Census, Cotillion, NICU Sensors, Stereotypes

Citizenship Question Stalls 2020 Census Guest: Hansi Lo Wang, National Correspondent, NPR Two federal judges have now ruled against the Trump Administration’s plan to include a question on next year’s Census that asks if the person being counted is a citizen of the United States. Why is such a simple question so controversial that the Supreme Court is planning to weigh in next month? Teaching Proper Etiquette and Social Grace Through Cotillion Guest: Ann Achiu Director of the Fairfax and Arlington Chapters of the National League of Junior Cotillions Kids as young as sixth-grade have spent the last five months learning to waltz and introduce themselves politely and sit up straight at dinner. The boys wear suits. The girls wear dresses –and sometimes even gloves, because there’s an old-timey feel to cotillion. The months-long etiquette course culminates with a fancy Spring ball. Did you know this tradition was alive and well in America? The Real Paleo Diet . . . Doesn't Exist Guest: Herman Pontzer, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University The whole idea behind the "paleo" diet is that if we go back to eating like our hunter-gatherer ancestors, we won’t have all the obesity and diabetes and heart disease our modern lifestyle has brought. Makes total sense when you look at the few hunter-gatherer societies left on the planet today: They are in excellent health. But studying the diet and exercise of actual hunter-gatherer societies alive today paints a different picture of the kind of diet that "works." Wireless Sensors Now Let Parents Cuddle Their Children While Staying at NICU Guest: Amy Paller, Professor of Pediatrics and Chair of the Dermatology Department at Northwestern Medicine Having a baby in the newborn intensive care unit is scary and stressful for parents. Worse, all the wires hooked up to monitors keeping tabs on the baby’s vital signs get in the way of the way of physical bonding between a newborn and its parents. Researchers at Northwestern University have developed