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Hate to Cook? This Recipe's For You
Hate to Cook? This Recipe's For You

While a lot of folks love to cook many others feel guilt and anxiety. In Good Enough bestselling author Leanne Brown offers up some sound emotional advice …and a killer quick recipe for Citrus Pasta.

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Ira WoodFebruary 6, 2022Comment
How Watching Sports Makes Us Healthier, Happier, and More Understanding
How Watching Sports Makes Us Healthier, Happier, and More Understanding

In Fans, Larry Olmstead offers scientific proof that following a favorite sports team is good for your physical and emotional health…even if they’re losers.

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Ira WoodJanuary 25, 2022Comment
How Donald Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election
How Donald Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election

The Steal offers a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the surprising heroes who stopped it.

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Ira WoodJanuary 22, 2022Comment
The Most Dangerous Drug in America
The Most Dangerous Drug in America

In The Least of Us National Book Award winner Sam Quinones talks about the new meth which makes users schizophrenic and is contributing to the chaos of homeless tent camps all across America.

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Ira WoodJanuary 22, 2022Comment
So, You Want to Be a Children's Book Writer?
So, You Want to Be a Children's Book Writer?

Bestselling children’s book writer Peter H. Reynolds talks about how to get published, how one of his books created an international movement, and what it’s like to illustrate a book with Cat Stevens.

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Ira WoodDecember 27, 2021Comment
Death by Plastic
Death by Plastic

Only 13% of our plastic gets recycled. The rest of it, says science journalist Erica Cirino in Thicker Than Water breaks down into nano particles that show up in our food, our water, our bodies, and prenatal children.

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Ira WoodDecember 20, 2021Comment
The Housing Crisis Sweeping America
The Housing Crisis Sweeping America

Working two jobs and earning barely enough to make the rent in a flea bag motel. In Sunbelt Blues NYU professor Andrew Ross talks about the failure of American housing.

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Ira WoodDecember 20, 2021Comment
The Secret Lives of the Pilgrims
The Secret Lives of the Pilgrims

Sex, murder, genocide, capital punishment…In Beheld novelist Tarashea Nesbit shines a light on Plymouth Colony unearthing crimes pious William Bradford definitely didn’t want us to see.

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Ira WoodNovember 30, 2021Comment
Six Years in the Arctic Tundra
Six Years in the Arctic Tundra

Divorced. Unemployed. Estranged from family. People are moved to do some odd things when their lives hit a wall. Laura Galloway went to live with the reindeer.

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Ira WoodNovember 22, 2021Comment
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