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By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Friday we looked at a series of interviews and news stories from the past 48 hours that covered climate change denial, confessions of a whistle-blower, the Green Party candidate will...
A Conversation With Barzin on Life Elsewhere
Although murmurs of Leonard Cohen’s failing health had occasionally filtered through in the last twelve months or so, his passing did catch most of us by surprise. The loss of a true artistic giant in...
The Goldilocks Planet & The Trump Administration on Life Elsewhere
“For over the past 10,000 years, Earth has been the Goldilocks planet, not too hot, not too cold, as the temperature has been steady, fluctuating by only about 1°C. So, everything the human species has done...
America, Nov 9. The Reactions. (on Life Elsewhere)
A few days before the Presidential election we asked some of our favorite guests on Life Elsewhere “What would you tell the undecided voter?” The consensus of advice was, no matter what, get out and...
By Rob Lorei The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting this week released a new web documentary called Unforgiven — in partnership with TIME, The Atlantic, the Miami Herald and other news media — about voter...
What Would You Tell The Undecided? (On Life Elsewhere)
When the next edition of Life Elsewhere first airs, we will be just two days away from the Presidential election. As unlikely as it may seem, there are still people who claim to not have...
The Myths Behind Halloween on Life Elsewhere
On a recent trip to Target, Life Elsewhere host, Norman B was struck by the overwhelming, if not overbearing cacophony of Halloween merchandise. The dizzying displays of giant spiders and skeletons and ghosts and witches...
An Interview with the host of PBS’s The Open Mind, Alexander Heffner
BY Rob Lorei Our guest on Radioactivity Thursday was Alexander Heffner, a Harvard educated journalist who is continuing a family tradition by hosting a 60 year old TV show: The Open Mind on PBS. In 2013...
Think Like A Designer on Life Elsewhere
Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. This is the premise for Designing Your Life: How To...
Nicholson Baker is a brave man. He knew what he was getting himself into. He went ahead anyway. The hardest part was getting his fingerprints taken. “I’m a writer,” he says, “I bash away on...
“I went to most of The Grateful Dead’s early shows, 66 to 68, completely straight if you doubt my take on the band, and I did love them, either I’m a liar or I have no...
The Detectives on Life Elsewhere
Dublin Murder Squad, detective Antoinette Conway is hard-edged, gloriously rough-speaking and doesn’t suffer fools gladly. Antoinette, the narrator in Tana French’s new novel, The Trespasser, takes the reader on a roller-coaster of whodunit journey. Tana...
