Thanksgiving Best Of: 100 Years of Native People's Stories; Weird Al ; Staying Creative; Favorite NYT Cooking Recipes; Great Short Nonfiction; Circadian Rhythm

On this Thanksgiving, enjoy some of our favorite recent conversations:

• As part of our centennial series "100 Years of 100 Things," Irene Kearns, digital program manager for Native Knowledge 360° at the National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian Institution, talks about how indigenous people's history and stories have been taught and how that's changed.

• Ten years after his comedy album "Mandatory Fun" became the first comedy album in history to hit number 1 on the Billboard charts, "Weird Al" Yankovic, musician, comedian, and actor, looks back on his career parodying hit pop songs, previews his latest single "Polkamania!", and takes calls from his multi-generational fanbase.

• Stacey D’Erasmo, novelist, literary critic and the author of The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry (Graywolf, 2024), talks about her new book and what she discovered about how artists keep their creativity going throughout their lives.

• The New York Times Cooking app marks its 10th anniversary earlier this year. Emily Weinstein, editor in chief of New York Times Cooking and Food and author of the popular NYT Cooking newsletter "Five Weeknight Dishes", joins the show to celebrate the decade with a list of the most iconic recipes, and listeners call in to share their NYT Cooking favorites.

• Kenneth C. Davis, author of the "Don't Know Much About History" series and most recently, The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction (Scribner, 2024), makes the case for reading vs. screens with curated selections from key works of nonfiction.

• Lynne Peeples, science writer and the author of The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms (Riverhead Books, 2024), reviews the latest science on our internal "clocks" and how to use them to improve sleep and learning.

These interviews were lightly edited for time and clarity; the original web versions are available here:

100 Years of 100 Things: Teaching Indigenous People's Stories (Oct 14, 2024)

"Weird Al" Yankovic Celebrates 10 Years of "Mandatory Fun" (Jul 19, 2024)

Staying Creative Over a Lifetime (Jul 9, 2024)

NYT Cooking’s Most Iconic Recipes (Sept 19, 2024)

Connecting with Circadian Rhythms (Sept 24, 2024)