Donovan Ramsey

Jan 5, 2025 | menshealth.com | Donovan Ramsey

Over five years, comedian and actor Lil Rel Howery transformed how he looks. But the biggest changes were on the inside.

Nov 26, 2023 | thisdaypod.substack.com | Jody Avirgan |Donovan Ramsey |Aisha Harris |Rick Perlstein

Hey everyone, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving break. It is book-buying season. Booksellers and authors make an enormous portion of their profit in these weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. They can use your support. So, in that spirit I just put together a booklist of all the authors we featured on the show in 2023. (Plus Niki and Kellie’s latest books of course) I used bookshop.org, but you can of course go track it down at your favorite bookseller, online or in the real world.

Aug 28, 2023 | audible.com | Sean Howe |Douglas Wolk |Jesse Jarnow |Donovan Ramsey

The life and times of High Times’ enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who—between police raids, smuggling runs, and outrageous stunts—battled both the US government and fellow radicals. At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom Forçade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics and assuming control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country.

Aug 10, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Donovan Ramsey |Eugenia Cheng |Joseph LeDoux |Bettina L. Love

Catherine McNeur. Basic, $32.50 (432p) ISBN 978-1-541-67417-2Historian McNeur (Taming Manhattan) paints a vibrant portrait of botanist Elizabeth Carrington Morris and her younger sister, entomologist Margaretta Hare Morris, restoring the women to their rightful place in the history of science. Born in the 1790s to a well-to-do family, the sisters grew up in Philadelphia, where they conducted scientific observations and wrote up the findings from their family home.

Aug 10, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Carl Zimmer |Donovan Ramsey |Eugenia Cheng |Joseph LeDoux

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023New York Times columnist Zimmer (Life’s Edge) brings together 20 captivating pieces of science journalism that find reason for hope amid despair. One among several essays focusing on Covid-19, Elizabeth Svoboda’s “An Invisible Epidemic” discusses the guilt suffered by healthcare workers who feel they provided inadequate care for Covid patients as hospitals became overwhelmed.