Ever wonder why certain foods fall out of favor? In his book “The Gluten Lie” Alan Levinovitz argues that food has become akin to a modern religion for a lot of us, complete with its own set of rules, prohibitions and guiding beliefs.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist whose book "Half of A Yellow Sun" is set during the period of civil violence surrounding the creation of Biafra.
Elizabeth Goodenough edited a book called “The Secret Spaces of Childhood.” Children’s author Zibby Oneal is one of the contributors to the book.
In the days of tall ships and explorers, people collected exotic wonders in cabinets of curiosities, wunderkameren. Writer and teacher Heather McDougal has long loved those early days of science. Her blog's called "Cabinet of Wonders."
Dominique Lapierre talks about “Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster.” He says thousands of people died because they fled in the wrong direction.
As water becomes a scare resource, how about taxing everyone for the water they use? That's Michal Charles Moore's dangerous idea.
Writer and film-maker Arthur Bradford tells Steve Paulson about some of the stories in his collection “Dogwalker."
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