Understanding Today’s Puzzling U.S. Economy
Inflation is high. The GDP has shrunk. But the job market has never been better. The Washington Post's Damian Paletta helps make sense of the U.S. economy today.
Cooke points to the mating habits of female lions as an example of behavior that goes against our sex-based expectations.
Since the days of Charles Darwin, scientists have largely portrayed females of the animal kingdom as passive, coy, submissive and chaste. In other words, says zoologist Lucy Cooke, the image of a Victorian housewife.
Cooke is the author of the new book, “Bitch: On the Female of the Species.” In it she argues that vision of female animals is based more on stereotype than fact. She uses examples of promiscuous songbirds, murderous meerkats, and fish that transition from diminutive male to dominant female to bust the myths that have shaped our understanding of evolutionary biology for centuries.
Cooke joined Diane to discuss how scientists got sexual difference wrong — and the research that helped set the record straight.
Inflation is high. The GDP has shrunk. But the job market has never been better. The Washington Post's Damian Paletta helps make sense of the U.S. economy today.
From high mortgage rates to shortages that have spread coast to coast, New York Times reporter Emily Badger explains the roots -- and consequences of our country's broken housing system.
Fifty years after the Tuskegee study, Diane talks to Harvard's Evelynn Hammonds about the intersection of race and medicine in the United States, and the lessons from history that can help us understand health inequities today.
Pills, the right to travel and fetal personhood laws -- Diane talks to Temple University Law School's Rachel Rebouché about what's next in the fight over abortion in the U.S.
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