"Stemming from a through-line of marital discord in the household of the
great French vivisector, Claude Bernard, Thalia Field has discovered a number
of voices, some famous, some forgotten, and allowed them all a moment in
which to be heard again. This compelling tale i...
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Health and science writer Gary Taubes returns to Healthwatch to continue his
conversation with host Dr. David Naimon. Listen to part one here where
Taubes discusses why sugar is more dangerous than tobacco, how the
differences between glucose and fructose create different...
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Sallie Tisdale's questing curiosity pursues subjects from the biology of
flies to the experience of working in an abortion clinic, why it is so
difficult to play sports with men, and whether it's possible for writers to
tell the truth. She restlessly returns to themes of...
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Uncontrollable weight gain and boiling hot flashes, crying one minute and
angry the next... Menopause (or peri-menopause) is here - it's taking over
your life - and you're seriously ready to get some relief and feel like
yourself again. Did you know that in a recent stu...
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural
references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood
and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism,
femininity, and politics. The poems weave bet...
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“Abandon Me is, in many ways, a story about how a woman’s body and the
body of literature hold memory. In other ways, Abandon Me is a story about
stories. Febos weaves familial stories, feminist stories, communal stories,
literary stories and love stories all at once reveal...
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Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at
epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic
fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical
society-wide, health-related problems. Wit...
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“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who
can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken
society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even
imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers wh...
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“John Douillard has been on the leading edge of dynamic optimal health for
decades. And I have personally benefited from it. Now ― he questions our
obsession with gluten-free, dairy-free eating by asking the question, 'Why,
after centuries of eating these foods with no p...
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An outlaw activist on the run. A pipeline set to destroy a river. And three
young women who must decide who to love, who to trust, and what to sacrifice
for the greater good. In the high desert of Arizona, three
roommates—students at Deep Canyon College, known for its ra...
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