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NPR's Book of the Day - In the wake of a sexual assault, astronaut Amanda Nguyen turned to activism
In 2013, Amanda Nguyen was a Harvard senior interested in pursuing a career at NASA or the CIA. But she says those plans were temporarily derailed when she was raped just a few months before graduation. Nguyen went on to become an advocate for survivors of sexual assault – and her advocacy resulted in federal legislation that changed the way law enforcement handles rape kits. Now, she's out with a book about her experience called Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope. In today's episode, Nguyen speaks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about navigating bureaucracy as a survivor, sharing her story with lawmakers, and her parents' response to her activism.
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Short Wave - What If You Took The “Trip” Out Of Ketamine?
What if you could get all the potential benefits of ketamine without the "trip"? For part two of our series on psychedelics, we look at how some researchers are trying to disentangle the "trip" from the drugs' effects on the brain — and why the answer could help direct the future of psychedelic research. (Spoiler alert: People generally know if they're tripping or not.) This episode: a researcher navigating this challenge by putting his patients to sleep.
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Consider This from NPR - They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
Billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News recently that falling birth rates keep him up at night. It's a drum he's been beating for years.
Musk is one of the world's most visible individuals to elevate this point of view. Vice President JD Vance also talks about wanting to increase birthrates in the U-S.
But it's not just them. There are discussions across the political spectrum about birth rate decline and what it means for the economy.
One response to this decline is a cause that's been taken up by the right, and it has a name – Pronatalism. Many of its advocates met up recently in Austin, Texas, at "Natal Con."
Pronatalists think they have a friendly audience in the White House. How do they want to use it?
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Musk is one of the world's most visible individuals to elevate this point of view. Vice President JD Vance also talks about wanting to increase birthrates in the U-S.
But it's not just them. There are discussions across the political spectrum about birth rate decline and what it means for the economy.
One response to this decline is a cause that's been taken up by the right, and it has a name – Pronatalism. Many of its advocates met up recently in Austin, Texas, at "Natal Con."
Pronatalists think they have a friendly audience in the White House. How do they want to use it?
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Consider This from NPR - They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
Billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News recently that falling birth rates keep him up at night. It's a drum he's been beating for years.
Musk is one of the world's most visible individuals to elevate this point of view. Vice President JD Vance also talks about wanting to increase birthrates in the U-S.
But it's not just them. There are discussions across the political spectrum about birth rate decline and what it means for the economy.
One response to this decline is a cause that's been taken up by the right, and it has a name – Pronatalism. Many of its advocates met up recently in Austin, Texas, at "Natal Con."
Pronatalists think they have a friendly audience in the White House. How do they want to use it?
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Musk is one of the world's most visible individuals to elevate this point of view. Vice President JD Vance also talks about wanting to increase birthrates in the U-S.
But it's not just them. There are discussions across the political spectrum about birth rate decline and what it means for the economy.
One response to this decline is a cause that's been taken up by the right, and it has a name – Pronatalism. Many of its advocates met up recently in Austin, Texas, at "Natal Con."
Pronatalists think they have a friendly audience in the White House. How do they want to use it?
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Consider This from NPR - They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
Billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News recently that falling birth rates keep him up at night. It's a drum he's been beating for years.
Musk is one of the world's most visible individuals to elevate this point of view. Vice President JD Vance also talks about wanting to increase birthrates in the U-S.
But it's not just them. There are discussions across the political spectrum about birth rate decline and what it means for the economy.
One response to this decline is a cause that's been taken up by the right, and it has a name – Pronatalism. Many of its advocates met up recently in Austin, Texas, at "Natal Con."
Pronatalists think they have a friendly audience in the White House. How do they want to use it?
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Musk is one of the world's most visible individuals to elevate this point of view. Vice President JD Vance also talks about wanting to increase birthrates in the U-S.
But it's not just them. There are discussions across the political spectrum about birth rate decline and what it means for the economy.
One response to this decline is a cause that's been taken up by the right, and it has a name – Pronatalism. Many of its advocates met up recently in Austin, Texas, at "Natal Con."
Pronatalists think they have a friendly audience in the White House. How do they want to use it?
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State of the World from NPR - War and Peace in Sudan’s Capital
Until very recently Sudan's capital, Khartoum, had spent nearly two years at war. A paramilitary group went to war with the Sudanese army, occupying the city until it was retaken by government forces in the last few weeks. This has meant massive life shifts for residents of Khartoum who have stayed in the city. One resident has been sending our correspondent regular voice notes telling him about what life is like. We hear what it means to have a war break out in your city and what it is like to finally be liberated.
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1A - ‘If You Can Keep It’: The Federal Health Firings
The nation's health administration is the latest target of the Trump administration's effort to dismantle the federal bureaucracy. That's after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slashed 10,000 jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services early last week.
Entire offices were eliminated during the layoffs. Some of those positions, Kennedy says, will need to be reinstated. Experts warn that these sweeping job cuts at the HHS will affect drug approvals, disease tracking, and vital biomedical research.
We continue our series "If You Can Keep It" with a look at what these actions mean for our public health - and the health of U.S. democracy.
We discuss the latest on the dismantling of the HHS and how staff cuts at the department might change the way the U.S. delivers health services.
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Entire offices were eliminated during the layoffs. Some of those positions, Kennedy says, will need to be reinstated. Experts warn that these sweeping job cuts at the HHS will affect drug approvals, disease tracking, and vital biomedical research.
We continue our series "If You Can Keep It" with a look at what these actions mean for our public health - and the health of U.S. democracy.
We discuss the latest on the dismantling of the HHS and how staff cuts at the department might change the way the U.S. delivers health services.
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Up First from NPR - Global Markets Plummet, Wrongful Deportation Deadline, Second Measles Death
President Trump's trade war has prompted further market declines. The Trump administration has a midnight deadline to return a man deported to El Salvador in what a federal judge has called a "grievous error". And, a second child in Texas has died of measles according to state health officials.
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Today's episode of Up First was edited by Kara Platoni, Russell Lewis, Marc Silver, Lisa Thomson and Janaya Williams.
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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Everything Is Tuberculosis,’ John Green turns his attention to a deadly disease
Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases in human history – and it still kills more than a million people every year. In a new book, The Fault in Our Stars author John Green argues the infection persists only because we allow it to. Everything Is Tuberculosis takes on the history of the human response to and treatment of tuberculosis. The book, Green says, was partially inspired by a young boy named Henry whom the author met at a hospital in Sierra Leone. In today's episode, Green joins Here & Now's Robin Young for a conversation that touches on Henry's story, the history of tuberculosis in Green's own family, and the interconnected nature of human health.
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