My Podcast Blog

Today’s preview blog features Barcelona, next in our Hometown series. Our Wednesday podcast will have Fariba Rezvani and Miguel Valls talking about their hometown in Spain.   Situated in the North East corner of Spain, Barcelona is the c…

Today’s preview blog features Barcelona, next in our Hometown series. Our Wednesday podcast will have Fariba Rezvani and Miguel Valls talking about their hometown in Spain.   Situated in the North East corner of Spain, Barcelona is the c…

Today’s blogpost previews Monday’s podcast, an interview with author Mark Shaw. His latest book, Collateral Damage, looks at the three deaths of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, JFK in 1963 and Dorothy Kilgallen in 1965 and links them.What could …

Is online anonymity the primary driver of the extremist commentaries that have polarized American politics and society generally ?   Tune in to Tuesday’s podcast when Professor Chris Bail who heads up the Polarization Lab at Duke, will …

We are launching a new series on July 8 called My Hometown. Each of the 10 episodes will feature a profile of a city and an interview with one of its residents to give us a native's sense of what it's like to live there. Covid lockdowns for the las…

Cate Holahan will be our guest on Thursday June 17 to talk about her fifth and latest thriller Her Three Lives. Cate graduated from Princeton in 2002 and pursued a career in journalism, writing for The Record, The Boston Globe and Businessweek. …

The G7 is a group of developed global economies - UK, USA, France, Japan, Germany, Canada and Italy - which will meet 6/11 -13 to co-ordinate global economic policies post Covid pandemic. It is President Biden’s first trip abroad as President …

Walmart and Target recently announced they would stop selling sports trading cards for the safety of their customers.  Was there some terroristic bio threat to one of America's treasured childhood past times, buying collecting and trading baseb…

The world's fertility rate has been steadily declining for the last 70 years, first in the developed world and more recently in developing countries. In 1950 for instance, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime. But by 2017, …

The state of Oregon is located in the Pacific NW. With a population of 4.7 million it is about one tenth the size of California. It's climate is dictated by its geography. The western one third of the state from the Pacific Ocean, East to the Cascad…