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Dr. Martin Blaser explains why our microbiome—the good bacteria and cells in our body—is essential for our health and how overusing antibiotics can damage it. An oncologist talks about losing his wife to breast cancer how that experience changed his attitude toward cancer treatment. Lydia Davis discusses her new collection of short stories, Can’t and Won’t. And we’ll take a look at Tammany Hall and how the infamously corrupt political machine also empowered the poor and disadvantaged.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

A law professor argues affirmative action should be based not on race, but place. Plus: some customers with new insurance plans on the New York State ACA exchange are dismayed to find the selection of in-network doctors is small; how the U.S. might be able to help find the missing Nigerian schoolgirls and what might ease the ongoing violence in the region; the policy and politics of the UFT (and other municipal worker) contracts; and birth stories, dissected.   

The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

James Fearnley, the accordionist for the rollicking London Irish pub-punk band The Pogues, has a new memoir.

It’s Throwback Thursday on this New Sounds. Hear music by Jean-Michel Jarre, from back in the 1970’s; his eight-part suite, “Equinoxe.”  The synth washes and complex electronic multi-layering, along with the sequenced bassline, reflect a day in the life of a human being, from morning to night. Then, music from Manuel Göttsching from his 1984 album named after the most popular opening chess move, 'E2-E4'.  With its drum machine and pulsing guitar line, along with some light synthesizers, this record set the tone for electronic dance music, probably informing the two following decades of mainstream house. Also, listen to new music for electric and acoustic guitars, a Talkbox, drum machines, and sometimes a mandolin from Mark McGuire, also known for his work in Cleveland's drone collective Emeralds.  That, and more.