# Rachel Nuwer
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Rachel Love Nuwer is an award-winning independent American journalist and author. Her writing focusses primarily on science, adventure, and ecology, and has been published in a variety of prominent publications, including the Smithsonian, BBC Future, The New York Times, and National Geographic. Her book Poached was published in 2018 and was the winner of the American Society of Journalists and Authors general non-fiction book award, a Nautilus Book Award, and the Santa Monica Public Library Green Prize for Sustainable Literature.
Rachel Nuwer: The School for Wildlife Traffickers
I’ve never interviewed someone about wildlife trafficking, but journalist Rachel Nuwer’s story for The Economist was so compelling that I wanted to explore it. It’s about an orphanage in Africa where kids are used as foot soldiers in an illegal animal and ivory smuggling operation. Rachel's article…
Can New York Survive Mamdani's Tax Plan?
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss the growing push on the left to "tax the rich," highlighted by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Tax Day message. They examine whether America's tax system is already highly progressive, why wealth taxes a…
Healing with Psychedelics: Veterans, PTSD, and the Science of Mind-Altering Drugs
For decades, psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA were regarded as dangerous drugs of abuse — but that’s started changing as research increasingly reveals their ability to help treat serious mental health issues. On this episode, we listen back to past conversations about the science behind …
Why Did We Stop Keeping Pigeons As Pets?
First up, we check in with professor Rocky Weitz from the Tufts Fletcher School. Now that we are 5 months out from the US government overthrowing Maduro we ask - how are Venezuelans faring today, and how far off is true democracy?
Then, GBH’s Gal Tziperman-Lotan & Senior Producer Aidan Connelly re…
What the SpaceX I.P.O. Means for You, and a Giant Act of Vandalism in D.C.
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
Here’s what we’re covering:
SpaceX Is About to Be in Your 401(k) Whether You Like It or Not, by Mike Isaac and Maureen Farrell
U.S. Plan Is Said to Pull a Third of Fighter Jets It Provides NATO for Europe, by Christopher F. Schuetze and Eric Schmitt
Postal Service Se…
742 - Obsession with Curry Barker
John and Craig welcome Curry Barker, the writer-director behind this summer's surprise blockbuster, Obsession. It's a rom-com, a horror film and a great example of trusting your audience.
We discuss Curry's roots, his writing process, learning from YouTube, as well as the pressure to follow up a h…
The Dumbbell Murder: Two Lovers Committed a Murder So Stupid The Papers Named It Twice
A discontented Long Island housewife and the forgettable corset salesman she seduced hatch a clumsy plot to murder her sleeping husband — a scheme so poorly executed that one famous newsman couldn't resist giving it a name.==========HOUR ONE: Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray devised a scheme to get rid of…
THE GERM OF LAZINESS - The Rockefeller Hookworm Crusade
🪱 "The Germ of Laziness" — the hidden history of hookworm, the Rockefeller cover-up, and the disease America pretended it cured.
For three centuries, poor Southerners were dismissed as lazy, backward, and shiftless. The truth was a parasite: Necator americanus, the hookworm, quietly infecting an es…
Vanishing freedoms in Hong Kong, the French in Australia and cactus smuggling
Louisa Lim discusses the impact of the National Security Legislation in Hong Kong, historian Alexis Bergantz examines the the French connection to Australia and science journalist Rachel Nuwer unpacks global cactus trafficking.
Daniel McCarthy's America, Japan's Covid mascot and wildlife trafficking
Daniel McCarthy takes America's temperature, Matt Alt explores why Japan has turned to a 19th-century folk legend in its hour of need and Rachel Nuwer discusses whether Covid could curb the global wildlife trade.
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