Two university microbiologists tell us how some of life’s simplest pleasures—sharing popcorn at the movies, blowing out birthday candles, having our drinks on the rocks, and perusing a restaurant menu—can get us really sick.
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No one gets the glory, the money, or the blame, as much as the Quarterback. Bestselling sports writer John Feinstein reveals how they handle the extremes of victories and defeats; being drafted, getting traded, and feeling all but forgotten when they’re too injured to play.
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Grey Gardens is the iconic Maysles brothers documentary telling the stories of Big and Little Edie Beale, ruling class socialites living in a squalid Hamptons mansion. But whatever happened to Jerry, the young gay handyman who captured our hearts? He’s here.
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Dr. Roger Kligler is a physician with incurable stage 4 prostate cancer, a type of cancer that is known to cause unbearable end-of-life pain. He is suing the state of Massachusetts to allow him, and many thousands of other terminally ill patients, to have the option to die gently in their sleep.
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As a woman raised in an Oklahoma family that was too poor to send her to high school debate contests and a single mother of two who rose to become a Harvard Law professor and US Senator, Elizabeth Warren just may have the stuff to take on Donald Trump.
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Michael Wood, selected one of the Top One Hundred Trainers in America and fitness coach to movie stars and rock bands talks about the best workouts and why, although a lot of people are spending time at the gym, they’ll never get fit.
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Bestselling British journalist Johann Hari traveled the world to study the heroin epidemic. After years interviweing scientists, users, activists, politicians, and cops he came to the conclusion that just about everyhing we think we know about addiction is wrong.
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Neil Shubin is a paleontologist who co-discovered Tiktaalik, sometimes called The Missing Link, an ancient fish with elbows and a neck composed of the same bones as the upper arm, forearm, and wrist in a human.
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In her book Whitewash investigative journalist Carey Gillam talks about glyphosate, the world’s best selling herbicide, deemed a probable human carcinogen by the UN that Monsanto and friendly federal regulators have assured us is perfectly safe.
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