Whether it’s your mother’s pot roast, your father’s green bean casserole or your grandmother’s tamales, food, family and memory are utterly enmeshed. “We all have one particular food so wedded to our …
Read More >Since our last update with David and Janet Carle, the 38th-parallel adventurers have traveled from Portugal to Spain and Sicily. A friend guided them through Spain’s marshes, where they saw spoonbills, flamingos, …
Read More >On KQED’s Forum this week, Fred Rosenbaum spoke to Michael Krasny about his book Cosmopolitans: A Social & Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area, in which he …
Read More >Paleoanthropologist Tim White is one of the 2010 Time 100, Time Magazine’s annual list of the most influential people in the world. As one of the leaders of the Middle Awash Project …
Read More >On his blog Media Myth Alert yesterday, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, examined the origins of the media myth of …
Read More >Two UC Press books are winners at the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards, which honor the best of everything in food and wine. Encyclopedia of Pasta, by Oretta Zanini de Vita and …
Read More >The American Public Media program Speaking of Faith recently rebroadcast a 2008 interview with author Mayfair Yang, in which Yang and host Krista Tippett discuss intersections of religion and state in China, …
Read More >Social documentary photographer Ken Light was featured this week on the New York Times Lens Blog, along with a slideshow of his photographs of Appalachian coal mining towns. These photos, along with …
Read More >While ash from the volcano in Iceland eclipsed the sky in much of Northern Europe, David and Janet Carle explored the volcanic Azores islands in the Atlantic, looking at worldwide water issues …
Read More >“We are the first generation that can predict the future of the world…We can also choose to shape the future.”—The Atlas of Global Conservation Today, 40 years after the first Earth Day, …
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