This week on Living Lab Radio:
- Rachel Herz, author of Why You Eat What You Eat, explains why Super Bowl party menus are so loaded with fat and carbs, and shares tips for more mindful eating.
- Jennifer Francis of Woods Hole Research Center connects the dots between extreme warming in the Arctic and extreme cold in the Midwest.
- Kate Hoffman of Duke University lays out the evidence that flame retardants targeted by a proposed ban in the state of Massachusetts could be harmful to human health.
- Melanie Warner, author of The Magic Feather Effect, dives into the placebo effect and the sometimes surprising disconnect between bodily damage and our experience of pain.