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Our guests were:

• Stan Cox is a plant breeder and writer in Salina, Kansas. Stan’s book, “Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (And Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer),” will be published in June by The New Press. On Thursday, Stan posted the article, “Cold War: Militarism, Torture … and Air Conditioning?
• award-winning writer Rebecca Solnit, is the author of “A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster” (Viking). This week, Rebecca posted the article, “350 Degrees of Inseparability: 
The Good News About the Very Bad News (about Climate Change).”
• John Feffer is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. John posted the piece, “Nuclear Follies: Are we in the process of giving up our nuclear addiction, or is this just flimflam from an addict who refuses to go cold turkey?,” on Tuesday.

This week’s irregular correspondents were, Dan ‘The Auto Man’ Litchfield; Drew Colglazier will give us his sports report; and Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.