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Brian Lehrer Weekend: Three Years of COVID; How to Learn 'New Tricks'; Women's Work: Skilled Trades
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
Practicing physician and contributing writer at The New Yorker Dhruv Khullar assesses the national COVID response three years later (First) | New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik on his new book, The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery (Liveright, 2023)(Starts at 22:00) | Stories of women in the skilled trades (Starts at 48:30)
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