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Friday, January 27, 2012

An Interview with Susanne Freidberg, author of Fresh: A Perishable History

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Whether a devout vegan or hardcore carnivore, almost all of us want to know how fresh our food is (or was).   But what does it mean for foo...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

An Interview with Charles Mann, author of 1491 and 1493.

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Charles Mann, science journalist and author of the paradigm-shifting 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and 1493: Unco...
Friday, December 30, 2011

An interview with Mike Schatzki, author of "The Great Fat Fraud"

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Mike Schatzki, author of The Great Fat Fraud , agreed to chat with me about the obesity "epidemic", fitness and public health.  ...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Great Fat Fraud by Mike Schatzki

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The Great Fat Fraud by Mike Schatzki helps untangle the issues around fitness, weight, diet, surgery and the weight loss industry.  By the...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

What I've written lately

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I thought I was promoting myself to the point of embarassment, but when my own mother was surprised when I casually mentioned something I...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Dystopian fiction, dystopian non-fiction

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True confession: I'm mildly horrified by the popularity of bad guys.  The Sopranos, House, True Blood, Breaking Bad- all of these featur...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

An interview with Mara Hvistendahl, author of "Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, And the Consequences of a World Full of Men"

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Sex selection is a big deal. By "big deal", I mean by as much as 163 million missing women in the world . To put that number int...