We explore the challenges and potential path to electing a female president in the U.S. Then, an author shares her new book about what we can learn from extinctions.
Featured in this Show
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A look at the progress, and remaining obstacles, for female presidential candidates
2016 was the closest the United States has come to electing a female president for the first time. We talk about why we haven’t reached that milestone, and what it would take to elect a woman as chief executive.
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Endlings: What the last of a species can teach us about grief and extinction
Endlings are the last individual of a species — like Lonesome George the Pinta tortoise and QiQi the baiji. We talk to the author of a book about what endlings reveal about grief and the power humans hold amid the Earth’s sixth mass extinction.
Episode Credits
- Rob Ferrett Host
- Sarah Hopefl Technical Director
- Tim Peterson Producer
- Colleen Leahy Producer
- Ali Vitali Guest
- Lydia Pyne Guest
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