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Monday, April 29 2013

  • A Growing Wealth Gap, Dangerous Factories, Urban Poetry, Temple Grandin April 29, 2013

    What West, Texas Teaches Us About Chemicals  | The Growing Wealth Gap  | What Next for Gun Control Advocates?  | That's So Miami: Finding Poetry in City Life  |  Searching Through the... (episode)

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    • What West, Texas Teaches Us About Chemicals April 29, 2013

      The explosion at the fertilizer plant in West, Texas killed at least 14 and left some 200 people injured. But those casualties are not just of plant employees and first responders, th...

    • What Next for Gun Control Advocates? April 29, 2013

      A longtime proponent of stricter gun laws, New York Representative Carolyn McCarthy considers how the effort to push for tougher gun regulations is likely to move forward, after the S...

    • A Growing Wealth Gap April 29, 2013

      A new study from the Urban Institute offers strong evidence that the recession has exposed the United States as an economy without equality of opportunity.  The study shows a growing ...

    • Searching For Answers through the Rubble in Bangladesh April 29, 2013

      Days after the collapse of a factory in Bangladesh claimed at least 377 lives, the wreckage is still being cleared. Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC Bangladesh correspondent, has an update fro...

    • That's So Miami: Finding Poetry in City Life April 29, 2013

      April is National Poetry Month, and to celebrate the occasion, our friends at WLRN have been asking for local poetry that captures the texture of their city: Miami, Florida. Scott Cun...

    • Building a Synthetic Biological Programming Language April 29, 2013

      It sounds like a science fiction scheme, but it's real. Drew Endy and the students in his lab at Stanford are exploring the process of programming cells to manufacture DNA. By develo...

    • Temple Grandin on 'The Autistic Brain' April 29, 2013

      <p><strong>Temple Grandin</strong> discusses her thoughts on the expanding autism spectrum, the supposed link between vaccines and autism, and her new book "The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum."</p>