Chinese medicine is often seen as more art than science. Not necessarily in a judgmental or negative way – it can seem mysterious to those not reared in a culture that leans into herbal and organic cures. Actually, the interesting twist in the past 100… Read More »Ancient Medical Texts Inform Modern Medical Research with Peter Gwin Part 2
Sure, it’s not our usual fare, but there’s a quote we saw on Twitter that got us thinking as we close out 2018: “Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by travel.” And then, bang, National Geographic Travel drops its expert list of… Read More »Travel List from NatGeo Tantalizes for 2019 with George Stone
This podcast is, admittedly, a bit beyond the brief of this show. It’s about the so-called golden age of Hollywood during the time that Howard Hughes held a great amount of power and sway. I rationalized including it because first, it is a well-researched, fair… Read More »Howard Hughes to Harvey Weinstein: How We Finally Got to #MeToo with Karina Longworth
It’s mid-December – dipping temperatures, holiday shopping – and two months until pitchers and catchers report for MLB’s spring training. Baseball fans call it the Hot Stove season. It’s when teams retool their rosters for the coming baseball season. It’s when trades are made and… Read More »Fight Offseason Blues with Rob Neyer
Personally speaking, I really dig recycled spaces. Drug stores that are now bars. Or gas stations that become restaurants. Churches that become breweries. If you string enough of those stories together, you get an American story thread — and that’s what national landmarks and historic… Read More »Finding New Lives for Landmark Buildings with Renee Kuhlman
Seaweed (and kelp) could save the world. It’s nutritious (and delicious). It eats away at all the earth-destroying acids and gases that we relentlessly throw into it (aka acidfication). It regenerates and grows incredibly quick. And it sustains three ecosystems during its lifetime (shelter for… Read More »Saving the Oceans, One Seaweed Stalk at a Time with Tessa Emmer & Catherine O’Hare
Iconic baseball writer Bill James, in 1987, frustrated with MLB’s labor stoppages and the decline of the minor leagues, wrote that the minors “were an abomination … if you’re selling a sport and the players don’t care about winning, that’s not a sport. That’s a… Read More »Salary Caps, Pro Sports & Mediocrity with Bruce Dowbiggin
Today, many cannabis manufacturers and cultivators are having a hard time creating safe and trusted products for the state of California. Since July 1st, nearly 20 percent of marijuana products have failed tests for potency and purity. Another sign of the efficacy of the marijuana… Read More »Canadian Marijuana Corp Sunniva Settles into California with Sunniva
Succumbing to advertising is common, even if we don’t recognize it as such. So we brought in Kit Yarrow, a consumer phycologist to help analyze consumer manipulation and provide tips for fending it off. Links:
What if you could have skipped all the awkward social situations from school and just do the learning bit? Did you ever find the classes lasted so much longer because the teachers had to move at a pace slower to your liking? Or that they… Read More »Internet, Internet, Internet High School with Amar Kumar
