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- Sep 28, 2026
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The Strange Science of Color — And Our Quest to Understand It (opens the original)
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On this encore episode, we explore the world of color — from how we perceive it, to our efforts to describe and differentiate its many shades. We talk with a lexicographer about efforts to standardize synthetic colors, and how we describe them, and investigate how we know that the colors we see are the same as the ones everyone else sees.
‘I Could Have Been Lindsay:’ One Woman’s Take on the Clancy Murder Trial (opens the original)
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A mistrial was declared in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial after jurors deadlocked on whether to hold her criminally responsible for strangling her three children in Jan. 2023. We hear from journalist Katinka Blackford Newman who says her own story could have ended up like Clancy’s. Plus, psychiatrist Susan Hatters-Friedman discusses postpartum psychosis, diagnosis, and treatment.
Live from the Pennsylvania Hospital Museum: 275 years of medicine (opens the original)
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Studio 2 is scrubbing in! 275 years after doors first opened, we’re hosting a special live remote broadcast from the nation’s very first chartered hospital.
The backlash against anti-depressants (opens the original)
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Why are some calling for reforming the psychiatric status quo? And how might the discourse impact the future of depression treatment?
Quitting Antidepressants: From Withdrawal to Tapering One Step at a Time (opens the original)
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On this episode, we’ll explore why people want to get off these medications, and what they should consider before quitting. We also explore why finding the right antidepressant can be so challenging — and whether new tools could help doctors better match patients with medications. And we hear from a writer with obsessive-compulsive disorder who was hesitant to take an antidepressant because she worried it would affect her creativity.
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