitely a handful” from 2018-07-02T12:00
Since the beginning, Arnaldo’s mother struggled to find adequate care for her autistic son. Her memories are often painful: the doctors who wouldn't diagnose him; the staff who punched him, drug...
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Aftereffect Ep2: “Suck it up, buttercup” from 2018-06-29T12:00
The shooting left Arnaldo severely traumatized, unable to remain in the home where Charles Kinsey had taken care of him. The next day, he was involuntarily committed to a hospital psych ward, wh...
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Aftereffect Ep 1: “Let me get this on camera” from 2018-06-28T12:00
Only Human listeners, we're here with a new podcast series that we think will be right up your alley. Aftereffect touches on the same themes of how health intersects with our lives everyday....
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Aftereffect: A SWAT team, an autistic man, an American tragedy. from 2018-06-21T12:00
Only Human listeners, we're here with a new podcast series that we think will be right up your alley. Aftereffect touches on the same themes of how health intersects with our lives everyday....
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Caught: "The Teenage Brain is Like a Sports Car" from 2018-04-04T12:00
Stephen is one of thousands of so-called "juvenile lifers" who have an unexpected shot at freedom today. Up until 2005, most juveniles could be sentenced just as harshly as adults: that meant li...
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The Birth of Climate Change Denial from 2017-05-17T12:00
In this special episode of Only Human, we partnered with the folks at WNYC's podcastThe United States of Anxiety, hosted by Kai Wright.<...
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“I Got Indian in My Family”: An Another Round Takeover from 2017-04-19T12:00
Growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, Tracy Clayton always heard that her ancestors were, in her mother's words, "black, white and American Indian." Like many black Americans, her immediate family...
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Trans Kids Update: Dating, PMS, And, Yeah, Bathrooms from 2017-04-05T12:00
Last year, North Carolina passed HB2, the so-called "bathroom bill,” banning anyone from using a public restroom that didn’t match up with his or her biological sex.
After the law passed...
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Flu-dunnit? from 2017-03-22T12:00
Last fall, a bunch of us got sick at the same time, and it seemed likely that the virus spread at the workplace. The question came up: who came to work sick? Or to put it another way: who was to...
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Just Put Some Vicks On It from 2017-03-08T12:00
When scientist Rachel Herz decided tostudythe connection between smell and memory, she chose five prod...
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A Three Year-Old Girl, a Colony of Dogs, and One Very Rare Side Effect from 2017-02-22T12:00
When Mathilda Crisp was about three years-old, she stopped sleeping through the night. But during the day, she would fall asleep without warning — during a swim lesson, in the middle of her cere...
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The Woman Behind a Secret Grey's Anatomy Experiment from 2017-02-08T12:00
About nine years ago, 17.5 million people tuned into an episode ofGrey’s Anatomythat, on the surface, appeared like any other — high-stakes surgery, high-drama love triangles. What thos...
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The Crowd Made You Do It from 2017-01-25T12:00
*** Check out the results from ourGroup Think survey here ***
Who knew counting a crowd would be so… political? If the elec...
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Take Our Survey! from 2017-01-17T12:02:36
Only Human is working on an episode about the psychology of crowds. We're looking at what happens to us as individuals when we join a rally, a ceremony or a protest -- such as inauguration, or t...
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Please Spit in This Tube: An Election Experiment from 2016-11-04T12:00
Every day another article comes out about how voters are stressed by this election. But we wanted to know: what is the election doing to our biology?
The American Psychological Association...
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Me and My Therapist from 2016-08-09T12:00
We have this idea of what therapy is supposed to look like. There’s a couch. An objective therapist sitting across the room scribbling notes. But of course it’s not that simple.
What happe...
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I’d Rather Have a Living Son Than a Dead Daughter from 2016-08-02T12:00
Earlier this year, North Carolina passed HB2, the so-called "bathroom bill." The law bans anyone from using a public restroom that doesn't match up with his/her biological sex. HB2 put the state...
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Growing Up "Ugly" from 2016-07-26T12:00
When Robert Hoge was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1973, his mother immediately knew there was something wrong. Instead of asking the doctors, "Is it a boy or a girl?" she asked, "Is my baby o...
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Yes, Simba, Chimps Laugh from 2016-07-19T12:00
You’ve probably heard that laughter is the best medicine. This week, we set out to see if there’s any truth to this idea.
First, our host Mary Harris went with Kurt Andersen, the host of
The Prank Your Body Plays On Life from 2016-07-12T12:00
Our friend Max Ritvo passed away August 23, 2016. We learned so much from our conversations with him, and we hope that this interview gives you a sense of the beauty — and humor — he saw in ...
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Your Brain On Sound (Rebroadcast) from 2016-07-05T12:00
This week we're revisiting an episode from our series on hearing, listening and sound.
When Rose* was growing up, she knew something wasn’t quite right about how she heard the wor...
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I Thought the Truth Would Be Enough from 2016-06-28T12:00
The engineer who uncovered the lead crisis in Flint, Michigan– where the water was toxic enough to give kids brain damage –doesn't even live in Michigan.
His nam...
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Vacation Is All I Ever Wanted from 2016-06-21T12:00
For many sick people, getting even a temporary break from pain sounds too good to be true. But this week we hear from three people who did get a reprieve from a chronic disease, sometimes in ver...
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One Doctor's Mission: Safe Abortions in the South (Rebroadcast) from 2016-06-14T12:00
As the Supreme Court nears its decision on a major abortion case this month, we're revisiting an episode from earlier this year:
Willie Parker grew up in Alabama without electrici...
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Part 3: A Star With Schizophrenia from 2016-06-07T12:00
This is the third and final part of our series with NPR about mental health and generation gaps.
Rachel Star Withers has had hallucinations since she was a kid. She sees store man...
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Part 2: Be the Doctor Your Mom Wanted You to Marry from 2016-05-31T12:00
This is the second part of our series with NPR about mental health and generation gaps.
When Giselle applied to medical school she decided to be completely open about her experien...
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Part 1: 'You Don't Watch Bollywood With Me Anymore' from 2016-05-24T12:00
This is the first part of our series with NPR about mental health and generation gaps.
Have you ever had a hard time talking openly about your mental health?
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Too Ornery to Die from 2016-05-17T12:00
Until 2012, if you had a rare genetic disorder, there didn’t seem to be much hope for a cure. The science just wasn’t there, and creating drugs for small populations made little financial sense ...
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Medicine and Mistrust on Native American Reservations from 2016-05-10T12:00
Native Americans have some of the highest rates of suicide, alcoholism, diabetes and maternal mortality in the country. And while the federal government passed theListen
A Deaf Composer Holds Out for Science (Rebroadcast) from 2016-05-03T12:00
Note: This episode originally aired on November 3, 2015.
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How a Prenatal Test Is Transforming Modern Medicine from 2016-04-26T12:00
When Lee Herzenberg remembers the day her son Michael was born, she laughs and calls it a “cool birth.” Her obstetrician was a friend, and she describes it almost like a party -- “a little bit p...
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The Robot Vacuum Ate My Pancreas from 2016-04-19T12:00
“A Roomba ate my pancreas!” It sounds like the plot of a weird sci-fi comedy. But in Dana Lewis’s life, this is just a normal day.
Lewis is one of the first people in America to create her...
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Doctor Stories: The Patient I’ll Never Forget from 2016-04-12T12:00
Note: In this week’s episode we asked doctors about the patients who changed their lives. It was a basic question, and an obvious one – so obvious that we weren’t prepared for how go...
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Real Doctors, Fake Medicine? from 2016-04-05T12:00
Dr. David Kallmes’s medical degree is real. But one of his treatments for spinal fractures might not be.
Kallmes performs vertebroplasty, a surgery he has helped to develop and standardize...
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Every (Dead) Body Has A Story from 2016-03-29T12:00
When the first-year medical students at Table 4 met their male cadaver, they weren’t pleased.
The group was in the home stretch of anatomy class at NYU School of Medicine, and the final ex...
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The Man Who Cured Everything from 2016-03-22T12:00
Here are some things that the legendary bodybuilder Bernarr Macfadden believed in: Fasting to cure cancer. Fasting to cure asthma. Fasting to cure – here’s an interesting one – emaciation.
When Risky Sex Lands You in Jail from 2016-03-15T12:00
Last summer, in a Missouri courtroom, a college wrestler named Michael Johnson was sentenced to 30 years in prison for “recklessly infecting a partner with HIV.”
Johnson, who also goes by ...
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The Science of Turning Her On from 2016-03-08T12:00
The only sexual education Nicole Prause had growing up in a small town in Texas was how to practice abstinence.
Then she went to college at Indiana University and started working at a sex ...
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Your Sanity or Your Kidneys (Revisited) from 2016-03-01T12:00
This week we're revisiting the story of a woman making a very difficult decision.
Jaime Lowe started taking lithium when she was 17, after a manic episode landed her in a psychiatric ward....
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When Opera Meets Autism from 2016-02-23T12:00
Michelle Dunn and Larry Harris make an unlikely team.
Dunn is an autism researcher and Harris was an offensive lineman for the Houston Oilers – and is now an opera singer. They met at a ch...
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A Doctor’s Love Affair with Vicodin from 2016-02-16T12:00
“Medicine is a land of opportunity for a drug addict.”
Take Peter Grinspoon’s word for it. The Harvard-trained physician spent years abusing painkillers, infatuated with the feeling of eup...
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Don't Count on the Calorie from 2016-02-09T12:00
Calories are sneaky. For those who have tried counting them to lose weight, you know quite well that they slip through your fingers during that latte and biscotti snack break. But it turns out t...
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One Doctor’s Mission: Safe Abortions in the South from 2016-02-02T12:00
Willie Parker grew up in Alabama without electricity, one of six kids in a single-mother household. He learned to read by the light of a kerosene lamp.
He was also raised in a fundamentali...
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How to Stop an Outbreak from 2016-01-26T12:00
An unwelcomed stranger snuck into the city last summer, and New Yorkers were panicking.
A sudden outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, a type of pneumonia caused by waterborne bacteria, had l...
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When Life's a Medical Experiment from 2016-01-19T12:00
Susannah Ludwig is a self-proclaimed optimist. And it seems to serve her well: she’s asuccessful movie producer — her film King’s Point was no...
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Bacon, Booze and the Search for the Fountain of Youth from 2016-01-12T12:00
Update: Susannah Mushatt Jones passed away on May 12, 2016. She was 116 years and 311 days old.
While we sweat it out at spin class in the name of good health, the world’s oldest...
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This Is the Year You Stick to It from 2016-01-05T12:00
You might know the nameDan Ariely. Maybe you’ve watched one of his very popular TEDListen
Why is Healthcare So Expensive? We Ask an Expert from 2015-12-29T12:00
When Mary sat down withZeke Emanuel, one of the main architects of the Affordable Care Act, she basically wanted to know one thing: if the ACA was su...
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Patients and Doctors Fess Up (Rebroadcast) from 2015-12-22T12:00
This episode originally aired October 20, 2015.
Back in October, we asked you to share your health confessions with us. The secrets about your health, or the gambles you take. Man...
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Putting Care Back in the ICU from 2015-12-15T12:00
Does a more humane hospital make a safer hospital? That’s a questionJohns Hopkinsis grappling with — and Dr. Peter Pronovost believes the answer is ...
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Let's Talk About Death from 2015-12-08T12:00
Bishop Gwendolyn Phillips Coates is on a mission. She’s a preacher in a small church in South Los Angeles, and she’s made it her jo...
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Your Brain On Sound from 2015-12-01T12:00
When Rose* was growing up, she knew something wasn’t quite right about how she heard the world. She says it felt like she was isolated by an invisible wall. But when she got typical hearing test...
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Listen Up! The Big Turkey in the Sky from 2015-11-24T12:00
It’s not a coincidence that we decided to tackle listening right before a big holiday, when a lot of us are about to spend time with family. After all, sometimes the people we love the most can ...
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Listen Up! Day 5: Yes, And... ! from 2015-11-20T12:00
It’s day five ofOnly Human’sListen Up! bootcamp week. You’ve made it to our final challenge, which ties together everything you’ve learned from this past week.I Listen
Listen Up! Day 4: Memorize This! from 2015-11-19T12:00
It’s Day Four of our Listen Up! bootcamp week. Today we’re putting your memory to the test. And if you’re here for the first time, you can catch up on our previous challenges Listen
Listen Up! Day 3: Take a Breather from 2015-11-18T12:00
You’ve made it to Day 3 of our Listen Up! bootcamp week. Thanks for sticking with us. If you’re here for the first time, it’s not too late.Listen
Listen Up! Day 2: Mirror, Mirror from 2015-11-17T12:00
Welcome to day two of Only Human'sListen Up! bootcamp week. If you're here for the first time, here's<...
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Listen Up! Day 1: Face-to-Face from 2015-11-16T12:00
The Challenge: Today, if someone starts an important conversation with you on text or email, respond in person. In a pinch, make it a phone call. Then tell us how your day went! Call us...
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Dreaming of a Deaf Utopia from 2015-11-10T12:00
When Marvin Miller was growing up in small town Michigan, it never occurred to him that his family was the only deaf family in town. If new neighbors moved in, he wondered what was wrong with th...
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A Deaf Composer Holds Out for Science from 2015-11-03T12:00
Jay Alan Zimmerman discovered he was losing his hearing when he was in his early 20s, tryi...
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Who Are You Calling 'Inspiring'? from 2015-10-27T12:00
Our friend Max Ritvo passed away August 23, 2016. We learned so much from our conversations with him, and we hope that this interview gives you a sense of the beauty — and humor— he...
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Patients and Doctors Fess Up from 2015-10-20T12:00
A couple of weeks ago we asked you to share your health confessions with us. The secrets about your health, or the gambles you take. Many of you tweeted your confessions using #OnlyHuman,a...
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Your Sanity or Your Kidneys from 2015-10-13T12:00
Jaime Lowe started taking lithium when she was 17, after a manic episode landed her in a psychiatric ward. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and for more than 20 years, the drug has...
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Keep the Baby, Get the Chemo from 2015-10-06T12:00
For our first episode of Only Human, our host,Mary Harris, shares her own story of when her health changed her life.
A couple...
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Welcome to 'Only Human' from 2015-09-22T12:00
A deaf composer gets a shot at hearing again. A woman with bipolar disorder tries going off her usual medication. Our host finds out she has breast cancer—and is pregnant—at the same time.
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