The Brexit Divorce is Finally Final (0:31)

The Brexit negotiations between Britain and the European Union didn’t seem to go anywhere until the last minute, but a deal was struck and the UK is finally on its own. Simon Usherwood felt the process could have gone better. Usherwood is a professor of politics at the University of Surrey.

 

Few Americans Have a Regular Doctor They Can Trust. That’s Bad News for the Pandemic. (17:34)

A trusted family doctor might help convince the nearly quarter of reluctant Americans to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. But fewer Americans have that kind of family doctor these days. Healthcare systems expert Timothy Hoff has written about the decline in trust between patients and primary care doctors, and he’s a professor of management and health policy at Northeastern University.

 

Preserving All Perspectives Through the Pandemic Journaling Project (35:41)

To try to preserve what it's like living through a pandemic, some of us have turned to journaling. University of Connecticut anthropology professor Sarah Willen started The Pandemic Journaling Project to help people do just that: record their experiences and make sure all perspectives get preserved.

 

Mysterious Ghost Sharks May Disappear Before We Can Study Them (52:20)

Scientists think some species of the mysterious "ghost shark" may be at risk of extinction, but they don’t know for sure because they don’t know much about ghost sharks in general. We find out more about this mysterious shark from David Ebert who is one of the world’s leading experts on these fish. He’s the Director of the Pacific Shark Research Center in Monterey, California.

 

Smellicopter: A Drone that Uses a Real Moth Antenna to Smell (1:04:56)

Researchers at the University of Washington are developing a drone that will harness real moth antennas to sniff out chemicals. Melanie Anderson is one of the doctoral students currently working on the device they call the “Smellicopter.” 

 

Best and Worst Family Movies of 2020 (1:21:44)

The pandemic pressed pause on many of the big movies that would have come out in 2020. But Kirsten Hawkes of ParentPreviews.com thinks a few that were released were real gems for family viewing–and there were also duds.