Show 536

Feb 21, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Chinese hackers robbing us, as Chinas water quality declines, fish behavior on human drugs seeping into their rivers & lakes, meanwhile California water officials say (with a straight face) that they can help our fish by removing their water
3. Homeopathic "overdosing", Jack Gallagher, David Rosenblum from Hollywood talking publicists

Show 535

Feb 14, 2013

1. Current Events
2. the selling out of Sacto's regional master plan to greedy developers (shock); North Korea, an eco disaster, well sure, but a Maoist paradise just the same?
3. Obituary: Shakespearian villain King Richard lll's remains have now been found

Show 534

Feb 7, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Al Gore is on the ball; how legal weasel (and future Supreme Court Justice) Lewis Powell led corporations to "occupy" the US; more Catholic scandals
3. Archaeologist James Mangold talks about modern archaeology.

Show 533

Jan 31, 2013

1. Current Events
2. censoring gun research, bad California "preditor management", Cordova Hills sleazy development
3. KDVS's Ed Martin, talks about various political subjects.

Show 532

Jan 24, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Idiots in Zimbabwe & Cuba; Iran miffed at the film 'Argo'; wildlife woes
3. Our DC correspondent Benjamin Jonas-Keeling reports on the second Obama inauguration while our Australian correspondent Pamela Taylor reports from a land down under (a land a' wonder)

Show 531

Jan 17, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Former professional cyclist Steve Fenton, talks doping, Lance Armstrong, and the future of the sport of bicycling.
3. China's bad air, Vega may have planets orbiting around it, mild obesity may not be so bad, OTOH Beta blockers may not be so good

Show 530

Jan 10, 2013

1. Current Events
2. Pamela Taylor, Radio Parallax's new Australia correspondent talks about 2012's top science stories
3. Amusing TV host Huell Howser dies; nationally syndicated columnist Thomas Freidman waffles on Bill Maher's show

Show 529

Jan 3, 2013

1. Current Events
2. 2012 obits: (music figures) Dick Clark, Hal David, Andy Williams, Davy Jones & more
3. Yet more 2012 obits: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of The NY Times, Senator Daniel Inoue, comic Phyllis Diller

Show 528

Dec 27, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Will Durst unloads on the gun issue. Science topics
3. End of year recap.

Show 527

Dec 20, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst, Top ten stories of 2012.
2. More on the sugar controversy, piece in Cosmos magazine & more
3. Science: Tau Ceti has planets, life on moons (vs planets), the exoplanet hunting Kepler space telescope

Show 526

Dec 13, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst talks about, "the most influential women".
2. Puerto Rico, health controversies: feeding animals worms, diverting anti-smoking dollars, the great sugar controvery - is it much worse than we have realized?
3. Will Durst on the election, our lame "Wildlife Services", tales of eclipse chasing: Fiji and Vanuatu.

Show 525

Dec 6, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Pamela Taylor, Radio Parallaxs Australia correspondent talks about the recent eclipse
3. election review plus ramblings

Show 524

Nov 29, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Amateur historian Gordon Smith talks about Kurdish politics in today's Turkey.
3. More on bad businessmen: quotes from "Griftopia" by Matt Taiibi

Show 523

Nov 22, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Encore Presentation of Ira Glass's segment on "Failure" from This American Life
3. Author Jim DiEugenio talks about recent revelations related to JFK's death

Show 522

Nov 15, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Cannibis activist and SN&R writer Ngaio Bealum discusses the ongoing battles over medical marijuana here in California
3. Science & health: exercise is awesome, federal cannabis restrictions are not

Show 521

Nov 1, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Election overview - the beat goes on
3. Election overview ll - and so do the beatings

Show 520

Oct 25, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Special Encore Presentation: excerpts of Doug's intervews with the late Senator George McGovern and Daniel Schorr
3. Activists Annette Deglow and Leno Carolo weigh in on Measure T, the "Claw" issue which dopes in city government want to curtail

Show 519

Oct 18, 2012

1. Current Events
2. The planets getting found around other stars, fMRI scans can still show brain activity in dead fish (so how serious can we take their data?), Sac city goverment spends $684K on a study on keeping the god dammed Kings - then says it has no money to pick up our leaves
3. More science topics, potpurri

Show 518

Oct 11, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Chat with local radio personality and film reviewer Gary Chew
3. Sara of Sara's Hair Salon talks about dirtbag lawyers who sue for minor ADA violations

Show 517

Oct 4, 2012

1. Current Events
2. election previews, Dan Lungren vulnerable?, homeless advocates shake-down
3. Film "The Master" - its OK, but less interesting than the real life wacky story of L Ron Hubbard.

Show 516

Sep 27, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on, 'The Worst Campaign Ever'
2. Author and lawyer Anthony V. Curto talks about his new book on how we might fix our broken legal system.
3. The rare and exotic substance, ambergris, demystified.

Show 515

Sep 20, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Science, history, politics & whatever we damn well please
3. Encore presentation: Author George Pendle on Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

Show 514

Sep 13, 2012

1. Current Events, KDVS GM Renner Burkle talks about an upcoming KZAP reunion.
2. Science follow-ups: Salton Sea stench, "junk DNA" is not junk, the continuing disgrace of antibiotic misuse in American animal feed lots
3. 9/11 heros and Wall Street weasels (including Mitt Romney)

Show 513

Sep 6, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Author Nigel Cliff ,talks about his book, The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
3. Eco Tour Guide Ted Cheeseman talks about a recent trip to the arctic and his first hand account of the effects of climate change.

Show 512

Aug 30, 2012

1. Current Events; Science, the decline of the autopsy, monarch butterfly migrations
2. NOTHING - pre-emption of second half of show by Aggie Sports

Show 511

Aug 23, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on, The Bold choice of Mitt Romney
2. Author Yale Wishnick talks about his new book, From a Culture of Dependency to a Culture of Success
3. Science topics - Microbes in our bodies with snappy bumper music

Show 510

Aug 16, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Radio Parallax Sports correspondent Shaun Minton gives us an Olympic round-up.
3. Obit: Helen Gurley Brown; Science topics

Show 509

Aug 9, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Science & Medicine: parrots expanding, ducks too, CO2 inaction, gun violence
3. California's great water scam (continued), real estate development at the Salton Sea?

Show 508

Aug 2, 2012

1. Current Events
2. India's blackout, energy gaming, toxic sludge, chat with "Mitt Romney"
3. Obits: Gore Vidal, Vidal Sasoon, the Edmund Scientific Catelogue; why we need to go into space

Show 507

Jul 26, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on, The Bain of Mitt Romney
2. Author Sam Kean, talks about his fascinating new book on DNA, The Violinist's Thumb
3. Science topics, a chat with 'Sly Stallone'.

Show 506

Jul 19, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Miscelleneous: vocabulary, Matt Taiibi on failed prosecutions of Wall St, casinos out of control, quinoa the new fad food that could actually be a boon
3. Local writer Matt Perry talks about death

Show 505

Jul 12, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Radio Parallax Sports correspondent Shaun Minton, pt 1
3. More Shaun Minton, (pt 2)

Show 504

Jul 5, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Doug recounts his recent adventures in New York City
3. World affairs, Obits: City of Stockton

Show 503

Jun 28, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Francis Gary Powers gets a posthumous medal, spy telescopes donated to NASA and a curious youtube video on the US government keeping car mileages LOW in the USA
3. Racial discrimination, a losing gambler tries to sue the casino, lying businessmen.

Show 502

Jun 21, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Kathryn Hohlwein: More on The Readers of Homer (pt 2)
3. Elise Howell talks about being a "Readers of Homer" participant.

Show 501

Jun 14, 2012

1. Our interview with Ray Bradbury (reprise part 1)
2. Ray Bradbury (reprise part 2)
3. Kathryn Hohlwein of CSUS's English Department on her group The Readers of Homer & the upcoming public reading of the Odyssey (pt 1)

Show 500

Jun 7, 2012

1. Current Events
2. SN&R contributor Tara Eshghi talks about her recent article on 'food recycling'.
3. Eclipse Chaser, Jerry Rose talks about our recent effort to go see the annular eclipse; the transit of venus

Show 499

May 31, 2012

1. Current Events
2. DSM-5, sustainable sushi
3. More fun with Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, defending Walter Cronkite from The Right

Show 498

May 24, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Historian Traveler Gordon Smith talks about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey - a remarkable man we've been promising to discuss for years.
3. Report on the annular eclipse that passed over California. Naturally we went up to Redding to see it.

Show 497

May 17, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Actor Norman Lloyd - we squeeze still more from our chat last year at Musso Franks
3. Obit: auto designer Carrol Shelby, our pal Steve Alexander comments and relives his youth driving his high performance Shelby Mustang

Show 496

May 10, 2012

1. Current Events
2. KDVS General Manager Neil Ruud talks about the importance of funding to keep KDVS on the air.
3. Obits: George Lindsey, Nicolas Katzenbach. Science topics

Show 495

May 3, 2012

1. Current Events
2. SN&R Senior news editor Cosmo Garvin, talks about sprawl in Northern California - the effort to develop "Cordova Hills" for the usual fast buck.
3. Travel expert Stan Godwin talks about travel agents. And comedian Michael O Connell talks about an upcoming show with The Comedians with Disabilities Act

Show 494

Apr 26, 2012

1. Our Annual PLEDGE DRIVE show - great clips though

Show 493

Apr 19, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Educational chicanery, changes in the arctic, more Sacramento King BS
3. Science topics: fetal guts are not sterile? modern gut bacteria are altered from ancient times

Show 492

Apr 12, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Dr. Ivan Schwab talks about his book, Evolution's Witness, How Eyes Evolved. pt 2
3. Joe Barr, News Director for Capitol Public Radio talks about the life and times of Mike Wallace

Show 491

Apr 5, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Dr. Ivan Schwab talks about his book, Evolution's Witness, How Eyes Evolved (a remarkable look at eyes throughout the animal kingdom). pt 1
3. Legendary KDVS Public Affairs Radio Host France Kassing talks about the recent passing of the award winning Sac Bee cartoonist Rex Babbin

Show 490

Mar 29, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Jessy Schmidt, KDVS host of the Public Affairs show "Intercourse on Intercourse" talks with us about her show on human sexuality.
3. Obit: the Thai inventor of Red Bull

Show 489

Mar 22, 2012

1. Current Events, Will Durst comments on the "Muppets" wisecrack by Goldman Sachs employee
2. Kudos for KDVS's Bill Wagman, TV themes, sugar industry attacks high fructose corn syrup.
3. Contraceptive nonsense from the GOP and Catholic hospitals, plus laughter is healthy

Show 488

Mar 15, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Legal Correspondent Nancy Yamada weighs in on the lame "improvements" to the Sacramento International Airport (part 2), and the latest 'Occupy the Capitol' event.
3. Obituary: Peter Bergman of The Firesign Theatre.

Show 487

Mar 8, 2012

1. Current Events
2. Gary Chew on The Artist winning the Oscar (first silent film since Wings - the very first Oscar winner), Rush Limbaugh a complete horses ass yet again
3. Obits: publisher Barney Rosset, composer Robert Sherman; dirty dishes from lower phosphates