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If you happen to live in the Northern Hemisphere, April is a time when days get longer, the temperature gets warmer, and things start to become green again.
It is also the month of National Unicorn Day, National Superhero Day, National Take A Wild Guess Day, and, of course, National Hairball Awareness Day.
More important than any of these august holidays, it is the month where I answer your question.
Stay tuned for another episode of Questions and Answers on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
On this episode, Trump teases a third term, JD Vance shows up in Greenland, the latest on tariffs, and Trump is set to meet Bill Maher. All this and more!
In Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female (Policy Press, 2025), Dr. Sally King interrogates the diagnostic label of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) to expose and challenge sexist assumptions within medical research and practice. She powerfully demonstrates how the concept of the ‘hormonal’ premenstrual woman is merely the latest iteration of the ‘hysterical’ female myth. By blaming the healthy reproductive body (first our wombs, now our hormones) for the female-prevalence of emotional distress and physical pain, gender myths appear to have trumped all empirical evidence to the contrary.
The book also provides a primer on menstrual physiology beyond hormones, and a short history of how hormonal metaphors came to dominate medical and popular discourses. The author calls for clinicians, researchers, educators and activists to help improve women’s health without unintentionally reproducing damaging stereotypes.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda’s episodes on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts.
Donald Trump is raising tariffs on Canada, but has his northern neighbour done anything to deserve them?
In her Spring Statement, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that the UK?s fiscal ?headroom? was, again, ?9.9bn. We explore this curious coincidence.
Is it true that one in four people in the UK is disabled? And what does that mean for the state of our workforce?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Reporter: Lizzy McNeill
Producer: Nathan Gower
Series producer: Tom Colls
Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound mix: James Beard
Editor: Richard Vadon
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments today in a big case about healthcare access and Planned Parenthood. The years-long court fight centers on South Carolina’s bid to push the reproductive care provider off the state’s Medicaid program. The actual question in front of the justices is a technical one, but a decision in South Carolina’s favor could prompt a wave of states to strip Medicaid funding away from Planned Parenthood. Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s president, explains what’s at stake in the case.
And in headlines: Attorney General Pam Bondi said she would seek the death penalty for the man charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, the Trump administration admitted it made an ‘administrative error’ in deporting a Maryland father with protected legal status to El Salvador, and mass layoffs began at the Department of Health and Human Services.
We’ll tell you about a Democrat’s protest speech against President Trump that broke records in the Senate and how more Republicans are being sent to Washington.
Also, immigration officials sent one Maryland father to a notorious Salvadoran prison—by accident. Why the Trump administration now says it can’t do anything about it.
Plus, top law firms make deals with the White House, two air traffic controllers come to blows, and Americans lose money on March Madness.
Those stories and even more news to know in about 10 minutes!
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On this week’s show, the hosts discuss Apple TV’s latest ode (tragic comedy?) to the movie industry with The Studio. Then, they step up to the plate and take a swing at the baseball film Eephus. Finally, they invite Slate’s Rebecca Onion to discuss the new edition to Panem’s dystopia: Suzanne Collin’s Sunrise on the Reaping.
The Hooters founders are buying it outta bankruptcy… but did you know Hooters once had an Airline?
Facebook is going back to the OG version… Because the Social Network became a Stranger Network.
Canada’s using a WWII playbook to fix their housing crisis… and it’s inspired by Long Island and Everything Bagels.
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