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1. Current Events, Diane Feinstein vs the CIA, Will Durst on charging the superbowl acts
2. 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
3. Idiot tree surgery, sandbagging Space-X, watering almonds and musings on oxygen

1. Current Events
2. 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
3. Obits: Don Pardo, more on Lauren Bacall & Robin Williams, the new James Brown bio pic (we like it), celebrity misbehavior

1. Current Events
2. 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?)
3. Obits: Lauren Bacall / Robin Williams, the supermoon(s) of summer, more on alleged alpha centauri planet

1. Current Events
2. Interview with Edward Haslam about his research into an unsolved murder mystery of 50 years ago and his book Dr Mary's Monkey
3. 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

1. Current Events
2. Goods news: breadfruit, ferns might sequester carbon, Cane toads not SO bad, the criminalization of parenthood, Will Durst bags on GOP obstructionists
3. 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

1. Current Events; some thoughts on rockets in Ukraine and Gaza
2. Interview: NASA reporter Jay Barbree about his fine book - Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
3. Mind bending science stories: plants really can hear, odors can affect skin healing, more strange bugs in the ocean depths, and a wearable submarine

1. Current Events, jerk reporters, Will Durst on Facebook "experiments" on us
2. The Root of Happiness (a Kava Bar) opens to Davis, we chat with the guys making it happen - Tyler Blythe
3. Health: saunas are good, doctors are not over paid, but "big pharma" is!

1. Current Events
2. Health & science; sun addicts (mice & men); psychology & gambling; cigaret butts, tylenol, human DNA surprises
3. Obituaries - Tony Guinn (chewing tobacco) Chester Nez (last of the Navaho code talkers) and Felix Dennis (flamboyant publisher of The week)

1. Current Events
2. more on the World Cup, drone ennui, hero gallery
3. Sports commentator Shaun Minton chats about the late, great Harold Ramis

1. Current Events, some talk about foods, Will Durst talks up World Cup "fever" (yawn)
2. A continuation of our chat with gadfly former Congressman Pete McCloskey
3. More NSA mischief - rogue mathematicians, and fixing your computer bugs

1. Current Events, male vs female hurricanes, Sam MacManis wins an award
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; communication guide for men; Obama tries to help college grads; a look at America's tuition spiral
3. 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)

1. Current Events, Cantor goes down
2. GOP anti-war maverick and former Congressman Pete McCloskey talks about his fights in the American political scene from the 1960s to the present
3. Further political discussions with the legendary Pete McCloskey who challenged President Richard Nixon (and Nixon's secret wars in Southeast Asia)

1. Current Events; more on our friends the bacteria
2. Interview with NatGeo documentary filmmaker - New Zealand's Michael Bhana
3. Math woes at Common Core, Health news: head rolls at VA, state marijuana strategies to be honored by feds?, the crass 9/11 Museum

1. Current Events, Will Durst on graduation
2. Grim politics (as usual) especially the knucklehead local version, and a few cool science stories like finding our sun's stellar brothers
3. 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?

1. Current Events, the #3 language in your state, channel surfing after watching Cosmos
2. 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
3. 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.

1. Current Events, Iraq - the ongoing disaster, urine in pool water - the alleged health hazard
2. Miscellaneous topics: college athletes can unionize, Obama loses young people but keeps comedy skills, ice sheet melting, Pentagon woes, the Bush economic collapse
3. Obit: James Tague the third man wounded on 11-22-63, the booming Chinese tourist industry, Lonely Planet guide books - works in transistion.

1. Current Events, more on Voyager 1, Will Durst on bad week for racist commentaries
2. 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
3. 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

1. Current Events, computers & cars - a marriage made in purgatory, the gap between student wages and educational costs gets Grand Canyonesque.
2. 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)
3. 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

1. Current Events, the legacy of LBJ, Will Durst on executing people
2. Interview: Ellen Cochrane on East Sac's issues, in particular the controversial development threatening a decent neighborhood, which happens to be the host's
3. Obits: Jim DiEugenio talks about John Judge and Mike Rupert, two investigative reporting legends, more sadness about killing animals

1. Current Events, eclipse review, plus Will Durst
2. Miscellaneous File: overuse of surgery, mammogram problems, the slothful FDA & its disgraceful inaction on antibiotic "growth factor" use and new sunscreens
3. Obits (brief): John Judge, Michael C. Rupert, courageous investigators, Robert Parry & Sy Hersch on the Syrian nerve gas ruse; pithy quotes

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the new climate news
2. Thomas Goetz, author of The Remedy Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle and Quest to Cure Tuberculosis, a tale of microbes and men
3. 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?

1. Current Events, new discovery of remarkable object at edge of solar system: 2012VP113 aka "Biden"
2. 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).
3. 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

1. Current Events, Cosmos riles creationists & other cave dwellers, some good news about Fukushima contamination
2. 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
3. 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?

1. Current Events; thoughts on David Brenner
2. Drug doubts; voting, does it matter? Interview with Dr. Vladimir Dinets about his curious research on animals.
3. 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

1. Current Events, the discovery of Uranus, as told to us previously by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (and BTW its pronounced YURR-a-nus)
2. Shaun Minton talks about the Sochi Olympics and more
3. 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

1. Current Events
2. Politics in Olympic judging: chat with UCD professor of Political Science John Stone, a look at Phllip Seymour Hoffman and heroin
3. A brief look (and obit) re: cartoonist Morrie Turner, a chat with our favorite local cartoonist Eric Decetis, more on Harold Ramis including our favorite clip of his: excerpt of "Perry Shriner Court Appointed Lawyer" (first aired on KDVS in 1977 via The National Lampoon Radio Hour). Ramis played Shriner.

1. Current Events, Aggie Editor Elizabeth Orpina gives us the good news on the Aggie vote
2. The Future of News essay (on the need for context), a clip from Daniel Schorr on that same topic, sports cheating - with xenon!, nicotine - a possibly useful drug even if tobacco is still poison
3. Obituary on Harold Ramis (part 1) and a chat with KDVS's legendary DJ Gary B. Goode

1. Current Events, stupidity and the law: multiple examples including one from Will Durst - marijuana's continued illegality
2. Science: Fusion progress? Polar bear politics, The great Sugar controversy, testosterone - we told ya so
3. (late) Good, Bad, & Ugly, Argentina's woes per The Economist, and Cuba's progress, Mazatlan - a qualified endorsement after a trip down Mexico way

1. Current Events, "for profit" hospice?!
2. Chat with Elizabeth Orpina Aggie Editor-in-Chief over ASUCD vote, Obama a wuss - on pot too, Arena weasels at it again, Chuck Yeagar in court, The Ouija Board
3. Obits: Christopher Jones, Maximillian Schell, Sid Ceasar, Shirley Temple

1. Current Events, Mexico vs vigilantes vs narcotrafficantes, State of the Union yawner
2. Essays: on "the process" of housing developments, CA water misuse, the hero of the Dreyfus Affair - Georges Picquart
3. Obits: the strange tale of Hiro Onoda, Bill Wagman of the Sat Morn Folk Show continues our chat on Pete Seegar

1. Current Events, Caribe thoughts, Will Durst sounds off on techno "progress"
2. Good Bad & Ugly, Chinese Rover woes, more Mantis shrimp data, Doug's Dominican Republic visit: whales and hard motoring, Chris Christie "news"
3. A chat about the late Pete Seegar with Sat Morn Folk Show host Robyne Fawx

1. Special report from the island of St Kitts/Current Events
2. A mantis shrimp follow up (we know you've been waiting), A look at the Surgeon General's report 50 years on, and a look at the statistician who somehow failed to notice the dangers of smoking cigarets
3. more science stuff

1. Current Events, stopping cars by shutting down the electronics - from afar, exercise - good, vitamins - unclear benefits
2. Radiation effects on wildlife, Fungi - a new killer found, but good news too
3. "Obit" for Rep George Miller, Texas jackasses, drugs and banking, Cosmos II

1. Current Events, Dave Barry's amusing look back at 2013
2. Rants on "W", the NSA, California water woes & real estate scams
3. Obit: Phil Everly, Science topics: exo-plants are not like the neighborhood, more on good germs, snowflakes don't look like we've been led to believe they look

1. Current Events; comet to crash on Mars? the Curiosity rover keeps roving, demented drone delivery proposals - a future debacle?
2. 2013 Obits: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Ruth Patrick, Martin Sharp, Tom Laughlin, Harold Camping, Paul Crouch, Al Goldstein, Joan Fontaine and the legendary Peter O'Toole
3. Will Durst gripes about computer passwords; our fossil ancestors: both human & fish, newly-discovered miracle anti-biotics (fresh air and sunlight!)

1. Current Events, satirical piece by Steve Weigand on Sacramento's downtown arena
2. NSA called out by Federal judge, Director of Central Intelligence caught lying (shock!), SF Bay restoration, fresh water under the sea floor, dino extinction clarified
3. More on Nelson Mandela, a look back at the controversy over Davis's 1978 Measure A (on divestment) & the verdict (decades later) that it helped (notwithstanding our misgivings about boycotts, and occasional breaking of them deliberately e.g. Cuba)

1. Current Events, reviving the Dea Sea, you know your denounced when its done by the North Korean News Agency; Will Durst on the NSA's snooping on gamers
2. NSA follies: new laws needed, Snowden's cat & mouse, snooping in our mailboxes; developers to cut down old trees in West Sac
3. A report from Disneyland, some follow-up on Soviet sub chasing, our interview with the great Norman Corwin makes it onto his official web site.

1. Current Events, Chinese driving - on the moon, the miracle of the Nigerian boat rescue
2. Our obituary and tribute to the late-great Nelson Mandela, the man who kept South Africa away from disaster as white rule was changed
3. More of the Mandela story: not a saint (perhaps) but a genuine hero - to a world that could use more of them

1. Current Events, for-profit college rip offs continue, is UC awarding slots to more foreign students out of budget concerns (since they pay a lot more tuition?)
2. SN&R's Nick Miller gets duped by a developer-paid-for Environmental Impact Report, Dennis McEwan former respected biologist tells a ridiculous tale about the Twin Tunnels water grab (and the Bee published it!)
3. Twin spy writer obits: William Stevenson (non-fiction) and Tom Clancy (fiction); a chat with local business writer Roger S. Peterson about his special to the Bee on why the Warren Report is not credible

1. Current Events; new Mars probe and what it might teach us
2. Sac Bee blows the call on "McVillage" development, we salute their Tom Knudson for his award on "Wildlife Service" exposes, Sac Bee then bloviates on JFK; a chat w/ plumber Ivo Kovacevich on how "flushable wipes" might, correction: probably will, clog your toilets
3. Thanksgiving clarifications & humor; the "Newseum" sells out to Paramount's "Anchorman"; Elk Grove - tourist Mecca? planet earth's newly discovered most common biologic entities!

1. Current Events (shortened version of our usual opening)
2. We opine on the puzzle of what happened to JFK part 1 (Steve Alexander becomes the questioner and the host tries to answer the big questions)
3. Continued solving of the puzzle, or trying to anyway, in part 2 (with more role reversal)

1. Current Events, actual travel complaints, glut of JFK TV shows
2. Interview with author/reporter Jefferson Morley about his fine book "Our Man in Mexico, Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA"
3. Will Durst on lame Obamacare rollout, no amnesty for Edward Snowden, What is a hybrid eclipse?

1. Current Events, more Fish & Wildlife boneheadedness - this time in Africa with ivory
2. Jim DiEugenio on JFK's foreign policy and the enemies it made, hair raising tales from The Economist on how science is not checking its work and possibly producing bogus studies (yikes!)
3. Obit: Lou Reed, some comments (from William Goldman's writings) about the movies, and mention of some bad ones

1. Current Events; shooting rhinos to save them; promoting casinos
2. Robert Dallek's piece on JFK and the military, Ted Bundy's lawyer's "ethical dilemma"
3. Obits: Bum Phllips, Hal Needham; Halloween Special - Our semi-annual look at the Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" ( reprise)

1. Current Events, Special show: A look at Dr Cyril Wecht's 2013 Duquesne University JFK conference
2. Doug's summary of five decades of back & forth in the battle for public opinion in the JFK assassination
3. The JFK case: What can be said now (first of several)

1. Current Events; playing DJ at KDVS, hemp won't stone you
2. Climate change denial in Australia; capital follies - Nick Miller weighs in, so do Op Ed goofs; UCD's Dr Garen Wintemute in New Scientist magazine; fat Mexicans; testosterone mania
3. Obit: Scott Carpenter; also, nature's iron teeth; one old albatross, interviews with Dr Opfell & two governors (sort of).

1. Current Events, Will Durst on the government shut-down
2. A canal thru Nicaragua? Cannabis as a California water issue; Obituary: General Vo Nguyen Giap the remarkable man who defeated France AND the United States in Vietnam's wars
3. Obit II: Robert Ford, honorary Tibetan; US nuclear follies with a clip from Dr Strangelove to finish.

1. Current Events, going to a Giants game, testicular follow-up, Will Durst on Ted Cruz
2. Brief review of a prior chat with Daniel Ellsberg leaker extraordinaire, still more on government lies, in praise of the automobile stick shift.
3. The deserving downfall of the "multiple personality disorder" diagnosis and the merry tale of "Dave Henderson", the alleged voluble Yale alumnus who upset the alumni newsletter

1. Current Events, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2. Doug's medical school reunion: some nostalgic & wistful recollections mixed with tales of mischief & fun, and yes, the names have been changed to protect the innocent
3. NPR borrowings: Dr James Fallon , "Who Can Sing The Blues?" from a chat with Mick Martin (and a commentary on "Texas") that aired on Capital Public Radio

1. Current Events, how accurate need 'pi' be? (a follow up)
2. Dr. Gary Aguilar, who has seen the original autopsy materials, returns to the program to talk about the strangely discordant medical evidence in the case of JFK's fatal wounds
3. Hard times for Marxist studies, Big tobacco goes into Burma (the show's host must admit to once trafficking cigarets there).

1. Local writer and KDVS host, Jeff Hudson, on the upgraded KDVS broadcast tower and boosted signal, current events, Current Events
2. Medical topics: prevention!, brain changes post bariatric surgery, sleep loss (including how this killed Doug's med school softball team) and why breakfast is controversial
3. Why Algebra II should be banned; Obits: Michael Ansara (with great clip by Bob Scheaffer of CBS), David Frost (and That Was The Week That Was, the breakthrough show he hosted at age 23).

1. Current Events, the tale of the ill fated "Project Pluto" atomic airplane
2. Writer Christopher Arns talks about the new guidebook he has produced "Sacramento and the Gold Country" published by Moon Handbooks.
3. The poor readability of most medical articles; Obituaries: UC Davis's professor of biology Dr Robert Thornton (who's Bio 1 probably made the host a biology major), Virginia Johson of Masters & Johnson fame: also, a look at some bad if traditional medical advice

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