Poisoning America
HEFFNER: I’m Alexander Heffner, your host on The Open Mind. The contamination of the American city, the devastating tragedy in Flint, Michigan, where lead is infecting a community of lower-income...
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HEFFNER: I’m Alexander Heffner, your host on The Open Mind. Since its creation sixty years ago, this show has prized civility as its basic operating principle. If you think about the root of that word,...
View ArticleA Disease of Free Will
HEFFNER: I’m Alexander Heffner, your host on The Open Mind. When I was the Fitzwater Fellow in Public Communications at Franklin Pierce University last fall in the deeply rural New Hampshire wilderness...
View ArticleThe Climate…In Your Backyard
HEFFNER: I’m Alexander Heffner your host on The Open Mind. Joining me today is perhaps the world’s most famous climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen, Director of Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions...
View ArticleRepresenting Us
HEFFNER: I’m Alexander Heffner, your host on The Open Mind. Public lands are increasingly under attack, vulnerable to molestation, as is the scientific method itself. One of the young activists turned...
View ArticleA Pro and Antibiotic Future
HEFFNER: I’m Alexander Heffner, your host on The Open Mind. The over-reliance of antibiotics and their use in the human food supply have increased resistance to diseases in the last decades. What is...
View ArticleThe Lore of Life
HEFFNER: I’m Alexander Heffner, your host on The Open Mind. Our guest today is Oren Harman, chair of the graduate program in Science, Technology, and Society at Bar-Ilan University and senior research...
View ArticleOur Galaxy and Beyond
HEFFNER: I’m Alexander Heffner, your host on The Open Mind. Today we invite our viewers into an enthralling space exploration with two leading scientists. Coauthors of “Chasing New Horizons: Inside the...
View ArticleClimate in the First 100 Days
HEFFNER: I’m Alexander Heffner, your host on The Open Mind, I’m delighted to welcome back to the program Michael Mann. He is the climatologist, award-winning climatologist at Penn State. Thank you so...
View ArticleClimate Inaction Comes Home to Roost
HEFFNER: I’m Alexander Hefner your host on The Open Mind. I’m delighted to welcome our guest today, Madeline Ostrander. She’s the author of the new book “At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on...
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