Halibut and yellowtail flounder fish populations are at all-time lows in the Atlantic. That’s according to Seafood Watch of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Cod, once prolific in the North Atlantic, is struggling. Closer to home, catfish from the Cape Fear River and blue crab and mullet from the Brunswick River have high enough levels of mercury that officials recommend avoiding them.

North Carolina has some of the highest childhood obesity rates in the country, according to the Centers For Disease Control. That’s despite the fact that we know more about nutrition and healthy habits than ever.

If you’re a person of color or ethnic minority, LGBTQ, a veteran, or a person with a disability, you might face a more dire cancer prognosis or struggle more with chronic disease than someone not in these groups.

That gap between what happens in the brain and what comes out as behavior is the field of clinical neuropsychology. Its application can range from diagnosing and treating military personnel to people suffering from Multiple Sclerosis or dementia.

Heather Heyer died in Charlottesville in 2017 while protesting white supremacy. That was fifty years after civil rights leader and attorney Alan McSurely helped the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior shape the Poor Peoples’ Campaign – to help disenfranchised people of all races gain basic human rights.

People socialize, research, shop, and entertain themselves online. They read online. So if the trend towards digital activity continues, are public libraries an endangered species?

A dozen or so people, diverse in age, ethnicity, and political leanings, have agreed to be part of a year-long experiment in civil discourse. Each month, we bring you a conversation with some members of the group. Our aim: to observe whether the tone and quality of the conversation changes as they get to know one another over the course of the year.

Frank Stasio has hosted The State of Things , WUNC’s public affairs program, since 2006.

[SOUND OF BABY CRY AND MICHAEL TITTERTON'S INTRODUCTION]. Those are the first sounds and the first voice heard on WHQR when it came to life on 91.3 FM 35 years ago.

Geneticists say human DNA is 99.9% the same. Identical.