2025-12-15
47 分钟Our Common Nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me,
Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
We go into caves, onto boats and up mountain trails to meet people,
hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music.
All to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
This past month we were invited by the Bundeswehr, the German military,
to observe basic training as a squad of recruits ran punishing drills honing the skills they would need to defend against an enemy assault.
Everything we are training here for could be one day real.
We don't hope that, but we're preparing exactly for that.
Because of the war in Ukraine?
Yes, of course.
A new class of drugs can save the lives of children like Maisie.
Trouble is, one dose costs millions of dollars.
It was cheaper for her to die.
They were banking on her dying.
Neither health insurance nor government has figured out how to pay for the next wave of miracle medicines.
I liken it to a coming tsunami, which is basically going to overwhelm.
the employer-sponsored insurance system.
Indiana entered this season as the losingest program in major college football history,