The Ecological Cost of Air Conditioning

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 14, 2021

Eric Dean Wilson, Queens College writing instructor and the author of After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort (Simon & Schuster, 2021), talks about his exploration of the use of the chemical freon to cool us down and the moral quandary presented by ACs in a warming world.

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Short-term pain for a long-term train: MTA subway construction upends life in East Harlem

Heavy construction kicked off earlier this year on the MTA's push to extend the Q line to East 125th Street.

Gothamist |

Sideya Sherma talks about the department's new report on the demographic makeup of New York City's immigrants.

The Brian Lehrer Show |

The world around you is falling apart, and no one is listening. How far do you go to be heard?

Radiolab |

A guide to getting AI to work for us, and not the other way around.

On the Media |

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