Month: October 2019

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Cucurbitology (PUMPKINS) with Anne Copeland

PUMPKIN PUMPKIN! Not only a thing to scream while passing a patch, but also the name of author and human delight Anne Copeland's gourd opus. Yes, she's so charmed by pumpkins that she dedicated a whole book to exploring their folklore, history, planting protocol, care, and cooking. On a lark, Alie stops by her house in the rural hamlet of Yucaipa, California to chat about everything from creation myths surrounding pumpkins to Anne's favorite recipes, how to make a pumpkin last longer on your porch, the secret medicinal properties of pipitas, why humans might need to go bananas on Halloween, how to propose via pumpkin, and the big flimflam Anne needs the world to know about the pumpkin origin story. Also: who is Jack and why does he have a lantern?

Anne Copeland's book "Pumpkin, Pumpkin: Folklore, History, Planting Hints and Good Eating" is available via Amazon

And here: https://www.amazon.com/Pumpkin-Folklore-History-Planting-Eating-ebook/dp/B07YLFR119/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=pumpkin+pumpkin+copeland&qid=1570549807&sr=8-1

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Just a Kurd to him: Trump’s Syria withdrawal

The president’s sudden talk of departure from a contested strip of the Turkey-Syria border betrays the Kurds who helped beat back Islamic State—and risks throwing the region into chaos. A look at the cashew industry in Mozambique reveals the tricky trade-offs between agriculture and development. And, an unusual opera outlining the life and letters of birth-control pioneer Marie Stopes.
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The Best One Yet - Unilever hates virgin-plastic, Harley’s e-bike isn’t connecting, and Walmart tries to return its ecommerce acquisitions

The owner of Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever is making an epic sustainability pledge: cut 400K tons of virgin plastic per year. Harley designed an electric bike to desperately snag millennial customers, but it turns out they’re not interested. And after diving deep into ecommerce, Walmart is undoing the parts that are too unprofitable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - A Dream Supreme Court Term for Conservatives

The Supreme Court embarks on its new term with a solidly conservative majority and a sense of urgency when it comes to settling legal questions that keep cropping up. Will Chief Justice John Roberts continue to strike centrist compromises in the interest of preserving the court’s legitimacy? Or will the country feel the court’s rightward shift?

Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, legal reporter for Slate.

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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #267 – “List-O-Mania 3” with Alex Mandelberg

In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys (Rivers, Sam, and Carter) once again dive into a hat full of random topics chosen by them and YOU in the Goods from the Woods Stud-iverse! For this outing, they're joined by the hilarious stand-up comedian and voice of Maverick Pro Wrestling: ALEX MANDELBERG! Alex tackles the "Top 5 Best L.A. Dive Bars" (Just wait 'til y'all hear about "Jumbo's Clown Room"). Rivers takes on the "Top 5 Sit-Down Chain Restaurants", Sam goes over the "Top 5 Breakfast Foods", and Carter tells us the "Top 5 Saturday Night Live Films". This episode has something for everybody! Follow Alex on Instagram at @AlexMandelberg!  Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod.  Rivers is @RiversLangley  Sam is @SlamHarter  Carter is @CarterGlascock Dr. Pat is @PM_Reilly  Mr. Goodnight is @SepulvedaCowboy  Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod

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New Books in Native American Studies - Paul Musselwhite, “Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake” (U Chicago Press, 2019)

Early American colonialism is often distinguished by an urban and rural divide. Urban development was a sign of imperial progress. British writers frequently boasted about the size of early Boston and Philadelphia while mocking the scattered settlements of the French. Colonial founders characterized their social experiment as a ‘City on a Hill’, and texts that promoted colonization listed the size and location of a growing number of principal towns and cities. Outside the confines of cities lay different places: the backcountry of settlement and Indian war; an unmapped landscape of forests and rivers. If the town stood out as a site of ordered settlement, the ‘wilderness’ remained a place of mystery and danger.

Paul Musselwhite is Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. In Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake (University of Chicago Press, 2019), he challenges the conventional view of the Chesapeake as a rural society of tobacco and slavery that prevented the development of towns and cities. He argues that contemporaries argued about urban development in ways that intersected with wider discussions of the political and commercial order of the Chesapeake, and its place in theories of commerce and the state in Britain between the early seventeenth century and the American Revolution.

Charles Prior is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull (UK), who has written on the politics of religion in early modern Britain, and whose work has recently expanded to the intersection of colonial, indigenous, and imperial politics in early America. He co-leads the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster.

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The NewsWorthy - Bipartisan Backlash, macOS Catalina & Yom Kippur – Tuesday, October 8th, 2019

The news to know for Tuesday, October 8th, 2019!

What new policy is causing rare bipartisan backlash (yes, that means even many Republicans are speaking out against President Trump's decision).

Plus: we're talking about big updates to Mac computers, Hulu subscriptions, and Kindle e-readers.

Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below...

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Bipartisan Backlash: AP, The Hill,USA Today,  Axios

Trump Tax Returns: CBS News, NPR, WSJ

GE Freezes Pensions: WSJ, MarketWatch, AP

MLB Playoffs: MLB, CBS Sports

Simone Biles Historic Moves: People, CBS News

Self Driving Cars: The Verge, CNBC

macOS Catalina: CNBC, The Verge, TechRadar

Hulu Downloads: Variety, Engadget

Amazon Kids Kindle: Cnet, TechCrunch, The Verge

Yom Kippur: Chabad.org, History Channel