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We go in depth with Alex Theran, a worker with All Hands Volunteers, on the impact and recovery from Typhoon Haiyan (called Yoland in the Phillippines) - and why karaoke may sometimes help more than ICS. Plus, drones, Vladimir Putin, and a 30,000 year old virus that may take out your ATM. Or something.
The Dukes relive a heroic day with Drs. Tricia Wachtendorf and James Kendra, authors of American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11. From the first impact on the towers, boat captains came by the dozens to rescue hundreds of thousands of survivors in under nine hours. If you...
Published 09/11/18
Mitch and Andrew swallow the red pill with Kathleen Tierney, the former head of the Natural Hazards Center, and learn how society creates disaster risk as well as how homeland security after 9/11 made things worse, not better. Plus, the best congressional testimony of all time (seriously) and how...
Published 08/30/18