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BLACK HOLES 101 - KELLY BEATTY The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Inside Science Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and as part of our Inside Science Series we have an excellent program about bizarre cosmic objects whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them: those objects being Black Holes.  Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate, scientist, journalist, and author Kelly Beatty.  For the past 35 years, J. Kelly Beatty has kept his readers on the edge of their front-row seats to much of the exploration of our solar system as senior editor of Sky & Telescope.  Kelly Beatty will be presenting at Smithsonian Associates coming up, and the title of his Smithsonian Associates presentation is “Black Holes 101.” Thank you so much for listening. We’ve got a great guest today for our Inside Science series with Smithsonian Associate Kelly Beatty, and is a popular, returning guest on the program who I always look forward to speaking with, and I’ll introduce him in just a moment.  But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 702d episode when I spoke to journalist, activist, historian, and author of the new book, "Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020"  Two weeks ago, I spoke with science writer, Lizzie Stark about her new book, Egg.   Excellent subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website,  Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

American Women and the Fight for Equality - Elisabeth Griffith The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and as part of our Women’s History Month we have an excellent program about women’s fight for equality, how women use the vote, and the diverse struggle of women’s rights in the US.  Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate, journalist, historian and author Elisabeth Griffith, who has written the new book "Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020" Thank you so much for listening. We’ve got a great guest today for Women’s History Month with Smithsonian Associate author  Elisabeth Griffith, who is a journalist, activist, historian and author, and who, after reading her new book, "Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020" I’ve been looking forward to speaking with her for a while. I’ll introduce her in just a moment. But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 701st episode when I spoke to science writer, Lizzie Stark about her new book, Egg.  Two weeks ago, I spoke with returning guest Smithsonian Associate, journalist, and author Rebecca Boggs Roberts, who has written the new book, Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson  Excellent subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com After what Susan B. Anthony called “the long, hard fight,” the Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising 26 million white and Black women, was added to the Constitution on August 26, 1920. However, according to our guest today, Smithsonian Associate Elisabeth Griffith Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Egg - Science, Marvel, and Importance: Lizzie Stark The Not Old Better Show, Inside Science Author Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Inside Science author interview series on radio and podcast. Today’s show is brought to you by Harry’s, created for a different shaving experience, and NextEVO Naturals Better Science, Smarter CBD.  I’m Paul Vogelzang, and we have an excellent program about the egg.  Our guest today, author, science writer, and journalist Lizzie Stark and I will discuss the egg’s unconventional history of the world’s largest cellular workhorse, from chickens to penguins, from art to crime, and more. I’ll introduce Lizzie Stark in just a moment, but quickly, if you missed any shows recently, last week was our 700th episode for Women’s History month, and I spoke with returning guest Smithsonian Associate, journalist, and author Rebecca Boggs Roberts, who has written the new book, Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson   Two weeks ago, I spoke with #1 NYT bestselling author Mark Greaney about his new book, part of The Gray Man series, “Burner,” already a bestseller. Excellent subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com From Mali to Finland, mythologies around the globe have invested the egg with powers of regeneration and fecundity, often ascribing the origin of the world to a cosmic egg. An oracle to Romans, fought over by Gold Rush gangs, used as the foundation of the Clown Egg Registry, and blasted into space, the egg has taken on larger proportions than, say, the ovum of an ostrich.  Lizzie Stark and I will discuss egg’s deep meanings, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance along with all of Lizzie Stark’s research from her new book, Egg: A Dozen Ovatures… Please join me in welcoming to The No Old Better Show on radio, podcast, author, science writer, and journalist Lizzie Stark. My thanks to the author, science writer, and journalist Lizzie Stark.  Lizzie Stark Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Edith Wilson: The First Unelected Woman President - Rebecca Boggs Roberts The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates interview for Women’s History initiative on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and we have an excellent program about Women’s History, power, and Edith Wilson, wife of Pres. Woodrow Wilson.  Our returning guest is Smithsonian Associate, journalist, and author Rebecca Boggs Roberts, who has written the new book, Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson by Rebecca Boggs Roberts I’ll introduce Rebecca Boggs Roberts in just a moment, but quickly, if you missed any shows recently, last week was our 699th episode I spoke with #1 NYT bestselling author Mark Greaney about his new book, part of The Gray Man series, “Burner,” already a bestseller. Two weeks ago, I spoke with author and journalist Philip Bump about his new book,  “The Aftermath: the Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America”  Wonderful subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate, author, and journalist Rebecca Boggs Roberts.  Rebecca Boggs Roberts will be appearing at Smithsonian Associates coming up, so please check out details of her Zoom presentation in our show notes today.  The title of Rebecca Boggs Roberts’ presentation is Edith Wilson: The First (Unelected) Woman President.  While this nation has yet to elect its first woman president—and though history has downplayed her role—just over a century ago a woman became the nation’s first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. She climbed her way out of Appalachian poverty and into the highest echelons of American power and in 1919 effectively acted as the first woman president of the U.S. (before women could even vote nationwide) when her husband, Woodrow Wilson, was incapacitated. Beautiful, brilliant, charismatic, catty, and calculating, she was a complicated figure whose personal quest for influence reshaped the position of First Lady into one of political prominence forever. And still nobody truly understands who she was. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Mark Greaney - Burner: Thriller! The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Author Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast. Today’s show is brought to you by POM Wonderful and BetterHelp, Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/NOB and get on your way to being your best self. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and we have returning guest, NYT best-selling author and Hollywood movie mogul Mark Greaney. As part of our Art Of Living Author Interview Series, our guest today is Mark Greaney.  The Not Old Better Show audience will know Mark Greaney from his work in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan universe or his bestselling Gray Man series, and this week,  a brand new Gray Man book, titled ‘Burner’ is on sale, and “Burner” is already on the BEST SELLER LIST! Thank you so much for listening. We’ve got a great guest today with author Mark Greaney.  #1 NYT bestselling author Mark Greaney’s debut international thriller, THE GRAY MAN, was published in 2009 and became a national bestseller and a highly sought-after Hollywood property. Netflix released the film version of THE GRAY MAN, starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas, in 2022.  I’ve read “Burner,” and loved it.  You will too, as you will our interview, which I’ll get to in just a moment.  But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 698th episode, when I spoke to Washington Post journalist and author Philip Bump who has written the new book “The Aftermath: the Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America”  Two weeks ago, I spoke with when I spoke to Smithsonian Associate, Newsweek editor, journalist and author, Mark Whitaker who has written the new book ‘Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement’   Wonderful subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Baby Boomers and the Last Days - Philip Bump The Not Old Better Show, Author Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Author  Interview Series on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and as part of our Art of Living series about living our best selves, today’s show and interview will be an excellent program about the boomer generation, the historic disruption that occurred during this time, and is still going on, and the aftermath, what’s next and what’s to come.  Our guest today is Washington Post journalist and author Philip Bump who has written the new book “The Aftermath: the Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America” Thank you so much for listening. We’ve got a great guest today with author Philip Bump, who is a journalist and author, and who, after reading his new book, “The Aftermath: the Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America” I’ve been looking forward to speaking with him for a while. I’ll introduce him in just a moment. But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 697th episode, when I spoke to Smithsonian Associate, Newsweek editor, journalist and author, Mark Whitaker who has written the new book ‘Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement’ Two weeks ago, I spoke with 79-year-old author Rick Bleiweiss, who is the perfect example of the saying “you’re never too old to follow your dreams.”  Wonderful subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com Our guest today, author Philip Bump says that we are living through a historic disruption of the American empire. Philip Bump is The Washington Post, national columnist and will tell us about what that disruption means for the country and how much remains uncertain in many areas, but Philip Bump will explain to us in a no-stone-unturned manner as he takes us through his deep research, graphs, and offers a detailed look at the rise of the baby boom generation, its impact on the United States and the implications of its final days, including the rise of the meme, OK Boomer. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Mark Whitaker - 1966: Black Power: Saying it Loud! The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and as part of our February Black History Month  today’s show is part of our Smithsonian Associates Black History Month author interview series, and we have an excellent program about Black History, Black Power and the Civil Rights movement.  Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate, journalist, and author Mark Whitaker who has written the new book ‘Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement’ Thank you so much for listening. We’ve got a great guest today with author Mark Whitaker, who is a journalist and author, and who, after reading his new book, ‘Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement’ I’ve been looking forward to speaking with him for a while. I’ll introduce him in just a moment. But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 696th episode, when I spoke to 79-year-old author Rick Bleiweiss, who is the perfect example of the saying “you’re never too old to follow your dreams.”  Two weeks ago, I spoke with author Susan Shapiro Barash about her Valentine’s Day book ‘A Passion for More: Affairs that Make Us or Break Us,’  Wonderful subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com Join us today as we talk with journalist and author Mark Whitaker for an exploration of the momentous year of 1966, in which a new sense of Black identity expressed in the slogan “Black Power” challenged the nonviolent civil rights philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis.  Mark Whitaker will be appe Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Rick Bleiweiss - Murder at Haxford The Not Old Better Show, Author Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, art of living, author interview series on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and today’s episode is brought to you by BetterHelp and by Word Collect…the great game from Super Lucky! Please support our sponsors and you can find special offers in our show notes today.    Thank you so much for listening. We’ve got a great guest today with the 79-year-old author Rick Bleiweiss, who is a musician, a keyboard player, a country music song writer, and who, after reading his new book,  Murder in Haxford,  I’ve been looking forward to speaking with him for a while. I’ll introduce him in just a moment. But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 695th episode, when I spoke to author Susan Shapiro Barash about her Valentine’s Day book ‘A Passion for More: Affairs that Make Us or Break Us,’…Two weeks ago, I spoke with author Dr. Danielle Clode about her new book, Koalas: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future ‘Wonderful subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com Oh my gosh…where to begin when it comes to Rick Bleiweiss…no introduction will suffice, but I’ll try.  Rick Bleiweiss is the perfect example of the saying, "you're never too old to follow your dreams."  Rick has an extensive background with careers in music as a rock performer, Grammy-nominated producer of over fifty records, and record company senior executive.  Then, in 2006, he pursued a career in the publishing industry working as a publishing company executive, where he has acquired works by noted authors and celebrities, including James Clavell, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rex Pickett, Al Roker, Dale Brown, Robert Downey Jr., Leon Uris, Catherine Coulter, and P. C. Cast, among many others.  Rick Bleiweiss has written a new book, the second in his ‘Pignon Scorbion” detective series, entitled  Murder in Haxford Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Affairs of the Heart and Body After 60 - Susan Shapiro Barash The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Author Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living, author interview series on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and today’s episode is brought to you by Harry’s: created for a different shaving experience.  Check out Harrys.com/NOB for a great offer today!  We are just about to Valentine’s Day.  Of course, Valentine’s Day is a holiday for lovers everywhere.  We have a special program about lovers, affairs of the heart, and passion. Yes, that’s right, passion and affairs that make or break us. Thank you so much for listening. We’ve got a great guest today with journalist, author, and researcher, who, after reading her new book, ‘A Passion for More: Affairs that Make Us or Break Us,’ I’ve been looking forward to speaking with her for a while. I’ll introduce her in just a moment…But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 694th episode, when I spoke to author Dr. Danielle Clode about her new book, Koalas: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future Two weeks ago, I spoke with author and Ironman winner, 86-year-old, Dr. Ruth Heidrich about her new book, ‘Breast Implant Illness, BII, What to Know Now, and how to Treat.’ ‘Wonderful subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com Our guest today is leading, world-renowned gender expert and bestselling author Susan Shapiro Barash http://www.susanshapirobarash.com/ who’ll tell us  today about her three decades of research on women and infidelity in her new book, "A Passion for More" in our Valentine’s Day episode here on the Not Old Better Show.  All year long, and not just on Valentine’s Day, women today are exploring their romantic needs with a striking absence of guilt. There is an exponential rise in female infidelity, according to our guest today, bestselling gender expert Susan Shapiro Barash in her revealing updated investigation, Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast!   Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Koalas: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future -                  Dr. Danielle Clode The Not Old Better Show, Inside Science Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Inside Science author interview series on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and today’s episode is brought to you by POM Wonderful. Check out why POM Wonderful is called the science Antioxidant Superpower.  We have a special program about koalas. Yes, that’s right, koalas.  Koalas are cute and cuddly but with razor claws.  Koalas are the million-dollar babies. They raise more funds than any other species in the world, but they are endangered, like so many animals today, and yet in some places on earth, they thrive…we’ll talk more about koalas and their amazing qualities and their many contradictions in a bit. Thank you so much for listening. We’ve got a great guest today in Dr. Danielle Clode, who, after reading her new book, Koala: ‘A Natural History and an Uncertain Future,’ I’ve been looking forward to speaking with her for a while and whom I’ll introduce in just a moment…But, quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 692d episode, when I spoke to author Joe Hart about his new book  ‘Take Command: Find Your Inner Strength, Build Enduring Relationships, and Live the Life You Want.‘  Two weeks ago, I spoke with Smithsonian Associate Rick Steves about his new book, Italy is for Food Lovers. Wonderful subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience…If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com The story of the koala has taken our guest today, Dr. Danielle Clode, all over the world, across continents and cultures, into the distant past, and through an incredibly wide range of knowledge systems: botany, ecology, Indigenous knowledge, evolution, paleontology, anatomy, conservation biology, history, toxicology, psychology, veterinary and nutritional science, and animal behavior.  Dr. Danielle Clode studied politics and psychology at University of Adelaide before completin Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.