Emily Kwong

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Short Wave · What can a tornado teach us about kindness? · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

And, you know, sometimes I wonder, Pauline, when I see people coming together after disaster and

I ask myself, like, why did it take this?

Is there any way for there to be unity before a disaster or when there is no disaster to begin with?

So this is the question, right?

And it's something Zachy has clearly thought a lot about, how to extend compassion to mundane times, right?

And he says what helps is just to look for it because sometimes compassion is already there and we just need to recognize it.

And also acknowledging that everyone does experience some sort of collective suffering, like, for example, the effects of climate change.

Pauline thank you so much for diving into this really interesting science around compassion and disaster with us today.

Thank you so much Emily.

I love talking about kindness.

Pauline Bartolone is a journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

And she's a grantee of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center's Spreading Love Through the Media initiative, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

You can hear her full story of how Nanda Nunnally survived the Joplin tornado and reconciled with the girl she bullied as a child on the Audible podcast, This Is Actually Happening.

Check it out.

This episode was produced by Rachel Carlson.

It was edited by Brent Bachman and Rebecca Ramirez.

Tyler Jones checked the facts.

Kweisi Lee was the audio engineer.

I'm Emily Kwong.

Thank you for listening to Shortwave from NPR.

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