I’ve had a few great interviews in the last couple of weeks. I decided I wanted to track them on a media page on my own site. I’m going to try to keep them more organized, but for now I just want to get them linked.
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Been There, Smelled That explores the aromas of places around the world. Travel writer Maggie Downs investigates some of the world’s most potent smells, looks at how odor cultivates a connection to place, and presents how humans engage with smells, from scents that have endured generations to the latest innovations in aroma-making.
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My guesthouse in Naxos looked better in the Airbnb listing. In reality, the room was tiny. The beds were thin and dorm-room-like, covered with flat sheets, no blankets. The air smelled slightly mildewy.
But just outside the hotel door was a world transformed. Each morning the sun painted the sky gentle gold and pink, while flowering trees bent like a billowy awning over the slender, cobbled path. As I made my way to the sea, mere steps away, blossom petals stuck to my feet. The perfume of night-blooming jasmine clung to the air. In those early hours, while the surrounding village stirred awake, there was a magic to the quiet, an intimacy with the landscape that felt sacred.
MAGA finds it easier to rig elections than win them Is there a term for an entire political party suffering a case of flop sweat? The GOP’s brows are gleaming. Stuck with their degenerate (and degenerating) candidate for president and faced with an energized Democratic ticket raking in millions by the hundreds and volunteers by the tens of thousands, Republicans are engaged in a frenzied effort not to prop up their own slates but to strip the right of fellow Americans to express their will at the polls. Republicans have long neglected serious efforts for turning out the vote in favor of suppressing the votes of people they perceive as lower-caste interlopers. Irresponsibles, I’ve called them (ironically). David Frum famously (and belatedly) declared in 2018, “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” Frum was years late with that realization. The voter integrity “boot camp” I attended in 2013 was a white-knuckled exercise in “protecting a demographic patch of electoral turf that’s shrinking” beneath Republicans’ feet.
The 2024 Doctor Who Prom concert took place on Bank Holiday Monday, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Here are some of the highlights...
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A pulsing light startles you as you pack another underwhelming school lunch into a backpack. A voice calls out, soft but urgent: “It’s time for The Child to play a Youth Sport.” In the local village, rumors are swirling. The Child’s Best Friend wants to play too. It seems that Youth Sports Registration will open soon, but no one knows where, when, or how.
Convince Tina, the villager with four kids, to send you the registration email from last season that she’s pretty sure is still in her inbox somewhere.
The excitement that radiated through the Democratic National Convention was the other side of what had until recently been a deep despair.
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A report last week suggested 115 journalists and media workers had been killed since 7 October 2023, but others say the number is as high as 171
Few issues in politics and economics are nowadays more discussed — and less understood — than public debt. Many raise their voices to urge for reducing the debt, but few explain why and in what way reducing the debt would be conducive to a better economy or a fairer society. And there are no limits […]
Our third episode introduces the architect behind the master plan’s original blueprint, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.
by Andrea Maurer* This article showcases the development of economic sociology and the vibrant activities and achievements within the Economic Sociology Research Network at the European Sociological Association. Even though the development has not been continuous, there has been a successful rediscovery of economic topics in sociology. The accomplishments have allowed the Network to have […]
If you think he won’t do it, you don’t know Trump. He made Ric Grenell the acting Director of National Intelligence. He made Matthew Whittaker the acting Attorney General. He made Ben Carson the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Sure he might have trouble getting RFK Jr confirmed. But he learned to get past all that inconvenient folderol by making his minions and henchmen “acting” officials. He would be happy to let RFK Jr. do whatever he wants. After all, Trump will never have to run for president again. (Either he’ll be term limited, he’ll just refuse to leave or he’ll die in office.) He has nothing to lose.
With Catherine Tate hosting today's Doctor Who Prom, here's a look at how the rehearsal for the Fifteenth Doctor's (Ncuti Gatwa) theme went.
The thought experiments illuminating black holes and other scientific problems.
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With all the mockery and joy and good feelings, I hope none of us lose sight of the threat we are facing. To those of you who listen to podcasts, I highly recommend this one: To wrap up our Project 2025 series, Kate, Leah and Melissa are joined by NYU’s Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: Mussolini To The Present to share her perspective as a historian on the Heritage Foundation’s terrifying plans for the country. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 2:17 Trump Continues to Hide His Project 2025 Connections 5:25 Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Project 2025 21:40 Faux Populism of Project 2025 46:30 What Happens After the First 100 Days?
Whether lazing by the seaside during the summer, or escaping to exotic beaches during the winter, coastal regions have always been a space for relaxing. This form of travel is called ‘Coastal Tourism’, which is defined as the temporary movement of people to aquatic environments or ‘blue spaces’.
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Somebody needs to give him a big steaming cup of covfefe to wake him up!
It would be fairly uncontroversial to describe Ukraine’s recent military advance into Russia’s Kursk region as a deliberate provocation. Kyiv’s claim that it was intended chiefly to prod Moscow towards a negotiated peace, if true, appears to ignore Vladimir Putin’s tendency to stick to his guns in the face of embarrassments. Emboldened by the initial Continue reading »
This short history of China over the last three decades is mainly based on the first of a three part series in the SCMP. It describes how the adoption of neo-liberalism by President Deng made China rich but also created social problems that President Xi is trying to fix. President Deng enabled China to become Continue reading »