How do you engage a national audience and bring attention to a cause? Katie Couric’s decision to allow her colonoscopy to be broadcast live on television was but one highlight in an extraordinary career in television. As co-host of NBC’s Today show and later the first female anchor of a national nightly news program on CBS, her work has been distinguished by her ability to relate to her audience. In this episode, Katie and Alan Alda talk openly about her life as a well-known communicator and what it takes to make people care about an issue.
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Peter Hotez: The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science
Heather Cox Richardson: She’ll Write You a Letter
David Brooks: How to Know a Person
Marcus du Sautoy: Around the World in 80 Games
How "Maid" Was Made
Frank Felberbaum: Don’t Forget!
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Walter Isaacson: Shadowing Elon Musk
Laurel Braitman: Writing Wrongs
Carl Safina: Wisdom from a Baby Owl
Joe Henrich: How Culture Has Shaped Our Bodies and Brains
Kashmir Hill: Your Face Belongs to Us
Matthew Walker: Sleep REALLY Matters
Maya Shankar: Beginning from an Ending
Adam Mastroianni: Why You So Often Get It Wrong
Nancy Kanwisher: Your Brain is a Swiss Army Knife
Elizabeth Rush: Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
Robert Klein: He Observes, We Laugh
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