From “The Long Island Express” of 1938 to “The Perfect Storm” of 1991 and beyond, Don Wilding describes the catastrophic weather events that have leveled the Cape.
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The story of fathers and sons living in different universes takes on a whole new meaning when your dad is the world’s most beloved alien.
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In the ultimate sound bite, vertebrate zoologist Bill Schutt from the American Museum of Natural History runs down the 500 million year history of teeth in thirty minutes.
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Musicologist Elijah Wald uncovers the direct link between the backstreet blues and gangsta rap in songs that were so sexually explicit they were erased from history.
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NPR Foreign correspondent Eric Weiner went searching for a historical ‘mentor’ and found the most eccentric role model in American history.
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Food sociologist and forgiving vegan Nina Guilbeault totally understands our aversion to totally plant-based diets but knows we’ll get there eventually.
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In The Jazz Men, historian Larry Tye recounts how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transcended music itself to change American culture forever.
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Dr. Michael Stein, from the School of Public Health at Boston University takes stock of what we got right, how we failed, and how we can better model our response when the next pandemic—inevitably—strikes.
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As companies linked to private equity and foreign investment have taken over many New England fishing businesses, a day boat captain and his wife tell us how they took it back.
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