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	Podcast:		Late Night Live - Full program podcast
	Episode:		Shapiro on Donald Trump's first State of the Union: China's new radio telescope: On the Couch
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:53:22
	Publish Date:		2018-01-31 05:05:00
	Description:		From the Dreamers to North Korea, and the 'biggest tax cuts in American history'. This was the most tweeted State of the Union, and according to CNN polling, it was also the least well received. vis a 500m wide dish hidden in the remote Karst mountain range. It is now the most sensitive radio receiver in the world making China the most likely nation to make first contact with alien life. Has China considered the risks and responsibilities that come with the dish? Sigmund Freud famously got his patients to lie on a couch because he couldn't stand being stared at all day, but he never explained why reclining should be preferred to simply rearranging the chairs. Surprisingly, there's been little research done into why the couch became a fixture in the office of analysts, so Nathan Kravis has investigated the social, historical roots of the couch as an aid to thinking, talking and other things.
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