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  • Food Network icon Rachael Ray is host of the Emmy Award–winning syndicated show Rachael Ray, as well as 30-Minute Meals and Tasty Travels. Her bestselling cookbooks include The Book of Burger and Rachael Ray’s Look + Cook— a “bullet-proof recipe… more

  • Noted for her leadership in investigative journalism, former Philadelphia Inquirer editor Amanda Bennett received her first shared Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for coverage of the AIDS crisis, and in 2001 she led a team to a Pulitzer for Public… more

  • Dubbed "America’s Mayor" by Al Gore, Ed Rendell served as Mayor of Philadelphia from 1992 to 1999. He revived the city's economy, expanded neighborhood services, and reformed the City's approach to poverty. As the Governor of Pennsylvania from… more

  • Due to a technical issue, the first 15 minutes of the recording were inaudible. The podcast joins Dr. Farmer a little later in his presentation. A recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Genius Award, Dr. Paul Farmer is… more

  • Trained in Bergamo, Italy, by some of the region's most distinguished chefs, South Philadelphia native Marc Vetri brings a bold, contemporary sensibility to the classic Italian cuisine served at his three Philadelphia restaurants: Vetri, which… more

  • Jerome Groopman, M.D. and Pamela Hartzband, M.D. are on the staff of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the faculty of Harvard Medical School. Married for more than 20 years, they have collaborated on articles for the New York… more

  • W. Wilson Goode, Charles E. Lewis, Jr, and Harold Dean Trulear address the effects of incarceration on families and communities in Ministry with Prisoners and Families: The Way Forward . Challenging African American churches to provide support,… more

  • Born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian doctor who worked in Israeli hospitals as an obstetrician and gynecologist specializing in infertility. In January 2009, three of his daughters and a niece… more

  • Mark Bittman is one of the country's foremost food writers, author of "The Minimalist" food column for The New York Times and of multiple James Beard Award and IACP/Julia Child Award-winning cookbooks, including How to Cook Everything . … more

  • Psychologist Daniel Gottlieb hosts WHYY’s mental health radio call-in show Voices in the Family and wrote a highly regarded column for the Philadelphia Inquirer for 15 years. He is the author of two award-winning works: the self-improvement book… more

  • A physician and the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean served six terms as Governor of Vermont, during which time the state expanded its universal healthcare program for children and pregnant women, balanced its… more

  • Ralph Nader is one of our country's greatest champions of consumer safety and rights--he is responsible for major federal consumer protection laws such as the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Freedom of Information Act. He was also… more

  • A Nobel Prize-winning cancer biologist, former director of the National Institutes of Health, president of the renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and co-chair of President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and… more

  • The subprime mortgage crisis has visited ruin on millions of people and continues to threaten the health of the U.S. and global economies. In The Subprime Solution, market expert Robert J. Shiller calls for aggressive restructuring of financial… more

  • The US spends more money per capita on medical care than any other country in the world, yet tens of millions of citizens are uninsured, underinsured or uninsurable. As Americans look at ways to reinvent the system, a panel of physicians,… more

  • A practicing psychologist and family therapist in the Philadelphia area for over 35 years, Dr. Dan Gottlieb hosts Voices in the Family , a mental health radio show on WHYY. He also contributes a bimonthly column to the Philadelphia Inquirer . His… more

  • Michael Pollan’s recent bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. In his new book, In Defense of Food, Pollan offers well-considered answers to questions about… more

  • A pioneer in the world of genomic research, J. Craig Venter is one of the most controversial figures in science today. He joined the National Institutes of Health in 1984, where he introduced novel techniques for rapid gene discovery. He left in… more

  • Gina Kolata is a science writer for the New York Times and author of Ultimate Fitness and the national bestseller, Flu . "Kolata may be the best writer around covering the science of health...In chapters equally entertaining and dismaying, Kolata… more

  • Confused by food labels that use words such as “natural,” “organic,” and “fresh?” Then come hear America’s most respected nutritionist as she offers an aisle-by-aisle guide to supermarket buying. A longtime nutritionist, PBS commentator, and… more