Today on Boston Public Radio:
We opened the show with a call-in segment to ask our listeners about their experience with Ticketmaster and price-gouging related to live concerts. This comes after the Senate Judiciary Committee interviewed the CEO of Ticketmaster about the company’s failure to handle the demand for Taylor Swift tickets in November and the rise of exorbitant prices on secondary markets.
Art Caplan discussed the integration of artificial intelligence–driven systems like ChatGPT into the medical field and the limitations of the technology. He also explained the FDA’s new regulations for lowering the amount of acceptable lead levels in baby food, and argued the federal government should create a new entity to monitor food safety. Caplan is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU School of Medicine in New York City.
Juliette Kayyem shared her thoughts on the revelation that Vice President Mike Pence also had classified documents in his house, and questioned Congress’s priorities with their focus on Ticketmaster and monopolies in the live entertainment industry as the country continues to suffer from a gun violence epidemic. Kayyem is former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Barack Obama, and the faculty chair of the homeland-security program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Larry Chretien took listeners’ questions about how to transition into using heat pumps in the home as well as how to obtain tax credits for buying electric vehicles. Chretien is the executive director of Green Energy Consumers Alliance, a nonprofit that works to make it easier for everyday consumers to get green energy with offices in Boston and Providence.
Jared Bowen talked about his favorite movies nominated for this year’s Oscars. Bowen is GBH’s executive arts editor and host of the TV series Open Studio, which you can watch Friday nights on GBH 2.
Corby Kummer dug into the death of the corporate cafeteria as companies struggle to rebuild office culture, and how trendy diets distract people from the key to losing weight: calorie management. Kummer is executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
We ended the show with a call-in segment based on our conversation with Corby Kummer, asking our listeners: what types of diets have worked for them, and does your weight matter? Should it?
