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A Vegan Searches for the Future of Food
A Vegan Searches for the Future of Food

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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Ira WoodJune 17, 2024Comment
Basie, Satchmo, and The Duke
Basie, Satchmo, and The Duke

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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Ira WoodMay 20, 2024Comment
The Pandemic Will Come Again. What Did Covid Teach Us?
The Pandemic Will Come Again. What Did Covid Teach Us?

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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Ira WoodMay 20, 2024Comment
The Rich Story of Poor Boy Fisheries
The Rich Story of Poor Boy Fisheries

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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Ira WoodMay 20, 2024Comment
Issac Bashevis Singer Meets The Exorcist at Saltburn
Issac Bashevis Singer Meets The Exorcist at Saltburn

Toby Lloyd talks about his new novel in which a Jewish family in London is pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter has become possessed by the soul of a sonderkommando.

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Ira WoodMay 20, 2024Comment
Was the American Revolution Actually a Civil War?
Was the American Revolution Actually a Civil War?

Historian Joyce Lee Malcom unearths the brutal ways in which the American Revolution set friends, neighbors, and families to war against each other.

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Ira WoodMay 20, 2024Comment
The Struggle for Abortion Rights - Then and Now
The Struggle for Abortion Rights - Then and Now

The long struggle for reproductive rights was waged against the church, the government, and the patriarchy but also included a bitter battle between feminists.

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Ira WoodMarch 7, 2024Comment
Cocktails with George and Martha
Cocktails with George and Martha

Philip Gefter on the history of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the play that blew the doors off our cultural expectations and changed Broadway and Hollywood forever.

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Ira WoodMarch 7, 2024Comment
Leave It to Beavers, They May Save the Earth
Leave It to Beavers, They May Save the Earth

Seemingly part bear, part bird, part monkey, and part lizard the astonishing work of beavers creates new habitats, mitigates flooding, purifies water, and restores damaged environments.

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Ira WoodMarch 7, 2024Comment
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