Tracy Mumford
speaker
9,176 appearances
127 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 2d ago
Tracy Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 119 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 22.
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He says the flood swept up cars and buses and smashed through buildings, taking out schools, roads, bridges.
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He says entire villages are now covered in thick mud.
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Mujib says scientists and geologists are still trying to pinpoint what exactly set off the sudden flood.
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But some say that satellite imagery suggests it was triggered by an enormous chunk of ice, possibly 2,000 feet wide, that snapped off a glacier and tumbled thousands of feet down into the valley.
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Along the way, the avalanche pulverized itself into a fast moving barrage of ice and rock that crushed everything in its path.
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Experts say it's too early to draw a direct link between the ice fall and climate change, but that warming temperatures may have accelerated the glacier's collapse.
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In 2021, a piece of another Himalayan glacier broke off, causing major flooding and killing more than a hundred people in northern India.
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Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a breakthrough new drug for advanced pancreatic cancer, and it could help usher in a new era of treatments for a wide range of other cancers.
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Pancreatic cancer has long been considered one of the most hopeless diseases in medicine, with just three percent of patients whose cancer has spread living for five years after their diagnosis.
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It kills more than 50,000 Americans a year.
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Until now, grueling rounds of chemo have been the main treatment for the cancer, even though it barely extends people's lifespans.
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Earlier this year, when scientists presented key clinical trial data showing that the new drug called Diroxin Rosib.
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Doubled the median survival time for patients, from less than seven months to more than 13, the room burst into a standing ovation.
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Many oncologists had long thought they'd never see these kinds of results, and some in the audience even broke down into tears of joy, according to people in the room.
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The drug, which is taken by pill twice a day, works by shutting down a mutated protein called KRAS that fuels nearly all pancreatic cancers.
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And since KRAS also helps drive many lung and colon cancers, as well as other tumors, there is hope that similar types of medicines could be effective against those diseases too.
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And finally, closing out today with two remembrances of truly out there artists.
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This week, the actor Tim Curry, who brought a garish, outlandish, winking, sometimes sneaky, villainous nature to his performances, died at 80 years old.
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Best known for playing the cross-dressing mad scientist Frankenferter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which still gets people up and dancing at midnight screenings.
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He also brought his deep voice and eyebrows that were born to arch to a lot of other roles on Broadway and in Hollywood.
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