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Airing tomorrow: the latest episode of the APS podcast “Useful Knowledge!" Hear the Honorable David Tatel discuss life as a civil rights lawyer, circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals, and author of a memoir about doing it all while coming to terms with his blindness. Apple podcasts and Spotify.
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