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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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Dec 19, 2019

Are habits bad for your health? Author BJ Fogg argues habits are not necessarily a vice but also can be a tool for shaping our own positive behavior. We talk with him on this episode.


Dec 11, 2019

Popular culture in the U.S. and elsewhere in recent years suggests college as a rite of passage that often comes right after high school. Is higher education currently useful and achievable for all, though? On this episode, we talk with Paul Tough about his book, The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes Us...


Nov 20, 2019

Our public silence about women's health can have implications for our collective health and well being. On this episode, we talk with Duke University's Libby Dotson about work at Duke to bring together medicine, engineering, and the arts for an innovative campaign to encourage more public consideration of women’s health.


Nov 13, 2019

Where you live and who you know and what services are available to you matters in shaping your health, which poses challenges to equity and well being. A new project team funded by Duke University's Bass Connections initiative and based at the Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, NC, thinks student volunteers can...


Nov 6, 2019

Public health and medical researchers have spent considerable money and time assessing the negative consequences of high weight in people, yet relatively less time focused on the language we use to describe the condition. On this episode, we talk with Rebecca Puhl of the University of Connecticut about research on...