The Point

Nathan Wilson talks about citizen science, mushrooms, and the Encyclopedia of Life

A look at some of the week's top news.

Author Victoria Hopewell talks about her book Grade A Baby Eggs.

Elspeth Hay, Local Food Report host, and Dave Masch, author of Cooking the Catch, talk about traditional holiday foods and share some of their holiday dinner disasters.

Living Lab: A study of flame-retardant chemicals by the Silent Spring Institute.

A look at some of the week's top news.

Nantucket resident and author Peter Brace talks about his book Nantucket: A Natural History.

Jill Erickson, Reference Librarian at Falmouth Public Library and Melanie Lauwers, Books Editor at the Cape Cod Times discuss holiday books.

In the 1960’s Michael Rockland served as assistant cultural attaché in Madrid. He talks about his memoir An American Diplomat in Franco Spain, which includes stories about accompanying Martin Luther King Jr. and Ted Kennedy during their visits to Madrid and what happened when the US accidentally dropped 4 hydrogen bombs on coastal Spain.

Three quarters of all volcanic activity on Earth happens on the sea floor. That has ramifications for everything from evolution to climate change. But the science of undersea volcanoes is relatively young.