Prosthetic Arms, Corporal Punishment, Preventive Health

PROSTHETIC ARMS (11:08)  Dr. Greg Clark is working on a prosthetic hand that users would be able to move just by thinking about it . Dr. Clark's staff is basing their research on the Utah Slanted Electrode Array. It’s a tiny neural interface with 100 electrodes connecting an amputees arm to his or her brain through peripheral nerves. They end result will be the arm feeling like a part of their body.   CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (51:46)  Liz Gerschoff has been studying corporal punishment for 15 years and has done a systematic analysis of the hundreds of studies exploring the effects of corporal punishment, said the research shows that spanking is more common among African Americans than among other racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including whites, Latinos and Asian Americans.  PREVENTITIVE HEALTH (1:39:42)  Ron talks with Matt about how preventive health is a better approach than reactive health. Discussion of how modern medicine can be adjusted to prevent issues instead of just fixing the problem