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Guest host: Susan Page
Medical experts join us to talk about the surprisingly close connection and powerful interaction between our brain and the so-called 'second brain' in our gut.
Dr. Michael Gershon, chair, department of anatomy and cell biology, Columbia University
and author of "The Second Brain"
Gary Mawe, professor, anatomy and neurobiology, University of Vermont
Dr. Louis Korman, gastroenterologist in private practice at George Washington University Hospital and Sibley Memorial Hospital faculty member, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and board member of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Guest host: Susan Page of USA Today
In December 1776, when Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old, he went to Paris to try to secure French support for the fledgling United States. An award-winning biographer talks about Franklin's years in Paris.
Stacy Schiff, won a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Vera," a biography of the wife of Vladimir Nabokov.
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