Programming Archive

Kate Toomey is a candidate for mayor of Worcester.
Kate Toomey, a former elementary and secondary school teacher in the Boston Public Schools, is serving her second two-year term as a Worcester City Councilor-At-Large. She previously served three two-year terms as a member of the Worcester School Committee. 
As Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Education, she and her committee members consider all matters pertaining to public education, the public libraries, arts, culture and higher education.

Mildred Burke was one of the most recognized and admired figures in women’s sports in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Starting as a young and determined teenage girl from the Midwest, against all odds Mildred rose to become the World Championship Women’s Wrestler. Her life story is filled with constant hardships, wild characters and a triumph worthy of the Rocky films. JEFF LEEN, Assistant Managing Editor for the Washington Post’s investigations unit drops by Inquiry to talk about his gritty biography THE QUEEN OF THE RING: SEX, MUSCLES, DIAMONDS AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN LEGEND.

"An American In Tuscanny"

How does a west coat guy end up making world class wine in
Tuscanny,Italy? Some decades ago The Graces, a San Francisco family,
decided with German banker Gerhard Hirmer and the well known Italian
oenologist, Franco Bernabei, to establish themselves in Tuscany. Fast
forward to 2009 and you have the wines of Il Molino Di Grace. Tim Grace
and his dad live in San Francisco but spend plenty of time in Tuscanny
where they oversee the winery that bears their name. Tune in and listen
to this marvelous story.

As a nation, are we scientifically illiterate? Does it matter if we don’t understand genetics, evolution or energy? After all, how often does electromagnetism come up in everyday life? Tonight on Inquiry, we welcome ROBERT M. HAZEN, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the author of more than 350 articles and 20 books on science, history and music. With James Trefill, he has written one of the most useful and important science books ever published for the general public: SCIENCE MATTERS: ACHIEVING SCIENTIFIC LITERACY. This book will bring the reader up to speed on nineteen general principles of science that every person should know and proves once and for all science is not hard at all, but can be downright enjoyable and even fun . Even Quantum Theory!