Water Inequality, Radicalization, Natural Products

Millions of Americans Lack Access to Clean Water and Indoor Plumbing (0:35) Guest: George McGraw, Chief Executive Officer, DigDeep You don’t think about it when you flush the toilet or turn on the sink, but access to clean, reliable running water and safe sanitation are a real privilege. And right now, in the America, more than two million people lack that privilege. A person’s race is the strongest predictor of whether they’ll have access to clean water and sanitation. (Originally aired 11/20/2019). Combatting Extremism: Use Peer Pressure, Not Logic or Fear (17:05)  Guest: Nafees Hamid, PhD Candidate, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London When someone commits unthinkable violence for the sake of an extreme belief –whether it’s strapping on a suicide vest in the name of jihad or posting a racist manifesto and gunning down immigrants in a parking lot –surely that person is a psychopath. But that’s not what researchers found when they scanned the brains of people who support a radical Islamist terror group. Their insights are important to the discussion going on in the US right now about how to combat extreme white nationalism. (Originally aired 08/09/2019). The Man Collecting One Million War Letters (36:49) Guest: Andrew Carroll, Director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University Historian Andrew Carroll is on a mission to collect a million letters from soldiers during wartime. He’s already collected tens of thousands, and they span 250 years of American conflicts from the Revolutionary war to the present day. One of them was even written on Hitler’s own stationary. (Originally aired 11/20/2019). Behind the Scenes of the Sound Design for Hollywood’s Hits (52:50) Guest: Richard King, Supervising Sound Editor and Designer Movies are a visual medium, obviously. Color and camera angles matter enormously to the experience you have in the theater. But so does sound. In fact, it’s maybe sound most of all that pulls you into a film. Makes you feel the wind and se