Expertise: Stories about knowledge

When Zach Weinersmith agrees to create a trivia game, he doesn’t realize how hard it is to come up with facts that are both interesting and actually true, and concerned about his eyesight, comedian Josh Johnson desperately searches for a good doctor.

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Skin Deep: Stories about racial disparities

While preparing for a lecture, Stacy Vasquez finds a racist term on a skin slide, and while learning about Lyme disease in medical school, LaShyra Nolen isn’t satisfied when the professor can’t tell her what the rash would look like on dark skin.

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Observations: Stories about noticing the details

Documentary filmmaker Caitlin Starowicz is so focused on making her movie about endangered Mountain Gorillas a success that she fails to see what’s in front of her, and for a story on escape rooms, journalist Danny Wicentowski studies the trials, triumphs, and strategies of the players.

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Lies: Stories about playing along

While working as a camp counsellor at a camp for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses, Gabe Mollica is determined to keep his promise to one of the campers, and Collette Micks finds herself going along with her mom’s absurd plan to act like her father isn’t dying of cancer.

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