On episode 414, my guest University of Delaware Professor Dannagal Young, author of Wrong, joins myself and co-host Rebecca Faith Lawson. InWrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appet

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Jessica Carew Kraft, journalist and author of Why We Need To Be Wild: One Womans Quest For Ancient Human Answers To 21st Century Problems, joins myself, Armen Shirvanian, and co-host Rebecca Faith

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In the scientific literature, I found confirmation of what I was hearing. In recent years, about one-in-two adults in America reported experiencing loneliness. And that was before the national lockdo

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