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Food Companies Don’t Care About Your Health

May 18, 2021 Culture, Health, History, Science and Technology

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss joins us to talk about how food manufacturers have created unhealthy foods we crave and why even the diet options are rarely any better.

How The Quest For Flavor Drove Evolution

April 5, 2021 Culture, Global Issues, History, Science and Technology

Rob Dunn, professor of applied ecology at North Carolina State University joins us to talk about why we prefer cooked food, the various ways we taste, and how our pursuit of a good meal might’ve led to starting the first fire.

Grocery Shopping As Status Symbol

November 26, 2020 Current Events, Economics, Health

Benjamin Lorr joins us to talk about his investigations into the highly-guarded inner-workings of how our food goes from field, to truck, to shelf.

How Food Affects Our Mood

September 10, 2020 Culture, Science and Technology

Dr. Uma Naidoo is founder and director of the Nutritional Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital and on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She joins us to talk about how science shows foods like blueberries –-and sadly, not cookies — are keys to mental health and cogitative function.

The Man Who Revolutionized The Way The World Grows Food

April 21, 2020 Global Issues, Science and Technology

Rob Rapley joins us to talk about Norman E. Borlaug, who won praise for his work on disease resistance crops – which also came with unintended consequences.

Frauds And Fakers And Counterfeit Makers

November 5, 2019 Culture, Economics, Science and Technology, Uncategorized

Lydia Pyne, visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the value of the right kind of fakes and which ones still take us for a ride.