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The nightmare called Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The sheer scale of the destruction, coupled with a widely criticized government response, created a humanitarian crisis and led to a massive, long-term displacement of residents, forever altering the region’s demographic and cultural landscape. Author/Narrator Melvin Cohea was one of those residents, but not a passive victim.

The Rewired Woman Podcast is your go-to space for real, honest, and heart-centered conversations about how our nervous systems shape our lives and how we can use modern science and ancient wisdom to feel more safe, aligned, connected, and powerful than ever before.This isn’t your average neuroscience podcast. We’re reviewing the research and bringing you evidence-based insights and tools with a feminine lens mixed with a little woo, lots of curiosity, endless laughs, and heart-felt magic. Think: chats over coffee where one minute we’re talking about healing attachment wounds, and the ...

Showcase and dissemination of sleep research from the British Sleep Society.

A hard nosed look into what matters that first year. A deeper understanding of why it matters. What you can do if you missed the boat and how to help your child learn to attach to themselves while you learn to attach to yourself - if you didn't when you were little. A lesson in how-to love ourselves and become happier healthier children, adults and families.

Caffeinated Q&As with Psychology & Neuroscience researchers of all career stages, where we discuss their career paths, research interests & findings. We interview women, POC and queer researchers. Expect big feminist and political opinions. We are Third Culture Kids and PhD students in the US & UK!

Sitting with friends or family, have you ever just said "Let's Talk About the Ocean!". Some have and maybe some haven't. This podcast is here to start that conversation and get you thinking about all the beautiful aspects of what the ocean provides to our amazing and biodiverse planet.

1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor - in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair.

The true story of a resilient circle of shrimp boat captains who faced and withstood the wreckage of Katrina but now find their courage tested by a greater threat: the disappearance of their livelihood and their centuries-old bayou culture.

Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science and one of the leading young environmental journalists and bloggers working today, immerses listeners in the world of those who study hurricanes. What was once an arcane branch of meteorology (itself an arcane science) has become embroiled in one of the most politicized and hotly contested debates in American science: whether or not the recent hurricane disasters, culminating in Katrina, are connected to global warming.