Live live music? Retronyms with The Word Nerd

Emily Brewster, resident wordster from Merriam-Webster, on some famous retronyms and the ones we are creating right now during The…

Hot Dogs on Hot Sauce: Heavy Petting

Don’t do what TikTok tells you to do. Listen to the advice of Dr. Steve from Sunderland Animal Hospital. But…

This Little Light…

April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month, and an organization serving Hampshire County wants to honor and uplift the 2000+…

New Black Hole Image (with help from UMASS): Mr. Universe

Mr. Universe, Hampshire College astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed, on the new image of the wavy lines around one of the…

Rosé Season: WINE SNOBS

It’s Spring! Monte and the Wine Snobs at State Street dive into rosé. But is there really a bad time…

Short-Attention Span School

Monte talks with the winners of UMass and The Jones Library’s Three-Minute Thesis Competitions: Adam Netzer Zimmer and Emma Dauster

McGovern Crashes The Studio: McGoverning with McGovern

On the Pro-Venezuela protest in front of his office yesterday, the War Powers Act, and how boring it is to be on CSPAN.

Meltdown Goes Digital thanks to Jarrett J. Krosoczka

We thought it would happen in-person in 2020. We were SURE it would happen in person in 2021. But the…

The History of &: WORD NERD

Was it Latin shorthand? Was it a piece of hidden graffiti? Was it a letter of the alphabet? Was it…

How ready are MA parents to have their kids back in school?

Rich Parr from Florence is part of the Mass Inc Polling Group. They just surveyed Bay State parents about the…