Doctors Without Borders (Or Bias); Biden Decides; Making Choices on a Screen

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 22, 2015

Dr. Deane Marchbein, the president of Doctors Without Borders USA describes what it’s like to treat wounded soldiers on both sides of a conflict. Plus: Terry Gilliam, one of the founding members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, talks about directing, sketching, and being the only non-British member of the Pythons; Biden decides not to run; how screens make decisions for us; and tracking the popularity of words with Google Ngram.

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