Why can't our infrastructure better handle winter weather?

Why can't our infrastructure better handle winter weather?

Guests:

Collin O'Mara @Collin_OMara
Secretary of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. He spoke Wednesday before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs hearing on extreme weather events and the costs of not being prepared.

Marc Morial @MarcMorial
President of the National Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans.

Learn how Wednesday's winter weather is affecting the South, via Al Jazeera America.

Latest, largest study on mammograms casts doubt about their value

Guests: 

Dr. Sandhya Pruthi @DrSandhyaPruthi
Associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic and former chairwoman of the Mayo Breast Clinic. 

Dr. Mallika Marshall @MallikaMarshall  
Urgent care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Learn more about the study, via The New York Times.   

Photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie shares what he saw of the Kiev demonstrations

Alpeyrie has returned to the United States after spending time in Kiev and eastern Ukraine.

Guest:

Jonathan Alpeyrie @JonathaAlpeyrie 
Photojournalist.

Learn more about Alpeyrie.

Can failure be the key to success?

Guest:

Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo
Author of "The Upside of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success" and a Bloomberg View columnist.   

Read more about McArdle's views on failure, via Fast Company

Are the "leading indicators" of our economy giving us the wrong information?

Guest:

Zachary Karabell @ZacharyKarabell
Author of "The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World" and Reuters columnist.

Learn more about Karabell's book.

Why is a college professor living in a dumpster for a year?

Dr. Jeff Wilson of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, who is called "Professor Dumpster," is trying to live off a minimum of space, water use, electricity use, and waste production.

Guest:

Dr. Jeff Wilson @ProfDumpster
Associate professor of biological sciences at Huston-Tillotson University

Read more about Wilson's project, via The Daily Mail.

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