The Curiosity Desk

First up we celebrate May Day. We are learning some essential Massachusetts labor history, from the 1912 Bread & Roses Strike in Lawrence up ’til our present moment, with Steve Striffler, director of the Labor Resource Center at UMass Boston.

Next, Edgar explores the evolutionary link between dinosaurs of millennia past and our modern-day birds, with author & evolutionary biologist Steve Brusatte.  

Lastly, Would you show up for a public wedding on a park common? There’s one this weekend in Cambridge. We’ll talk with the bride and groom-to-be, Cambridge Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem & Vijeta Saini.