The older I get, the more excited I am to be corrected when I’m wrong.
Sure, it may sting for a second because hearing someone say “actually…” can be kind of annoying, and if I’m wrong about something, then that means that contrary to my sparkling self-image, I don’t know it all.
But as you know, a lifetime of listening to public radio has a tendency to remind you that there’s always stuff to learn - and to unlearn. And it feels good to unlearn!
The three segments you’re gonna hear today - about pain, testosterone, and the Brown Recluse spider - are going to once and for all change the ways you may have been seeing these things. And? They were all inspired by past episodes of Audacious.
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GUESTS:
- Tasha Stanton is an Associate Professor leading the Osteoarthritis Research Theme within IIMPACT in Health at the University of South Australia, Adelaide
- Rebecca Jordan-Young & Katrina Karkazis are the co-authors of Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
- Rick Vetter is a retired professor from the Department of Entomology, at the University of California in Riverside, and the author of The Brown Recluse Spider
Catie Talarski contributed to this show.