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Current Events, prize anecdote on Gary Owens
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Interview with Astronomy magazine editor Richard Talcott abouth their 500th issue (with 500 cool facts)
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Obit: Lesley Gore, CA (still) running out of water - thanks real estate developers; updates: MSG, Straus-Kahn and government spying (this time to "stop cyber attacks")
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Chris Rock hates PC people, Oz hates science (GOP too), biking in snow, Farenheit is OK, tit culture - the BIRD we mean!
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potpourri of dubious ideas: implantable stimulators of vagus nerve, waste well injecton into protected acquifers, helping porn stars into radio, geo-engineering, cheaper oil
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Obama's "outrageous remarks on christian terrorism", Obit: David Landau, a look at spending $1 trillion on more American nukes
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Current Events
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Chat with the founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook series Tony Wheeler, a man who influenced how a generation (or two) of people move about the world
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Author of the new novel Sinful Folk Ned Hayes talks about Valentines Day
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Current Events, bagging on marketing, American Sniper (& Clint) are all about jerks
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Chat on permeable concrete (& more) w/ Bernadette Balics of Davis's Ecological Landscape Design
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What goes into a corn dog; does milk do a body good, really?; penis evolution in lizards (no not the lounge kind)
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Current Events
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Free speech, Econ stuff , Eco stuff, Oscar race "controversy", American Sniper controversy and propaganda
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Report from NYC snowstorm from ex-KDVS GM Steven Valentino, surprise call from Michio Kaku
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Current Events
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Our tribute to (with clips of) KDVS legend Ed Martin including words from those who worked with him here at the station
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Astrophysics lite - some curious factoids about stars & planets (especially ours) including calendar matters, an alligator tale from Van Nuys
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Current Events, monarch butterfly problems
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Monsanto machinations, GMO woes, more on antibiotics, still more California water bullshit: alfalfa really does use 20% of our water (it's kept cheap by subsidy) as water wells are draining our (un-monitored) state aquifers
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pervious concrete/asphalt - an idea whose time has come, lame 2014 predictions, Marie Tharp seafloor geologist scorned, but vindicated in the end (like Alfred Wegner)
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Current Events
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Talk with Mat Kaplan host of Planetary Radio (heard on both KDVS and KUCI at UC Irvine) and Graham Smith host of KDVS's Academy of Whatever
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Dave Barry's year in review (excerpts), Obit Stu Miller, CIA admits THEY were many 1950s UFO stories, ALERT: alfalfa uses 20% of California's water & generates 0.1% of state's revenue!
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The usual look at Current (and sometimes not so current) Events
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Talk with local NPR host and life coach Donna Apidone about her book Trans For Mission, an outline of how one can change one's life
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Neil Ruud former KDVS GM and current activist educates us about the UC tuition controversy, including many facts not well-covered in the mainstream press, the first of several such reviews
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Current Events, weirdness in zero G
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Chat on The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2015 with senior editor Sara Janssen
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Science topics: E cigs, China's wall of trees, beavers in action, comet water, and is Sylvester Stallone Jewish? we go to the source for answers
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Current Events, good news: Cuba normalization, methane (life?) on Mars
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Interview with Professor Devin Brown about his book Tolkien: How an Obscure Oxford Professor Wrote The Hobbit and Became the Most Beloved Author of the Century
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Chats with more fellow KDVS PA hosts Sam Ribakoff (Ibbur) and Matthew Maxcey (Policy over Politics)
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Will Durst starts us off with the comedy year in review, Current Events
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The History of KDVS. A chat with former DJ and current CSUS Professor of Anthropology Jerry Drawhorn
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More talk with PA hosts, Adam tells us about "Story Time with Tummybumpr" (which is about how to be a music producer), and former co-host of Speaking in Tongues Ron Glick sounds off about who really did in JFK
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Current Events, follow-ups: fusion power, taxing smokes, the Sac water meter scandal - damage control
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Interview with Conrad's Corner host Conrad Wilton, surprise chat with "Governor Jerry Brown"
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Some thought on Ferguson and our murder epidemic from black-on-black violence, bio/med items - circumcision is not just OK, it may be good, how vultures can eat what they eat
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Thanksgiving show. Our usual opening approach.
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Classic Comedy for the Holidays; a Rodney Dangerfield riff, Abbot & Costello's 'Who's on First', Monty Python's 'Argument Clinic', Nat Lampoon Radio Hour 'The Immigrants', Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements', Symphonic Rolling Stones
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More yucks: George Carlin's 'Modern Man', Stan Freberg's 'Bannana Boat Song', Nat Lamp Radio Hour's 'Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer' (Doug's fave), still more Tom Lehrer: 'National Brotherhood Week'
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Current Events, more on water woes, some good news on global warming and offshore (believe it or not) oil rigs
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A potpourri of topics related to money, and its relation to avarice, politics and madness.
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The JFK mystery. Recorded remarks from activist attorney William Simpich about some legal aspects of the case against Lee Harvey Oswald, as in was he framed?
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Current Events, opps it wasn't the Higgs Boson, bad medical advice from the early 1900s
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Chat with voice actor Corey Burton, bits of our prior chats with Norman Lloyd
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Carissa Carpenter indicted, Obit: Joan Quigley astrologer to Nancy & Ronald Reagan, Bill Maher's nonsense about Islam being evil
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Current Events, the Stan Freberg tribute in Los Angeles. Mini election round-up
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Interview with Dr James Fallon about his book The Psychopath Inside - A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain. Part 1 - Remarkable brain scans
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UC Irvine neuroscientist James Fallon Part 2 - the warrior gene, and more
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Current Events, new old news: Japan - 50 years of high speed trains vs USA -0, Nazis used by CIA & FBI, low back pain and sex
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Pre-election unamused musings, more water politics, voting NO on 46 despite Ralph Nader's ravings and NO on the Sacto mayoral power grab to help developers get their way even easier than they do now
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Hoaxathon: Obit of Gerald LaRue hoaxer of "Noah's Ark" fragment, and Re-run of our look at Orson Welles' War of the Worlds epic 1938 radio hoax
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Collection of all Vladimir Zeravica visits to Radio Parallax - 1) Wright Brothers, 2) Cargo hauling
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Vladimir Zeravica 3) The "Gimli glider" 4) The Boeing 737 vs the hailstorm
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Vladimir Zeravica 5) & 6) the Chinese explorer Chen Ho
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Current Events, FBI wants the option of breaking in to your cell phone, CIA notes that arming rebels usually fails to produce good results (duh)
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James DiEugenio talks with us about his review of Kill the Messenger currently on Consortiumnews.com, and a review sent to us by Richard Estes host of KDVS's Speaking in Tongues
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Interview with Vladimir Zeravica about adventures in flying cargo (previously unheard on KDVS), talk with Vlado's friend Michael O'Connell about how our mutual friend lauched Michael's career in comedy.
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Current Events
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Dr Gary Aguilar talks about Kill the Messenger, including his discussions with Webb when the NY Times, Washington Post and LA Times turned on the Dark Alliance revelations
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More reactions to the Gary Webb saga
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Gary Webb Tribute II, Current Events, Melinda Welsh's SN&R piece on her former colleague as Kill the Messenger comes to theaters
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Re-Airing of excerpts of our talk with DEA agent Michael Levine and investigative journalist Robert Parry about Gary Webb's story (from our 2004 tribute).
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Current comments from Robert Parry (Consortiumnews.com) and Ryan Deveraux (The Intercept) Obit: Fred Braunfman, the man who blew the whistle on the secret bombing of Laos
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Current Events, the AARC conference in DC last weekend, Jefferson Morley of JFKfacts.com's call to action; more recent Secret Service mishaps,
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Interview with Josiah Thompson about his groundbreaking JFK research on the Zapruder film, the acoustics evidence and grassy knoll assassin witness S.M. Holland
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Local talk by Ray McGovern of the CIA, and his subsequent chat with our pal Jeanie Keltner on KVMR, Obits: Polly Bergen, Richard Kiel, Dr Guinter Kahn
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Current Events, radioactive boars, hearing: your L & R ears differ, Will Durst on i-phone hype
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Potpourri of follies: big bang left over radiation? (no, dust); tertiary water treatment for Sacramento (so the water LA steals will taste better?), running America's health care via insurance companies (iffy idea) and palaverous writings like "Greece, bulwark of Western civilization"
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Miscellaneous
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Current Events
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bad news in commerce, curious news in science
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Mathematicians helping spy agencies - an ethical dilemma, bad behavior from cell phone usage, what makes a person happy?
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Current Events
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Health, medicine and the environment
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The latest sham in efforts to remove antibiotics from our meat
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Current Events
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Science, technology and the human interface, narcissists
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The American accent(s), college entrance exam Qs
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Current Events, Diane Feinstein vs the CIA, Will Durst on charging the superbowl acts
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The Senate's sweet tooth, a look at Sen Thomas Kuchel, thoughts on Ferguson and police power, The Economist's look at the sex industry
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Idiot tree surgery, sandbagging Space-X, watering almonds and musings on oxygen
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Current Events
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Follow ups: the TSA groper gets a pass, crying for Argentina, local boosters boost boosterism for the Bee, the water bond, our Australian correspondent Pamela Taylor returns
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Obits: Don Pardo, more on Lauren Bacall & Robin Williams, the new James Brown bio pic (we like it), celebrity misbehavior
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Current Events
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40 years post Nixon's resignation, a look at the F-35 $400 billion fiasco, a review of The Rule of Nobody review, several looks at trees (sure, trees, why not?)
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Obits: Lauren Bacall / Robin Williams, the supermoon(s) of summer, more on alleged alpha centauri planet
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Current Events
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Interview with Edward Haslam about his research into an unsolved murder mystery of 50 years ago and his book Dr Mary's Monkey
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More with Ed Haslam about a secret Laboratory in New Orleans in the early 60s, a polio vaccine-cancer connection & figures in the JFK assassination
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Current Events
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Goods news: breadfruit, ferns might sequester carbon, Cane toads not SO bad, the criminalization of parenthood, Will Durst bags on GOP obstructionists
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Close calls: the 2012 coronal mass ejection, sliding ice sheets, the Natomas flood risk, "tax inversions", the militarization of our police, Jay Barbree in Astronomy Magazine and Planetary Radio (after us), Billy Joel honored
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Current Events; some thoughts on rockets in Ukraine and Gaza
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Interview: NASA reporter Jay Barbree about his fine book - Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
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Mind bending science stories: plants really can hear, odors can affect skin healing, more strange bugs in the ocean depths, and a wearable submarine
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Current Events, jerk reporters, Will Durst on Facebook "experiments" on us
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The Root of Happiness (a Kava Bar) opens to Davis, we chat with the guys making it happen - Tyler Blythe
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Health: saunas are good, doctors are not over paid, but "big pharma" is!
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Current Events
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Health & science; sun addicts (mice & men); psychology & gambling; cigaret butts, tylenol, human DNA surprises
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Obituaries - Tony Guinn (chewing tobacco) Chester Nez (last of the Navaho code talkers) and Felix Dennis (flamboyant publisher of The week)
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Current Events
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more on the World Cup, drone ennui, hero gallery
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Sports commentator Shaun Minton chats about the late, great Harold Ramis
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Current Events, some talk about foods, Will Durst talks up World Cup "fever" (yawn)
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A continuation of our chat with gadfly former Congressman Pete McCloskey
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More NSA mischief - rogue mathematicians, and fixing your computer bugs
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Current Events, male vs female hurricanes, Sam MacManis wins an award
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; communication guide for men; Obama tries to help college grads; a look at America's tuition spiral
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Good news medley: Jersey Boys gets Eastwooded to the big screen, Aral Sea hopes, wild CA condors in San Mateo county, big dinosaurs (and great dinosaur bumper music to end)
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Current Events, Cantor goes down
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GOP anti-war maverick and former Congressman Pete McCloskey talks about his fights in the American political scene from the 1960s to the present
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Further political discussions with the legendary Pete McCloskey who challenged President Richard Nixon (and Nixon's secret wars in Southeast Asia)
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Current Events; more on our friends the bacteria
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Interview with NatGeo documentary filmmaker - New Zealand's Michael Bhana
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Math woes at Common Core, Health news: head rolls at VA, state marijuana strategies to be honored by feds?, the crass 9/11 Museum
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Current Events, Will Durst on graduation
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Grim politics (as usual) especially the knucklehead local version, and a few cool science stories like finding our sun's stellar brothers
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German words we don't have in English, technology - good and bad, "the right to be forgotten", Asimov unfriendly robots, why R2D2 was cool, virtual reality for chickens?
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Current Events, the #3 language in your state, channel surfing after watching Cosmos
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Medical stuff; the asymptomatic flu, cloning for diabetes, dark chocolate as health food, Juan Valdez and the worlds most popular drug - caffeine, Elizabeth Orpina Aggie Editor-in-Chief updates the story on how fixing the paper got sandbagged
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The luckiest archeologic find in history, Glen Greenwald's defense (and aiding of) Edward Snowden, how bacteria communicate (a prelude), some favorites from David Letterman's Top Ten lists.
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Current Events, Iraq - the ongoing disaster, urine in pool water - the alleged health hazard
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Miscellaneous topics: college athletes can unionize, Obama loses young people but keeps comedy skills, ice sheet melting, Pentagon woes, the Bush economic collapse
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Obit: James Tague the third man wounded on 11-22-63, the booming Chinese tourist industry, Lonely Planet guide books - works in transistion.
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Current Events, more on Voyager 1, Will Durst on bad week for racist commentaries
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Interview: Sam Kean author of The Tale of the Dueling Nuerosurgeons; the History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness and Recovery
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, happy 25th anniversary to the SN&R, happy 100th birthday to the Hershsprung-Russel Diagram, some more on The Denisovans
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Current Events, computers & cars - a marriage made in purgatory, the gap between student wages and educational costs gets Grand Canyonesque.
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The Sacramento City Council sells out (not again?): a chat with Doug's neighbor Sidney Norris about the McVillage travesty, we award a Horses Ass of the Year Award for crap reporting and let Will Durst sound off about neighborhoods (not ours)
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Voyager 1 has for sure left our solar system (they think... probably anyway) the definitive answer (maybe), Hollywood correspondent David Rosenbloom explains his novel approach to marketing Shakespeare's plays
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Current Events, the legacy of LBJ, Will Durst on executing people
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Interview: Ellen Cochrane on East Sac's issues, in particular the controversial development threatening a decent neighborhood, which happens to be the host's
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Obits: Jim DiEugenio talks about John Judge and Mike Rupert, two investigative reporting legends, more sadness about killing animals
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Current Events, eclipse review, plus Will Durst
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Miscellaneous File: overuse of surgery, mammogram problems, the slothful FDA & its disgraceful inaction on antibiotic "growth factor" use and new sunscreens
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Obits (brief): John Judge, Michael C. Rupert, courageous investigators, Robert Parry & Sy Hersch on the Syrian nerve gas ruse; pithy quotes
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Current Events, Will Durst on the new climate news
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Thomas Goetz, author of The Remedy Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle and Quest to Cure Tuberculosis, a tale of microbes and men
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Chloe Lessard current Public Affairs host (and PA director as KDVS) on her show & new shows, KDVS radio host Dr. Andy Jones talks about his new book based upon his son: Where's Jukie?
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Current Events, new discovery of remarkable object at edge of solar system: 2012VP113 aka "Biden"
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Cuckoo bird biology and cuckoo bird local politics: Sacramento Marina fails to apologize for being jerks, and they now want your business, No "YIMBY" with Sutter Memorial project. The misadventures of State Sen Leland Yee, why the Chinese hate their doctors (its corruption, again).
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Obit: Wm Pogue Part 2 with quotes from "How Do You Go To the Bathroom in Space?" also "Bunny" Mellon, amusing Sam McManus piece in Bee on watching a TV show being taped
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Current Events, Cosmos riles creationists & other cave dwellers, some good news about Fukushima contamination
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More good news: Japanese nukes, retiring bad farmland, suburbs with farms added; congrats to the Sac Bee; a look a military wastage old & new, Dwight Eisenhower and your host a psychological comparison
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Obits: William Pogue (part 1); more from our favorite cartoonist Eric Decetis (how to not get ripped off as an artist); is Yelp using extortion?
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Current Events; thoughts on David Brenner
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Drug doubts; voting, does it matter? Interview with Dr. Vladimir Dinets about his curious research on animals.
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Obit: Joe McGinnis, Glen Beck (in a moment of clarity) admits he's a horse's ass, the EHR "fix" of american medicine, a visit to Jack London State Park
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Current Events, the discovery of Uranus, as told to us previously by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (and BTW its pronounced YURR-a-nus)
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Shaun Minton talks about the Sochi Olympics and more
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Obit: Bob Casale of DEVO (and one-time interviewee for KDViations), Tennant Bagley - CIA agent & disinformationalist? Jerry Brown takes advice from Bibi Netanyahu, North Koreans (unlike Sacramentans) get to vote, more "supplement" bad news, Mexico kills drug lord - for the 2nd time
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