None of you remember it, but doctors didn’t always perform physical exams and their notes were very basic. Note complexity grew when exams were introduced a couple of centuries ago. With the plethora of diagnostics tools and techniques now, the

The Bombing of Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney – Part 2

May 26th, 2015 1h 19m

On May 24th, 1990 a motion-activated, anti-personnel bomb exploded in Judi Bari’s car as she and Darryl Cherney were driving in Oakland, CA. Both were Earth First! (EF!) activists organizing ‘Redwood Summer,’ modeled on the civil rights movemen

The Bombing of Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney – Part 1

May 19th, 2015 1h 14m

On May 24th, 1990 a motion-activated bomb exploded in Judi Bari’s car as she and Darryl Cherney were driving in Oakland, CA. Both were Earth First! (EF!) activists working to halt logging of California’s old growth redwoods and key organizers

Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth – Fred Pearce

May 5th, 2015 43m 7s

New Internationalist, May 2013Land grabbing is nothing new, most of us live on grabbed land. But the scale, geography and ownership practice in modern land grabs is unprecedented, according to my guest environmental journalist Fred Pearce. H

The Economics of Happiness – Sandra Lubarsky – Reclaiming Beauty

Apr 28th, 2015 16m 58s

The following is paraphrased from the podcast speaker’s presentation.We live at a time when beauty has become a trivial value, something only in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is relative and subjective, an opinion that cannot be argued. We

The Economics of Happiness – Manish Jain – Modern Schooling: Crime Against Humanity?

Apr 14th, 2015 18m 27s

This episode is the first of many to highlight content from the 2015 Economic of Happiness conference, presented by Local Futures. Their goal is shift the economy’s focus away from unrelenting growth, to meeting real human and ecological need

Ralph Nader: Building Left-Right Alliances Against Corporate Power

Mar 24th, 2015 27m 57s

Ralph Nader has spent his life working for the public interest by opposing corporate power and its political servants. While personally politically progressive, he understands that the most powerful political force is an alliance including all

Author Annie Jacobsen on Operation Paperclip, Bringing Nazi Scientists to America

Mar 16th, 2015 53m 40s

Operation Paperclip was a U.S. plan to bring Nazi scientists stateside at the end of WW2 to exploit their knowledge in several fields. German scientists achieved unparalleled advances in aeronautics, rocketry and chemical and biological weaponr

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