Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.

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Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,

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flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start

listening. Terms apply. Hey what's up. This is Ramses Job. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like

you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way

that informs and empowers all people.

We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give

you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle.

We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us

each Saturday for Civic Cipher on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your

podcast. Happy Saturday. Our recent installment of six Impossible episodes talked about

Nellie Cashman's efforts to get fresh vegetables to some miners who were starving

and developing scurvy. I don't remember if we mentioned it in that episode, but we do have

a whole episode on the history of scurvy, and it's today's Saturday classic. It came out on

December 30th, 2020, and you can tell, we were a little frazzled after months of relative isolation in that

first stretch of the COVID-19 pandemic. We got a couple of corrections after this first came out.

We talk about the genetic mutation that kept our long ago ancestors from being able to produce

their own vitamin C. But that wasn't a big issue because overwhelmingly they were living in tropical areas

and eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.

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