Our Shrinking Public Lands, 'This Podcast Has Fleas,' 2017 Stress

Midday on WNYC | Dec 28, 2017

Journalist Elliott Woods discusses his recent article for Outside magazine, “Ryan Zinke Is Trump's Attack Dog on the Environment” in which he profiles Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and looks at the fight to preserve public lands in the U.S. Emily Lynne, Koyalee Chanda and Adam Peltzman talk about the launch of WNYC Kids and WNYC Studios first scripted comedy podcast for kids called, “This Podcast Has Fleas.” For this week's Please Explain, Ankita Rao, editor at VICE, talks about the VICE series On Edge, and her own experiences hacking her stress. Her story, up now on Motherboard, "I Turned the Stress of Living In New York Into a Science Experiment," looks at the specific, unique stress of 2017, especially when you work in the news business.  Documentary filmmaker Nancy Buirski discusses her new film, “The Rape of Recy Taylor.” 

This is a rebroadcast of an episode guest hosted by Arun Venugopal. 

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