https://www.amazon.com/End-Everything-Astrophysically-Speaking/dp/198210354X All good things must come to an end, as the song goes. It’s no less true for the universe than it is for love stories. It’s not something we spend much time thinking about because a)it’s too depressing and b)it’s likely billions of years into the future. Please don’t confuse the universe with the …
https://www.amazon.com/Leave-As-Theodore-Roosevelts-Wilderness/dp/1982105046 One wag called it a ‘conservationist rom-com’, when the big personality of Theordore Roosevelt came into contact with the big hole, The Grand Canyon. It was there that he spoke the words which became the title of David Gessner’s new book, ‘Leave It As It Is’. Yet, it seems that Americans can’t leave well …
https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Burger-Inside-Future/dp/0525536949 There is an edible space race on to bring cell cultured meat to market. What is that, you say? It’s having your meat and eating it too. No slaughterhouses, fewer greenhouse gas emissions and sundry new foods derived from stem cells gathered through a biopsy from a living animal, a bioreactor maintaining the temperature, …
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/OK-Boomer-Lets-Talk/Jill-Filipovic/9781982153762 As the father of two millennials, I am on the side of about half of my baby boom generation in regretting the sorry state of affairs we have left on their doorstep. Think about it in these terms: after forty years of the arc of American history bending toward individualism, self-reliance and the desires …
https://www.amazon.com/Pulling-Wisdom-Cross-Cultural-Communication-Healthcare/dp/1642251410 On the news we’ve heard from exhausted, and often frustrated, front line medical workers who have had so much to deal with during the pandemic–lack of PPE,long hours in suffocating garb, a public skeptical of the seriousness of what they face every day and changing protocols as more information has come to light about …
http://calvinbaker.com/a-more-perfect-reunion/ There have been a number of false starts in American history toward the concept of a more equal, more integrated society. Yet, at each turn, those attempts have been blunted by forces that cannot see America without a power and status differential drawn white and black. It could’ve happened at the onset of the …
https://www.amazon.com/Deviants-War-Homosexual-United-America/dp/0374139792 Many of the heroes of the civil rights movement for African-Americans have been in the forefront of public consciousness again in the recent period. Perhaps, it’s fitting that for a group of Americans who often were reticent to share their identity, the name of the leader of their movement, pre-dating the 1969 Stonewall riots, …
http://www.cffsr.org/ The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports there are 3,000 food deserts throughout the United States. Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? While our guest gives a clearer definition of this designation, it basically means where people do not have access to a large format supermarket with healthy and nutritious food choices within walking distance. …
https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Factory-Plutonium-Making-Atomic/dp/0393634973 In his compelling new book, ‘The Apocalypse Factory’, Steve Olson lays out the road to the Manhattan Project as it wends its way through Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and to some degree forgotten, Hanford, Washington. He crafts a story of the scientists involved and the discovery of plutonium, which was a true game changer …
https://stephaniekelton.com/book/ Many pundits are fixated on the budget mess in Washington, D.C. and how we are burdening future generations with debt and deficits and that, by virtue of this spending, we are crowding out borrowing that will needed for investments in the private market. Stephanie Kelton, former chief economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, …