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CZM Rewind: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore, Part Two Oct 08, 2025

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In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people.

Original Air Date: 11.9.2022

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CZM Rewind: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore, Part One Oct 06, 2025

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Margaret talks with Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people.

Original Air Date: 11.7.2022

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CZM Book Club: Kushtaka, by Mathilda Zeller Oct 05, 2025

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Kicking off spooky month with a story about demons that I don't want to spoil by telling you more about but it's so good I promise.

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Part Two: Mutual Aid and Evolution: Peter Kropotkin and the Battle for Science Oct 01, 2025

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Margaret continues talking to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild.

Sources:

https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin

https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/allan-antliff-memorializing-kropotkin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch07c.htm

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/1800s/uniformitarianism-charles-lyell/

https://summitborn.com/discovery-of-the-ice-age/

https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/gradualism-10/

https://strangescience.net/lyell.htm

https://medium.com/science-spectrum/how-darwin-discovered-invented-evolution-4d99aadf5656

https://psyche.co/ideas/kropotkin-the-radical-aristocrat-who-put-kindness-on-a-scientific-footing

https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm

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Part One: Mutual Aid and Evolution: Peter Kropotkin and the Battle for Science Sep 29, 2025

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Margaret talks to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild.

https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin

https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/allan-antliff-memorializing-kropotkin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch07c.htm

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/1800s/uniformitarianism-charles-lyell/

https://summitborn.com/discovery-of-the-ice-age/

https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/gradualism-10/

https://strangescience.net/lyell.htm

https://medium.com/science-spectrum/how-darwin-discovered-invented-evolution-4d99aadf5656

https://psyche.co/ideas/kropotkin-the-radical-aristocrat-who-put-kindness-on-a-scientific-footing

https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm

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CZM Book Club: Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar Sep 28, 2025

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Margaret reads you a story about yearning and magic and folklore and teenage gays.

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Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression Sep 24, 2025

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Margaret reads a piece from CrimethInc with practical steps for resisting state repression.

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Part One: I Can't Tell You What's Coming Sep 22, 2025

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Margaret talks about the current political landscape and how to prepare ourselves.

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, Interview with Alan Lea Sep 21, 2025

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Margaret sits down with author Alan Lea to discuss his novella, Hermetica.

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Part Two: Public Radio: From the Open Source Origins to the Pacifist Poets Sep 17, 2025

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Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about Jagadish Chandra Bose, the inventor of radio, and Kenneth Rexroth, the poet involved in the creation of public radio.

Sources

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kenneth-rexroth

https://libcom.org/article/rexroth-kenneth-1905-1982

https://www.montecitojournal.net/2023/05/16/kenneth-rexroth-a-poet-of-montecito/

https://www.britannica.com/technology/telegraph

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rescue-development-radio/

https://gizmodo.com/a-magician-used-the-first-pirate-radio-station-to-troll-1681527405

https://www.wshu.org/vintage-radio/2015-12-14/so-what-did-marconi-hear

https://www.orarc.org/?p=2297

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/n01/george-woodcock/elegy-for-an-anarchist

https://discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2022/8/28/kenneth-rexroth/

https://crimethinc.com/2020/12/22/a-poem-by-kenneth-rexroth-painted-across-the-rooftops-of-the-world-on-the-occasion-of-his-birthday