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David Strayer explained that spending time in nature relieves attention fatigue and increases our creativity.

Sky-high grocery prices – like so many of our current problems – might just stem from early 2020, when restaurants shut down and consumers became skittish about food prepared outside their own homes.

“One of the main, big motivators for the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was that they were just enthralled by the amount of gold,” stated Richard Paine.

“In terms of the big picture it’s a really miraculous evacuation,“ explained Thomas Cova who researches wildfire evacuations.

For her new book How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America, Stanford-trained sociologist Priya Fielding-Singh talked to 75 Bay Area families from a variety of backgrounds about their everyday food choices. She joins us to discuss class, race, and nutritional inequity and why, as she writes in the book, “access to healthy food is about more than geography and finances.”