The history of the price of free speech
Author Salman Rushdie remains in critical condition after a brutal knife attack last week. We'll look at the long history of the price people pay to defend free speech.
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Smarter health: Artificial intelligence and the future of American health care
The U.S. spends more on health care than any other country in the world. But Americans aren't as healthy as people living in other developed countries. Could AI change that?
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First person: Thinking globally, acting locally to save the monarch butterfly
Jose Luis Alvarez, co-founder of Forests for Monarchs, and Martha Askins, a retired lawyer, discuss the beauty of the monarch butterfly, and conservation efforts to save them.
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Robert Gonsalves is the creator of the phase retrieval imaging technique now being used by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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