The Mother Storm

Catatonia by Huascar Robles

Dec 24, 2017Science & Medicine

My mom relocated to New York after Hurricane María, a category 4 storm, eroded Puerto Rico's electric grid and killed close to one thousand U.S. citizens. In this podcast, I talk about moving her to New York, a metropoli...

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