You Are Not Your Genetics with Kenneth Pelletier, M.D.  What we eat, drink, breathe, our stress levels – these are all essential factors in genetic expression. Rather than worrying about the genetic hand we are dealt, we must optimize our health by the choices we make. Pelletier describes our genes as like the hard drive of a computer.

Noam Chomsky – The State of the World.  Noam Chomsky warns, “There has to be some kind of Green New Deal if we’re going to survive.” Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and Laureate Professor of Linguisticsat the University of Arizona. At 90, he is still writing articles and lecturing.

Yes! Magazine – Radical Travel.  We know instinctively that travel can be educational and broadening. We also know travel comes with complex issues from who gets to travel, what’s the environmental cost of travel and can travel be made sustainable and eco-friendly. These subjects part of the discussion in Summer issues of Yes! Magazine.

Hokkaido; Arctic Solitaire; Bloomsday in Dublin.  Learn about the rugged allure of Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. Hear what it's like to spend your summer boating up Hudson Bay in search of polar bears to photograph. And celebrate Bloomsday in Dublin, even if you've never finished reading Ulysses by James Joyce.

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