Please Explain from WNYC New York Public Radio show

Please Explain from WNYC New York Public Radio

Summary: From WNYC, New York Public Radio: Please Explain, where Leonard Lopate and a guest get to the bottom of one complex issue. History, science, politics, pop culture or anything that needs some explanation!

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 Please Explain: Butchery | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

Sam Garwin and Ryan Fibiger from Saugatuck Craft Butchery in Westport, Connecticut, talk about the importance of local, humanely raised meats. They explain the various cuts of meat, how they're best prepared, whole-animal butchery, knife skills, and how the sausage is made.

 Please Explain: Coffee | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:55

The devotion to coffee verges on a religion for many people. Jonathan Rubinstein, the owner and operator of Joe Coffee in New York City? and in Philadelphia, and Amanda Byron, director of coffee and roasting at Joe Coffee, talk about how coffee is grown and roasted, the variety of beans and methods of making coffee. They'll also describe how to make the best coffee at home.Call us at 212-433-9692 with your coffee questions! Or leave a question below!

 Please Explain: Coffee | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:55

The devotion to coffee verges on a religion for many people. Jonathan Rubinstein, the owner and operator of Joe Coffee in New York City? and in Philadelphia, and Amanda Byron, director of coffee and roasting at Joe Coffee, talk about how coffee is grown and roasted, the variety of beans and methods of making coffee. They'll also describe how to make the best coffee at home.Call us at 212-433-9692 with your coffee questions! Or leave a question below!

 Please Explain: Kitchen Tools | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

All living things need to eat, but only humans cook...and how we cook has evolved and grown more sophisticated since our earliest days. We have nonstick skillets, automatic espresso machines, digital meat thermometers, and high-speed blenders. But in our earliest days, we didn't even have pots to cook in. On this week's Please Explain, Bee Wilson, author of Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, tells us all about the history of our cooking tools--when and how they were invented and how they've changed the foods we make.

 Please Explain: Pain Medication | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

This week we're following up on Please Explain: Pain to find out more about pain killers. Barry Meier, New York Times reporter and author of A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine's Biggest Mistake, talks about how pain medications work, how over the counter analgesics compare to prescription pain killers, and the problems of pain killer addiction.

 Please Explain: Sleep Apnea | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

If you snore loudly and you wake up feeling tired even after a full night's sleep, you may have sleep apnea, is a potentially serious disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. On this week's Please Explain two sleep specialists talk about what sleep apnea is and what problems and complications it may cause. We're joined by Dr. David M. Rapoport, Professor and Medical Director of NYU Sleep Disorders Center; and Dr. Susan Redline is Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Senior Physician, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Physician, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

 Please Explain: How to Complain Effectively | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

Complaining is a favorite pastime for some people, but it is possible to complain in order to get results and prompt change? On this week's Please Explain we'll find out how! Tod Marks, Senior Projects Editor at Consumer Reports, and Guy Winch, Psychology Today blogger and author of The Squeaky Wheel and Emotional First Aid, explain the art of complaining effectively.

 Please Explain: Sink Holes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

After a Florida man disappeared into a sinkhole that swallowed his bedroom, many people began wondering how stable the ground beneath our feet really is. On this week's Please Explain, Randall Orndorff, Director of the USGS Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center, explains what sinkholes are, why they form, where and when they are most likely to occur and how best to prevent them or predict and prepare for them.

 Please Explain: Alzheimer's Disease and New Alzheimer's Research | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and staff writer for The New Yorker, explains new approaches to Alzheimer's research for this week's Please Explain. Three decades of Alzheimer's research has brought few results in changing the course of the disease, and there have been few developments in drugs to reverse or slow cognitive decline. In his latest article, "Before Night Falls," in the June 24 issue of The New Yorker, he looks at the potential of new studies.

 Please Explain: Pain | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

This week we'll explore how the body perceives pain--what causes it, how it affects us, and how to treat it. We're joined by Dr. Denise Chou, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Columbia University Headache and Facial Pain Center; and Dr. Jing Wang, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, NYU School of Medicine, and director of research and education at NYU Langone's Center for the Study and Treatment of Pain.Ask a question: Call us at 212-433-9692 or leave a comment below.

 Please Explain: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

The America Psychiatric Association's newly updated and revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is the result of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international mental health experts. The DSM is used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders in order to improve diagnoses, treatment, and research. Dr. Michael First, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and Research Psychiatrist at the Biometrics Department at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, explains how clinicians use the DSM, how it's put together, and why this edition has been controversial.

 Please Explain: Pasta | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

Pasta is a staple of Italian food, but noodles are also an important part of Asian cuisine. Pasta is versatile, comes in hundreds of shapes and sizes, and on this week's Please Explain we'll find out how it's made and ways to cook with it. Joining us: Ron Palladino, pasta expert and Fresh Pasta counter general manager at Eataly, and Jack Bishop, editorial director of America's Test Kitchen and author of several cookbooks, including The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook, Pasta e Verdura, and the editor of Pasta Revolution. ?

 Please Explain: Olive Oil | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:48

Lou DiPalo, third-generation expert olive oil importer and the co-owner of Di Palo Fine Foods in New York City, and Nancy Harmon Jenkins, a writer and food historian who's the author of?The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, tell us all about olive oil--from its history to to how it's made to its many varieties.?

 Please Explain: The Science of Cooking | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

For Please Explain, Curious Cook Harold McGee talks about the science of cooking--from how heat changes meat to the differences between baking powder and baking soda. He's the author of a number of books, including Keys to Good Cooking, and On Food and Cooking.

 Please Explain: Mushrooms and Fungi | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

Eugenia Bone, author of Mycophilia: Revelations of the Weird World of Mushrooms, talks about the world of mushrooms and other fungi. She'll cover how to forage for mushrooms, how to identify the good and the poisonous, how fungi grow, and how to eat them.

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