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Gender & Sports: How Do These Distinctions Shape Who We Become?

>> September 8, 2019

When we think of a typical high school football player, most of us imagine a sweaty, muscled teenage boy in a uniform. One of our guests this week is K-Lani Nava, the first female football player to play, score and win in a Texas high school state championship game. She, along with Dr. Christia Spears Brown, both discuss the importance of breaking gender …

topics covered: Children and Parenting, Diversity, Education, Employment and Workplace Issues, Family and Interpersonal Relationships, Football, Friendship, Gender, Health and Medicine, Psychology and Psychiatry, Sports and Recreation
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Culture Crash: Minding the Gap

>> January 6, 2019

Minding the Gap tells the story of Liu himself, and of his closest friends from his childhood in Rockford, Illinois. Each came from something of a broken home, and turned to each other, and to skateboarding for an escape from their personal demons. What begins as a movie about kids skateboarding and hanging out becomes a searing look at childhood trauma, the …

topics covered: Cinematography, Family and Interpersonal Relationships, Friendship, Hulu, Media and Entertainment, Movies, Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), U.S. Constitution
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Letters to Max: Two friends confront their mortality through letters

>> December 23, 2018

Sarah Ruhl is a MacArthur Fellowship recipient and a famed playwright. As a professor, she met Max Ritvo, who went on to become a published poet. She recounts the story of their friendship and how they used letters to make a connection and comfort one another while Ritvo faced the end of his life.

topics covered: Aging and Death, Communication, Culture and the Arts, Family and Interpersonal Relationships, Friendship, Literature and Writing, Theater
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Finding Happiness

>> September 10, 2017

We explore the science behind happiness, how our brain achieves the elusive emotion, and how it all depends on who you are and where you are.

topics covered: Emotion, Friendship, Mental Health, Personal Growth and Development, Philosophy and Ethics, Psychology and Psychiatry
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All American Boys: Young People Deal with Race Relations

>> November 29, 2015

How do young people deal with race in their lives? We aren’t born racist, so how do some of them become that way? We talk to two young readers authors about their new book that addresses the issue.

topics covered: African American Culture, American Culture and History, Bias, Children and Parenting, Friendship, Law/Policy and Enforcement, Police Misconduct, Race and Identity, Racism and Discrimination
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Happiness: What it is and how to find it

>> July 26, 2015

We hear that we should be happy, and that happiness helps you live longer, brings more tranquility to your life, and to the lives of your family and friends. But do you know what happiness truly is? We talk to a psychologist and a philosopher about the essence of happiness, how to find it and how it’s different from person to person and across the globe.

topics covered: Friendship, Mental Health, Personal Growth and Development, Philosophy and Ethics, Psychology and Psychiatry
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