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0:08 — John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine 0:33 — Eugene Cordero(@eugeneccordero), professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University, also founder and director of the environmental educational publisher Green Ninja.
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
0:08 – Kristin Ohlson (@kristinohlson) discusses her latest book Sweet in Tooth and Claw.
0:08 – Dan Flores, A.B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana discusses his latest book Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America.
0:08 – Deborah A. Miranda, an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area. She is Professor of English emerita at Washington and Lee University, where she taught literature of the margins and creative writing as the Thomas H. Broadus, Jr. Endowed Chair. Her mixed-genre memoir Bad Indians: A Tribal … Continued
0:08 – Jamie Susskind (@jamiesusskind), barrister and author of The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century.
On today’s show: 0:08 – We discover how wheat built and broke empires with Scott Reynolds Nelson (@nelsonhist), professor of history at the University of Georgia.
0:08 – Writer and artist James Bridle (@jamesbridle) discusses his new book Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence.
On today’s show: 0:08 – Javier Puente (@puentevaldivia), Chair of Latin American and Latiné Studies at Smith College, and author of The Rural State, about sociopolitical conflict in the Peruvian Andes. He joins us from Lima to discuss the latest on the Peru protests. 0:45 – Mark Woodall, physics graduate student at UC Merced and … Continued
