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FULL SHOW: February 24, 2019

Courtesy of Gregory L. Tracy
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“Science helps us diagnose the problem. The reality, though, is that scientists have been diagnosing for quite a while and it still hasn’t moved us to action.” - Reverend Mariama White-Hammond on climate change

This week on Living Lab Radio:

  • Tim Caro of UC Davis answers the age-old question of why zebras have stripes, and whether they are black with white stripes, or vice versa.
  • Biologist Marc Diamond makes the case for a Manhattan Project approach to Alzheimer's disease, which currently affects more than 5.5 million Americans - a number that could triple by mid-century. We currently have no means of detecting or treating the disease.
  • CDC investigator Tom Clark explains why it has been so hard to nail down the cause of a polio-like illness that has been on the rise, with cases spiking inexplicably every two years since 2014.
  • Reverend Mariama White-Hammond bridges science and faith in her work for ecological justice.

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Elsa Partan is a producer and newscaster with CAI. She first came to the station in 2002 as an intern and fell in love with radio. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. From 2006 to 2009, she covered the state of Wyoming for the NPR member station Wyoming Public Media in Laramie. She was a newspaper reporter at The Mashpee Enterprise from 2010 to 2013. She lives in Falmouth with her husband and two daughters.