Cassandra Sweet is a senior writer at GreenBiz, a website that reports on renewable energy and corporate sustainability. Recently, she wrote a piece about the city of St. Louis ramping up its clean energy efforts, with a goal of using 100% renewable energy by 2035, and I asked her to come on my show to […]
Here’s my conversation with Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist and UCSF professor, about his book, “The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains.” We discussed the thesis of his book, that “marketing, media, and technology have capitalized on subverting our brain physiology to their advantage […]
David Goldfield, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has written 16 books on southern and American history. His newest is “The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good,” which focuses on the social benefits provided to the early baby boomers under presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Johnson. Among the questions I asked […]
Here’s my conversation with Matthew Salganik, sociology professor at Princeton University and author of “Bit By Bit: Social Research In The Digital Age.” We started by talking about how the digital revolution has changed how our behavior is observed, how that gives companies and researchers more accurate portraits of us, and whether we should be […]
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, who was then three years into his first term as a US Senator, and just 80 days into his candidacy for president of the United States. Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC’s Hardball, has written about RFK’s brother in the books “Jack Kennedy—Elusive […]
A couple of weeks ago, I read a piece by Michele Munz in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about Kael Maness, one of several recovery coaches working with addicts who overdose on opioids and end up in hospital emergency rooms. I contacted Kael and asked him to come in to talk about his work, which is […]