124 episodes
Social Distance The Atlantic
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- Health & Fitness
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4.7 • 90 Ratings
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Journalists from The Atlantic document the first 15 months of the coronavirus pandemic through regular phone calls. Listen in as Dr. Jim Hamblin, the producer Katherine Wells, and the comedian and the writer Maeve Higgins ask journalists, experts, and friends about the news and science behind the pandemic, get some advice, and learn how to apply it.
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Presenting: The Review, a new podcast from The Atlantic
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How To Build A Happy Life: A new podcast from The Atlantic
Hello Social Distance listeners! We'd like to introduce you to a new show.
In this series, host Arthur Brooks digs into research and offers tools to help you live more joyfully. Join us for deep conversations with psychologists, experts, and friends of The Atlantic's Chief Happiness Correspondent. For more info, visit www.theatlantic.com/happy, or search for How to Build a Happy Life on your podcast app.
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Is It Over?
Though the pandemic continues around the world, the end appears in sight in the United States. At the same time, this episode will mark the last one for Social Distance.
Jim, Maeve, and returning host Katherine Wells gather to say goodbye to the show, listen to voicemails from past expert guests, and reflect on what we’ve learned these last fifteen months.
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Breakthrough Infections and Lonely Puppies
While case counts in the U.S. continue to drop, there are still headlines about variants and "breakthrough" infections that might worry you. Fortunately, The Atlantic staff writer Katherine Wu explains to James Hamblin and Maeve Higgins why these shouldn't alarm us just yet. And staff writer Sarah Zhang drops in to help figure out how to keep pandemic puppies from being too anxious as people return to pre-pandemic routines.
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It's Time to Tango
Now that Jim's "Quite Possibly Wonderful Summer" is coming to fruition, a lot of listeners have been considering the present and future. Can you go to a tango festival? What should parents be watching for? And why, exactly, is the Surgeon General wearing that uniform? Hit play for answers and a short history lesson from historian and listener Ruth Fairbanks.
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Dealing With Post-Pandemic Trauma
We've all been suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic in one way or another, and as the U.S. starts to emerge, we'll need to reckon with that. The Atlantic's Ed Yong discusses his piece on pandemic trauma, how to think about it, and what he's learned in talking to psychiatrists and other experts.
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Customer Reviews
Funny, Informative & Keeping Me Sane
I look forward to this podcast every week.
Question for Katherine and James: I would love to know more about the “gargle test” that is now being offered in Canada. Thanks!
Exceptionally relevant and articulate!
I listen to this podcast every week, and effectively “quote” from various episodes, conversations and experts to people I know. I’m probably having a conversation about the COVID-19 pandemic roughly 4-5 times a week. I’m a historian who specializes in the history of trauma, and teach a university course on the history of catastrophe - with pandemic among the historic catastrophes we examine. This podcast is exceptional in its clarity, its format, and the accessibility of information. I will be sharing episodes of the podcast with my students in my catastrophe course. I will relate here that as a historian within Trauma Studies, I - and colleagues- are building networks of scholars who are focused on studying social and political responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.
My research echoes that of others in cautioning that catastrophes (pandemics) do not have an end, at least not a full and hard “stop”. I wonder if a future episode could consider this reality, and as well if an episode could visit the potentials for PTSD as the pandemic rolls into the future?
Thank you both, Katherine and James ( I hope I have spelled (C)Katherine’s name correctly!) for this podcast.
A. St. John- Stark
Department of Philosophy, History and Politics
Co-Chair, Memory and Trauma Working Group, Memory Studies Association
Thompson Rivers University
Kamloops
British Columbia
Canada
Helpful explainer
I really like this podcast for the easy-to-follow ways they explain what’s going on with the vaccine. Thanks Jim & Katherine!