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Smuggling Refugees, Accepting Anxiety, Please Explain Fat

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 4, 2017

 Patrick Kingsley discusses his book, The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe’s Refugee Crisis. Will Schwalbe on the books that take on the challenges of living in our modern world. Kat Kinsman, senior food and drinks editor at Time Inc.'s Extra Crispy, joins us to discuss her memoir, Hi, Anxiety: Life with a Case of Bad Nerves. For our latest Please Explain, Dr. Sylvia Tara, author of The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You, explains fat. 

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