Radio Parallax Shows

Show 360

Dec 27, 2007
  1. Dr. Peter Donahue instructs Douglas Everett on how to speak Australian (pt 1)
  2. Dr. Peter Donahue how to speak Australian (pt 2)
  3. Dr. John Savino discusses his new book, Super Volcano

Show 359

Dec 20, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Radar magazine senior editor Dale Hraby talks about his article "Help, I Can't Move My Face", which exposes plastic surgery mishaps in Hollywood and elsewhere.
  3. Doug's neighbor and educator Leno Carolo talks about meeting the rocket scientist who designed Evel Knievel's famous Skycycle.

Show 358

Dec 13, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Sac News & Review writer, Jennifer Davidson, reports on the grisly processing of salmon at the Nimbus hatchery. And Bob Roper talks about the Golden Gate bridge swim event in which Doug participated
  3. Science topics and current events

Show 357

Dec 6, 2007
  1. Current Events, Will Durst commentary on 'the dollar'
  2. Gordon 'Uncle John' Javna talks about the Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader
  3. Bruce Braunstein talks about his recent LA Times editorial on California water politics, and Vincent Rincon gives a first hand account of the Van Halen reunion tour.

Show 356

Nov 29, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Michael Krasny, author, and award winning host of NPR's, Forum, talks about his new book, Off Mike (pt 1)
  3. Michael Krasny, host of Forum (pt 2)

Show 355

Nov 22, 2007
  1. Current Events, Will Durst commentary on Thanksgiving
  2. Investigative jounalist Lisa Pease discusses the lawsuit against some voting machine companies in California.
  3. Encore presentation of Ira Glass', Fiasco, from his show, This American Life

Show 354

Nov 15, 2007
  1. Current Events, Will Durst commentary on countries with nukes
  2. Dr. Peter Dale Scott concludes the discussion of his new book, The Road to 911 (pt 3), Mat Kaplan host of the Planetary Report radio program talks about his show and his start in radio at UCI
  3. Obits: Norman Mailer, Joey Bishop, Robert Goulet

Show 353

Nov 8, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Dr. Peter Dale Scott resumes the discussion of his new book, The Road to 911 (pt 2)
  3. Science topics, current events

Show 352

Nov 1, 2007
  1. Current Events, Will Durst commentary on not voting
  2. Dr. Peter Dale Scott discusses his new book, The Road to 911 (pt 1)
  3. Dr. Andy Jones gives a report of the Seymour Hersh lecture at the Mondavi Center.

Show 351

Oct 25, 2007
  1. Current Events, Will Durst commentary on smoking
  2. Science potpourri, current events
  3. Obits: Enrico Banducci, Mark Goodson, Bob Denard

Show 350

Oct 18, 2007
  1. Current Events, Will Durst commentary on Al Gore's Nobel Prize
  2. Author Michael Pollan talks about his fascinating book , The Omnivore's Dilemma.
  3. KDVS's Heather Klinger talks about, The Midtown Monthly, a new magazine for which she writes articles on local music happenings.

Show 349

Oct 11, 2007
  1. Current Events, Will Durst commentary
  2. SN&R's Jennifer Davidson talks about the cruelty to which circus elephants are subjected
  3. Former KDVS GM Steven Valentino talks about working for Sirius Radio and life in NYC

Show 717

Oct 4, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. sputnik
  3. Vladimir Zeravica the hailstorm flight

Show 348

Sep 27, 2007
  1. Current Events, Will Durst commentary
  2. Political analysis of current administration, etc.
  3. Potpourri of news items

Show 347

Sep 20, 2007
  1. Nick Gregory gives an on the scene, first hand account of the recent anti-war rally in Washington DC; Will Durst reflects on Gen. Petraeus' update on Iraq.
  2. SN&R Radio Parallax correspondent, Jennifer Davidson, talks about Global Warming
  3. Actor Jeff Kravitz, speaks about the play, A Patriot Act: The Trial of GW Bush, currently playing in Sacramento.

Show 346

Sep 13, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Douglas Everett give an analysis of the current state of the Iraq War
  3. Sac News & Review writer and Radio Parallax's Eco correspondent, Jennifer Davidson, talks about solar cookers and their use in developing nations.

Show 345

Sep 6, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Science Friday, speaks about his new book. Present at the Future
  3. Science topics

Show 344

Aug 30, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Former 60 minutes producer and Pulitzer prize winner, Lowell Bergman, talks about Arms Merchants and his Frontline special on the subject; Gun Runners.
  3. Meteorologist Elyssa Lynn talks about the amazing Science on a Sphere exhibit currently at Cal Expo

Show 343

Aug 23, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Paul Schramski, CA State Director of Pesticide Watch, speaks on the folly of aerial pesicide spraying to combat West Nile virus. And, Sac News & Review writer and Radio Parallax's new Eco correspondent, Jennifer Davidson, introduces herself.
  3. More CE, and the host of KDVS' Saturday Morning Folk Show, Robyne Fawx, comes on to correct last week's obit of Lady Astor.

Show 342

Aug 16, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Brad Friedman of bradblog.com discusses election fraud and the recent hacking and decertification of Diebold electronic voting machines. And, Dr. Sharad Malelu talks about the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan (encore).
  3. Obit; Lady Astor

Show 341

Aug 9, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Dr. Matthew Bishop of UC Davis and Dr. David Wagner of UC Berkeley discuss the vulnerability of California's recently decertified electronic voting machines
  3. Las Vegas correspondent Dr. Sam Russo talks about the last episode of the Sopranos.

Show 340

Aug 2, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Pulitzer prize winning author Chris Hedges talks about his book, American Facists, which documents the agenda of radical right wing christians (encore presentation)
  3. Excerpt of Radio Parallax interview with author, and founder of salon.com, David Talbot, on his book, Brothers, The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years; and author Jim Gerard, speaks about his new book , Beam Me Up, Jesus - A Heathen's guide to the Rapture.

Show 339

Jul 26, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Astronomer, Dr. Alan Hirshfeld, discusses his book , Parallax, The Race To Measure The Cosmos.
  3. Origins of Sunni and Shiite. Current events.

Show 338

Jul 19, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Tour d'France winner Floyd Landis speaks about cycling and the controversy surrounding his 2006 victory.
  3. Former Aerojet worker Leno Carolo talks about meeting Gus Grissom and other astronauts while helping build the rocket engine that helped save the Apollo 13 crew.

Show 337

Jul 12, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Mitchell Benson, head of UC Davis' News and Information Service talks about Huell Howser's recent visit to the campus. And, Dr. Bill Ferrier speaks about The California Raptor Center
  3. Obit: Ladybird Johnson, Count Gottfried von Bismark.

Show 336

Jul 5, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Screenwriter, author, and blogger (of the great site News from Me) ,Mark Evanier, gives a report about the recent All Star Mort Sahl tribute.
  3. Egyptologist Matthew McCauley lends insight to the Great Pyramids and ancient Egypt

Show 335

Jun 28, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Professor Alfred McCoy speaks about the recent plot to usurp the current Laotian government.
  3. Obit: Ed Yost, Stu Wexler comments on inaccuracies in Vincent Bugliosi's book on the assassination of JFK, Dr. Malcom North discusses the Angora fire currently raging in the Sierras.

Show 334

Jun 21, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Dr. Garen Wintemute speaks about gun violence.
  3. Obit: Sir Wally Herbert, the first man to reach the North Pole on foot. Science topics

Show 333

Jun 14, 2007
  1. Interview with veteran voice actor extraordinaire, Corey Burton (encore)
  2. Interview with author Michael Trachtman about his book The Supremes' Greatest Hits - The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Affect Your Life (encore)
  3. Science topics

Show 332

Jun 7, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Science, politics,news
  3. Obit: Stanley Miller, science

Show 331

May 31, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Vincent Bugliosi, best selling author and former Los Angeles District Attorney, talks about his new book; Reclaiming History, The Assassination of JFK, in which he claims to have put to rest the controversies that surround that historic event (part 1)
  3. Vincent Bugliosi, former LA DA, talks about Reclaiming History, The Assassination of JFK, (part 2)

Show 330

May 24, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Professor Larry Berman discusses his latest book, The Perfect Spy.
  3. Dr. Kirsten Gilardi talks about her project to recover hazardous lost fishing line and gear from California's waters

Show 329

May 17, 2007
  1. Capitol Public Radio's Donna Apidone, talks about her upcoming interview, An Evening With Morning Edition, at the Mondavi Center; and William Beteta, Chief of Interpretation and Visitor Services at the Brown verses Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas, talks about the anniversary of the historic decision.
  2. Caitlyn O'Connell discusses her book, The Elephants Secret Sense. - Professor Jorge Dubcovsky talks about wheat rust and the history of wheat. - KDVS Producer Steve Lambert talks about his recent write up in The New York Times.
  3. Science topics, obits; Tom Poston and Don Ho.

Show 328

May 10, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Steve Freeman discusses vote tampering in the past three US elections, and Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Chris Hedges, talks about his documentation of the taunting and murder of Palestinian youths by Israeli forces in a refugee camp.
  3. Current Events; Science, Obits; Tommy Newsom

Show 327

May 3, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Dr. Bill Durston of Physicians for Social Responsibility speaks out on gun control.
  3. Science topics, obits; Boris Yeltsin, David Halberstam, Jack Valenti and Bobby (Boris) Pickett

Show 326

Apr 26, 2007
  1. Will Durst and James Israel talk about the 16th anniversary of the Comic Press News and it's name change to, The Humor Times.
  2. Steve Ettlinger, author of Twinkie Deconstructed, talks about what goes into some of our snack foods (encore).
  3. Current Events; Science (encore)

Show 325

Apr 19, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Karl Mogel host of KDRT's, The Inoculated Mind, speaks with Douglas Everett
  3. Encore presentation of Author George Pendle discussing his book, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

Show 324

Apr 12, 2007
  1. Current Events, Misha Brodsky recounts being in the USSR in 1961 when Uri Gagarin became the first man to return from a space flight.
  2. Pulitzer prize winning author Chris Hedges talks about his book American Facists which documents the agenda of radical right wing christians
  3. Science topics, current events

Show 323

Apr 5, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Iraq update and Indiana correspondent Jeremy Newton gives a report
  3. James Israel of the Humor Times celebrates 16 years in print

Show 322

Mar 29, 2007
  1. Current Events, interview with WECI program director Alice Edgarton and Jeff Shaw, station director of KDRT
  2. Lt Col Charlie Brown discusses his possible run for congress.
  3. National politics, 'Donald Trump' talks about getting rich.

Show 321

Mar 22, 2007
  1. Current Events, NYC correspondent Steven Valentino give an update.
  2. Interview with author Michael Trachtman about his book The Supremes' Greatest Hits - The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Affect Your Life
  3. Iraq War price tag examination, political analysis.

Show 320

Mar 18, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Douglas Everett highlights some of the 'jackasses' in the news
  3. Current Events; Science

Show 319

Mar 8, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Steve Ettlinger, author of Twinkie Deconstructed, talks about what exactly goes into the well-known snack food.
  3. Politics, science, and a dubious ossuary from the time of Jesus

Show 318

Mar 1, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Kirsten Sanford, host of This Week in Science, talks about her attendance at a science conference in SF last week. Benjamin Jonas-Keeling former producer of CPR's Insight lends a hand in determining which Coca-Cola sweetener tastes best.
  3. Obit: Frankie Laine, science topics.

Show 317

Feb 22, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Iraq war political analysis
  3. Science, Bob Carrol obit

Show 316

Feb 15, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Interview with author David Wallechinsky on his survey of the world's 10 worst dictators
  3. Dr. Andrew Nangalama describes meeting Idi Amin and his escape from Uganda to avoid persecution (part 2)

Show 315

Feb 8, 2007
  1. Current events, and writer Lyra Halprin gives her eyewitness account of the Yuba City flood of the 1950's
  2. Science potpourri: Cure for cancer? How bats fly, Do you and your mate have compatible immune systems, and more.
  3. Dr. Andrew Nangalama talks about meeting Idi Amin and his escape from Uganda to avoid persecution, (part 1). Molly Ivins obituary.

Show 314

Feb 1, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Interview with PJ O'Rourke about his new book On The Wealth of Nations, a look into Adam Smith's classic book from the late 1700's
  3. Current Events; Science

Show 313

Jan 25, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Interview with CC Goldwater on her documentary; Mr. Conservative, Goldwater on Goldwater
  3. Review of the classic, English as She is Spoke, by Pedro Carolino

Show 312

Jan 18, 2007
  1. Current Events
  2. Benjamin Jonas-Keeling, producer of Capitol Public Radio's Insight program, talks about his upcoming move to The Voice of America
  3. Interview with 'Senator Joe Lieberman'

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