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Welcome to the science podcast for April 26, 2019. I'm Megan Cantwell. Sarah and I are still in China, but we will be back next week.

This week we have one more segment from the AAAS 2019 annual meeting.

I talk with Jada Ben Torres about what happens when race is used as a risk factor in disease.

And then our monthly book segment, Books Review Editor Valerie Thompson,

interviews author David Rothenberg about his book, Nightingales in Berlin, searching for the perfect sound.

I'm here at AAAS annual meeting with Jada Van Torres, an associate professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt

University with a specialty

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