Podcasts
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Michael Pollan’s recent bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. In his new book, In Defense of Food, Pollan offers well-considered answers to questions about… more
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A pioneer in the world of genomic research, J. Craig Venter is one of the most controversial figures in science today. He joined the National Institutes of Health in 1984, where he introduced novel techniques for rapid gene discovery. He left in… more
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• Recorded Jul 12, 2007Gina Kolata is a science writer for the New York Times and author of Ultimate Fitness and the national bestseller, Flu . "Kolata may be the best writer around covering the science of health...In chapters equally entertaining and dismaying, Kolata… more
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Confused by food labels that use words such as “natural,” “organic,” and “fresh?” Then come hear America’s most respected nutritionist as she offers an aisle-by-aisle guide to supermarket buying. A longtime nutritionist, PBS commentator, and… more
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In The Lay of the Land, his first novel in ten years, Richard Ford reprises his famed everyman protagonist, Frank Bascombe, whose story began with the best-selling novel The Sportswriter in 1985, and continued in the 1995 Pulitzer Prize winner… more
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• Recorded May 4, 2006Barbara Olshansky is the Assistant Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Her current docket at the Center includes class action lawsuits concerning immigrants’ rights, race discrimination in employment and education,… more
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• Recorded May 2, 2006A practicing psychologist and family therapist in the Philadelphia and South Jersey area for over 35 years, Dr. Dan Gottlieb has hosted Voices in the Family, an award-winning mental health call-in radio show airing on WHYY 91 FM, since 1985. He… more
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• Recorded Oct 18, 2005An education activist, Jonathan Kozol works to end illiteracy, improve economic conditions for the poverty-stricken, and to awaken affluent Americans to the plight of the downtrodden. Since his National Book Award-winning first book, Death at an… more
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• Recorded Oct 5, 2005An outspoken feminist and social activist, Barbara Ehrenreich writes with great passion on subjects as varied as healthcare, sex, class, and families. Beginning in 1998, she spent two years living the life of the American working class. What she… more
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Peter D. Kramer, a practicing psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Brown University, is the author of the international bestseller Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Mood-altering Drugs and the Meaning of the Self. The book was a… more
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