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“The Measure of Everyday Life” is a weekly public radio program featuring researchers, practitioners, and professionals discussing their work to improve the human condition. Independent Weekly has called the show ‘unexpected’ and ‘diverse’ and notes that the show ‘brings big questions to radio.'

Episodes air Sunday nights at 6:30 PM EST in the Raleigh-Durham, NC, media market (and also are streamed internationally through WNCU) and are available online the Wednesday following the original airing. WNCU produces the show with major underwriting from the nonprofit RTI International.

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[Photo: J. Bowman]

Oct 17, 2018

Many of us have access to a world filled with electronic media content and systems set up to facilitate our lives. What is our information environment like for families living with autism? Autism spectrum disorder affects communication and behavior. What challenges do families of people on the autism spectrum face...


Oct 10, 2018

People living with mental illness, intellectual or developmental disability, a brain injury, or substance use disorder face special challenges. Are our care systems optimized for those populations? What do we know about the health and wellbeing of those groups?

On this episode, we talk with Kody Kinsley of the North...


Oct 3, 2018

What are the possibilities and the limits of music education in our schools? What do we know about the art and science of teaching music?

On this episode, we explore the careers of Professor Brennetta Simpson of North Carolina Central University and Professor Victor Haskins of the College of William and Mary and the...