Council of Independent Colleges

According to a panel of ecologists, climate change, urbanization and other changes in land use have largely invalidated the theory that foreign plants are inherently harmful to their newly adopted ecosystems. We talk to Mark Davis.

Marlboro College in Southern Vermont is a small liberal arts college with a big reputation in science and ecology. One of the founders of the school’s science department was Rovery MacArthur, whose work helped establish the field of conservation biology. We sent reporter Tatiana Schreiber to find out what’s different about environmental education at Marlboro.

President Obama addressed the nation during a news conference. Joining The Takeaway for analysis are Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich, Harvard professor of medicine Steffie Woolhandler, and Morehouse College psychology professor David Wall Rice.

The American Medical Association has issued an apology to black doctors for a history of racial discrimination. But is it a case of too little too late? The Takeaway talks with Dr. George C. Debnam, who experienced the AMA’s racial prejudice firsthand as a young doctor in North Carolina in the 1950’s.