Much Ado About Mushrooms
Recorded June 28, 2022 Fungi are perhaps the most underappreciated kingdom of the natural world. As billion year-old organisms they ...
Legacies Of Slavery
Pulitzer prize-winning historian, David Hackett Fischer’s latest book AFRICAN FOUNDERS: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals draws on decades of ...
Harnessing The Power of Seaweed
Seaweed often gets a bad rap – maybe it just has the wrong name! Many regard it as a nuisance ...
Can We Resist The Hijacking Of Democracy in America And Beyond?
It feels like a new Cold War is upon us – Russia poses an alarming extrinsic threat to the American ...
Can Having Good Friends Prolong Your Life?
Research is providing us with more and more proof that having friends is beneficial, if not essential, to good health ...
BLACK HISTORY: ON REWIND
To celebrate our newly digitized collection of eminent historical black orators, Cambridge Forum has teamed up with the Lincoln Institute ...
Tick, Tick, And More Ticks
Many people know at least one person suffering from Lyme’s disease, a quietly expanding tick-borne epidemic that has now spread ...
The Curse Of The Smartphone: T/F?
In today’s globalized world which operates 24/7, it is hard to imagine life without the ubiquitous smartphone. But it wasn’t ...
The Soundtrack of the World
Naturalist Bernie Krause has dedicated his life to recording the sounds of wild soundscapes on all seven continents, around the ...
SMELL – an olfactory orgy
Smell is one of the primal ways that we humans first navigate the world. Yet smell largely remains a sensorial ...
Art As A Prescription For Culture
How have the arts been impacted by the pandemic? What have been the challenges and the triumphs? Michael J. Bobbitt, ...
The Art Of Possibility
Benjamin Zander, renowned conductor of the Boston Philharmonic orchestra and Boston Youth Philharmonic orchestra, and co-author of The Art of ...
What I Learned In Prison
Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has been teaching classes in drama, literature, philosophy and history in the college-degree program ...
Eco-Anxiety
Does the future plight of the planet keep you up at night? Are you filled with a sense of doom ...
The Day The World Stops Shopping
What are we willing to give up in order to save the planet? And what would happen to our economies ...
THE TRUTH AT THE HEART OF THE LIE: How the Catholic Church lost its soul
James Carroll's deeply personal exploration of what has broken the modern Catholic Church is chronicled in The Truth At The ...
JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE: How white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation
In her unexpected NYT bestseller, Jesus and John Wayne, historian Kristin Du Mez traces how a militant ideal of white ...
HOW GOD WORKS: THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE BENEFITS OF RELIGION
Did you know that people who engage in spiritual practices tend to live longer, happier lives? What’s more you don’t ...
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