Hannah Jaffe-Walt (Host)

The thing that is killing her is not knowing the shape of the new normal. How many grants will now be funded compared to before? Half? A quarter? Which scientists will get funding? What kind of research? There's no data she can turn to that will tell her that.

The thing that is killing her is not knowing the shape of the new normal. How many grants will now be funded compared to before? Half? A quarter? Which scientists will get funding? What kind of research? There's no data she can turn to that will tell her that.

Will she continue to try to graph the chaos? Yes, she will. Today's show is full of people who do not wait for the chaos to settle. People who run toward it, who will take whatever little data they have available to them and try to make it make sense. These are people who get answers. Stay with us.

Will she continue to try to graph the chaos? Yes, she will. Today's show is full of people who do not wait for the chaos to settle. People who run toward it, who will take whatever little data they have available to them and try to make it make sense. These are people who get answers. Stay with us.

Will she continue to try to graph the chaos? Yes, she will. Today's show is full of people who do not wait for the chaos to settle. People who run toward it, who will take whatever little data they have available to them and try to make it make sense. These are people who get answers. Stay with us.

It's This American Life. The questions people are trying to answer in today's episode, they are basic. Where and why? Act one, solve for why. One of the hardest places to see through chaos in the middle of a war, fog of war, all that. This is especially true for the war in Gaza. There is very limited information moving in and out of Gaza.

It's This American Life. The questions people are trying to answer in today's episode, they are basic. Where and why? Act one, solve for why. One of the hardest places to see through chaos in the middle of a war, fog of war, all that. This is especially true for the war in Gaza. There is very limited information moving in and out of Gaza.

It's This American Life. The questions people are trying to answer in today's episode, they are basic. Where and why? Act one, solve for why. One of the hardest places to see through chaos in the middle of a war, fog of war, all that. This is especially true for the war in Gaza. There is very limited information moving in and out of Gaza.

Israel has banned international press from entering the Strip for nearly 18 months, except for a few brief trips accompanied by and under the control of the Israeli military. One rare outside group has gotten a view on the ground of Gaza. Medical workers.

Israel has banned international press from entering the Strip for nearly 18 months, except for a few brief trips accompanied by and under the control of the Israeli military. One rare outside group has gotten a view on the ground of Gaza. Medical workers.

Israel has banned international press from entering the Strip for nearly 18 months, except for a few brief trips accompanied by and under the control of the Israeli military. One rare outside group has gotten a view on the ground of Gaza. Medical workers.

Since the start of the war, over 100 American doctors and nurses have traveled to Gaza, treated patients there for weeks at a time, and come back out. Producer Aix-Riz Kandaraja talked to a dozen of them who volunteered there.

Since the start of the war, over 100 American doctors and nurses have traveled to Gaza, treated patients there for weeks at a time, and come back out. Producer Aix-Riz Kandaraja talked to a dozen of them who volunteered there.

Since the start of the war, over 100 American doctors and nurses have traveled to Gaza, treated patients there for weeks at a time, and come back out. Producer Aix-Riz Kandaraja talked to a dozen of them who volunteered there.

Ike Streis-Conduraja is a producer on our show. Avi Vickner is the actor who read for M. Coming up, a woman discovers she is a central data point in a story she did not know was unfolding. That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues. It's This American Life. I'm Hannah Jaffe-Walt sitting in for Ira Glass. Today's show, Chaos Graph.

Ike Streis-Conduraja is a producer on our show. Avi Vickner is the actor who read for M. Coming up, a woman discovers she is a central data point in a story she did not know was unfolding. That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues. It's This American Life. I'm Hannah Jaffe-Walt sitting in for Ira Glass. Today's show, Chaos Graph.

Ike Streis-Conduraja is a producer on our show. Avi Vickner is the actor who read for M. Coming up, a woman discovers she is a central data point in a story she did not know was unfolding. That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues. It's This American Life. I'm Hannah Jaffe-Walt sitting in for Ira Glass. Today's show, Chaos Graph.

People trying to make sense of things, trying to map what is happening around them and see the bigger picture. We've arrived at Act Two, Solve for Where. In this next story, the bigger picture has become very clear to the rest of us over the last couple weeks. It's in the news all the time. But the woman at the center of this story, she experienced it up close.

People trying to make sense of things, trying to map what is happening around them and see the bigger picture. We've arrived at Act Two, Solve for Where. In this next story, the bigger picture has become very clear to the rest of us over the last couple weeks. It's in the news all the time. But the woman at the center of this story, she experienced it up close.

People trying to make sense of things, trying to map what is happening around them and see the bigger picture. We've arrived at Act Two, Solve for Where. In this next story, the bigger picture has become very clear to the rest of us over the last couple weeks. It's in the news all the time. But the woman at the center of this story, she experienced it up close.