Biological Responses to Stress + Christopher Buckley

September 23, 2008 at 2:43pm

BIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO STRESS: Stress may be caused by reading about the financial meltdown on Wall Street, filling your car with four dollar gasoline, or simply talking to your troublesome spouse or teenager. We talk to a neurobiologist about the mammalian stress response, and what baboons in Africa can teach us about working in an office cubicle. (28 min.) CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY : Few moments in Washington are as ripe for political satire as a Supreme Court nomination, with its waves of partisan warfare and feeding frenzies among the press corps. Kojo talks with writer Christopher Buckley about his latest dip into Washington's political swampland. (26 min.)

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