Inside the ongoing debate over California's aid-in-dying law

Jun. 28, 2017

Photo courtesy of skeeze

From this Episode:

Should terminally ill patients be able to get prescriptions to end their lives?

It’s been one year since California enacted its aid-in-dying legislation. More than 100 people have used it to receive prescription drugs to end their lives. We meet the...

18 min

VR art exhibit shows harrowing experience of migrants

Alejandro González Iñárritu, director of “Birdman” and “The Revenant,” has a new exhibit at LACMA. It’s called “Carne y Arena,” and it uses virtual reality to simulate what...

8 min

Starry Kitchen: Underground dining club to hit restaurant

Nguyen Tran and his wife started an illegal dining club in his apartment in North Hollywood, so he was good at coming up with creative workarounds. When he opened his legal...

14 min

Blackest black v. pinkest pink: Can you own a color?

Vantablack is allegedly the blackest black that exists. It was originally only used for aerospace technology, until Anish Kapoor got exclusive rights to use it in art. No...

11 min

Credits

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Gina Pollack, Sarah Sweeney, Michell Eloy, Amy Ta, Christian Bordal, Quinn O'Toole