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With cold and flu season approaching, a physician helps us understand what to look for to tell whether we have a cold, flu, or something more serious. Then we talk about one company's plan to grow an animal that's equivalent to the extinct woolly mammoth -- how they propose to do it, and whether they should.

A public policy and affairs expert helps us understand what the federal government's ceiling on borrowing money is, and why it has traditionally been raised on a regular basis by Congress. Then a journalist shares what they believe they've found to be the reasons why long-running TV show "Antiques Roadshow" has stayed so popular.

A Wisconsin scientist is gaining a big following on TikTok by explaining astrobiology. We talk with her about how she's bringing science to social media. We also get the latest on efforts in Congress to extend the national debt ceiling.

The Biden administration is turning away Haitian refugees seeking asylum at the southern U.S. border. We find out what's happening and check in on other immigration news. We also talk about the physical and mental benefits of going for a good walk.

We discuss the negative effects social media sites including Instagram can have on a person's self-image, and how to do repair work, with an exercise journalist. Then a tech writer talks with us about the need for batteries in our increasingly electrified world, and whether we're going to have enough of them.

We talk with a political scientist about the proposal to give Medicare more authority when it comes to negotiating prescription drug prices. And then a journalist argues that email is overdue for a makeover.

We check in on the Postal Service, including how it could be electrifying its delivery fleet, and how changes enacted by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy are impacting the agency so far. Then we learn about how children could also be susceptible to longer-than-normal symptoms from COVID-19.

A journalist argues Wisconsin's Assembly Speaker has been able to wield considerable indirect governing authority -- we talk to him about how. And an AARP leader talks about how older people living on fixed incomes could be affected by rising prices during the pandemic.

We learn more about how nursing homes were impacted by COVID-19 cases and the Delta variant in the month of August. Then on this week's Food Friday, we discuss making meals from foraged foods.

A journalist walks us through an emotional hearing Wednesday where American Olympic gymnasts detailed disappointing interactions with FBI and other investigators around their sexual abuse by former USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar. Then we talk with a WPR reporter who's been covering both a dispute over a proposed water bottling company near Lake Superior, as well as the refusal of the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board chair to step down, and new challenges to the fall wolf hunt.