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"The Jar is a 21st-century model to help people create, catalyze and deepen meaningful relationships with people who are like them and not like them," founder Ben-Aharon said. "It allows people to show up fully as themselves."

Lisa Alexander of Boston College Law School, Andrew Brinker of the Boston Globe and Chris Dempsey of the city planning firm Speck Dempsey join Radio Boston to discuss an upcoming referendum in Milton over whether to comply with the MBTA Communities Act.

Two hundred years ago, an English geologist named William Buckland found a fossil unlike anything he’d ever seen. He called it "Megalosaurus" and thought it belonged to a large lizard. Little did he know he’d discovered the first of a group of animals that still fascinate us today: dinosaurs.

We get to know Massachusetts Congressman Stephen Lynch, from his time as an iron worker and lawyer, to how he's changed in the nearly 30 years he's been in elected office. Plus, how a cheeseburger may have saved his life. Seriously!

WBUR climate correspondent Barbara Moran joins Radio Boston to explain what's causing wastewater to enter Cape Cod's bays and estuaries and what some enterprising residents are doing about it.

Radio Boston hears from Jessica Tang, president of the Boston Teachers Union, and Aparna Lakshmi, history teacher at the O’Bryant School in Roxbury, about the city plan for Boston Public Schools and their own vision for a re-imagined BPS.

Jenae Murphy, a licensed financial therapist and the founder of Financial Therapy LLC in Brockton, joins Radio Boston with tips on how to improve your relationship to money.

Once again this year, restaurants in the North End will largely be left out of Boston's outdoor dining program.

The Greater Boston area already has major hubs of biotechnology and life sciences. Now Gov. Maura Healey wants to make the commonwealth a climate tech lab for the world. A local tech reporter joins Radio Boston to discuss.

Lunar New Year starts Saturday, and according to the Chinese zodiac system, it's the year of the dragon. We talk with two people about what Lunar New Year means to them.