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And he actually liked my writing when I became a successful novelist with quite a few Hebrew bestsellers.

It's time I have a book in English, no? I had a book in English by Yale University Press from the days I was on the left, and it's called The Settlers and the Struggle Over the Meaning of Zionism.

And it's a critique of the settlement.

And I got some radio in San Francisco and said, do you want to do a promotional piece for the book? And I said, not so much, no.

According to the fact-checking website Quote Investigator, the phrase may have first appeared on a newsgroup message board in 1994.

A user with the handle Ernst Berg posted, quote, "Blessed is the second mouse, for he shall inherit the cheese." In 2012, the adage was added to Yale University Press' Dictionary of Modern Proverbs.

Also, Stephen and Angela discuss a 2017 paper from PLOS One titled Chronotypes in the US: Influence of Age and Sex, and they wonder why men are typically found to have later chronotypes than women before the age of 40 but earlier thereafter.

According to the authors, hormonal changes, quote, "Might act as modulators for an aging circadian system, causing a slowdown in women between 35 and 50 and a speed up in men aged 55 to 65.

[gentle music] This is the Yale University Press Podcast.

I'm Jessica Holahan, and I interview authors of art and architecture books published by Yale University Press.

And today's episode is devoted to what architecture is and why it matters.

Um, we at Yale University Press are very proud to publish books by the esteemed architecture writers Witold Rybczynski and Paul Goldberger.

Um, I cannot even imagine how many times each of you has been introduced.

I suspect all of our listeners are well-acquainted with your work.

Witold Rybczynski is an architect and emeritus professor of urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.

His numerous books include Home: A Short History of an Idea and The Story of Architecture.

Well, I just want to break in for a minute, since my two colleagues are so shamelessly shilling their books, you know, I would say that I actually wrote a book on this question called The Townsend Moment.

And in this book, which is a Yale University Press, also available with Amazon.com, but in the book, What I make an argument for is that nothing is inevitable.

That history, of course, is a story of contingencies, but it's how people make meaning of these contingencies.

But at a certain point, exactly right around the time Brendan was talking about, really in the early 1770s, especially going into 1774, as he put it, a switch does flip.

It's not until the 1400s that direct evidence emerges for some sort of decorated Christmas tree, right here in the upper Rhine city of Freiburg.

According to the author Bernd Brunner, who published an academic book about the Christmas tree with Yale University Press, a guild of bakers in Freiburg reported seeing a tree decorated with apples, wafers, gingerbread, and tinsel in a local hospital in 1419.

1419.

This is the earliest reference historians can find for a decorated Christmas tree, or a decorated Christmas pole.

You recently published Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream.

It's part of the Yale University Press Jewish Lives series, and it was also selected as a Natan Notable Book.

So for listeners who may not be familiar with Henrietta, can you give us the highlights of her accomplishments?

Well, she's best known as the founder of Hadassah, but she's did, before that and after that, she did other things.