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In her book Fruits Of Freedom, Clark University Professor, Janette Greenwood relates the history of a network forged between Worcester County, Massachusetts, and eastern North Carolina as a result of Worcester regiments taking control of northeastern North Carolina during the Civil War.

Inquiry
Brian Fagan: CRO MAGNON: HOW THE ICE AGE GAVE BIRTH TO THE FIRST MODERN HUMANS

During the last Ice Ages, a new human species arrived in Europe. They had an unprecedented complex relationship with the world around them. They made music. They had sophisticated culture, tools, weapons and art. They were “us”. They were the Cro-Magnons and they lived in a harsh world of changing climates and ferocious beasts and lived along side the agile and tough, but nowhere near as advanced, Neanderthals.

The Business Beat
Noah Greenstein & Lucas Glenn of The Leadership Campaign

The Leadership Campaign is working on other ways to repower Massachusetts, by retrofitting homes, slashing emissions in their homes, schools, and churches, and calling on their legislators to follow their lead. My two guests are involved actively with the Leadership Campaign in Worcester.

Inquiry
Ian Stewart: PROFESSOR STEWART'S HOARD OF MATHEMATICAL TREASURES

IAN STEWART, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Digital Media at the University of Warwick, drops by Inquiry once again to talk about his new book PROFESSOR STEWART’S HOARD OF MATHEMATICAL TREASURES. It is Professor Stewart’s mission to make mathematics fun and enjoyable. His latest is a wonderful miscellany of topological problems; logic puzzles; mathematical brainteasers, short pieces and even math jokes and is a perfect remedy for the math phobic.

Inquiry
Melissa Stewart: A PLACE FOR FROGS

Award-wining children’s book author MELISSA STEWART returns to Inquiry to talk about her latest book A PLACE FOR FROGS. This latest installment in a series,  educates young people about the plight of the nations amphibians and teaches them how to ensure there will always be a place for frogs in our environment. This is children’s science education at it’s very best.

Inquiry
Gerald Nachman: SERIOUSLY FUNNY part2: Nichols and May; Bob Newhart; Lenny Bruce

Inquiry continues it’s conversation with media historian GERALD NACHMAN about his landmark history SERIOUSLY FUNNY: THE REBEL COMEDIANS OF THE 1950S AND THE 1960S. Tonight on part 2, we talk about the sophisticated and intelligent humor of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Though their comedy career lasted only four years, they are perhaps the “most ardently missed of all the satirical comedians of the time.

The Public Eye
Tilar Mazzeo - Back Lane Wineries of NAPA

Guest: Tilar Mazzeo
Book: Back Lane Wineries of NAPA

Date: Sunday May 16

Tilar J. Mazzeo is a cultural historian, biographer, luxury enthusiast, and passionate student of wine and food culture. She divides her time between the California wine country and the East Coast, where she is a professor of English at Colby College. Her latest book is "Back Lane Wineris of NAPA". Tune in this Sunday evening and here the passion in Tilars voice.

Inquiry
Vlatko Vedral: DECODING REALITY: THE UNIVERSE AS QUANTUM INFORMATION

Is information, not matter or energy, the real building blocks of the universe? Is the cosmos actually a quantum computer and reality just some form of information processing? Are determinism and randomness actually opposite extremes when defining reality? How does a quantum computer work?

Inquiry
Peter Sulski Krista Buckland Reiser: WORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETYs SUMMER FESTIVAL

Inquiry welcomes PETER SULSKI, Artistic Director and KRISTA BUCKLAND REISNER, Development Director of the WORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY. Tonight they talk about the Society’s very unique SUMMER FESTIVAL , a “non-competitive, intensive chamber music program” for strings, woodwinds and pianists ages 12 and up. Held this year on the campus of Anna Maria College, musicians young and old spend five days rehearsing, practicing and learning to perform together.