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Are conservation and protecting animals the same thing? In Game Changer, award-winning environmental reporter Glen Martin takes a fresh look at this question as it applies to Africa’s megafauna. Martin assesses the rising influence of the animal rights movement and finds that the policies championed by animal welfare groups could lead [more...]  We’re back with the second podcast of the Spring 2012 season, this time going to our food and wine list where Chris Gondek is interviewing Gerald Asher about his new book A Carafe of Red. Every wine has a story. In this collection of elegantly written essays from the past thirty years, updated with a [more...] Recently, Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry), spoke to Spark, a weekly audio blog on technology and culture produced by the CBC. In the interview, Vaidhyanathan explores the reasons behind many peoples’ abiding love and enthusiasm for Google, cautioning that we should look critically at the trust we’ve [more...] Tapeworms, head lice, roundworms, and bedbugs don’t have a very good reputation. They are parasites, living on or in other organisms, embedded or attached, feeding off their hosts, causing painful bites and spreading disease. They serve no useful purpose—or do they? In this UC Press podcast, author Rosemary Drisdelle, author of Parasites: Tales of Humanity’s Most [more...] UC Press Podcast with Laurent Dubois: France lost to South Africa on Tuesday, in the last game of the 2010 World Cup for “Les Bleus”. Their exit from the tournament followed a volatile weekend during which player Nicolas Anelka was quoted in the news insulting the team’s coach, and was dismissed from the team after [more...] Dr. Paul Farmer “People sometimes refer to [Dr. Paul Farmer] as a hero, saint, madman, or genius….but the essential thing about him is that he listens to his patients”, writes Haun Saussy, editor of Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader, in his introduction. In this UC Press podcast, Saussy and Farmer speak to [more...] Mark Moffett. Photo: Frank J. Sulloway “People look at ants as little mindless specks, and of course, from the top of a mountain…people look the same way”, says Mark Moffett, author of Adventures Among Ants, in this podcast. As a biologist, a National Geographic photographer, and award-winning explorer, Moffett has traveled the world in [more...] In this podcast, Peter Schrag, author of Not Fit for Our Society, talks to Chris Gondek about the history of immigration and nativism in America. He finds that nativist attitudes have persisted in America for centuries, with the same arguments that were once used against European and Chinese immigrants now being used to argue for restricting [more...] One hundred years after his death, Mark Twain is still funny. “His humor was lasting because it points out the incongruity of life, that ever widening gap between illusion and reality,” says Jerome Loving, author of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens, in this podcast. Loving, who has also written biographies of Walt Whitman [more...] Evan Goldstein’s new book Daring Pairings goes beyond his classic Perfect Pairings, exploring the background and terroir of 36 adventurous wines, and pairing them with 36 recipes created by world-renowned chefs. In December, Goldstein volunteered his wine pairing expertise on this blog, with a recipe and wine pairing for a persimmon-pomegranate-hazelnut salad. In this podcast [more...] |
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