SOTU Recap; Population Quiz; Russia-Ukraine Info War; Keeping Friendships As We Age; What's in the Water: The Eastern Oyster
Today's show:
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Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University and host of the podcast FAQNYC, recaps President Biden's first State of the Union address.
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William Frey, senior fellow with Brookings Metro, a demographer researching urban populations, migration, immigration, race, aging, political demographics, and the author of Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America (Brookings Institution Press, revised 2018), quizzes listeners on the latest demographic shifts as told by the 2020 census.
- Sinan Aral, MIT professor, director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the author of The Hype Machine (Currency, 2020), offers his perspective on why it appears that Ukraine is winning the information war through traditional and social media, despite Russia's historical success in controlling the narrative.
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Jennifer Senior, staff writer at The Atlantic, kicks off a series on friendships and discuss her recent articles on the importance of keeping friendships in middle age.
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For this membership drive, we'll feature a ten-minute deep dive on a different species found in New York City waterways, and the ecological issues that impact them. Up first, Pete Malinowski, executive director of Billion Oyster Project, shares his knowledge of the Eastern Oyster, how habitat destruction has impacted the species, and offers some solutions.
Transcripts are posted to each segment page as soon as they are available.
