Burning Man turns 40 this year, and its changed dramatically since the first event in San Francisco. The first gathering drew a couple dozen people who gathered to burn an 8-foot wooden effigy at Baker Beach to celebrate the summer solstice. Four decades later, it’s a multi-milli ...Show more
A Historian Grapples with ‘How We Disappear’ After We Die
As a historian who teaches a class called “The History of Information,” Stanford professor Thomas Mullaney has spent decades thinking about the unreliability of archival materials in understanding the past, subject as they are to decay, disorder and obsolescence. But it wasn’t un ...Show more
The new round of severe weather hitting the country, as California struggles to dry out from that record flooding. The dangerous threat to California, with the rising risk of landslides. Plus, Egg-flation. Our look into why the price of eggs have skyrocketed.
Maria and Julio talk about the news with two all-stars: Callie Crossley, host of Under the Radar on WGBH Radio, and Gabby Rivera, writer, artist, activist and our resident nerdberger. They discuss midterm elections, the latest on immigration policy and the spike of racist hate cr ...Show more