Where Is Medicine Headed?
About The Episode
September 11, 2026
Today on the Curiosity Desk:
We start with our misfit news panel In Case You Missed It are GBH’s Adam Reilly & Cristina Quinn from the podcast Fighting Crime. They’ll discuss the 83 year-old Lexington woman who plead guilty to an $11 million dollar Ponzi scheme, a Kentucky man who pivoted to raising ostriches after contracting alpha-gal syndrome, and OpenAI solving a million-dollar, 90 year-old math problem known as the Navier-Stokes Equation. We’ll also meet MIT professor Justin Solomon to explain – best he can – why solving that math problem is significant.
Then, Edgar talks with GBH’s Ian Coss about his new podcast episode with The Big Dig, about how the September 11th attacks forever changed our airports.
After, former White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha joins to talk about the future of medicine. That includes AI and mRNA vaccines potentially bringing us closer to curing cancer, and President Trump naming Dr. Michael Davis to lead the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
