Everyday Abundance

I just finished reading Charles Mann’s The Wizard and the Prophet, which has to be a top-ten abundance and growth book for its description of the Green Revolution’s effect on crop yields and recounting of the failed apocalyptic predictions of “prophets” like William Vogt and Paul Ehrlich. So it was serendipitous that just as I wrapped up that Mann work, I heard about a new one: Everyday Abundance, a new podcast he and Virginia Postrel (another science journalist I love) are starting. Their first episode is, naturally, about the history of brushing your teeth. If anyone can make that interesting, it’s these two.