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The downside of high tech. JFK records retained. CO2 at 800,000 year high. Social media: its threat to democracy. Facebook & Google running amok.
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Excerpts from World Without Mind by Franklin Foer. Computer scientist Donald Rose talks about Artificial Intelligence.
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Public double-cross -- again. Solar system invaded. JFK records release: the true numbers. 100th anniversary of the Soviet Union -- yawn. Che Guevara, 50 years on. Luther: 500 years on.
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Obit: Fats Domino. Communism: alive and well in China. Chicoms: embracing AI technology. Dont Hassel The Hoff. Colombian coffee. Tech gone haywire.
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JFK records release scam. 225 years of the Old Farmers Almanac. The NFL and the First Amendment. Our usual fare.
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Reprise: Jefferson Morley interview. Our man in Havana.
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UCI med school goes in for quackery. Obits: Jake LaMotta and Bobby Heaton. The Juice is loose. Also, David Lopez. Non-saluting the flag. Dementia test.
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Vegas shooter: gambling creep. Obit: Arthur Janov, the Primal Scream guru. Scientific research of dubious value. Thomas Midgley: a one-man scientific disaster?
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Santa Rosa burns up. RexTillerson thinks Trump is a moron? Robert Mugabe: still a jerk, but hanging on. Larry David returns to HBO. Gerrymandering. Google engulfs.
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Cleanliness in Western society. Handwashing: a recent development. 60th anniversary of Sputnik. A look at Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
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Thoughts and analysis of the tragedy in Las Vegas.
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A remembrance of the man who prevented World War III in 1983.
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Some musings on Hawaii. Usual show opening. Quackery. Paper currency issues.
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Russiagate. Google, Amazon, Facebook: public enemies? More insidious tech.
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Interview with Martha Brockenbrough about her book, “Alexander Hamilton - Revolutionary.”
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Part 2, Alexander Hamilton interview. More eclipse chat. Usual show fare.
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Musings on Geography. Deep Politics. Can AI tell if you’re gay? (good grief) Using DNA to tell what you look like. Thoughts on rain.
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More on the late great Dick Gregory. Yet more corporate mergers. Science topics. Goodbye, Cassini – a look at the mission’s accomplishments and findings.
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Our Australian correspondent, Pamela Taylor, joins us to talk Eclipse Tourism – plus a look at Australian slang.
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Reprise episode: Mark Anderson, author of “Shakespeare by Another Name.”
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The “American eclipse” – an eyewitness report, assisted by Pamela Taylor, our Australian correspondent.
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Trumpian antics. Miscellaneous Parallax musings. Dangers from tech companies. Questions on antibiotics.
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Andreas Kluth on Hannibal (reprise).
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Good, bad, and ugly – new and old. Stealing pistachios. Trump at the Boy Scouts.
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Political hitman Roger Stone - via a brief quote gathered for us in LA anyway. Can AI produce poetry? The new tech monopolies. Archival humor. Are planets 9 and 10 orbiting beyond Pluto??
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Trump vs. his supporters. Job issues: tech run amok. Summer of Love at 50.
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Micro-dosing. Good, bad and ugly. Bad behaviors. Planetary science.
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Current events and the usual fare.
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Miscellaneous stuff. The attack on the U.S.S. Liberty, 50 years ago this month.
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Some introspection. Trump's hilarious cabinet. Our usual boilerplate. Indonesia's killer kretek cigarettes.
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Obits: Fred Kummerow (opponent of trans fats); bipolar baseballer Jim Piersall; Jack O'Neill (wizard of wet suits); Manuel Noriega; sinister media maven Roger Ailes; Zbigniew Brzezinski (author of the USSR's Afghan debacle); actor Roger Moore; Adam West (THE Batman).
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Trip to the Azores.
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James Brown's anti-drug spot. Adventures in Iberia, part two.
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Summer of Love turns 50. Also from 1967: satanic lion in SF. The MMR shot. Ten peculiar laws.
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Trump fires Comey. Obit: Robert Pirsig. Usual fare. Weaponizing Anthony Weiner.
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GOP war on science continues. EPA under siege. Skepticism over Syria. Monsanto sued.
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Proxima Centauri verified. Archival material revisited.
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Don Rickles obit. US entry into World War I centennial. Politically correct language (call-in from Dr. Chris Leslie of the Institute for Improved Language).
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Excerpts from Neil Sheehan's classic Vietnam book, A Bright Shining Lie.
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Goldman Sachs: still in the saddle. Raiders saga review. Salton Sea sickness.
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Serbian comedy candidate. Obama's red phone call to Putin. Marc Ambinder's bizarre Washington Post piece denying the Deep State.
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Realities of the Deep State. Excerpt of Peter Dale Scott radio interview.
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Is Trump at war with the Deep State? Respected investigative journalists deny Russiagate.
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Review of Chuck Berry's career with musicologist Kyle Larsen.
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Replumbing India. Daylight savings conspiracy. Wild turkeys in Davis. Goat yoga. Cyber security. Cold turkey on tech addiction.
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Social media evils. Russian hacks. Taibbi quotes on Trump. Bacteria helping your health.
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Trump on the march... to doomsday? Obituary: David Lamb. Zealandia. Breeding fighting cattle.
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Water & Power: A California Heist (a Nat Geo special), interview with director Marina Zenovich and attorney Adam Keats.
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Two plays in LA: Pacino in Tennessee Williams, Oscar Levant aided by Phil Proctor. Stories of the artists.
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The usual top of the show. Is Trump crazy? Meteorite dust in your gutter? Paleo vegetarianism. The "smart" hairbrush.
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Usual boilerplate. NSA secrets. CIA psychic astronauts. Taxpayer support of NFL. Testosterone oversold. Bacteria and B.O. Bison murder.
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Election aftermath. Voter suppression and election theft. Miscellaneous criminality.
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Parallax returns from hiatus, 2017.
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Miscellaneous Parallaxisms. Trump tape.
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Jobs and Apple. Social media and wimpiness. RP plans to take a break.
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RP relocates to Bay Area. Crashing on a comet. Jerry Brown makes doctors’ jobs harder, and continues to plot his water theft. Dems ask FBI to investigate Russian hacks, Roger Stone, and Wikileaks.
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Suing the Saudis over 9/11. Presidential debate. Zodiac has 13 signs.
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Global warming: bad news. Biomass problems. Issues with Israel, Venezuela, Mexico.
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Musings on the future of Parallax.
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Reconnaissance run to Oregon for next year’s eclipse.
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Potpourri. Jonestown. Rose Pak. Sacto real estate corruption. San Francisco real estate corruption. Space explosions.
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Usual fare. Sugar villainy. UCD to study coffee. Nanobats. Duterte vs. drugs. Gluten.
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Clinton looking good? Blocking 9/11 Saudi lawsuits. For-profit college scamming. Calcium and dementia. Medical about-faces.
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The defeat of smallpox. Umami & MSG. DOD waste. Syrian mess.
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TBD
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Viagra follies. Water woes. Cannabis vote. Astronomic fun. Rabin remembered.
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Proxima Centauri and its planet. Low tech backup. Screwball celestial objects past Neptune. What do humans taste like?
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Revisiting our chats with Leno Carolo who recently passed away.
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Sacto opts for more light pollution. GOP Convention. Election preview.
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Excess screen time. Polluting young brains. Should you floss? Clean your ears.
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Obit: Marni Nixon, Gary Paxton. More political wackiness – especially water.
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The ghost of Walter Winchell. What you sound like on radio. Opioid issues. Sexual identity.
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Racial violence. Too many people.
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Standard fare. Roger Ailes woes. Kepler continues. Spain & Hawaii.
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Vice Presidential follies.
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More on the Veep. James Brown PSA.
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Our attempt at a full show. Entertainment from the 12th century – bullfighting. Elvis and Nixon. The Brits on the Iraq War. Discovery of lost films.
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Katehi woes. Political follies.
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Bacterial rainmakers. A look back at psychopathy. Free throws and machismo.
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Spirit vs. Led Zeppelin. Usual Parallax fare.
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A completely typical show. Crazy legal case.
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The usual stuff. “Ghostbusters” sexism? Will Durst on third parties.
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Democratic primary shenanigans. Brief obits worthy of future segments (Muhammad Ali, Mark Lane, Morley Safer). The usual Parallax fare.
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A half hour of the usual fare, bagging on politicians, etc.
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Current Events
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Reprise of our chat with author Pope Brock about his book Charlatan, the story of Dr John Brinkley who made a fortune with a bogus cure for erectile dysfunction (and pioneering use of radio)
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Real-life treater of ED Jason Sowell joins Dr Doug for a sort-of infomercial on Doctors Clinic for Men, where modern medicine can actually cure most men with this issue
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Current Events
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Reprise of interview with the celebrated hostorical writer Evan Thomas
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Obituary of a Morton-Thiokol engineer who warned NASA that the shiuttle would blow up if they launched in cold weather.
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Goodbye KDVS (its been a great 14 years), current events, reminder that we will continue at radioparallax.com
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Dr Andy Jones weighs in a final time, James Israel talks about 25 years of The Humor Times - and their party next month
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Celebrity poetry reading, not included: "and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make" but we end on it just the same
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Current Events
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Interview with author Margaret Talbot about her book The Entertainer - Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century
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Margaret Talbot Part 2. (The father in the book's title is actor Lyle Talbot)
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Current Events, brief obit Nancy Reagan
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Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society (and Planetary Radio) shares her knowledge of what we are learning about our neighbors in space
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Science topics, including some science of econ and poli sci
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Author and activist David Talbot talks about his book The Devil's Chessboard; Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government. Part 1 our power elite
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The Devil's Chessboard Part II: Dulles and the CIA's gains in power in the 50s
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The Devil's Chessboard Part III: the JFK assassination and the CIA's links to it, Allen Dulles masterminds the Warren Commission cover-up
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