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Being global ready and having the ability to work with other cultures and countries has become a crucial skill in an increasingly globalized society. For the past two decades, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's World View has been connecting the University's professors, experts and resources with educators throughout the state to help them prepare their students to be global ready. In this week's episode, we about World View and how it's helping teachers throughout the state with program director Charlé Lamonica.

Whenever a hurricane hits, the big story is how the storm has impacted people and towns with flooding and storm surges. But the storms also leave behind a quieter and long-term danger: pollutants in the watershed that could poison people and kill fish. In this week's episode, we talk about how hurricanes impact water quality with Hans Paerl, Kenan Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences at the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences.

Each year, millions of people die from exposure to air pollution. And if unaddressed, climate change could bring those numbers up even higher by the end of the century. Carolina researcher Jason West predicts that the climate change's effect on air pollution could actually cause 260,000 more premature deaths in 2100. In this week's episode, we talk about climate change and air quality with West, an associate professor of environmental sciences and engineering in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

As the new school year gets underway, two Carolina students are prepping for much more than just new classes. Elizabeth Adkins and Madelyn Percy are hard at work establishing their administrations that will represent the University's student population this year. In this week's podcast, we talk with Student Body President Adkins, and Graduate and Professional Student Federation President Percy about the upcoming year.

North Carolina will witness something next week that it hasn't seen is more than 40 years. At 2:43 p.m. on Aug. 21, the daytime sky will go dark as the moon's shadow blocks out the sun and creates the first solar eclipse visible in the state since 1970 In this week's episode, Morehead Planetarium educators Amy Sayle and Mickey Jo Sorrell tell us what to expect during next week's solar eclipse.

In this week's episode, we talk about stress management with William Frey, an organization and professional development specialist with UNC-Chapel Hill's Office of Human Resources.

Whether it's youth sports or the NFL, talk about concussions and their damaging effects has dominated the sports world for the past several years. With fall sports gearing up in the coming weeks, we talk about concussions and managing them with Johna Register-Mihalik, an assistant professor of exercise and sports science with the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center and the Injury Prevention Research Center.

Popularity may actually be as important as we thought it was in high school. That teenage quest for popularity appears to follow us long after our high school days and impacts the way we interpret the world as adults. In this week’s episode, we talk about popularity, how people chase the wrong kind of popularity and how that follows us into adulthood with Mitch Prinstein, the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and author of the book “Popular.”

The way Emil Kang sees it, the arts are for everybody and every place could be a creative space. Through a campus-wide initiative launched by Chancellor Carol L. Folt, Kang is actively working to bring the arts to every corner of Carolina. In this week's episode, we talk about the Arts Everywhere iniaitive and the upcoming Carolina Performing Arts season with Kang, the executive and artistic director of the Carolina Performing Arts.

Zena Cardman was among the more than 18,300 people who applied to NASA's most recent class of astronaut candidates. Shortly after submitting her application, Cardman heard those numbers and figured she'd try again next time. But then came a call from Houston for her first interview. Then another call for the finalist interview. And last week, Cardman had her named called as NASA introduced its 12 newest astronaut candidates. This week, the two-time Carolina graduate calls in from Houston to talk about her new position, her time at Carolina and her future as a potential astronaut.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is home to some of the world’s best HIV research. Numerous teams of researchers are tirelessly investigating the virus, which infects nearly 37 million people around the world. One of the those projects, led by Jenna Bone Honeycutt, has recently made to a key discovery that could change the way treatments target the virus. In this week’s episode, we’re talking about the recent findings with Honeycutt, a postdoctoral research fellow with the UNC School of Medicine.

For a young cancer patient, the tools and medical devices in the UNC Hospitals' Pediatric Hematology–Oncology Clinic can be terrifying. But two UNC School of Medicine students are working to provide medical play kits to help the children better understand their surroundings and ease their fears as they're treated at the clinic. In this week's episode, we talk about medical play and its benefits for the young patients with Ashley Thrower and Charlotte Story. The medical students have organized a fundraiser to restock the clinics medical play kit supply. Learn more about the fundraiser here.

On May 14, Alexis Miller will be one of the more than 600 first-generation college students to graduate from Carolina at the Spring Commencement. It wasn't the easiest path to graduation but with a little help from Carolina Firsts, Miller will become the first person in her family to receieve a college degree. In this week's episode, we talk about the upcoming Spring Commencement and the Carolina Firsts program with Miller, the president of the Carolina Firsts student organization.

As technology advances and robots are further integrated into daily life, the line between tool and a potentially living thing is becoming more blurred. But do robots actually have minds? And if they do, how will human interaction with robots change? In this week's episode, we talk about robots and minds with Kurt Gray, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience.

Part of the Wilson Special Collections Library, Carolina's Southern Folklife Collection is home to nearly a quarter of a million recordings of music ranging from blues and folk to gospel and rock-and-roll. Beginning this weekend, on Record Store Day, the Southern Folklife Collection and it's partner Yep Roc Records will be releasing rare archival recordings from its collections — starting with Dolly Parton's first single "Puppy Love." In this week's episode, we talk about the collection's partnership with the local record label and the upcoming record release with Steve Weiss, the curator of the Southern Folklife Collection.

At any given level of American government, women hold only 20 percent of the public service leadership roles. The UNC School of Government is working to change those statistics. In this week's episode, we talk about women in leadership roles in government with UNC School of Government associate professor Leisha DeHart-Davis.

Those low-fat and no sugar labels in the grocery store may not be leading consumers to healthier options after all. In this week's episode, we talk about the low-content food labels and their claims with Lindsey Smith Taillie, a research assistant professor in the department of nutrition at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and Carolina Population Center Fellow.

To stay competitive and ahead of the curve in today's business world, companies have become focused on continuously learning. It's an evolution process that relies on learning from past experiences — even the unsuccessful ones. In this week's episode, we talk about learning organizations and how we can learn to succeed from failing with Brad Staats, an associate professor of operations at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

It's time for March Madness. With Carolina's tipoff a few days away, we're talking about the tournament with former All-American and starting center of the Tar Heels' 1993 national championship team Eric Montross, who currently serves as a commentator for UNC Basketball.

With the high price of running for elected office and the costs of living in a capital city, being a politician isn't cheap. For blue-collar workers who may be living off hourly wages, those high costs — combined with income lost while in legislative session — could keep them from running for political office at all. Could paying politicians higher salaries encourage more blue-collar workers to run for office and create a more economically diverse legislature that more accurately represents the population? In this week's episode, doctoral candidate in political science Eric Hansen weighs in on that question.