What's a dew point? Why is my weather app wrong all the time? Should I be worried about a Super El Niño? This hour, we explore the mysteries of the weather while checking in on the state of modern meteorology.

Plus: How does literature teach us about the changing weather?

GUESTS:

• Kristine Harper: Meteorologist, oceanographer, and science educator turned historian of science at the University of Copenhagen
• Matthew Cappucci: Senior Meteorologist at MyRadar and Meteorologist at CapitalWeather.com
• Amy Brady: Author of Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks – A Cool History of a Hot Commodity. She is also the former executive director and publisher of Orion magazine, a contributing editor for Scientific American, and coeditor of the anthology The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate.

Music featured (in order):

• Teen Town – Weather Report
• Storm Warning – Bonnie Raitt
• Pennies from Heaven – Emilie-Claire Barlow
• Isn’t This a Lovely Day? – Dana Lauren
• Heatwave – Martha Reeves and the Vandelas
• After the Rain Has Fallen – Sting

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There is perhaps no figure more emblematic of the paranormal than the psychic. Able to predict the future, see into the past, and even communicate with the dead, the psychic’s (supposed) awesome gifts are matched only by his or her ability to withstand skepticism and ridicule.

But are our misgivings towards these intuitives justified? Is it merely smoke and mirrors which they’ve learned to master, or are they, in fact, possessed of powers beyond our comprehension?

This hour, we speak with believers, skeptics, and self-proclaimed psychics to find out.

GUESTS:

• Daryl Bem: Emeritus professor of psychology at Cornell University and the author of Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect
• Allison Dubois: A psychic medium and profiler and the author of several books, including Into the Dark: How the Dead Help Us Heal
• Benjamin Radford: Deputy editor for Skeptical Inquirer and co-host of Squaring the Strange
• Emily Stroia: An ituitive medium, the founder of the Intuitive Soul Academy, and the author of several books, including Psychic Development for Beginners
• Jenniffer Weigel: An Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and the author of Psychics, Healers and Mediums: A Journalist, a Road Trip, and Voices from the Other Side

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Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired June 28, 2017.

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We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing.

This hour, the conversation winds around to Connecticut lobster rolls, curating everything, Canadian blue lettuce, the movie version of Jurassic Park, the correct pronunciation of “New Haven” and other things, the problem with open primaries … Anything. (Seemingly) everything.

These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too. So we did another one.

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