Africa Corruption, Kids and Hot Cars, Singer Sam Baker

Off-Shore Accounts Draining African Economies Guest: Will Fitzgibbon, Reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington, DC, Involved in the Panama Papers Investigation The Panama Papers–that massive leak of documents revealing the inner-workings of the offshore tax haven world–have yielded a new wave of investigations focused on Africa. Every year, the world’s poorest continent takes in more than $50 billion in aid money from foreign countries, while that same amount of money is simultaneously siphoned out of Africa through bribes and money-laundering, often facilitated by secret companies set up to avoid taxes.  Learning Russian Through Debate Guests: Tony Brown, PhD, Associate Professor of Russian at BYU; Jennifer Brown, PhD, Associate Professor of Russian at BYU When it comes to learning a language, I’ve always heard it said that you know you’ve really mastered it when you start dreaming in that language. That may be true if fluent conversation is the goal. But students in advanced Russian classes at BYU have much higher hurdle to clear. They conduct entire debates on world issues in Russian, with native speaking Russians–often by videoconferencing.  Why Drug Prescriptions Should Not Be Race-Based Guest: Charmaine Royal, PhD, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University A little more than a decade ago, the first race-specific drug was approved by the FDA. BiDil was specifically intended for African Americans with heart failure. More often than you might think, doctors make drug and treatment decisions based on a patient’s race, because research has shown certain ethnic groups are particularly susceptible to some conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease. But is ethnicity really the best indicator we can muster in deciding what medication to prescribe?  Apple Seed: Kevin Kling Guest: Sam Payne, Host of BYUradio’s “The Apple Seed” Sam Payne joins us to share tales of tellers and stories. Ending Deat