Episodios

  • Boston Athenaeum is making manuscripts in Indigenous languages more accessible
    Nov 26 2025

    The Boston Athenaeum has more than 200 publications in nearly three dozen Indigenous languages from the U.S. and Canada that are being used for revitalization work.

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    5 m
  • Trump administration plan to re-vet refugees frustrates local immigrant resettlement agencies
    Nov 26 2025

    The Trump administration announced plans to re-vet and re-interview refugees who were admitted to the U.S. under President Biden. That will affect thousands of immigrants living in Massachusetts, according to a local resettlement agency leader.

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    4 m
  • A look inside the fusion energy device under construction in Mass.
    Nov 26 2025

    Scientists have been trying to solve the riddle of fusion energy for decades. Scott Kirsner, a columnist with our editorial partner MassLive, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to report on Commonwealth Fusion Systems' progress.

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    4 m
  • How Giselle Byrd is navigating the anti-trans harassment against her
    Nov 25 2025

    Giselle Byrd, a Black transgender woman, runs a theater company in Boston. She spoke with WBUR Morning Edition Host Tiziana Dearing about how her life has changed following the harassment campaign and why she's determined to stay on the commission.

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    5 m
  • A gameplan to keep people on Medicaid in Massachusetts
    Nov 24 2025

    Policy analyst Evan Horowitz makes the case that Massachusetts should be able to keep those already on Medicaid insured, despite new eligibility rules that were signed into law by President Trump earlier this year.

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    4 m
  • New planetarium documentary explores the science of everyday things
    Nov 21 2025

    "Remixed: The Unexpected Side of Science" is a full dome show, produced by the Museum of Science, Boston in partnership with the Dope Labs Podcast team.

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    10 m
  • Larry Summers is disgraced. Where does Harvard go from here?
    Nov 21 2025

    Larry Summers spent decades leaving his fingerprints on Greater Boston's academic and political institutions. Now, as details of Summers' friendship with Jeffrey Epstein trickle out, those institutions face a reckoning.

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    9 m
  • 'I know how you feel': Teams provide support after suicide loss
    Nov 20 2025

    Volunteers who've experienced suicide loss themselves offer support to those in the throes of a loved one's suicide. They're known as LOSS teams, which stands for Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors.

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    8 m