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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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Current Events, some black history month items
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Reprise of oyr 2006 interview with Martin J. Smith about his book Oops 20 Life lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped America
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Wall Street discussion with Bob Dunham , science stuff, a Bob & Ray classic: The Slow Talkers of America
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Current Events, Will Durst on the primaries
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The passing of Atonin Scalia - the Young Turks weigh in, then us; giving Trump some credit; Matt Taibbi at the Mondavi, tanking Libertarianism
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Science - those confusing gravitational waves, dark skies, Edgar Mitchell, kill ALL mosquitos?, Sirhan denied parole
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Current Events
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Interview with John Lysack age 101, about his participation in the Berlin 1936 Olympics. NBC Sports airs a documentary on Feb 14th including footage of John..
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Science topics: clever dogs, our bug roomates, convergent fossil insect evolution, plants putting up a stink, something odd is orbiting a distant star, Pluto vs Eris
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Current Events, Russia denies Litvinenko murder allegations, Chinese abductions, Wall Street jerks, criticism of Israel does not equal anti-semitism, OJ trial revisited for black history month?
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Jerk genius Lowell Wood, dubious ideas - delivery drones, smart bullets, good ideas - tricking bacteria, evaluating web data
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Assorted stats, anecdotes, quotes quips and jokes not stuck at top of show
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Looking at "The Big Short" and "Drunk Brilliant Stoned Dead" the story of the National Lampoon, and Doug Kenney
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Excerpets from the writings of Michael Lewis
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Excerpts from the early days of The National Lampoon Magazine
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Reprise of our talk with David Talbot about his book Devil Dog (On General Smedley Butler)
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More with David Talbot on Smedley Butler and the Wall Steet plot to overthrow FDR
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Re-airing of our talk with documenatarian Alexander Gibey regarding his 2004 film Enron, the Smartest Guys in the Room
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Current Events
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St. John Hunt part III the deep politics of his father E. Howard Hunt, the CIA and JFK
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Part IV St. John Hunt
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Current Events
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A conversation with St. John Hunt son of E. Howard Hunt, CIA agent, watergate burglar, and confessed JFK assassination conspirator
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St. John Hunt part II (of IV) Obit: P.F. Sloan
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Current Events
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Great stories (mostly science news) from 2015
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Replay of our obit (with Gary Chew) for The Late Show with David Letterman
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Current Events, great Mark Evanier Xmas anecdote
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Comedy favorites (replay of Thanksgiving 2014 show)
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Comedy favorites (replay of 2014 Thanksgiving show)
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Current Events
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Reprise of interview with General Chuck Yeager the inspiration of "the Right Stuff"
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Reprise of our chat with CBS news legend Walter Cronkite
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Current Events
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Our chat with Bob Edwards about his book on Edward R. Murrow
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Lying, CIA fakers, what's wrong with this picture?, and what could you have eaten in the cretaceous era and still keep kosher?
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Current Events
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Reprise of a chat with William Poundstone author of Big Secrets, Bigger Secrets and Biggest Secrets
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Graham Smith talks up texbook exchanges, obits: the English language, Michael Gross of The National Lampoon
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Current Events
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Graham's interview with Lester Lusher about the influence of shared ethicity in grading
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Doug's chat with John Lisack about his participation in the Berlin Olympics in 1936!
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Current Events
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A chat with James Randi conjurer-magician and exposer of charlatans part 1
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James Randi Part 2
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Re[rise of Michael Tractman pt 1
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Michael Tractman pt 2
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Reprise of George Pendle interview
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Current Events
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Reprise of 2006 chat with consumer expert David Cay Johnston
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Reprise of 2004 chat with Peter G. Peterson then head of the Council on Foreign Relations; a couple of his predictions of economic calamity came sadly true in subsequent years
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Surprisingly familiar opening
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Reprise: Chris Mooney The Republican War on Science. 2006 interview still relavant (sadly)
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Reprise: John Stauber Toxic Sludge is Good for You. Also sadly relevant ten years after our chat
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Graham makes some observations; part one of Larry Tye on Satchel Paige
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Baseball ledgend Satchel Paige part two
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Kevin Cook on Titanic Thompson, hustler extrordinaire
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Salon.com founder David Talbot reads from his new book The Devil's Chessboard
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More from The Devil's Chessboard
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Doug makes a special appearance to rant about bagels
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Current Events
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Our chat with Mary Roach on "Packing for Mars
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More Mary Roach: Bonk, the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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BEST OF Radio Parallax with Graham Smith
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Our talk with Michael Pollan (he's coming to town next week) on food
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Our talk with Sam Kean on the periodic table of the elements
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Current Events
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Russ Baker of whowhatwhy.org updates us on some of their recent articles
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Obit: Oliver Sachs, update from Australia with Pamela Sue Taylor
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Current Events
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Steve Alexander the guy who gave us the idea to start a radio show talks up numerous topics with us
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TV Obits: Martin Milner of Route 66, "Batgirl" Yvonne Craig; Donald Trump returns to scold us, plug for SN&R event on 09/16
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Current Events, margarine is worse than butter
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Jeff vonKaenel of the Sacramento News and Review talks about the papers legal assault from the mayor and the fundraiser being held to support press freedom
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Saudi misbehavior; Jeb lies about ISIS, Chafee nails Hilary, Tanzania's water woes imitate CAs, kudos to Margaret Hutchinson, also oral contraceptive pioneers
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Current Events
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Jimmy Carter's efforts to explain Israel's Apartheid to America, baby boomer Doug is joined by millenial Graham Smith to chat up The Atlantic's piece on college politcal correctness
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Graham Smith stays on to talk about word & phrase origins
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Current Events, Obit: Robert Conquest, the man who told the unhappy truth about the USSR
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Stopping bobcat trapping, more BS from trophy hunters, Sy Hersh on Bin Laden's death; Saudis deny links to 9/11 attacks (and legal liability), US Muslim politics
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Lawsuit fun from Uncle John's, our hotter future, capital jargon
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Current Events
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A chat with SN&R reporter Cosmo Garvin who is stepping away from his great reporting (temporarily we hope)
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Briefing section radical Islam, tech stuff: adaptive optics, hacking cars & cities
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Hiroshima at 70, a look back, some comments on nukes and the remarkable work of Leo Szilard, the man who first envisioned the nuclear chain reaction; pro-nuke then anti-nuke
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Normal top of show; you know quote, quip, joke, stat, anecdote & good news; the good, the bad, and the ugly
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Beach Boys "God Only Knows", Alameda County reaps Area woes (somebody tell Scott Walker), Trump conspiracy theories, Stooge museum, politicians want bad writing, Discover magazine debunks homeopathy
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Current Events, with an on-the-attack appearance by Donald Trump
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Interview with Marin activist Bob Silvestri
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A chat with camera artist Colleen Gino
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Current Events, goodbye to Prarie Home Companion, Will Durst on The Donald
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"Book report": Phllip Knightley's classic The First Casualty, Jeb Bush thinks you should work more, lazy ants
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Obit: Omar Sharif, "life" on comet, Pluto mission update, Greek wenging, Mexico's own Houdini, Kevin Johnson's pals play the race card (we back the SN&R)
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