Puerto Rico Recovery Hopes Dim in New Year

Guest: Kyle Sue, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor in Family Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland When men get sick, women often give them a hard time for whining. When women get a cold, we still go to work, run errands, take care of the kids, whatever needs to get done that day. When a man gets sick, he’s knocked down hard and tends to stay in bed until it’s all over. “Man flu,” it’s called. But one doctor says, there’s at least some evidence to suggest the man flu is real – that men suffer more, or at least differently, when they get a cold or the flu.

Guest: Andrea Press, PhD, Professor of Media Studies and Sociology, University of Virginia

Guest: Sam Payne, Host, The Apple Seed, BYUradio

Guest: Katie Gach, PhD Student and Social Computing Researcher, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder In 2017, Americans mourned the deaths of celebrities including, Mary Tyler Moore, Tom Petty, Jerry Lewis, Roger Moore, Chris Cornell and Chuck Berry. And since it was 2017, a lot of that mourning was done online—on Facebook, Twitter, in the comments of news articles. If you’ve ever posted a comment on a public website, you know that backlash to what you say can come swiftly and from anyone, anywhere. Researchers at the University of Colorado have looked into a very particular kind of backlash after celebrity deaths known as “grief policing.” Their findings say a lot about how the internet is changing grief.

Guest: Sharlee Mullins Glenn, Founder, Mormon Women for Ethical Government; Maren Mecham, Director of Communications, Mormon Women for Ethical Government