http://www.radiocurious.org Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:04:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 Welcome to the 20th year of Radio Curious, half hour interviews on a curiously wide variety of topics about life and ideas. All of the almost 400 half-hour archive editions on our website are free for you to enjoy, download, copy, share or rebroadcast as you wish. Please give credit to Radio Curious and let us know what you like about the program. www.radiocurious.org Radio Curious clean Radio Curious curious@radiocurious.org curious@radiocurious.org (Radio Curious) Creative Commons-Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Radio Curious Radio Curious, Interviews, Environment, Education, Chautauquan, Psychology/Psychaitry, Sex, Mendocino, Law, Religion, Feminism http://www.radiocurious.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/radio-curious-rss-logo.jpg http://www.radiocurious.org/category/relationships/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/10/24/james-ketchum-m-d-non-lethal-chemical-warfare-to-make-you-sit-down-and-laugh/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/10/24/james-ketchum-m-d-non-lethal-chemical-warfare-to-make-you-sit-down-and-laugh/#comments Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:53:50 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5370 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/10/24/james-ketchum-m-d-non-lethal-chemical-warfare-to-make-you-sit-down-and-laugh/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Non-lethal chemical warfare may be an oxymoron to some, but it was actually the goal of a U.S. Army research program in the 1960s and 70s at Edgewood Arsenal, an army arsenal in Maryland. Click here to begin listening.  Non-lethal chemical warfare may be an oxymoron to some, but it was actually the goal of a U.S. Army research program in the 1960s and 70s at Edgewood Arsenal, an army arsenal in Maryland. The research goal was to find incapacitating non-lethal chemical weapons that would cause the enemy to lie down, smile and laugh. The research team was lead by a then colonel in the U.S. Army, psychiatrist Dr. James S. Ketchum. The team attempted to determine if LSD, cannabis, or belladonna could achieve the goal. Dr. Ketchum, the author of “Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten,” visited the studios of Radio Curious on August 1, 2008. We began our interview when I asked what originally drew him to participate in the project at Edgewood Arsenal. The books he recommends are “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story” and “Tihkal: The Continuation,” by Alexander and Ann Shulgin. Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/09/19/david-ebershoff-how-many-wives-are-enough/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/09/19/david-ebershoff-how-many-wives-are-enough/#comments Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:32:47 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5354 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/09/19/david-ebershoff-how-many-wives-are-enough/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Polygamy used to be a central aspect in Mormon beliefs. However, it has not been for over 100 years now, due partly to considerable effort by Ann Eliza Young, one of Brigham Young’s many wives. Click here to begin listening.  Polygamy used to be a central aspect in Mormon beliefs. However, it has not been for over 100 years now, due partly to considerable effort by Ann Eliza Young, one of Brigham Young’s many wives. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with David Ebershoff, the author of “The 19th Wife”, recorded on August 29, 2008. “The 19th Wife,” is the story of Ann Eliza Young, and her realization and then quest to let the world know that marriage should only pertain to two people, instead of one man and a plethora of wives who were referred to as “sister wives.” We discuss what marriage is, how religion plays a large role in many people’s lives, and how the quest that Ann Eliza had effected her world and the world we live in today. Our conversation began when I asked David Ebershoff why Ann Eliza wanted to apostate (or leave without approval) from the Mormon Church in relationship to the politics then and now. The book that David Ebershoff recommends is, “American Wife: A Novel” by Curtis Sittenfel Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/29/irwin-keller-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/29/irwin-keller-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/#comments Fri, 30 Aug 2024 04:11:21 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5345 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/29/irwin-keller-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - The issue of sexual orientation plagues people in many different ways — political upheaval that sometimes include religious or physical violence. But then politics, religion and violence are integral to human belief s... Click here to begin listening.  The issue of sexual orientation plagues people in many different ways — political upheaval that sometimes include religious or physical violence. But then politics, religion and violence are integral to human belief systems. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Irwin Keller, also known as “Winnie,” a founder and current member of “The Kinsey Sicks,” the Dragapella Beautyshop acapella Quartet. The name, “The Kinsey Sicks” comes from Alfred Kinsey’s sexual orientation scale of homosexual men, the measure of which Irwin Keller explains in our conversation. Blasphemy, one of the hallmarks of the Kinsey Sicks resounds in their work and in the echoes of this interview recorded in a Northern California synagogue on July 28, 2008. We began when I asked Irwin Keller to describe “Winnie,” the character he portrays and the origin of “The Kinsey Sicks,” but first lets listen to the remainder of “Trixie” the second song on their newest CD, “Sicks, Sicks, Sicks!” You can learn more about the Kinsey Sicks by visiting their website, www.kinseysicks.com The book Irwin Keller recommends is, “The Seventh Well,” by Fred Wander and Michael Hoffman Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/22/dr-daniel-gottlieb-learning-from-the-heart/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/22/dr-daniel-gottlieb-learning-from-the-heart/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2024 04:52:32 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5342 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/22/dr-daniel-gottlieb-learning-from-the-heart/feed/ 0  Click here to begin listening. - Dr. Dan Gottlieb is a practicing psychologist living and working near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has experienced quadriplegia for approximately 30 years when he broke his back and severed his spinal cord as a res...  Click here to begin listening. Dr. Dan Gottlieb is a practicing psychologist living and working near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has experienced quadriplegia for approximately 30 years when he broke his back and severed his spinal cord as a result of an automobile accident. His 2008 book, “Learning From the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving and Listening,” shares some of his life experiences. In this conversation he explains how 30 years ago he could not have imagined that he would have become a quadriplegic, lose both his parents and his wife, and be a now happy and contented person. This interview was recorded May 14, 2008. The book Dr. Dan Gottlieb recommends is, “The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness,” by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/01/amy-sutherland-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/01/amy-sutherland-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/#comments Fri, 02 Aug 2024 03:50:10 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5332 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/01/amy-sutherland-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Reinforcement of desired behavior is the key to animal training. As humans, we are subject to the same way of learning. Amy Sutherland, author of, “What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Click here to begin listening.  (https://www.radio4all.net/files/vogel@sonic.net/SUTHERLAND_8.1.24%20IA.mp3) Reinforcement of desired behavior is the key to animal training. As humans, we are subject to the same way of learning. Amy Sutherland, author of, “What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage: Lessons for People from Animals and Their Trainers,” shares many ideas about how to achieve more desirable relationships with friends and loved ones. This Program was recorded on March 19, 2008. The book Amy Sutherland recommends is, “Demonic Males: Apes and the Origin of Human Violence,” by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/02/23/gregory-hartley-maryann-karinch-reading-body-language-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/02/23/gregory-hartley-maryann-karinch-reading-body-language-2/#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:20:55 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5248 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/02/23/gregory-hartley-maryann-karinch-reading-body-language-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening. - Originally Broadcast: April 4, 2007 I Can Read You Like a Book - Have you ever wondered what some body movements mean when people hear certain words or see certain images? Click here to begin listening. Originally Broadcast: April 4, 2007 I Can Read You Like a Book Have you ever wondered what some body movements mean when people hear certain words or see certain images? Many of these body movements are involuntary reactions inherent to the individual or culturally based. “I Can Read You Like A Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People are Really Sending with their Body Language,” by Gregory Hartley and Maryann Karinch, describes methods of understanding what people really mean and how to gain insight to their background by watching their physical behavior. Hartley, a former Army interrogator details how to review with an open mind what you see, evaluate to know what is relevant, analyze to identify voluntary versus involuntary movements and then decide or draw a conclusion based on what you observe. Gregory Hartley recommends “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us,” by Dr. Robert D. Hare.. Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/02/15/zana-briski-ross-kauffman-brothels-of-calcutta-india-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/02/15/zana-briski-ross-kauffman-brothels-of-calcutta-india-2/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2024 04:43:54 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5244 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/02/15/zana-briski-ross-kauffman-brothels-of-calcutta-india-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Originally Broadcast: March 15, 2007 - Born Into Brothels - “Born into Brothels” received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005. A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of... Click here to begin listening.  (https://www.radio4all.net/files/vogel@sonic.net/BRISKI_AND_KAUFFMAN%202.15.24%20IA.mp3) Originally Broadcast: March 15, 2007 Born Into Brothels “Born into Brothels” received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005. A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art, “Born into Brothels” is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta, where their mothers work as prostitutes. The most stigmatized people in Calcutta’s red light district however are not the prostitutes, but their children. In the face of abject poverty, abuse, and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother’s fate or for creating another type of life. In “Born into Brothels,” directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman chronicle the amazing transformation of the children they come to know in the red light district. Briski, a professional photographer, gives them lessons and cameras, igniting latent sparks of artistic genius that reside in these children who live in the most sordid and seemingly hopeless world. The photographs taken by the children are not merely examples of remarkable observation and talent; they reflect something much larger, morally encouraging, and even politically volatile: art as an immensely liberating and empowering force. Devoid of sentimentality, “Born into Brothels” defies the typical tear-stained tourist snapshot of the global underbelly. Briski spends years with these kids and becomes part of their lives. Their photographs are prisms into their souls, rather than anthropological curiosities or primitive imagery, and a true testimony of the power of the indelible creative spirit. You can learn about this film and Kids with Cameras at www.kids-with-cameras.org. I spoke with Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman in February 2005. Beginning the conversation first with Zana Briski, I asked her to explain what drew her to India before the concept of “Kids With Cameras” was even a dream. www.kids-with-cameras.org Zana Briski recommends “Secret Life of Bees,” by Sue Monk Kidd. Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/01/28/eunice-lipton-seduced-by-france-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/01/28/eunice-lipton-seduced-by-france-2/#comments Mon, 29 Jan 2024 04:37:21 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5237 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/01/28/eunice-lipton-seduced-by-france-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening. - Originally Broadcast: March 28, 2007 - French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust. - In a passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history, love, Click here to begin listening. Originally Broadcast: March 28, 2007 French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust. In a passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history, love, sex and art collide with hatred, withering French xenophobia and death, Eunice Lipton, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, describes her book, “French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust.” Lipton, who lives in Paris and New York received her Ph.D. in art history at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. I spoke with her from her home in New York City the last week of March 2007.  Because she describes painting as her favorite companions, we began when I asked her to tell us about her friends who she calls art. Eunice Lipton recommends “The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion,” by Ford Madox Ford..   Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/11/17/holly-hollenbeck-sex-lives-of-wives-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/11/17/holly-hollenbeck-sex-lives-of-wives-2/#comments Fri, 17 Nov 2023 06:49:17 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5202 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/11/17/holly-hollenbeck-sex-lives-of-wives-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening. - Originally Broadcast: September 20, 2006. - How to ignite sexual passion from a woman’s perspective is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, as we talk with Holly Hollenbeck, a former attorney from Omaha, Click here to begin listening. (https://www.radio4all.net/files/vogel@sonic.net/HOLLENBECK_INTERVIEW%2011.6.23%20IA.mp3) Originally Broadcast: September 20, 2006. How to ignite sexual passion from a woman’s perspective is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, as we talk with Holly Hollenbeck, a former attorney from Omaha, Nebraska, and author of, “Sex Lives of Wives, Reigniting the Passion, True Confessions and Provocative Advice from Real Women.” Holly Hollenbeck says her book is not so much directed at how to please your mate, but how to please yourself by pleasing your mate. Take a look at www.passionseekers.com, her website devoted to helping women find passion and inspiration in their long-term relationships. I spoke with Holly Hollenbeck from her home in Nebraska, in mid September 2006, and asked her to describe what motivated her to write, “Sex Lives of Wives.” The book Holly Hollenbeck recommends is “Adults Only Travel: The Ultimate Guide to Romantic and Erotic Destination,” by David West and Louis James. Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/08/16/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/08/16/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle-2/#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:06:56 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5156 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/08/16/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Originally Broadcast: December 5, 2005. - Concepts of “reality” have many levels, some of which are gained by fasting, and/or the use of certain plants that allow a person to view the past, present or  and future. Click here to begin listening.  Originally Broadcast: December 5, 2005. Concepts of “reality” have many levels, some of which are gained by fasting, and/or the use of certain plants that allow a person to view the past, present or  and future.  This is especially true for cultures which cherish and practice the oral tradition and thrive among an abundance of flora and fauna, like those located in the Amazon basin of South America.  In Ecuador the knowledge of the effects of the various plants in the Amazon basin is held by Shamans. Dr. Juan Martinez, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, is a Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Cuenca, in Cuenca, Ecuador.  He’s studied, written and lectured about Shamanic practices in the Ecuadorian jungle and the medicinal and spiritual effects of the plants native to the eastern portion of the Amazon basin. Professor Juan Martinez and I visited in his office in Cuenca, Ecuador on November 17, 2005.  He began by describing the relationship of the people of Ecuadorian jungle to their worlds, the spiritual world, and the world in which they live on a daily basis. The book Juan Martinez recommends is “Amazon Worlds,” a collected work published by Sinchi Sancha, an indigenous foundation based in Ecuador. Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/03/30/peter-c-whybrow-the-conflict-between-our-biological-heritage-and-the-speed-of-our-lives-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/03/30/peter-c-whybrow-the-conflict-between-our-biological-heritage-and-the-speed-of-our-lives-2/#comments Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:40:06 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5076 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/03/30/peter-c-whybrow-the-conflict-between-our-biological-heritage-and-the-speed-of-our-lives-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - American Mania, When More is Not Enough - Not so long ago before the common use of devices operated by electricity our lives were generally much more calm. And as humans we have a biological a heritage of being are c... Click here to begin listening.  American Mania, When More is Not Enough Not so long ago before the common use of devices operated by electricity our lives were generally much more calm. And as humans we have a biological a heritage of being are curiosity driver, reward seeking and harm avoiding creatures. The conflict that has evolved between our biological heritage and the demand driven economy in the United States is the essence of a book entitled “American Mania, When More is Not Enough.” Dr. Peter C. Whybrow, author of “American Mania” is our guest on this edition of Radio Curious. He is a professor of psychiatry and bio-behavioral science, and director of the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California at Los Angeles. In this interview, recorded mid-February 2005, Dr. Whybrow discusses this conflict, and its consequences. Peter C. Whybrow recommends “In Praise of Slowness,” by Carl Honore. Originally Broadcast: February 12, 2005 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/03/02/eric-liu-the-benefits-of-mentoring-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/03/02/eric-liu-the-benefits-of-mentoring-2/#comments Fri, 03 Mar 2023 04:04:12 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5061 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/03/02/eric-liu-the-benefits-of-mentoring-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life - Every one of us, in every social role that we play, is a teacher and a mentor. Who has influenced us, and how we pass that influence along is a ques... Click here to begin listening.  Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life Every one of us, in every social role that we play, is a teacher and a mentor. Who has influenced us, and how we pass that influence along is a question that goes to the heart of both learning and mentoring. The concepts of mentoring are set out in the book “Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life,” by Eric Liu. In this interview, recorded n February 2005, Eric Liu discusses his experiences a mentor, a mentee, and an observer of both. For more information see www.ericliu.com. www.ericliu.com Eric Liu recommends “All the King’s Men,” by Robert Penn Warren. Originally Broadcast: February 15, 2005 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/02/10/abha-dawesar-babyji-a-story-of-physics-sex-and-caste-politics-in-india-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/02/10/abha-dawesar-babyji-a-story-of-physics-sex-and-caste-politics-in-india-2/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2023 06:24:26 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5053 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/02/10/abha-dawesar-babyji-a-story-of-physics-sex-and-caste-politics-in-india-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Anamika Sharma, the lead character in the novel Babyji, by Abha Dewasar grows up in Delhi, India, studying quantum physics at school and sex out of school. The story follows the life of a girl who sets her own rules i... Click here to begin listening.  Anamika Sharma, the lead character in the novel Babyji, by Abha Dewasar grows up in Delhi, India, studying quantum physics at school and sex out of school. The story follows the life of a girl who sets her own rules in a culture that historically demands the opposite. Our conversation begins with the author Abha Dewasar describing India, the place where she grew up, and where the life of Anamika takes place. http://abhadawesar.com/ Abha Dawesar recommends “Purple Hibiscus,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Ardiche. Originally Broadcast: February 24, 2005 Ignacio Ayala clean 25:04 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/01/05/kristen-gardiner-report-on-lori-berenson-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/01/05/kristen-gardiner-report-on-lori-berenson-2/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2023 04:50:26 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5042 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/01/05/kristen-gardiner-report-on-lori-berenson-2/feed/ 0 Click here to being listening.  - Lori Berenson is a 35-year-old woman from New York who has been in prison in Peru since 1996 for allegedly conspiring with Peruvian revolutionaries, known as MRTA, (Movimiento Revoluncionario Tupac Amaru). Click here to being listening.  Lori Berenson is a 35-year-old woman from New York who has been in prison in Peru since 1996 for allegedly conspiring with Peruvian revolutionaries, known as MRTA, (Movimiento Revoluncionario Tupac Amaru). Lori Berenson was twice convicted in Peru, first by judges who shrouded themselves in hoods, and then again in a slightly more open proceeding. Her second trial still lacked adequate due process rights, as unanimously determined by the Costa Rica based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. However, in a subsequent decision on appeal, handed down in December 2004, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, also based in Costa Rica, affirmed Lori’s 20-year prison sentence. In this program, Kristen Gardner, a friend and supporter of Lori Berenson since they first met at students in Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, discusses Lori, the person she is, and her case. Kristen Gardiner recommends “Hope in the Dark,” by Rebecca Solnit. Originally Broadcast: January 25, 2005 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/08/01/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/08/01/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you-2/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2022 03:41:06 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4970 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/08/01/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening. - The Viagra Myth: The Surprising Impact on Love and Relationships - Viagra, a drug with infinite name recognition and touted benefits, is, as we know, pervasively advertised on television and the Internet. Click here to begin listening. The Viagra Myth: The Surprising Impact on Love and Relationships Viagra, a drug with infinite name recognition and touted benefits, is, as we know, pervasively advertised on television and the Internet. But what is the truth and what is the fiction about this drug. These and other questions about increasing expectations of sexual performance and pleasure are answered by Dr. Abraham Morgantaler, an associate clinical professor at Harvard Medical School and the author of “The Viagra Myth: The Surprising Impact on Love and Relationships.” Dr. Abraham Morgantaler recommends “Why I Can’t Get Through To You,” by Terrance Real. Originally Broadcast: March 23, 2004 Ignacio Ayala clean 28:55 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/29/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/29/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are-2/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:36:39 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4960 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/29/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are “Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are,” was written by Brooke Kroeger, an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University. Click here to begin listening.  Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are “Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are,” was written by Brooke Kroeger, an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University. Her book reveals why many ‘passers’ today are people of good heart and purpose whose decision to pass is an attempt to bypass injustice and to be more truly themselves. Brooke Kroeger recommends “Middlesex,” Jeffrey Eugendies, “Amerca’s Women,” by Gail Collings & “They Marched Intro Sunlight,” by David Marinis. Originally Broadcast: February 17, 2004 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/09/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/09/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues-2/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2022 05:33:21 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4946 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/09/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.   - The Vagina Monologues - The Vagina Monologues, created and produced by Eve Ensler, tell the stories of women, their relationships, feelings, and, in some cases, abuse. In this edition of Radio Curious, Click here to begin listening.   The Vagina Monologues The Vagina Monologues, created and produced by Eve Ensler, tell the stories of women, their relationships, feelings, and, in some cases, abuse. In this edition of Radio Curious, we spoke with Eve Ensler about the origin of the the Vagina Monologues and the film, “Until the Violence Ends.” Eve Ensler recommends “Bush in Babylon,” by Tariq Ali. Originally Broadcast: January 27, 2004 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/03/31/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/03/31/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman-2/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:34:52 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4901 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/03/31/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman-2/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/12/15/randall-kennedy-black-and-white-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/12/15/randall-kennedy-black-and-white-2/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2021 02:36:43 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4829 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/12/15/randall-kennedy-black-and-white-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - "Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption," is a book written by Randall Kennedy, a Harvard University Law School Professor. He takes an in-depth look at the issue of black and white relationships... Click here to begin listening.  "Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption," is a book written by Randall Kennedy, a Harvard University Law School Professor. He takes an in-depth look at the issue of black and white relationships set against the ever-changing social mores and laws of this country. Fears of interracial relationships, influenced over the centuries by racial biases and fantasies still widely linger in American Society today. Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard University Law School is the author of “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption,” in which he takes an in depth look at the issue of black and white relationships set against the ever-changing social mores and laws of this country. From pre-civil war to the present, this book explores the historical, sociological, legal and moral issues that continue to feed and complicate those fears. Professor Kennedy and I visited by phone in March 2003 and began by our conversation with his description of what he calls a “pigmentocracy” in the United States. The book Professor Randall Kennedy recommends is “The Biography of Walter White,” by Robert Jankin. Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/06/16/randall-kennedy-can-you-say-this-word-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/06/16/randall-kennedy-can-you-say-this-word-2/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2021 03:02:43 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4698 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/06/16/randall-kennedy-can-you-say-this-word-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history. Click here to begin listening.  (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-KENNEDY_RANDALL_N-WORD_6.16.21_IA.mp3) Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history. The long history of the pejorative use of the N-word has given it an unusual power that extends to the judicial system, literature and social settings. Randall Kennedy, a professor of Law at Harvard University Law School, is the author of “Nigger-the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.”  His book chronicles the history of this word, in an effort to diffuse and neutralize it. At the end of his book he writes, “There is much to be gained by allowing people all backgrounds to yank the N-word away from white supremacists to subvert its ugliest denotation, and to convert the N-work from a negative into a positive appellation.” I spoke with Professor Randall Kennedy in the winter of 2002 while he was in California and asked him to begin our conversation by explaining this conclusion. The book Randall Kennedy recommends in “The Negro in the American Revolution,” by Benjamin Quarles, written in 1961. Originally Broadcast: March 19, 2002 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/05/05/diskin-saul-identical-twins/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/05/05/diskin-saul-identical-twins/#comments Wed, 05 May 2021 21:18:16 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4393 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/05/05/diskin-saul-identical-twins/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - The End of the Twins, a Memoir of Losing a Brother - Ever wondered what it would be like to have an identical twin—how alike would you be to that person? How much of an individual would you be? Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-1197-1-1197-1-Diskin_Saul_1-01-19-IA-2019.mp3) The End of the Twins, a Memoir of Losing a Brother Ever wondered what it would be like to have an identical twin—how alike would you be to that person? How much of an individual would you be? Saul Diskin and his identical twin brother Marty grew up together in New York City where Saul and Marty were inseparable. As adults, they began to live separate lives, Saul in Phoenix and Marty near Boston. In 1991, Marty, who had suffered from leukemia for 20 years, needed a bone marrow transplant, which he received from Saul. In his extraordinarily intimate book, “The End of the Twins, a Memoir of Losing a Brother,” Saul Diskin chronicles the rich relationship beginning with their early childhood and ending well past Marty’s death in 1997, shortly before their 63rd birthday. Saul Diskin recommends “Entwined Lives,” by Nancy Segal and “Cosmology and Creation: The Spiritual Significance of Contemporary Cosmology” by Paul Brockelman. Originally Broadcast: September 22, 2001 LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/24/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/24/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well-2/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2021 05:27:47 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4618 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/24/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less Making people like you is a skill that anybody can learn. By reading body language and synchronizing behavior, it is possible to make meaningful connections with almo... Click here to begin listening.  How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less Making people like you is a skill that anybody can learn. By reading body language and synchronizing behavior, it is possible to make meaningful connections with almost anybody in almost any circumstance. We appreciate and like people similar to ourselves, people we understand and people who are open. “How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less” is the title of a book by Nicholas Bothman, a neurolinguistic practitioner who lives in Toronto, Canada. Nicolas Bothman recommends “Love in the Town of Cholera,” & “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” both by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Originally Broadcast: January 2, 2001 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/17/patrick-mcgrath-moving-to-america-in-1774/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/17/patrick-mcgrath-moving-to-america-in-1774/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2021 02:17:08 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4614 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/17/patrick-mcgrath-moving-to-america-in-1774/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Imagine leaving home and traveling by yourself to a new land where you don’t know the customs or the politics, on a trip that will take weeks to complete in what would now be considered a very small ship, Click here to begin listening.  Imagine leaving home and traveling by yourself to a new land where you don’t know the customs or the politics, on a trip that will take weeks to complete in what would now be considered a very small ship, on turbulent waters. Imagine making this voyage, never to return to your homeland, when you are 15 years old, and pregnant. Soon after you arrive a war begins that changes the face of the country and set a new type of government in motion. Imagine researching this story and then writing it. That is the work of Patrick McGrath, the author of “Martha Peake,” a book about a plucky young woman who came to American in 1774. I spoke with Patrick McGrath by phone in 2001 to talk about “Martha Peake,” how he researched and prepared to write it, and what British students are taught about the American Revolution. Patrick McGrath recommends “The First American,” by H.W. Brown. Originally Broadcast: January 16, 2001 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/01/20/mary-catherine-bateson-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/01/20/mary-catherine-bateson-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us-2/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2021 02:00:56 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4595 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/01/20/mary-catherine-bateson-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Mary Catherine Bateson, author of "“Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transition.Do we really know the people around us? Our children? Our family? Click here to begin listening.  (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-Bateson_Catherine_9.30.30_IA.mp3) Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Mary Catherine Bateson, author of "“Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transition.Do we really know the people around us? Our children? Our family? Our friends? Or are we strangers in our own community? Mary Catherine Bateson, the author of a book entitled, “Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transition,” believes that we are strangers. She describes us as immigrants in time, rather than space.In this interview from the archives of Radio Curious, recorded in April 2000, we visit with Mary Catherine Bateson, the daughter of two distinguished anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. The book Mary Catherine Bateson recommends is “Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found,“ by Sarah Saffian. Originally Broadcast: April 17, 2000.   Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2020/02/26/boyd-blanche-self-styled-outlaw-lesbians/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2020/02/26/boyd-blanche-self-styled-outlaw-lesbians/#comments Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:42:34 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4497 http://www.radiocurious.org/2020/02/26/boyd-blanche-self-styled-outlaw-lesbians/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - Terminal Velocity - The concept of memoir versus fiction leads many authors to transform their personal experiences and life to fiction. Blanche Boyd is a native of South Carolina and a Professor of Literature at Conne... Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-BOYD_BLANCHE_2.26.20_IA.mp3) Terminal Velocity The concept of memoir versus fiction leads many authors to transform their personal experiences and life to fiction. Blanche Boyd is a native of South Carolina and a Professor of Literature at Connecticut College. She is also the author of the book entitled, “Terminal Velocity.” This is a book about a group of self-styled lesbian outlaws in the 1970s. We discussed the relationship of memoir and fiction, and how it applies to her work. Blanche Boyd recommends “Cathedral” & “To the Waterfall,” both by Raymond Carver. Originally Broadcast: August 19, 1997 LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/11/06/bloom-amy-love-as-creator/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/11/06/bloom-amy-love-as-creator/#comments Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:21:29 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4475 http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/11/06/bloom-amy-love-as-creator/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - Love Invents Us - Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the enactment of psychological theory about human behavior, Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-1197-1-BLOOM_AMY_11.5.19_IA.mp3) Love Invents Us Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the enactment of psychological theory about human behavior, also traces the intimate details in the life of Elizabeth Howe from her childhood to middle age. I spoke with Amy Bloom by phone while she was on tour to discuss ‘Love Invents Us” and asked her, “how does love invent us?” Amy Bloom recommends “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,” by John Derbyshire. Originally Broadcast: February 12, 1997 LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/12/18/osborn-john-jay-a-marriage-as-a-separate-entity/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/12/18/osborn-john-jay-a-marriage-as-a-separate-entity/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2018 02:13:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4389 http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/12/18/osborn-john-jay-a-marriage-as-a-separate-entity/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - “Listen to the Marriage” is a novel by John Jay Osborn, a retired lawyer and law professor. The story centers a marriage counselor and a recently separated couple with demanding jobs and two small children. Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-OSBORN_INTERVIEW_12-14-18_IA_Publish-1_.mp3) “Listen to the Marriage” is a novel by John Jay Osborn, a retired lawyer and law professor. The story centers a marriage counselor and a recently separated couple with demanding jobs and two small children.  All thirty-one short chapters take place in the therapist’s office and reveal the angst, anger, and hidden love that the couple Gretchen and Steve, have for each other. Sandy, the therapist guides the sessions, while keeping her thoughts about her clients to herself.  An empty green chair representing their marriage sits between Gretchen and Steve during each visit. “Listen to the Marriage” is Osborn’s sixth novel, the first one being “The Paper Chase,” published in 1971, a year after he graduated law school.  “Listen to the Marriage” is based in part on the experience Osborn and his wife had with a marriage counselor beginning about ten months after they separated in the mid 1980s.  They remain happily married. John Osborn visited the Radio Curious studios by phone from his home in San Francisco, California, on December 14, 2018. We began our conversation with his description of the therapist’s goal: To get the couple to look at the marriage they created as being separate from themselves. The book John Jay Osborn recommends is “Happy All the Time,” by Laurie Colwin. The program was recorded on December 14, 2018. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/09/11/boothman-nicholas-getting-people-to-like-you/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/09/11/boothman-nicholas-getting-people-to-like-you/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2018 01:42:07 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4361 http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/09/11/boothman-nicholas-getting-people-to-like-you/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less - Making people like you is a skill that anybody can learn. By reading body language and synchronizing behavior, it is possible to make meaningful connections with almo... Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-Boothman_Nicholas_9-11-18_PUBLISHED.mp3) How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less Making people like you is a skill that anybody can learn. By reading body language and synchronizing behavior, it is possible to make meaningful connections with almost anybody in almost any circumstance. We appreciate and like people similar to ourselves, people we understand and people who are open. “How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less” is the title of a book by Nicholas Boothman, a neurolinguistic practitioner who lives in Toronto, Canada. Nicolas Boothman recommends "Love in the Time of Cholera," & "One Hundred Years of Solitude," both by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/09/04/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love-3/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/09/04/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love-3/#comments Wed, 05 Sep 2018 01:38:51 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4359 http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/09/04/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love-3/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - Everybody thinks about love and many people say “I love you”, but how is love defined? The book “How To Love” written by psychiatrist Dr. Gordon Livingston grapples with these and many other questions about love, Click here to begin listening (www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-LIVINGSTON_INTERVIEW_9-4-18.mp3) Everybody thinks about love and many people say “I love you”, but how is love defined? The book “How To Love” written by psychiatrist Dr. Gordon Livingston grapples with these and many other questions about love, and how to find a compatible and pleasurable partnership. In this interview, we discuss how to choose more carefully, in matters of love to get what we desire and deserve. The song, “Do You Love Me?” from the musical “Fiddler On The Roof,” is our background music. Dr. Gordon Livingston spoke from his home in Columbia, Maryland on July 13th 2009, where he lives and practices psychiatry. The conversation began when I asked Dr. Livingston to define love. The book Dr. Gordon Livingston recommends is “All He Ever Wanted,” by Anita Shreve. LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/08/07/hollenbeck-holly-sex-lives-of-wives-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/08/07/hollenbeck-holly-sex-lives-of-wives-2/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2018 01:30:44 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4351 http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/08/07/hollenbeck-holly-sex-lives-of-wives-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - How to ignite sexual passion from a woman’s perspective is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, as we talk with Holly Hollenbeck, a former attorney from Omaha, Nebraska, and author of, “Sex Lives of Wives, Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-HOLLENBECK_INTERVIEW_EDITED_8-2-12_(1-29-18).mp3) How to ignite sexual passion from a woman’s perspective is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, as we talk with Holly Hollenbeck, a former attorney from Omaha, Nebraska, and author of, “Sex Lives of Wives, Reigniting the Passion, True Confessions and Provocative Advice from Real Women.” Holly Hollenbeck says her book is not so much directed at how to please your mate, but how to please yourself by pleasing your mate. Take a look at www.passionseekers.com, her website devoted to helping women find passion and inspiration in their long-term relationships. I spoke with Holly Hollenbeck from her home in Nebraska, in mid September 2006, and asked her to describe what motivated her to write, “Sex Lives of Wives.” The book Holly Hollenbeck recommends is "Adults Only Travel: The Ultimate Guide to Romantic and Erotic Destination," by David West and Louis James. Originally Broadcast: September 20, 2006. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/05/02/basta-michael-relationship-warning-signs-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/05/02/basta-michael-relationship-warning-signs-2/#comments Thu, 03 May 2018 00:51:31 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4321 http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/05/02/basta-michael-relationship-warning-signs-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - Why some couples get along and others don’t, sometimes to the extent of terminating their relationship, is a curious question, the answer to which is likely to bring both pleasure and unhappiness to each of us. Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-BASTA_MICHAEL_2018_CA.mp3) Why some couples get along and others don’t, sometimes to the extent of terminating their relationship, is a curious question, the answer to which is likely to bring both pleasure and unhappiness to each of us. Michael Basta has been a licensed clinical social worker based in Sonoma, County California, since 1988. He is trained and certified as a Gottman Couples’ Therapist. This training identifies the traits and behaviors of couples that are useful to predict how long their relationship will last. Michael Basta visited Radio Curious on May 21, 2010, and began by describing the negative traits and behaviors that indicate a dark future for the relationship. The book Michael Basta recommends is “The Female Brain,” by Dr. Louann Brizendine. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/13/dr-sally-roesch-wagner-survival-is-indigenous/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/13/dr-sally-roesch-wagner-survival-is-indigenous/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2016 08:48:17 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4003 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/13/dr-sally-roesch-wagner-survival-is-indigenous/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/06/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/06/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love-2/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2016 14:42:27 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3992 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/06/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love-2/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/11/10/martin-buzzy-teaching-guitar-in-san-quentin-prison/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/11/10/martin-buzzy-teaching-guitar-in-san-quentin-prison/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2015 23:07:38 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3892 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/11/10/martin-buzzy-teaching-guitar-in-san-quentin-prison/feed/ 0 mass incarceration,prison,San Quentin Buzzy Martin taught guitar in San Quentin Prison for three and a half years, where he gained a unique "insiders" perspective about prison life, prisoners, and the guards. He chronicles his experience in a book, "Don't Shoot! I'm the Guitar Man." Buzzy Martin began teaching music to at risk kids in Juvenille Hall. He then taught guitar in San Quentin Prison for three and a half years, where he gained a unique "insiders" perspective about prison life, prisoners, and the guards. His book, "Don't Shoot! I'm the Guitar Man," chronicles his experiences teaching prison inmates, including rapists, child molesters and murderers how to play the guitar. Martin shares his experiences with incarcerated youth, to teach them that prison is not a “badge of honor,” and he reveals how music can be a universal language to open the hearts of people who may think they don't have one. Buzzy Martin's memoir will be made into a movie. Visit his website for more information.  The interview with Buzzy Martin was recorded on October 11th, 2010. The book he recommends is, “The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book,” by don Miguel Ruiz. Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/10/20/barnes-annie-ph-d-racism-in-america/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/10/20/barnes-annie-ph-d-racism-in-america/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:46:22 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3879 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/10/20/barnes-annie-ph-d-racism-in-america/feed/ 0 race,racism Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Annie Barnes author of "Everyday Racism, A Book for All Americans.” Barnes describes effects of racism on black people, and what people can do to combat it. Racism has, for too long, been a part of the American experience: the Civil War and the constitutional amendments that followed, the Supreme Court decisions ordering the desegregation of schools, and the Civil Rights movements did not end racism in America. Annie S. Barnes, holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Virginia and is a retired professor of sociology and anthropology at Norfolk State University in Virginia. She is the author of "Everyday Racism, A Book for All Americans," a book based on the racist experiences suffered by 146 black college students. Professor Barnes describes the effects of racism on black people, and what all people can do to combat it. The book Annie S. Barnes recommends is “Driving While Black: Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxi Cabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back if You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling,” by Kenneth Meeks. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/10/06/burgo-joseph-ph-d-narcissists-what-they-do-why-and-how-to-avoid-them/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/10/06/burgo-joseph-ph-d-narcissists-what-they-do-why-and-how-to-avoid-them/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2015 18:41:13 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3868 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/10/06/burgo-joseph-ph-d-narcissists-what-they-do-why-and-how-to-avoid-them/feed/ 0 bully,bullying,narcissism,psychology,relationships Radio Curious discusses narcissists with Dr. Joseph Burgo, psychologist and author of “The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About Me Age.” How to identify the narcissists in our lives is the topic of our conversation with Joseph Burgo, Ph.D (http://www.josephburgo.com/). He is the author of “The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About Me Age.” Dr. Burgo describes narcissism as a more-common-than-we think personality type, based on shame, that covers a wide spectrum of frequently and cleverly disguised deceptive behaviors.  Once a narcissist’s behavior is identified, it is possible to learn how to coexist and avoid being trapped.  This may be achieved without compromising one’s own mental health, integrity, or ability to succeed, or losing ourselves in the process. When Dr. Joseph Burgo and I visited by phone from his home in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, on October 5, 2015, we discussed two of the eight most common types of narcissists:  the bullying narcissist and the seductive narcissist.  We began our conversation when I asked him to describe narcissism. The book Dr. Joseph Burgo recommends is “Why is it Always About You?: The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism,” by Sandy Hotchkiss. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/09/29/baker-carolyn-ph-d-hospice-and-near-term-human-extinction/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/09/29/baker-carolyn-ph-d-hospice-and-near-term-human-extinction/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:41:33 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3847 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/09/29/baker-carolyn-ph-d-hospice-and-near-term-human-extinction/feed/ 0 climate change,death,dying,global warming,grief,hospice Radio Curious continues its series on near term human extinction in a conversation about applying hospice treatment towards the dying planet and human species with Carolyn Baker, co-author of “Extinction Dialogues:  How to Live With Death in Mind”. This is third conversation in our series on near term human extinction, the most disturbing group of interviews in the twenty-five year history of Radio Curious.  In this program, faced with a grim future of the human species on earth, we consider the role of hospice for all of us and for our planet. Our guest is Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., co author with Dr. Guy McPherson of “Extinction Dialogues:  How to Live With Death in Mind.” She is also the author of “Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse: Cultivating the Relationships We Need to Thrive.” As an author and psychotherapist, Carolyn Baker discusses the importance of emotional and spiritual preparedness for the cataclysmic changes that abrupt climate change will bring. "Extinction Dialogues” presents credible scientific evidence that global warming is pushing our planet to a swift apocalyptic end, more rapidly that we comprehend.  Dr. Guy McPherson discusses the scientific evidence that suggests a looming extinction of the human species in part one and part two of this series.  In the second half of "Extinction Dialogues,” Carolyn Baker encourages and recommends a hospice approach, which we present to you as part three in this series. When Carolyn Baker and I spoke on September 20, 2015 from her home in Boulder, Colorado, we discussed ways to practice hospice as the earth’s temperature increases to a point at which humans cannot endure. We began our conversation when I asked her how hospice treatment can be applied to the dying planet. The book Carolyn Baker recommends is “Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul,” by Stephen Jenkinson.   Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below.   LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/09/08/ebershoff-david-how-many-wives-are-enough-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/09/08/ebershoff-david-how-many-wives-are-enough-2/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2015 05:23:58 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3822 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/09/08/ebershoff-david-how-many-wives-are-enough-2/feed/ 0 mormon church,polygamy Radio Curious visits with David Ebershoff, author of "The 19th Wife," a book about Ann Eliza Young, and her realization and then quest to speak out against polygamy in the Mormon church. Polygamy used to be a central aspect in Mormon beliefs.  However, it has not been for over 100 years now, due partly to considerable effort by Ann Eliza Young, one of Brigham Young’s many wives. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with David Ebershoff, author of “The 19th Wife," the story of Ann Eliza Young, and her realization and then quest to let the world know that marriage should only pertain to two people, instead of one man and a plethora of wives who were referred to as “sister wives.”  We discuss what marriage is, how religion plays a large role in many people’s lives, and how the quest that Ann Eliza had effected her world and the world we live in today. Our conversation, recorded on August 29, 2008, began when I asked David Ebershoff why Ann Eliza wanted to apostate (or leave without approval) from the Mormon Church in relationship to the politics then and now. The book that David Ebershoff recommends is, “American Wife: A Novel” by Curtis Sittenfeld. Click here to begin listening. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/09/01/ebershoff-david-southern-california-1903-1945/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/09/01/ebershoff-david-southern-california-1903-1945/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2015 03:58:33 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3816 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/09/01/ebershoff-david-southern-california-1903-1945/feed/ 0 california,Southern California Radio Curious revisits a conversation with David Ebershoff, author “Pasadena,” a book about storytelling through the life of Linda Stamp, a young girl born and raised on a rural coastal area near San Diego, California, in the early to mid 1900's. In this program we visit with David Ebershoff (http://www.ebershoff.com), author of “Pasadena (http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/august_2002/pasadena.html),” a book about storytelling.  “Pasadena” is the story of Linda Stamp, a young girl born and raised on a rural coastal area near San Diego, California, beginning when she was born in 1903.  Linda learned the many different ways of the sea as she grew and married into a wealthy Pasadena family. This is also a book about choices, some which we think through, and some which determine our fate even when we were unaware of the magnitude of the moment.  With the novelist’s freedom to he uses his sense of story, where it begins and where it ends.  As the middle part of the story is built, so are the character’s lives, juxtaposing the times and places in their lives times. In many ways, California itself is the novel's main character. We get to see what the land must have been like when it was a wild, teeming frontier, just on its way to being transformed by fishermen, farmers, land developers and tourists. David Ebershoff is currently an executive editor at Random House, and lives in New York City.  When and I visited by phone in July 2002, I asked him to describe the kinds of things in his life that prompted him to write his second novel “Pasadena.” The book David Ebershoff recommends is “Middlesex,” a novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/08/25/reese-father-tom-pope-francis-the-catholic-church-a-discussion-with-a-priest-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/08/25/reese-father-tom-pope-francis-the-catholic-church-a-discussion-with-a-priest-part-two/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2015 04:00:05 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3806 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/08/25/reese-father-tom-pope-francis-the-catholic-church-a-discussion-with-a-priest-part-two/feed/ 0 Catholic Church,Pope Francis,Vatican Radio Curious guest host Martha McCabe discusses Pope Francis, women, and the future of the Catholic Church with Father Tom Reese, a member of the Society of Jesus. Marriage, divorce and the role of women in the Catholic church are some of the topics of this edition of Radio Curious, the second of two visits with Father Tom Reese, a member of the Society of Jesus.  In the first visit, we discussed his view of Pope Francis, the role of prayer, and the possibility of opening the priesthood to women.  Father Tom Reese entered the Jesuits in 1962 and was ordained in 1974.  Currently he is a senior analyst with the National Catholic Reporter. He was appointed by President Obama to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal commission that reviews the facts and circumstances of religious freedom violations and makes policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress.  Martha McCabe, our guest host, is a retired higher education legal counsel and civil rights attorney with masters degrees in history and creative writing.  Brought up as a Roman Catholic, she graduated from Jesuit Santa Clara University and is now a secular Buddhist.  As a novelist, she was a guest on Radio Curious in 2006.  When Martha McCabe visited with Father Tom Reese by phone on August 14, 2015, she began their conversation by inquiring about marriage in the Catholic Church.  While the Vatican views marriage as a sacred pact between two people, it forbids its priests from entering into that union. The book Father Tom Reese recommends is “Laudato Si,” Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on climate change.  Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to listen to part one. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/07/07/patterson-dr-victoria-native-american-life-before-and-after-europeans-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/07/07/patterson-dr-victoria-native-american-life-before-and-after-europeans-part-two/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:23:12 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3764 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/07/07/patterson-dr-victoria-native-american-life-before-and-after-europeans-part-two/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits the second part of a conversation with Dr. Victoria Patterson, an anthropologist based in Ukiah, California, who has worked with Native Americans for over 30 years. She shares their stories and her insights. Cultures that have no written language pass on their histories through oral traditions. The stories are the way that social values and traditions are taught by one generation to the next. Animals often play a significant character role in these stories. In the Native American traditions of the northwest part of California, the coyote is a popular character. Dr. Victoria Patterson, an anthropologist based in Ukiah, California, has worked with native peoples for over 30 years. She knows these stories, and she sees them as windows, allowing us to imagine how original native peoples of northern California thought and lived. I met with Dr. Victoria Patterson and asked her about the significance of the story where the coyote jumped off into the sky. Our discussion lead to a two-part program, originally broadcast in February of 1999.  In part one we discuss the indigenous stories and in part two we discuss how the northern California indigenous communities changed after European colonization. The books Dr. Victoria Patterson recommends are “Deep Valley,” by Bernard W. Aginsky and “Under the Tuscan Sun,” by Frances Mayes. Originally Broadcast: February 16, 1999 and February 26, 1999. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/30/patterson-dr-victoria-native-american-life-before-and-after-europeans-part-one/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/30/patterson-dr-victoria-native-american-life-before-and-after-europeans-part-one/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2015 06:27:49 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3759 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/30/patterson-dr-victoria-native-american-life-before-and-after-europeans-part-one/feed/ 0 indigenous,Native American,Pomo Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Dr. Victoria Patterson,Dr. Victoria Patterson, an anthropologist based in Ukiah, California, who has worked with Native Americans for over 30 years. She shares their stories and her insights. Cultures that have no written language pass on their histories through oral traditions. The stories are the way that social values and traditions are taught by one generation to the next. Animals often play a significant character role in these stories. In the Native American traditions of the northwest part of California, the coyote is a popular character. Dr. Victoria Patterson, an anthropologist based in Ukiah, California, has worked with native peoples for over 30 years. She knows these stories, and she sees them as windows, allowing us to imagine how original native peoples of northern California thought and lived. I met with Dr. Victoria Patterson and asked her about the significance of the story where the coyote jumped off into the sky. Our discussion lead to a two-part program, originally broadcast in February of 1999. The books Dr. Victoria Patterson recommends are “Deep Valley,” by Bernard W. Aginsky and “Under the Tuscan Sun,” by Frances Mayes. Originally Broadcast: February 16, 1999 and February 26, 1999. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/23/samson-don-the-creative-imagination-of-playwright-don-samson/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/23/samson-don-the-creative-imagination-of-playwright-don-samson/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2015 21:21:02 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3748 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/23/samson-don-the-creative-imagination-of-playwright-don-samson/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with playwright Don Samson, who discusses his work and creative process and his former life as the author of legal briefs for criminal defense attorneys. The creative imagination of playwright Don Samson is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious.  In May 2015, I had the good fortune of seeing a ten minute play entitled “Blind Date,” written by my long time friend, who lives in nearby Willits, California.  For many years prior to becoming a playwright, Don Samson researched and wrote legal briefs for criminal defense attorneys, an experience we also discuss in this program. After seeing the local production of “Blind Date,” I was curious about the circumstances that came to Don Samson’s mind when he created this play, so I invited him to visit the Radio Curious studios.  We met on May 22, 2015 and began our conversation with his description of those circumstances.  Don Samson recommends the book, which is also a play, “Antigone,” by Sophocles. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/10/gilbert-ronnie-a-memorial-tribute/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/10/gilbert-ronnie-a-memorial-tribute/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:56:31 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3707 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/10/gilbert-ronnie-a-memorial-tribute/feed/ 0 Radio Curious pays tribute to folk singer Ronnie Gilbert, who died on June 6, 2015 at the age of 88. In this edition of Radio Curious we honor and pay tribute to folk singer Ronnie Gilbert, who died on June 6, 2015 at the age of 88. She is well known for her powerful contralto voice as a member of the Weavers, the extraordinarily popular folk music quartet that in 1950s and 1960s. She also had careers as an actor and a psychologist. From the Radio Curious archives, recorded in September 1996, Ronnie Gilbert describes her introduction to music and dance, how the Weavers came together; their blacklist experience; her thoughts about turning 70 years old when this program was recorded in 1996; and her friendship and work with Holly Near. We conclude with Holly Near recalling her friendship with Ronnie Gilbert. The books Ronnie Gilbert recommends are “The Moors Last Sigh” by Salman Rushdie, “Making Movies” by Sidney Lumet and “Eyewitness: A Personal Account of the Unraveling of the Soviet Union” by Vladimir Pozner. Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/26/lowe-felicia-chinese-immigration-the-veil-of-secrecy-and-silence/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/26/lowe-felicia-chinese-immigration-the-veil-of-secrecy-and-silence/#comments Wed, 27 May 2015 02:50:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3682 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/26/lowe-felicia-chinese-immigration-the-veil-of-secrecy-and-silence/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Felicia Lowe the producer of “Chinese Couplets” a documentary about Lowe's quest to learn about her ancestral history by tracing her mothers immigration to the United States from rural China. Secrecy of and revelation about the trip to America to secure a new life during the Chinese Exclusion era is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious.  Our guest is Felicia Lowe, whose film “Chinese Couplets” tells her mother’s story.  Felicia Lowe was met with refusals and silence when as a child she asked her mother about her childhood. This shroud of silence was lifted when Felicia Lowe’s daughter found an old family photograph taken in China and asked her grandmother to tell the story related to the photograph.  The film “Chinese Couplets” shows and tells the story of a childhood in rural China, the new identity to secure passage to America, the fear of deportation if the truth were known, and a prosperous and successful life of an immigrant Chinese woman in Oakland, California.   The film “Chinese Couplets” will be shown at the Mendocino Film Festival on Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 10 am in the Village of Mendocino, California. When Felicia Lowe and I visited by phone from her home in San Francisco, California, May 17, 2015, I asked her to tell us about her mother. The book Felicia Lowe recommends is “The Blues Eye,” by Toni Morrison. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/19/wallach-amei-art-outwitting-oppression-the-kabakov-story/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/19/wallach-amei-art-outwitting-oppression-the-kabakov-story/#comments Tue, 19 May 2015 20:31:40 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3677 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/19/wallach-amei-art-outwitting-oppression-the-kabakov-story/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Amei Wallach, producer/director of the documentary “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here,” about the lives of a world renown artist, Ilya Kabakov and his wife Emilia, who fled communist Russia and returned after the fall of the... Amei Wallach, producer and director of the documentary film “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here,” about the lives of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov is our guest in this edition of Radio Curious. Amei Wallach met Ilya Kabakov in 1987, when she was in the Soviet Union investigating the effect of perestroika on the arts.  Unavoidably intrigued, eight years later she published the first biography of Ilya Kabakov, “The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away.”  "Enter Here" documents not only the lives and work of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Russia’s most celebrated international artists, who are now United States citizens, but also the lives of the average Russian from the Stalin era to the fall of the Soviet Union.  The film will be shown at the Mendocino Film Festival May 31, 2015, at 12:30 pm, in the Village of Mendocino, California. Amei Wallach says her film documents how “art can outwit oppression.” When we visited by phone on May 10, 2015, she began with an explanation of how art outwits oppression.    The book Amei Wallach recommends is “Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings,” by Lawrence Weschler.  Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/13/schwartz-lacey-nobody-discussed-it-lacey-schwartz-and-little-white-lie/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/13/schwartz-lacey-nobody-discussed-it-lacey-schwartz-and-little-white-lie/#comments Wed, 13 May 2015 06:10:25 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3665 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/13/schwartz-lacey-nobody-discussed-it-lacey-schwartz-and-little-white-lie/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Lacey Schwartz, director and producer of “Little White Lie,” a documentary about her experiences growing up as a white Jew and later learning that she is half black. The secret revealed in the life of Lacey Schwartz, born in 1987 to a white Jewish family in rural upstate New York, where she grew up, is that her biological father was black.  The few who knew her truth remained silent until after her first year of college when she asked her mother why she looked the way she did.  Lacey Schwartz is the producer and director of the film “Little White Lie,” which documents her family secret. "Little White Lie” will be shown at the Mendocino Film Festival on Friday, May 29, 2015, at 5:30 pm, in the Village of Mendocino, California. Lacey Schwartz and I visited by phone from her home near New York City, on May 11, 2015.  First we hear a clip of Lacey’s voice taken from the introduction of the film “Little White Lie,” and later intersperse our conversation with clips from the film.  The book Lacey Schwartz recommends is “How It Feels to Be Free:  Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement,” by Ruth Feldstein. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/05/marshall-joseph-ph-d-black-lives-alive-and-free/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/05/marshall-joseph-ph-d-black-lives-alive-and-free/#comments Tue, 05 May 2015 21:34:27 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3654 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/05/marshall-joseph-ph-d-black-lives-alive-and-free/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Dr. Joseph Marshall, co-founder of Alive and Free, a community violence prevention effort for at-risk inner city youth to encourage their academic pursuits and obtain financial help for college.  Keeping young black men alive and free is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious.  Our guest is Dr. Joseph E. Marshall, who in 1987 co-founded the Omega Boys Club of San Francisco, now called “Alive and Free,” of which he is the executive director. Alive and Free is a community violence prevention effort for at-risk inner city youth and a surrogate family support system for young black men and women, based in San Francisco, California, to encourage their academic pursuits and obtain financial help for college.   Joseph Marshall is also the host of Street Soldiers Radio, broadcast every Sunday evening on KMEL 106.1 FM at 8 pm.  In 1994 he received a McArthur Foundation Genius Award for his skills and accomplishments. Dr. Joseph E. Marshall and I visited by phone, from his office in San Francisco, California on May 4, 2015, and began our conversation with his description of Alive and Free. The books Joseph Marshall recommends are “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” and “Street Soldier:  One Man’s Struggle to Save a Generation – One Life at a Time,” by Joseph Marshall and Lonnie Wheeler. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/04/14/offen-bernard-the-power-of-good-and-evil/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/04/14/offen-bernard-the-power-of-good-and-evil/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:26:28 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3633 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/04/14/offen-bernard-the-power-of-good-and-evil/feed/ 0 Radio Curious honors Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, in an archived conversation with Bernard Offen, a survivor of five concentration camps in Poland, when he was a young teenager during World War II. He now leads tours of these camps. In honor of Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day which falls on April 16, in 2015, we visit with Bernard Offen, a survivor of five concentration camps in Poland, when he was a young teenager during World War II. Bernard Offen leads tours of these concentration camps and says, “You don't have to be a survivor or Jewish. It's for all the wounded who want to understand the power of good & evil and want to create goodness in the world.” When Bernard Offen visited the studios of Radio Curious in April 2005, he began our conversation by describing some of his early childhood experiences in Krakow, Poland in the years just prior to World War II.  Bernard Offen recommends his own book that was published in 2010, entitled “My Hometown Concentration Camp.”  Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/31/bayer-jaciara-jaciara-bayer-transracial-adoptions-and-white-privilege/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/31/bayer-jaciara-jaciara-bayer-transracial-adoptions-and-white-privilege/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:52:55 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3616 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/31/bayer-jaciara-jaciara-bayer-transracial-adoptions-and-white-privilege/feed/ 1 Radio Curious visits with Jaciara Bayer, a transracial adoptee who shares her personal experiences of being told she’s different, growing up in a white family and her encounters with white privilege. We continue our discussion of racism and white privilege in Mendocino County, California, with a 30 year old Brazilian born woman,  who is currently studying for a master’s degree in social work at the California State University at Hayward. Jaciara Bayer was adopted and brought to the United States at age 11 months by her single, white-American mother and grew up in Ukiah, California.   A transracial adoption, which may be an international adoption, is the primary focus of Jaciara Bayer’s plan of study for her master’s degree.  Sharing her personal experiences, she tells us of being told she’s different, growing up in a white family and white privilege.  When Jaci, as she is often known, and I visited in the studios of Radio Curious on March 23, 2015, she began with her earliest memories. The book Jaciara Bayer recommends is “In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want,” by Iyanla Van Zant. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/24/nawa-fariba-child-brides-drug-lords-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/24/nawa-fariba-child-brides-drug-lords-2/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:06:45 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3609 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/24/nawa-fariba-child-brides-drug-lords-2/feed/ 0 afghanistan,drug trade,opium Opium, child brides, drug lords and their effect on life in Afghanistan is the topic of this week’s Radio Curious in conversation with Afghan-American Journalist Fariba Nawa, author of “Opium Nation: Child Brides, Imagine Darya, a twelve year old girl in a remote village of Afghanistan. Her father forces her to marry a drug lord as part payment for an opium drug trade. Her father is not home and she is about to be taken from her family. Desperately, her hands trembling, she implores you, a complete stranger: “Please don’t let him take me.” In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Fariba Nawa, author of “Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan.” Fariba Nawa was ten years old when her family fled Afghanistan shortly before the Soviet invasion in 1979. Eighteen years later Fariba Nawa met twelve year old Darya when she returned to her native Afghanistan as an Afghan-American investigative journalist. Her book tells Darya’s story, and reveals what the Afghan opium drug trade is doing to her native land in the midst of war. Fariba Nawa and I visited by phone from her home near San Francisco, California on January 23, 2012. We began with her description of coming to the United States and flight from Afghanistan. The book Fariba Nawa recommends is “Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War,” by Annia Ciezaldo. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/10/bainbridge-dr-david-why-women-have-curves/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/10/bainbridge-dr-david-why-women-have-curves/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:02:34 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3596 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/10/bainbridge-dr-david-why-women-have-curves/feed/ 0 Radio Curious discusses the evolution of women's bodies and why they have curves with Dr. David Bainbridge, author of “Curvology:  The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape” and Professor of Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Cambridge. I presume that all of you have, at one time or another, noticed that within the greater animal kingdom, the female of our species has a curvaceous body shape visibly different from the shape of the male homo sapiens.  Why women have curves and how these curves reflect on other aspects of our lives, is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious.  Our guest is Dr. David Bainbridge, Professor of Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Cambridge, in Cambridge, England and the author of “Curvology:  The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape.”  When Dr. David Bainbridge and I visited by phone from his home in England on March 6, 2015, I asked him "why is it that female humans are curvy?" The book Dr. David Bainbridge recommends is “Intelligent Life in the Universe,” by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan, published in 1966.  It is a product of a unique international collaboration between a world famous Russian astronomer and a leading American space scientist, presenting a modern discussion of the entire panorama of natural evolution. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/17/durham-bill-racism-in-america-one-mans-experience/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/17/durham-bill-racism-in-america-one-mans-experience/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:17:48 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3573 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/17/durham-bill-racism-in-america-one-mans-experience/feed/ 2 Radio Curious continues its series on racism in a conversation with Bill Durham, a 59 year old black man from Ohio who now lives in Mendocino County, California and shares his life experiences of growing up black in America. Radio Curious continues its series racism in a conversation with Bill Durham, a 59 year old black man, originally from Ohio who grew up in family of civil rights activists and now lives in Mendocino County, California.  We explore the effects of racism in the United States and how to end it.  Bill Durham, works as a journeyman carpenter, and hosts Club FM, a weekly blues, jazz and rock music program on KMEC radio in Ukiah, California with the moniker of MC Squared. In this program, recorded on February 12, 2015, at Radio Curious, Bill Durham shares his experiences of being black in America, starting when he was very young, and his ideas on how to relieve racism. The book Bill Durham recommends is “Supernatural:  Meeting with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind,” by Graham Hancock. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/10/massey-orell-racism-in-a-rural-california-sheriffs-department-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/10/massey-orell-racism-in-a-rural-california-sheriffs-department-part-two/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:38:39 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3565 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/10/massey-orell-racism-in-a-rural-california-sheriffs-department-part-two/feed/ 1 Radio Curious continues a conversation on racism in Mendocino County, California with Sheriff Deputy Orell Massey, the county's first and only black sheriff. Radio Curious continues our series on racism in Mendocino County, California. Our guest is Mendocino County Deputy Sheriff Orell Massey who, for the past 20 years has been the only black law enforcement officer in the county's history.  A native of South Carolina, Deputy Massey was a 21 year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps assigned to the Foreign Service Embassy detail before he moved to Mendocino County. When I asked Sheriff Massey to be a guest on this program and share his experience as a black Deputy Sheriff, he asked:  “Are the people of Mendocino County ready to hear what I have to say?”     In part one of our conversation, Deputy Massey describes some people’s reaction to him while he is in on duty. In part two, recorded on February 1, 2015, in the Radio Curious studios, Deputy Massey gives his personal response when asked, “what is it like to be the only black Deputy Sheriff ever in the history of Mendocino County?” Later he shares stories about his off duty life, his goals and aspirations. The book Deputy Massey recommends is “Code Talker:  The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of World War Two,” by Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila. Click here to listen to part two or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/04/massey-orell-racism-in-a-rural-california-sheriffs-department-part-one/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/04/massey-orell-racism-in-a-rural-california-sheriffs-department-part-one/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:47:00 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3557 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/04/massey-orell-racism-in-a-rural-california-sheriffs-department-part-one/feed/ 1 african american,racism Radio Curious visits with Orell Massey, a black sheriff's deputy in rural Mendocino County, Ca, who shares his experiences as a black sheriff in a mostly white community. Our guest on this edition of Radio Curious is Deputy Sheriff Orell Massey—a black man, native of South Carolina and a 20 year veteran of the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department. He is also a 21 year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps where he was assigned to the Embassy detail.  When I asked Sheriff Massey to be a guest on this program and share his experience as a black Deputy Sheriff, he asked:  “Are the people of Mendocino County ready to hear what I have to say?”    In part one of our conversation, recorded on February 1, 2015, Deputy Orell Massey shares his experiences.  You may decide if you are ready to hear what he has to say. In part two, Deputy Massey gives his personal response when asked, “what is it like to be the only black Deputy Sheriff ever in the history of Mendocino County?” Later he shares stories about his off duty life, his goals and aspirations. Click here to listen to part one or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/01/20/wilkerson-isabel-americas-great-migration-1915-1970-part-one/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/01/20/wilkerson-isabel-americas-great-migration-1915-1970-part-one/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2015 04:15:38 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3547 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/01/20/wilkerson-isabel-americas-great-migration-1915-1970-part-one/feed/ 2 Radio Curious visits with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.” Her book chronicles when almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to norther... In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedom and a better life. Our guest is Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.” Her book tells the untold experiences of the African-Americans who fled the south over three generations. Wilkerson interviewed more than 1,000 people for her book. She is the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and is a recipient of the George Polk Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Her parents were part of the great migration, journeying from Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington D.C. In the first of two interviews recorded from Isabel Wilkerson’s home near Atlanta, Georgia, on September 28, 2012, she begins with a description of the “biggest untold story of the 20th century.”  The book Isabel Wilkerson recommends is “The Ark of Justice,” by Kevin Boyle. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to listen to part two.   LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/12/16/cohen-james-ferguson-grand-jury-a-legal-analysis-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/12/16/cohen-james-ferguson-grand-jury-a-legal-analysis-part-two/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:07:44 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3504 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/12/16/cohen-james-ferguson-grand-jury-a-legal-analysis-part-two/feed/ 1 Ferguson,Michael Brown Radio Curious discusses the grand jury verdict to not indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo, with James A. Cohen, law professor at Fordham University Law School in New York City. We continue our look into the Ferguson, Missouri, investigation of the August 9, 2014, shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18 year old black man, shot three times in the head by the now former Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson.  The St. Louis County, Missouri, grand jury, convened by District Attorney and Prosecutor Robert McCulloch failed to return any criminal charges against Wilson.  This occurred after three months of weekly grand jury meetings.  Prosecutor Robert McCulloch gathered and organized the information and facts presented to the grand jury.  Our guest is Attorney and Law Professor James A. Cohen, who has tried over 100 criminal jury trials and teaches criminal law and related topics at Fordham University Law School in New York City.   In part one, Professor Cohen and I reviewed the evidence, including Wilson's spoken testimony, the written police reports and medical reports presented to the St. Louis, Missouri, grand jury, by District Attorney McCulloch. In this second part of our visit with Professor Cohen we continue a review of Officer Wilson’s testimony and the forensic evidence.  We then examine the duties of a prosecutor before a grand jury; the potential for conflicts of interest; and the prosecutor’s ethical obligations.  Professor Cohen asserts that had a special prosecutor been appointed to present the evidence of the facts surrounding Officer Wilson’s shooting of Brown, it is likely that a significantly different decision might have resulted from the grand jury’s deliberations. In this program, recorded on December 5, 2014, we begin part two with Professor Cohen’s analysis of Officer Wilson’s testimony about why he shot Michael Brown nine times, including three shots to the young man's head. The books that Professor Cohen recommends are those written by Anders Ericsson:  “The Road To Excellence: The Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and Games” and “Development of Professional Expertise: Toward Measurement of Expert Performance and Design of Optimal Learning Environments.” Click here to listen to part two or on the media player below. Click here to listen to part one. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/11/25/edge-jerome-unity-and-healing-after-a-school-shooting-a-native-american-perspective/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/11/25/edge-jerome-unity-and-healing-after-a-school-shooting-a-native-american-perspective/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:09:14 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3479 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/11/25/edge-jerome-unity-and-healing-after-a-school-shooting-a-native-american-perspective/feed/ 0 Radio Curious discusses the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting near Marysville, WA, the Native American communities impacted by the shooting, and their humanistic approach to the traumatic events with Jerome Edge, The shooting and deaths at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington, on October 24, 2014, brought sadness, fear, unity and a special form of healing to the Tulalip and other Native people of the area.  In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Jerome Edge, a Native American of Swinomish and Upper Skagit heritage, hip-hop activist and radio host at KSVR-FM in Mt. Vernon, Washington. When Jerome Edge and I visited from his home in Mt. Vernon, Washington, we discussed the trauma and sadness caused by the shootings and the turn toward healing that then occurred.  We also discussed a developing hip-hop focus -- a way to instill values of personal and community respect and strength.  The song “Rise Up,” which you will hear in the program sung by Shaundiin Zollner, is used by permission. Jerome Edge and I began our conversation on November 16, 2014, when I asked him to put the shootings in a context of time and place. The book Jerome Edge recommends is “The Indians of Skagit County,” by Martin J. Sampson. Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/11/18/groopman-dr-jerome-facing-illness-with-success/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/11/18/groopman-dr-jerome-facing-illness-with-success/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:51:27 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3472 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/11/18/groopman-dr-jerome-facing-illness-with-success/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Dr. Jerome Groopman, author of "The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness,” a book about hope and it's affect on the lives of people recovering from sickness and disease. Hope is one of the most fundamental and powerful of human emotions, and also one of the least studied and understood. “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness,” by Dr. Jerome Groopman, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard University and a writer for the New Yorker magazine, examines the role hope plays in the practice of medicine, and the ways in which hope can release chemicals powerful enough to change the outcome of otherwise fatal diseases. Dr. Jerome Groopman recommends the book “The Old School,” by Tobian Wolff. Originally broadcast February 20, 2004. Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/09/30/california-burning-the-mendocino-lodge-fire/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/09/30/california-burning-the-mendocino-lodge-fire/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:10:46 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3426 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/09/30/california-burning-the-mendocino-lodge-fire/feed/ 1 Radio Curious brings you four different voices of public servants who discuss how a rural community copes in times of catastrophic wildfires. California wildfires present a serious public safety concern, create fear of serious loss for many and cost millions of dollars to fight. In California each fire is given a name, as is done for hurricanes. We devote this edition of Radio Curious, to the Lodge Fire that occurred in Mendocino County, California in August 2014.  We visit with four Mendocino County people who meet the public need at times of crisis. We begin with Mary Aigner, program director of KZYX and KZYZ, Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, the public radio station where Radio Curious was originally broadcast beginning in 1991.  She describes what local public radio is able to do at a time of crisis. We then hear from Chris Rowney, the Mendocino Unit Chief for Cal-Fire, the California fire protection agency, who explains what Cal-Fire does when confronted with a wildfire. We also hear from Mendocino County Sheriff, Tom Allman, whose responsibility it is to order a mandatory evacuation if a crisis so requires. Finally we hear from Dr. Sharon Paltin, a family physician in Laytonville, California, the community closest to the Lodge Fire.  She describes the public health effects of exposure to the extraordinary amount of smoke created by a wildfire. We begin our conversation, recorded on August 29, 2014, with Mary Aigner from Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, describing the role of community radio when a wild fire occurs. The book Mary Aigner recommends is “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” by Charles C. Mann. The book that Chris Rowney recommends is “Young Men and Fires,” by Norman McClean. The book Dr. Sharon Paltin recommends is “A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster,” by Rebecca Solnit. This program was recorded on August 29 and September 1, 2014. Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/09/09/vogel-lillian-ph-d-secrets-of-a-long-life/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/09/09/vogel-lillian-ph-d-secrets-of-a-long-life/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2014 05:51:53 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3413 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/09/09/vogel-lillian-ph-d-secrets-of-a-long-life/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Lillian Vogel, author of “What's My Secret? One Hundred Years of Memories and Reflections,” a memoir of her life at 100 years old. Vogel is the mother of Radio Curious host Barry Vogel and turns 105 years old this week. September 11, 2014, marks the 105th birthday of a woman I know well:  A woman who has played the piano for 98 years, and in my opinion is the best mother in the world.  In 2009, her book “What’s My Secret?  One Hundred Years of Memories and Reflections,” a memoir of her first ten decades was published.  This book imparts thoughts and ideas to those of us who seek to lead a long and active life. Lillian B. Vogel, Ph.D., is the author. She is also my mother.  And as such, I have often been curious about the role she had in fomenting my curiosity.  She has always been able to get to the heart of most any matter with a few simple questions.   On September 9, 2014, my mother and I met for lunch at her home to review the plans for her upcoming 105th birthday celebration.  When I explained that Radio Curious would feature our 2009 conversation she offered to read the poem from the conclusion of her book.  You'll hear it at the end of the interview. And so, from the Radio Curious archives, I wish to honor this extraordinary woman on her 105th birthday by sharing our conversation, recorded on October 31, 2009, which began with the inquiry:  What makes Lillian Vogel curious? The book Lillian B. Vogel  recommends is “The Blue Tattoo: The Life Of Olive Oatman,” by Margot Mifflin. Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/26/hollenbeck-holly-sex-lives-of-wives/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/26/hollenbeck-holly-sex-lives-of-wives/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:48:36 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3404 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/26/hollenbeck-holly-sex-lives-of-wives/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a conversation about women's sexuality with Holly Hollenbeck, author of “Sex Lives of Wives, Reigniting the Passion, True Confessions and Provocative Advice from Real Women.” How to ignite sexual passion from a woman’s perspective is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, as we talk with Holly Hollenbeck, a former attorney from Omaha, Nebraska, and author of, “Sex Lives of Wives, Reigniting the Passion, True Confessions and Provocative Advice from Real Women.” Holly Hollenbeck says her book is not so much directed at how to please your mate, but how to please yourself by pleasing your mate. Her website is devoted to helping women find passion and inspiration in their long-term relationships. I spoke with Holly Hollenbeck from her home in Nebraska, in mid September 2006, and asked her to describe what motivated her to write, “Sex Lives of Wives.” The book Holly Hollenbeck recommends is "Adults Only Travel: The Ultimate Guide to Romantic and Erotic Destination," by David West and Louis James. Originally Broadcast: September 20, 2006. Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/18/hong-fincher-leta-ph-d-gender-inequality-in-china-part-two-workplace-disparity/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/18/hong-fincher-leta-ph-d-gender-inequality-in-china-part-two-workplace-disparity/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:22:50 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3396 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/18/hong-fincher-leta-ph-d-gender-inequality-in-china-part-two-workplace-disparity/feed/ 0 Radio Curious continues a conversation about gender inequality in China with Leta Hong Fincher, the author of “Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China.” Welcome to part two of our conversations about the erosion of gender equality in China with our guest Leta Hong Fincher, the author of “Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China”. Her book is based in part on her research for the Ph.D. in sociology she received in 2014 from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. In this 2nd conversation we discuss the extent of what if anything is done about domestic violence in China, the difference in the retirement ages for women and men and the requirement that women submit to a gynecological examination before obtaining a civil service job. When Leta Hong Fincher and I visited by phone on August 9, 2014 we began with a discussion of domestic violence in China. The book Leta Hong Fincher recommends is “The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory,” by Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl and Dorothy Ko. Click here to listen to part two of the program or on the media player below. Click here to listen to part one. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/11/hong-fincher-leta-ph-d-gender-inequality-in-china-part-one-leftover-women/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/11/hong-fincher-leta-ph-d-gender-inequality-in-china-part-one-leftover-women/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2014 21:03:00 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3390 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/11/hong-fincher-leta-ph-d-gender-inequality-in-china-part-one-leftover-women/feed/ 1 "leftover women",China,women Radio Curious discusses the erosion of gender equality in China with Leta Hong Fincher, the author of “Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China” in this two part conversation. The erosion of gender equality in China is the topic of this two part series with Leta Hong Fincher, the author of “Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China.” This book is based in part on her research for the Ph.D. in sociology she received in 2014 from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. In our first conversation we discuss governmental, social and family pressures on women to marry by age 27. Those who don't are characterized in cartoons and posters as “leftover women.” We also discuss the why home ownership deeds are most often only recorded in the name of the husband, regardless of the fact the wife has made a significant if not great financial contribution. In the second conversation, we discuss issues of domestic violence in China and treatment of women in the workplace. When Leta Hong Fincher and I visited by phone on August 9, 2014 we began our conversation with her description of the term “leftover women.” The book Leta Hong Fincher recommends is “The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory,” by Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl and Dorothy Ko. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/04/mayer-schonberger-viktor-remembering-to-forget-in-the-digital-age-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/04/mayer-schonberger-viktor-remembering-to-forget-in-the-digital-age-part-two/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2014 22:30:08 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3386 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/08/04/mayer-schonberger-viktor-remembering-to-forget-in-the-digital-age-part-two/feed/ 0 internet,privacy Radio Curious discusses the impact the internet has on our privacy and memory with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, author of “Delete: The Virtue Of Forgetting In The Digital Age." What happens to the digital trails of our personal information and ideas that remain online when we research or upload data? Is this information accessible to others? Could it be used later to our potential detriment or character defamation? In this, the second of a two part archived conversation with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University, and author of “Delete: The Virtue Of Forgetting In The Digital Age,” we discuss methods by which people may protect themselves from revealing personal information online and how personal information may be deleted. His book asserts that the capacity for eternal memory can have unanticipated and often unwanted consequences. In this two part archive edition of Radio Curious with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, we explore some of the ways in which our personal information, data, conversations and experiences are forgotten by us as individuals, but remembered digitally. We consider the future potential effects on society of digitally preserved information, as well as the consequences of remembering what is sometimes best forgotten. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, joined us by phone from his then home in Singapore on January 4th 2010. We began the second part of our conversation by discussing how to delete personal information so that it is no longer available. The book Viktor Mayer-Schönberger recommends is “Collected Fictions,” by Jorge Luis Borges. The film he recommends is “The Lives Of Others,” directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Click here to listen to part two or on the media player below.   Click here to listen to part one. LeGov clean 29:02 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/07/22/bishop-becky-reading-dogs-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/07/22/bishop-becky-reading-dogs-2/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:06:38 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3371 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/07/22/bishop-becky-reading-dogs-2/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Becky Bishop, founder of Reading with Rover, a non profit organization that helps children learn how to read with the support of animal companions. This radio program is about reading. Learning to read is often confusing and frustrating. Parents and teachers sometimes create stress that flows from their personal angst to the frustration of the child trying to read. Reading to a nonjudgemental creature, who never comments and always appears to pay attention, often helps to create reading fluency. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Becky Bishop, founder of Reading With Rover, a program to help children learn to read. Becky Bishop also operates Puppy Manners, a dog training school located in Woodenville, Washington, about thirty miles from Seattle. Becky Bishop relies on the close bond between children and dogs that creates calm moments and encourages a learning environment. Her organization, “Reading With Rover” couples children who have difficulty reading with a dog who has no trouble listening.  When Becky Bishop and I visited by phone from her home in Washington on February 22, 2010, we discussed why dogs are better listeners than teachers or parents, and we began with Becky explaining how dogs help children to read. The books Becky Bishop recommends are “Living Life As A Thank You: The Transformative Power Of Daily Gratitude,” by Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammon, and “Walter the Farting Dog,” by William Kotzwinkle, Glenn Murray, Elizabeth Gundy, and Audrey Coleman.  Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/07/08/brown-seyom-contradictions-in-u-s-nuclear-weapons-policy/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/07/08/brown-seyom-contradictions-in-u-s-nuclear-weapons-policy/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:03:39 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3357 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/07/08/brown-seyom-contradictions-in-u-s-nuclear-weapons-policy/feed/ 1 nuclear disarmament,nuclear policy Radio Curious discusses the contradictions in U.S. nuclear weapons policy with author and professor Dr. Seyom Brown, who is currently an adjunct senior fellow at the American Security Project, in Washington, D.C. Contradictions in the United States' nuclear weapons policy is the subject of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is Dr. Seyom Brown, who during the past 55 years has taught at major universities, been a special adviser to the Department of Defense and Department of State, and has written twelve books on the United States' foreign policy and international relations. Dr. Seyom Brown is currently an adjunct senior fellow at the American Security Project, in Washington, D.C. and previously held senior research and policy analysis positions at the RAND Corporation, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Kennedy School of Government. He has served as a Special Assistant in the Office of International Security Affairs at the Department of Defense, and to the Director of Policy Planning in the Department of State. Dr. Brown has also taught at Harvard, Brandeis, John Hopkins, Columbia, University of Chicago, and UCLA. His current work is the study of and writing about what he describes as the “disturbing contradictions” in United States' nuclear weapons policy. When we visited in the studios of Radio Curious on July 4, 2014, I asked him to explain and discuss these contradictions. The book Dr. Seyom Brown recommends is “Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons,” by Ward Wilson. The article to which he refers in this interview, "Beyond MAD: Obama's Risky --But Realistic --Effort to Reduce the Role of Nuclear Weapons" is found in the December 2013 issue of Survival Magazine. You also may hear two 1995 Radio Curious interviews with Dr. Seyom Brown discussing President Clinton's foreign policy here. For full disclosure, Dr. Seyom Brown is the uncle to Radio Curious host and producer, Barry Vogel. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/06/24/dole-robert-homosexuality-and-schizophrenia/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/06/24/dole-robert-homosexuality-and-schizophrenia/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:26:09 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3343 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/06/24/dole-robert-homosexuality-and-schizophrenia/feed/ 0 homosexuality,shizophrenia In honor of LGBT Pride Month, Radio Curious visits with Professor Robert Dole, who in the 1960's was treated as a schizophrenic in mental institutions because of his homosexuality. He is the author of “How to Make a Success of your Schizophrenia.” In honor of LGBT Pride Month, this edition of Radio Curious discusses one man’s personal experience in recognizing his homosexuality. Until the mid 1970s many people considered homosexuality to be a mental disorder and/or a crime, as it is still in some personal and political belief systems. Homosexual people sometimes were housed in mental institutions, given medication and suffered an array of treatment methods, including shock therapy and other forms of behavior modification. Professor Robert Dole, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, was one of many individuals subjected to behavior modification. In his book, “How to Make a Success of Your Schizophrenia,” he explains how the “treatment” he endured as an attempt to alter his homosexual preference made him schizophrenic. His personal memoir describes his experiences growing up in the 1960s as a gay man, his institutionalization at the McLean Hospital in Massachusetts, the insanity that consumed him as a result of his treatment, his self-led recovery, partially based on a spiritual experience, and his subsequent extraordinary life in academia. Professor Dole, who is fluent in seven languages, teaches English as a Foreign Language at the University of Chicoutimi in rural Quebec, Canada, where he has lived for 30 plus years. He is the author of several books including, “The American Nightmare.” Robert Dole and I visited by phone from his office at the University of Chicoutimi on November 4, 2011 and began our conversation when I asked him to describe the schizophrenia he experienced. The books he recommends are: “The Death of Ivan Ilych,” by Leo Tolstoy and any book from Stefan Zweig.  Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/27/dammann-dr-grace-dr-grace-dammann-in-her-own-words/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/27/dammann-dr-grace-dr-grace-dammann-in-her-own-words/#comments Tue, 27 May 2014 21:57:57 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3312 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/27/dammann-dr-grace-dr-grace-dammann-in-her-own-words/feed/ 0 buddhism,disability Radio Curious visits with Dr. Grace Dammann, who is featured in the documentary “States of Grace,” which chronicles her recovery from a near fatal and life altering car accident. In our last interview we visited with the producers and directors of the film “States of Grace,” about the life of a woman honored by The Dalai Lama for her medical work at the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, Ca. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with that woman, Dr. Grace Dammann.  Dr. Grace had a near death experience resulting from a head-on collision on the Golden Gate Bridge in 2008.  She awoke 48 comatose days later after multiple surgeries for, as she says, “trashed bones and internal organs.”  With her cognitive abilities in tact, she began rehabilitation and was able to go home a year later.  Now, in 2014 she has returned to work as the Medical Director of the Pain Clinic at the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, California, where she had previously worked as a physician for 18 years.  Notwithstanding her confinement to a wheelchair she proudly describes her legal efforts to urge the Golden Gate Bridge Authority to install a dividing barrier intended to prevent future head-on collisions on the bridge.  The installation is scheduled to being in the fall of 2014. Dr. Grace and I visited by phone from her home at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, in Muir Beach, California on May 23, 2014.  We began our conversation when I asked her describe her current station on the continuum of her life’s experience.  The book Dr. Grace Dammann recommends is “The Last of the Just,” by Andre Schwarz-Bart.  Click here or on the media player below to listen. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/20/cohen-helen-lipman-mark-states-of-grace-difficult-to-imagine-impossible-to-comprehend/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/20/cohen-helen-lipman-mark-states-of-grace-difficult-to-imagine-impossible-to-comprehend/#comments Tue, 20 May 2014 20:12:10 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3304 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/20/cohen-helen-lipman-mark-states-of-grace-difficult-to-imagine-impossible-to-comprehend/feed/ 1 disability Radio Curious visits with Helen Cohen and Mark Lipman, directors and producers of “States of Grace”, a film about Dr. Grace Damman, a physician who uses her buddhist practice to heal and accept a life altering disability caused by a car accident. On May 21, 2008 Dr. Grace Damman was crushed in a head-on collision on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.  Her abdominal organs were shoved into her lung cavity and her bones and muscles were extensively injured.  A practicing Buddhist, Dr. Grace engaged her spirituality to survive this crisis, heal and accept the new terms of her life.  Three years and 15 surgeries later, Dr. Grace Damman became the Medical Director of the Pain Clinic at San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital where she had previously worked as a physician for 18 years. "States of Grace" is a documentary film about Dr. Grace Damman, produced and directed by Helen Cohen and Mark Lipman, our guests on this edition of Radio Curious.  We visited by phone from their home in San Francisco, California, on May 16, 2014, and began our conversation with Helen Cohen describing her friend, Dr. Grace. The films Helen Cohen recommends are “The Kiss of the Spider Woman” and “Guest of Cindy Sherman.” The film Mark Lipman recommends is “Sherman's March.” Click here or on the media player below to listen. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/06/rosenwasser-penny-from-fear-to-love-a-judaic-perspective/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/06/rosenwasser-penny-from-fear-to-love-a-judaic-perspective/#comments Wed, 07 May 2014 04:38:11 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3285 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/06/rosenwasser-penny-from-fear-to-love-a-judaic-perspective/feed/ 2 Holocaust,Judaism Radio Curious visits with Penny Rosenwasser, author of “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Hope Despite Our Fears,” a book that explores internalized oppression and describes steps to embrace who we are as a means to create a world based on love, When Penny Rosenwasser, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, was a child in the suburbs of Virginia, people sometimes said, “You don't look Jewish.”  She replied, “Thank you.”  Her book, “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears,” delves into the Jewish experience and its rich yet tragic cultural history. She explores internalized oppression and ways to face fear with a positive outcome, and describes steps to embrace who we are as a means to create a world based on love, tolerance and justice. I spoke with Penny Rosenwasser from her home near San Francisco, California on May 5, 2014.  She began our conversation by describing a major theme of her book. Penny Rosenwasser will be speaking in Redwood Valley, on May 18, at 4pm at Kol-ha-Emek 8591 West Road. Call 707 468 4536 for details. The book she recommends is “The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism,” by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz. Click here or on the media player below to listen. LeGov clean 29:02 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/04/29/blevis-marcianne-jealousy/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/04/29/blevis-marcianne-jealousy/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:56:34 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3279 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/04/29/blevis-marcianne-jealousy/feed/ 1 jealousy Radio Curious discusses jealousy with French psychoanalyst Marcianne Blevis, author of “Jealousy: True Stories of Love’s Favorite Decoy.” Are you jealous?  Have you ever been?  Do you know the origin of your jealousy? Jealousy often goes hand in hand with feelings of love, but where does this emotion come from, and how can we manage it? In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Marcianne Blevis, author of “Jealousy: True Stories of Love’s Favorite Decoy.”  In this book Marcianne Blevis,  a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who lives and works in Paris, France, reveals different ways jealousy affects different people and suggests methods to understand and manage what can be a very destructive yet elusive emotion. She examines the deeper consequences of jealousy and inquires if jealousy is useful to us, and is this ‘extraordinary passion’ in reality ‘a strategy for survival’. I spoke with Marcianne Blevis from her home in Paris, France on February 2, 2009, and began by asking her to explain what jealousy is? The book Marcianne Blevis recommends is “Aux confins de l’identité" (title translated by Marcianne Blevis as “At the Frontier of Identity”) by Michel De M'uzan. This book is currently published only in French. Click here or on the media player below to listen. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/31/arkin-ron-kirchiro-john-lack-of-trust-youth-and-substance-abuse-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/31/arkin-ron-kirchiro-john-lack-of-trust-youth-and-substance-abuse-part-two/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:25:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3252 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/31/arkin-ron-kirchiro-john-lack-of-trust-youth-and-substance-abuse-part-two/feed/ 0 Radio Curious discusses youth, substance abuse and effective treatment models with Ron Arkin, a Family Empowerment Facilitator with Child Protective Services and John Kirchiro the Director and Principal of the Willits Charter School in a two part series. Lack of trust is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, the second of a two part series with Ron Arkin and John Kirchiro.  Ron Arkin is a Family Empowerment Facilitator with Mendocino County, California, Child Protective Services.  John Kirchiro spent 13 years working as a Crisis Counselor, Intervention Specialist and Substance Abuse Counselor in multiple school districts throughout Mendocino County before becoming the Director and Principal of the Willits, California, Charter School, Grades 6 to 12.  Their counseling work focuses on youth from families where abuse of drugs and alcohol is common, often among both the parents and children.  This abuse frequently results in serious family dysfunction and lack of trust, making school and home life more than difficult. In part one, recorded on March 21, 2014, we began with John Kirchiro’s description of the substance abuse problem in rural northern Mendocino County.  In part two, we begin with John Kirchiro's description of his counseling work, known as the "Laytonville model." The book Ron Arkin recommends is “YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger,” by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz. The book John Kirchiro recommends is “The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time,” by Matthew Fox.  Click here or on the media player below to listen to part two. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/25/arkin-ron-kirchiro-john-lack-of-trust-youth-and-substance-abuse-part-one/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/25/arkin-ron-kirchiro-john-lack-of-trust-youth-and-substance-abuse-part-one/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2014 03:57:35 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3245 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/25/arkin-ron-kirchiro-john-lack-of-trust-youth-and-substance-abuse-part-one/feed/ 0 Radio Curious discusses youth, substance abuse and effective treatment models with Ron Arkin, a Family Empowerment Facilitator with Child Protective Services and John Kirchiro the Director and Principal of the Willits Charter School in a two part series. Lack of trust is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, the first of a two part series with Ron Arkin and John Kirchiro.  Ron Arkin is a Family Empowerment Facilitator with Mendocino County, California, Child Protective Services.  John Kirchiro spent 13 years working as a Crisis Counselor, Intervention Specialist and Substance Abuse Counselor in multiple school districts throughout Mendocino County before becoming the Director and Principal of the Willits, California, Charter School, Grades 6 to 12.  Their counseling work focuses on youth from families where abuse of drugs and alcohol is common, often among both the parents and children.  This abuse frequently results in serious family dysfunction and lack of trust, making school and home life more than difficult. We begin part one, recorded on March 21, 2014, with John Kirchiro’s description of the substance abuse problem in rural northern Mendocino County.  In part two, John Kirchiro and Ron Arkin discuss the counseling work they do, known as the "Laytonville model." The book John Kirchiro recommends is the “The Warrior’s Journey Home:  Healing Men, Healing the Planet,” by Jed Diamond.  The book Ron Arkin recommends is “The Soul’s Code:  In Search of Character and Calling,” by John Hillman.  Click here or on the media player below to listen to part one. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/18/fogg-laura-traveling-blind-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/18/fogg-laura-traveling-blind-2/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:44:31 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3240 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/18/fogg-laura-traveling-blind-2/feed/ 0 blind,disabilities Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Laura Fogg, author of “Traveling Blind:  Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers,” a memoir of her experiences and the people she met teaching blind students, in Mendocino County, Ca for over 35 years. The ways different creatures, especially us humans, use our senses to guide ourselves through life has long attracted my curiosity.   I’ve often wondered how blind people seem able to orient themselves, and also wondered about their dreams.  From time to time, over the years, I would see an attentive woman walk past my office window next to a young person of student age.  They would walk together talk, and the young person almost always carried a white cane with a red tip.  Laura Fogg is this woman, the author of “Traveling Blind:  Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers,” and our guest in this archive edition of Radio Curious.   Laura Fogg worked as a Mobility and Orientation Instructor for the Blind in Mendocino County for over 35 years beginning 1971.  She pioneered the use of the red tipped white cane with very young blind students some of whom had multiple impairments.  She traveled long distances over the rather spectacular back roads of Mendocino County to work with each student his or her home. When she visited the studios of Radio Curious on December 1, 2008, I asked her about the lessons that she learned that have changed her life.  The book Laura Fogg recommends is “My Year of Meats,” by Ruth Ozeki. Published in 1999. Click here or on the media player below to listen. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/04/aptheker-bettina-the-personal-is-the-political/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/04/aptheker-bettina-the-personal-is-the-political/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:10:02 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3218 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/03/04/aptheker-bettina-the-personal-is-the-political/feed/ 0 lesbian,LGBT Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Bettina Aptheker, an “out” lesbian and author of "Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience." Political intimacy is closely related to personal intimacy, just as social change is related to personal change. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Bettina Aptheker, the author of "Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience." At the time the program was recorded in 1997, Bettina was a professor of women's studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz and open about identifying herself as a lesbian. When we spoke in February of 1997, we explored the relationship of personal intimacy and political intimacy. The book Bettina Aptheker recommends is “Ceremony” by Leslie Marmon Silko.  Click here to listen to part two or on the media player below.   LeGov clean 29:02 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/24/transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/24/transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-two/#comments Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:52:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3205 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/24/transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-two/feed/ 0 transgender,transgender youth Radio Curious continues a two-part conversation with Eli Erlick, a woman who was born a male, and her mother Dr. Carla Longchamp. In part two they discuss support for transgender people, resources, recent societal changes and some medical issues. In the second of two conversations about issues facing transgender people, we visit once again with Eli Erlick, a woman, who was born a male, and her mother Dr. Carla Longchamp.  Eli Erlick is the Founder and Executive Director of Trans Student Equality Resources, based in San Francisco, California and a student at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.  Dr. Carla Longchamp is a family physician in a rural northern California community. In our first conversation, our guests share their family’s experience when Eli realized she is female. In part two, we discuss support for transgender people, what is available and how to find it, recent societal changes and some medical issues. We begin part two with Eli Erlick describing what Trans Student Equality Resources is.  The book Eli Erlick recommends is “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity,” by Julie Serrano.  Eli’s mother, Dr. Carla Longchamp recommends “The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals,” by Stephanie Brill, and “She’s Not There:  A Life in Two Genders,” by Jennifer Boylan.  The Radio Curious interview with Jennifer Boylan is on our website. Click here to listen to part two or on the media player below.   Click here to listen to part one. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/19/erlick-eli-longchamp-dr-carla-transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-one/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/19/erlick-eli-longchamp-dr-carla-transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-one/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:38:59 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3192 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/19/erlick-eli-longchamp-dr-carla-transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-one/feed/ 0 gender,transgender,transgender youth Radio Curious visits with Eli Erlick, a woman who was born a male, and her mother Dr. Carla Longchamp. In this two part series, they share their family’s experience when Eli realized she was female and her parent’s subsequent acceptance of who she is. This edition of Radio Curious is the first of two conversations with Eli Erlick, a woman, who was born a male, and her mother Dr. Carla Longchamp.   Eli Erlick is the Founder and Executive Director of Trans Student Equality Resource, based in San Francisco, California and a student at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.  Dr. Carla Longchamp is a family physician in a rural northern California community. Together they share their family’s experience when Eli realized that she was female, and her parent’s subsequent acceptance of who she is.  Our conversation, recorded on January 15, 2014, at Radio Curious, began when I asked Eli, when she knew she was a girl.  Click here to listen to part one or on the media player below. Click here  to listen to part two.     LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/01/21/kennedy-randall-interracial-intimacies/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/01/21/kennedy-randall-interracial-intimacies/#comments Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:10:53 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3160 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/01/21/kennedy-randall-interracial-intimacies/feed/ 0 Radio Curious discusses interracial relationships with Harvard professor Randall Kennedy, author of “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption.” Fears of interracial relationships, influenced over the centuries by racial biases and fantasies, still widely linger in American Society today. Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard University Law School is the author of “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption,” in which he takes an in depth look at the issue of black and white relationships set against the ever-changing social mores and laws of this country.  From pre-civil war to the present, this book explores the historical, sociological, legal and moral issues that continue to feed and complicate those fears. Professor Kennedy and I visited by phone in March 2003 and began by our conversation with his description of what he calls a “pigmentocracy” in the United States.   The book Professor Randall Kennedy recommends is “The Biography of Walter White,” by Robert Jankin. Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/09/bernstein-paula-schein-elyse-identical-twins-meet/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/09/bernstein-paula-schein-elyse-identical-twins-meet/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:01:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3108 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/09/bernstein-paula-schein-elyse-identical-twins-meet/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with identical twins, Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, who were separated as infants and reunited in 2003 at the ages of 35. They are the authors of “Identical Strangers:  A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited.” In our unsatisfied curiosity about the difference between nature and nurture we visit with Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein.  These women are identical twins separated as infants and reunited in 2003 when they were 35 years old.  They are the authors of “Identical Strangers:  A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited.”  Their mother, as we will hear was unable to care for them and as babies they were placed for adoption. When we visited by phone on November 10, 2007, we discussed their separate childhoods, how they learned that they had a twin, their similarities and differences, and their attempt to learn about a study of twins in which they unknowingly participated. We began when I asked them to describe aspects of their twin-ship which they still find strange. The book that Elyse Schein recommends is “Later, At The Bar:  A Novel in Stories” by Rebecca Barry. The book that Paula Bernstein recommends is “Borrowed Finery:  A Memoir” by Paula Fox. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-BERNSTEIN_SCHEIN_CA_2013.mp3) to listen or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=73060&version_id=80803&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/11/19/binder-mark-freund-hugo-latkes-turkey-a-holiday-special/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/11/19/binder-mark-freund-hugo-latkes-turkey-a-holiday-special/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:00:32 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3085 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/11/19/binder-mark-freund-hugo-latkes-turkey-a-holiday-special/feed/ 0 Hanukkah,Thanksgiving Radio Curious discusses Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, two holidays which intersect this year. Our guests are Mark Binder, author of “A Hanukkah Present!” and Professor Hugo Freund who studied the history of Thanksgiving in the United States. The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah which means “dedication” in Hebrew, commemorates the rededication during the second century B.C. of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, where according to legend Jews had risen up against their Greek-Syrian oppressors in the Maccabean Revolt. It begins every year on the 25th day of Kislev and usually falls in November or December.  The Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and Hanukkah, often called the Festival of LIghts always starts five days prior to the last new moon before the winter solstice. Thanksgiving is a celebration common to cultures and religions world wide, often after harvest.  It is held in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November which.  In this the Hebrew calendar year 5774 and the Gregorian calendar year 2013 these two holidays converge with Thanksgiving falling on the second day of Hannukah.  Thus some people will eat latkas, also known as potato pancakes, with turkey and/or stuffing.  In this edition of Radio Curious we combine two archive editions and tell the story of two very fun holidays.  We start with our 2011 conversation with Mark Binder, author of “A Hanukkah Present!” followed by a 2002 conversation with Professor Hugo Freund about the history of Thanksgiving in the United States. We begin with Mark Binder explaining the purpose of telling stories around Hanukkah. We continue with a 2002 visit about the roots of Thanksgiving with Sociology Professor Hugo Freund recorded in a noise hotel lobby at the American Anthropology Association in New Orleans, Louisiana.   Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=72604&version_id=80321&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/10/07/fuller-alexandra-growing-up-white-in-africa/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/10/07/fuller-alexandra-growing-up-white-in-africa/#comments Mon, 07 Oct 2013 22:12:59 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3022 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/10/07/fuller-alexandra-growing-up-white-in-africa/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a 2003 conversation with Alexandra Fuller, author of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” a memoir about growing up in southeast Africa. In the late summer of 2003 Radio Curious visited with Alexandra Fuller who, as a child lived in Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia in southeast Africa between 1972 and 1990.  After her father sided with the white government in the Rhodesian civil war, he was often away from home.   Fuller’s resilient and self-sufficient mother immersed herself in their rural and rugged life. She taught her children to have strong wills and opinions, and to whole-heartedly embrace life, despite and because of their difficult circumstances.  Alexandra Fuller, author of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” known as Bobo to her family, developed a love of reading and story telling early on in her life.   When I spoke with Alexandra Fuller in September 2003 her home was in rural Wyoming.  We visited by phone and began our conversation when I asked her how she choose the title for her book, “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood.” The book Alexandra Fuller recommends is “Echoing Silences,” by Alexander Canigone.   Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/09/10/slocum-josh-regaining-control-of-funerals-burials-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/09/10/slocum-josh-regaining-control-of-funerals-burials-part-two/#comments Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:27:05 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2988 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/09/10/slocum-josh-regaining-control-of-funerals-burials-part-two/feed/ 0 funeral industry,funerals Radio Curious brings you part-two of a series on funerals and burials in the United States with Josh Slocum, Executive Director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, and co-author, with Lisa Carlson, of “Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death.” The traditional rights of families to care for their dead is the topic of this two-part interview on the funeral industry in the United States, with Josh Slocum and Lisa Carlson, co-author’s of “Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death.” “Final Rights” tells the story of the loss of control over what to do at the time of a death in the family, the euphemisms regarding death, and the laws and regulations in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.  The chapter “Tricks of the Funeral Trade” tells how, when grieving the loss of a loved one, many people fail to compare prices, and become vulnerable to suggestions that their love for the deceased is measured by the amount of money paid for the funeral, the casket and the burial.    Josh Slocum directs the Funeral Consumers Alliance.  Lisa Carlson directs the Funeral Ethics Organization.  In part two Josh Solcum discusses the cultural pathology about death that led to the loss of our rights to deal with our dead at death and allows the state to regulate private family activities that we’d never tolerate in any other sphere. Josh Slocum and I visited by phone from his office near Burlington, Vermont, on August 30, 2013 and began with his description of how we as a culture deal with death. The book he recommends is "The Selfish Gene,” by Richard Dawkins. Our interview with Lisa Carlson, recorded from her home in Vermont, on August 26, 2013, can be heard here.  More information on this topic may be found on our website's law department. Click here to listen to our interview with Josh Slocum or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=71011&version_id=78637&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/09/03/carlson-lisa-funerals-burials-regaining-control-part-one/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/09/03/carlson-lisa-funerals-burials-regaining-control-part-one/#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2013 22:09:31 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2971 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/09/03/carlson-lisa-funerals-burials-regaining-control-part-one/feed/ 0 burial,death,funeral,home burial Radio Curious discusses the rights of families to care for their dead and the funeral industry in this two part interview with Lisa Carlson and Joshua Slocum, co-author's of “Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death.” The traditional rights of families to care for their dead is the topic of this, the first of two interviews on the funeral industry in the United States, with Lisa Carlson and Joshua Slocum, co-author’s of “Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death.” “Final Rights” tells the story of the loss of control over what to do at the time of a death in the family, the euphemisms regarding death, and the laws and regulations in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.  The chapter “Tricks of the Funeral Trade” tells how, when grieving the loss of a loved one, many people fail to compare prices, and become vulnerable to suggestions that their love for the deceased is measured by the amount of money paid for the funeral, the casket and the burial.    Lisa Carlson directs the Funeral Ethics Organization.  Josh Slocum directs the Funeral Consumers Alliance.  In our first interview with Lisa Carlson, recorded from her home in Vermont, on August 26, 2013, she describes how the common lore of what to do at the time of death has been lost.  Lisa Carlson and Josh Slocum are co-authors of “Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death.” The books website is finalrights.org.  The books she recommends are those written by John Grisham.    Our interview with Josh Slocum will be posted here soon.  More information on this topic may be found on our website's law department. Click here to listen to part one or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=70864&version_id=78476&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/08/19/levitin-daniel-dr-your-brain-on-music/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/08/19/levitin-daniel-dr-your-brain-on-music/#comments Tue, 20 Aug 2013 02:20:26 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2955 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/08/19/levitin-daniel-dr-your-brain-on-music/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a 2006 conversation with Dr. Daniel Levitin about the relationship between music and the brain. Dr. Levitan is author of “This Is Your Brain on Music, The Science of a Human Obsession.” The understanding of how we humans experience music and why it plays a unique role in our lives is this topic of two interviews with Dr. Daniel Levitin, author of “This Is Your Brain on Music, The Science of a Human Obsession,” recorded from his home in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in late October 2006.    Professor Levitin runs the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.  He asserts that our brains are hardwired for music and therefore we are all more musically equipped than we think.  He says that music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, perhaps even more fundamental to our species than language.  Professor Levitin believes that the music we end up liking meets our expectations of what we anticipate hearing just enough of the time that we feel rewarded, and the music that we like violates those expectations just enough of the time that we’re intrigued. In the first interview Dr. Levitin begins by describing how the human brain learns to distinguish between music and language.  The second interview begins with a discussion of what happens when people listen to music they like. Professor Daniel Levitin's website is www.yourbrainonmusic.com The books Dr. Daniel J. Levitin recommends are, “Another Day in the Frontal Lobe,” by Katrina Firlik, and, “The Human Stain,” by Philip Roth. Originally Broadcast: November 1, 2006 November 8, 2006 Click here to begin listening to part one. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/08/13/freed-lynn-reflections-on-a-life/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/08/13/freed-lynn-reflections-on-a-life/#comments Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:22:37 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2949 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/08/13/freed-lynn-reflections-on-a-life/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Lynn Freed, author of the fictional journal chronicling a woman's life in South Africa titled “The Mirror.” The personal journal is often not meant for the eyes of anyone but the writer. When a stranger’s journal is read, the reader often becomes a voyeur to the innermost secrets of another. And whether it is a true journal or one of fiction, who cares? Often, it remains a good story. Lynn Freed, originally of Durban, South Africa, wrote the fictional journal of Agnes LaGrange, entitled “The Mirror,” which reveals the thoughts, feelings, and loves of Agnes, starting when she arrived in South Africa to work as a housekeeper, and ending 50 years later. Lynn Freed recommends “Misfit,” by Jonathan Yardly, “Essays,” by George Orwell & “Last Days in Cloud Cukooland Dispatches,” by Graham Boynton. Originally Broadcast: December 12, 1997 Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/07/30/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/07/30/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:20:04 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2932 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/07/30/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a conversation about shamanism in the Ecuadorian Amazon with Dr. Juan Martinez, Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Cuenca, in Cuenca, Ecuador. Concepts of “reality” have many levels, some of which are gained by fasting, and/or the use of certain plants that allow a person to view the past, present or  and future.  This is especially true for cultures which cherish and practice the oral tradition and thrive among an abundance of flora and fauna, like those located in the Amazon basin of South America.  In Ecuador the knowledge of the effects of the various plants in the Amazon basin is held by Shamans. Dr. Juan Martinez, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, is a Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Cuenca, in Cuenca, Ecuador.  He’s studied, written and lectured about Shamanic practices in the Ecuadorian jungle and the medicinal and spiritual effects of the plants native to the eastern portion of the Amazon basin. Professor Juan Martinez and I visited in his office in Cuenca, Ecuador on November 17, 2005.  He began by describing the relationship of the people of Ecuadorian jungle to their worlds, the spiritual world, and the world in which they live on a daily basis. The book Juan Martinez recommends is “Amazon Worlds,” a collected work published by Sinchi Sancha, an indigenous foundation based in Ecuador. Originally Broadcast: December 5, 2005. Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/06/24/gottlieb-dr-dan-quadriplegia-a-struggle-to-live/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/06/24/gottlieb-dr-dan-quadriplegia-a-struggle-to-live/#comments Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:53:15 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2895 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/06/24/gottlieb-dr-dan-quadriplegia-a-struggle-to-live/feed/ 0 As a follow up to last week's program, Radio Curious revisits a 2006 conversation with Dr. Dan Gottlieb, psychologist, quadriplegic and author of “Letter’s to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life." Letters to Sam:A Grandfather's Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life For most people, the desire to be known exceeds the desire to be loved. Who we are as individuals, how we reckon with our personal abilities and disabilities the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, a conversation with my friend Dr. Dan Gottlieb. Dan Gottlieb, a clinical psychologist who lives and works near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lives with quadriplegia, paralyzed from the neck down as a result of an automobile accident in 1979. He is the host of “Voices in the Family,” a weekly public radio program originating from WHYY in Philadelphia and the author of two articles a month in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Because of his physical condition, Dan thought he may not live to see his young grandson Sam grow to be man. When Sam was diagnosed with a severe form of autism several years ago, Dan decided to write a series of letters to his grandson. His book “Letter’s to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life,” is a collection of the thirty-two intimate and compassionate letters sharing Dan's thoughts, observations and experiences gained from his 27 years with quadriplegia, and his professional life as a clinical psychologist. Dr. Dan Gottlieb and I visited by phone from his in mid April 2006. The books Dr. Gottlieb recommends are “Eat, Pray and Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything, Across Italy, India and Indonesia,” by Elizabeth Gilbert, and “Life of Pi,” by Yann Martel. Originally Broadcast: April 12, 2006 Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=17809&version_id=20798&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/05/06/samuelson-kristine-20000-crows-in-tokyo/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/05/06/samuelson-kristine-20000-crows-in-tokyo/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 18:02:20 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2806 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/05/06/samuelson-kristine-20000-crows-in-tokyo/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with filmmaker Kristine Samuelson, co-creator of the documentary film, “Tokyo Waka: A City Poem” about the 20,000 crows that inhabit the city of Tokyo, Japan and the human relationships with them. The more than 20,000 crows that inhabit the largest metropolis in the world, have come to be an imposing and sometimes harassing influence on the daily lives of the people with whom these clever birds share the city of Tokyo, Japan. "Tokyo Waka: A City Poem” is a film poem about these crows and their people. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with filmmaker Kristine Samuelson, a Professor of Humanistic Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. She is the co-creator, along with her husband John Haptas, of the film “Tokyo Waka.”  Their website is Stylofilms. Our visit with Kristine Samuelson from her home in Berkeley, California on May 3, 2013 began when I asked her to describe the nature of their film poem. Kristine Samuelson recommends two films: “Oblivion,” and “Underground Orchestra,” by Heddy Honigmann, a Peruvian born Dutch filmmaker. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-SAMUELSON_INTERVIEW_CA_5-3-13.mp3) to listen or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=68243&version_id=75684&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/25/bateson-mary-catherine-%e2%80%93-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/25/bateson-mary-catherine-%e2%80%93-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:37:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2745 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/25/bateson-mary-catherine-%e2%80%93-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Mary Catherine Bateson, author of "“Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transistion." Do we really know the people around us? Our children? Our family? Our friends? Or are we strangers in our own community? Mary Catherine Bateson, the author of a book entitled, “Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transition,” believes that we are strangers. She describes us as immigrants in time, rather than space.In this interview from the archives of Radio Curious, recorded in April 2000, we visit with Mary Catherine Bateson, the daughter of two distinguished anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Originally Broadcast: April 17, 2000. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/05/wagner-sally-roesch-suffragist-matilda-gage-almost-jailed-for-voting/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/05/wagner-sally-roesch-suffragist-matilda-gage-almost-jailed-for-voting/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:11:11 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2714 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/05/wagner-sally-roesch-suffragist-matilda-gage-almost-jailed-for-voting/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Sally Roesch Wagner, a historian and chautauqua scholar who portrays suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage lived from 1826 to 1892, and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that century. This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that century. Matilda Joslyn Gage, an outspoken leader for women’s rights, and an advocate to abolish slavery and religious bigotry, became historically invisible in pursuit of her liberty to think and speak as she thought proper.  She was threatened with jail for voting in New York in 1871, and later was inducted into the Iroquois nation after publicly declaring Christian theology to be a primary source of the oppression of women. Historian and chautauqua scholar Sally Roesch Wagner, who portrays Matilda Joslyn Gage, brought Gage into the limelight by creating the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, based in Fayetteville, New York.  The Gage Foundation is dedicated to educating current and future generations about Gage’s work and the power of her work to drive contemporary social change. I met with Sally Roesch Wagner in the studios of Radio Curious in December 1996.  Our conversation began when I welcomed Matilda Joslyn Gage to Radio Curious. The book Matilda Joslyn Gage recommends is “The Secret Doctrine:  The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy,” by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. The book Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner recommends is “Women, Church and State,” by Matilda Joslyn Gage. This program was recorded in December 1996. Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/02/26/wagner-sally-pace-charles-a-visit-with-elizabeth-cady-stanton-frederick-douglass/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/02/26/wagner-sally-pace-charles-a-visit-with-elizabeth-cady-stanton-frederick-douglass/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:03:11 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2697 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/02/26/wagner-sally-pace-charles-a-visit-with-elizabeth-cady-stanton-frederick-douglass/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Chautauqua scholars Sally Wagner & Charles Pace who portray Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass. The two friends were active leaders in the fight for the rights of women and blacks in the 19th century. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass were good friends from the mid 19th century to the late 19th century, and were active leaders in the fight for the rights of women and blacks throughout their lives.  From time to time they got together to visit and talk about America, as they knew it. In this archive edition of Radio Curious recorded in May 1996, I met with Chautauqua scholars Sally Roesch Wagner and Charles Pace who portrayed Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass. We began our conversation when I asked them each to tell us what it was like to be an American during their life time. Originally Broadcast: July 3, 1996. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/02/18/kennedy-randall-can-you-say-this-word/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/02/18/kennedy-randall-can-you-say-this-word/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:14:06 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2682 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/02/18/kennedy-randall-can-you-say-this-word/feed/ 0 Radio Curious discusses the N-word with law professor, Randall Kennedy, author of “Nigger-the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.” Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history. The long history of the pejorative use of the N-word has given it an unusual power that extends to the judicial system, literature and social settings. Randall Kennedy, a professor of Law at Harvard University Law School, is the author of “Nigger-the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.”  His book chronicles the history of this word, in an effort to diffuse and neutralize it. Originally Broadcast: March 19, 2002 Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/01/08/berkowitz-eric-sex-and-punishment-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/01/08/berkowitz-eric-sex-and-punishment-part-two/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:22:10 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2640 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/01/08/berkowitz-eric-sex-and-punishment-part-two/feed/ 0 sexuality Radio Curious continues our conversation about sexuality with Eric Berkowitz, the author of “Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire.” We continue our conversation about sexuality with Eric Berkowitz, author, journalist and lawyer.  His book, “Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire” is a story of the struggle to regulate the most powerful engine of human behavior. This engine that drives the human species is substantially different in us than in other mammals. In our million years of evolution, physically and socially we have developed the ability to communicate ideas and the expected, if not “required” behaviors of women and men and children regarding sexual thought, expression and procreation. The history of these ever changing definitions and controls of this fundamental aspect of our lives are visited in this two part series of conversations with Eric Berkowitz, recorded in the Radio Curious studios on December 29, 2012. Part One discusses the effect the topic of sex has on other people; the development of laws dealing with adultery and women as property; enjoyment of sex; and the way humans dress compared to other animals. Part Two discusses the issues of young women having sexual relationships with considerably older men; the intention and effect of religion in relationship to sex; prostitution; and same sex intimacy. The books Eric Berkowitz recommends are “Nemisis,” by Philip Roth, “Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy,” by Issac Bashevis Singer, and "Jerusalem: The Biography," by Simon Sebag-Montefiore. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-BERKOWITZ_ERIC_INTERVIEW_P2_CA_12-29-12.mp3) to listen to part two or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=65397&version_id=72654&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/12/31/berkowitz-eric-sex-and-punishment-part-one/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/12/31/berkowitz-eric-sex-and-punishment-part-one/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:27:02 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2630 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/12/31/berkowitz-eric-sex-and-punishment-part-one/feed/ 0 Radio Curious brings you part one of a two-part conversation about the struggle to regulate the most powerful engine of human behavior-sexuality. We visit with Eric Berkowitz, author of “Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire.” “Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire” is a story of the struggle to regulate the most powerful engine of human behavior. This engine that drives the human species is substantially different in us than in other mammals. In our million years of evolution, physically and socially we have developed the ability to communicate ideas and the expected, if not “required” behaviors of women and men and children regarding sexual thought, expression and procreation. The history of these ever changing definitions and controls of this fundamental aspect of our lives are visited in this two part series of conversations with Eric Berkowitz, recorded in the Radio Curious studios on December 29, 2012. Part One discusses the effect the topic of sex has on other people; the development of laws dealing with adultery and women as property; enjoyment of sex; and the way humans dress compared to other animals. Part Two discusses the issues of young women having sexual relationships with considerably older men; the intention and effect of religion in relationship to sex; prostitution; and same sex intimacy. The books Eric Berkowitz recommends are “Nemisis,” by Philip Roth, and “Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy,” by Issac Bashevis Singer. Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/12/11/smith-janna-malamud-why-mothers-worry-about-their-children/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/12/11/smith-janna-malamud-why-mothers-worry-about-their-children/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:32:56 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2601 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/12/11/smith-janna-malamud-why-mothers-worry-about-their-children/feed/ 0 Is the concept of  “mother blame” a method to control women?  Radio Curious discusses these questions and more with Janna Malamud Smith author of “A Potent Spell:  Mother Love and the Power of Fear.” Is the concept of  “mother blame” a method to control women?  Is motherhood really a fearsome job?  Will a mother’s mistake or inattention damage a child?  Radio Curious discusses these questions and more with Janna Malamud Smith, clinical psychotherapist and author of “A Potent Spell:  Mother Love and the Power of Fear.” Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/11/13/miller-geoffrey-%e2%80%94-sex-evolution-and-consumer-behaviour/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/11/13/miller-geoffrey-%e2%80%94-sex-evolution-and-consumer-behaviour/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:26:02 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2558 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/11/13/miller-geoffrey-%e2%80%94-sex-evolution-and-consumer-behaviour/feed/ 0 Consumer behavior is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious in a conversation with Geoffrey Miller, professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of New Mexico, and the author of “Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior”. Consumer behavior is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious in a conversation with Geoffrey Miller, professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of New Mexico, and the author of “Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior”. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/10/10/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/10/10/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain-part-two/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:27:28 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2526 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/10/10/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain-part-two/feed/ 0 Radio Curious brings you part two of a conversation about the subconscious mind with Shankar Vedantam author of “The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives.” Radio Curious brings you part two of a conversation about the subconscious mind with Shankar Vedantam, author of “The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives.”  His book encourages us to be aware of how our unconscious mind is capable of controlling our decision making capabilities.  In part two, we examine what compels suicide bombers of the early 21st century to take their own lives and those of others. And are we, in fact, all susceptible to these ideas?  Shankar Vedantam is a national correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post and 2009-10 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/10/02/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/10/02/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain-2/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:27:06 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2520 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/10/02/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain-2/feed/ 0 Radio Curious brings you a conversation about the subconscious mind with Shankar Vedantam, author of “The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives.” Radio Curious brings you a conversation about the subconscious mind with Shankar Vedantam, author of “The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives.” His book encourages us to be aware of how our unconscious mind is capable of controlling our decision making capabilities. Shankar Vedantam is a national correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post and 2009-10 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/09/10/ebershoff-david-how-many-wives-are-enough/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/09/10/ebershoff-david-how-many-wives-are-enough/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:04:30 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2488 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/09/10/ebershoff-david-how-many-wives-are-enough/feed/ 0 Mormom Church,polygamy Radio Curious brings you an archived conversation about the life of Ann Eliza Young, the 19th wife of Brigham Young, a critic of polygamy, and early leader in the struggle for women’s rights. Radio Curious brings you an archived conversation with David Ebershoff, author of “The 19th Wife," a book about the life of Ann Eliza Young, the 19th wife of Brigham Young, a critic of polygamy, and early leader in the struggle for women’s rights. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/09/03/miles-steven-a-blind-eye-to-torture/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/09/03/miles-steven-a-blind-eye-to-torture/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:11:28 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2475 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/09/03/miles-steven-a-blind-eye-to-torture/feed/ 0 Radio Curious brings you an archived conversation about torture with Dr. Steven Miles, author of “Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War On Terror.” Radio Curious brings you an interview about torture from our archives in 2006.  Our guest is Dr. Steven Miles, author of “Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War On Terror,” a book based in part on eyewitness accounts of actual victims of prison abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan and more than thirty-five thousand pages of documents, autopsy reports and medical records. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/28/santiago-alex-hurricane-katrina-one-survivors-story/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/28/santiago-alex-hurricane-katrina-one-survivors-story/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:01:17 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2471 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/28/santiago-alex-hurricane-katrina-one-survivors-story/feed/ 0 Alex Santiago,Hurricane Katrina,New Orleans This edition of Radio Curious is dedicated to Gerard Tiger Hill and those who died, when Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans in 2005. Our guest is New Orleans Artist Alex Santiago who lived through the hurricane and describes his experience. This edition of Radio Curious is dedicated to Gerard "Tiger" Hill and those who died, when Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans in 2005.  Our guest is New Orleans Artist, Alex Santiago, who lived through the hurricane and eleven days later sought protection in the New Orleans Convention Center.  In a conversation recorded in his kitchen in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward, Alex Santiago shared his memories with Radio Curious Assistant Producer Christina Aanestad on August 15, 2012. The book Alex Santiago recommends is “A Better World,” by Eckhart Tolle. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-FLORES_ALEX_8-15-12_CA.mp3) to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=62465&version_id=69509&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/22/graham-frank-ph-d-the-compromise-of-the-california-state-parks/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/22/graham-frank-ph-d-the-compromise-of-the-california-state-parks/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:09:53 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2464 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/22/graham-frank-ph-d-the-compromise-of-the-california-state-parks/feed/ 0 privitization,state parks The history and current status of the California State Park System is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious in a conversation with Frank Graham who has researched and studied its current economic woes. The history and current status of the California State Park System, as in “how’d we get here and what’s gone wrong,” is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Efforts to close our state parks and transfer their management private corporate control continue to occur in California.  We visit with Franklin Graham, Ph.D. who describes how the California public trust to protect our parks has been bureaucratically compromised. This program, recorded in the Radio Curious studios on August 20, 2012, began with Mr. Graham’s description how our state parks were established. The book Frank Graham recommends is “West of the Thirties:  Discoveries Among the Navajo and Hope,” by Edward T. Hall. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-GRAHAM_FRANK_8-12-CA.mp3) to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=62309&version_id=69345&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/13/ley-dr-david-the-myth-of-sex-addiction-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/13/ley-dr-david-the-myth-of-sex-addiction-part-two/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:21:51 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2453 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/13/ley-dr-david-the-myth-of-sex-addiction-part-two/feed/ 0 Radio Curious brings you part two of a conversation with Dr. David Ley, author of "The Myth of Sex Addiction." Most people are familiar with sex.  Some like it.  Some like it a lot and seek to engage in sex more than others.  Some people are inclined to think that the desire for “too much sex,” however much that may be, is due to a mental disorder. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with David J. Ley, Ph.D. the author of “The Myth of Sex Addiction.” In the first of two conversations with Dr. Ley, the argument that “sex addiction” is a fraudulent concept is presented.  In part two we discuss the evolutionary development of human sexuality and the many cultural approaches to sexual expression. We spoke by phone from his office in Albuquerque, New Mexico on August 6, 2012, and began Part Two when I asked him to discuss human evolutionary development and sexual behavior. The books he recommend are “Nymphomania:  A History,” by Carol Groneman, and “Is There Anything Good About Men?:  How Cultures Flourish By Exploiting Men,” by Roy F. Baumeister. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-LEY_DAVID_P2-CA-8-12.mp3) to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=62124&version_id=69146&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/07/ley-dr-david-the-myth-of-sex-addiction-part-one/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/07/ley-dr-david-the-myth-of-sex-addiction-part-one/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:49:50 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2448 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/07/ley-dr-david-the-myth-of-sex-addiction-part-one/feed/ 0 sex addiction Radio Curious visits with Dr. David Ley, author of "The Myth of Sex Addiction." The first of a two-part conversation Dr. Ley argues sex addiction is a fraud. Most people are familiar with sex.  Some like it.  Some like it a lot and seek to engage in sex more than others.  Some people are inclined to think that the desire for “too much sex,” however much that may be, is due to a mental disorder. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with David J. Ley, Ph.D. the author of “The Myth of Sex Addiction.” In this first of two conversations with Dr. Ley, the argument that “sex addiction” is a fraudulent concept is presented.  In part two we discuss the evolutionary development of human sexuality and the many cultural approaches to sexual expression. We spoke by phone from his office in Albuquerque, New Mexico on August 6, 2012, and began Part one when I asked him explain why he characterizes “sex addiction” as a fraud, not as disorder. The books he recommend are “Nymphomania:  A History,” by Carol Groneman, and “Is There Anything Good About Men?:  How Cultures Flourish By Exploiting Men,” by Roy F. Baumeister. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-LEY_DAVID-INTERVIEW_P1-CA-8-6-12.mp3) to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/24/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/24/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious-part-two/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:31:12 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2437 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/24/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious-part-two/feed/ 0 Radio Curious brings you part 2 of an archived conversation about the collective unconscious with Dr. Clotaire Rapaille, author of “The Culture Code, An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around The World Live and Buy As They Do.” Radio Curious brings you part 2 of an archived conversation about the collective unconscious with Dr. Clotaire Rapaille, author of “The Culture Code, An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around The World Live and Buy As They Do.” Click here (http://emma2.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20060703-Rapaille_Part_2_broadcast.mp3) to visit and listen to our archived program. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/17/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/17/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:54:32 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2422 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/17/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious/feed/ 0 Radio Curious brings you an archived, 2-part conversation about the collective unconscious and people's living and consumption habits with Dr. Clotaire Rapaille, author of “The Culture Code, An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around The World Li... Radio Curious brings you an archived, 2-part conversation about the collective unconscious with Dr. Clotaire Rapaille, author of “The Culture Code, An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around The World Live and Buy As They Do.” Click here to visit and listen to our archived program. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/06/26/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/06/26/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:46:48 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2389 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/06/26/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love/feed/ 0 Radio Curious speaks with Dr. Gordon Livingston about love and his book, "How to Love." Radio Curious brings you an archived interview with Dr. Gordon Livingston, psychiatrist and author of "How to Love." His book discusses what is love, how to love, and answers many other questions about love and how to find a compatible and pleasurable partnership. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/06/12/hanson-rick-ph-d-a-pre-historic-brain-in-the-21st-century/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/06/12/hanson-rick-ph-d-a-pre-historic-brain-in-the-21st-century/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:27:17 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2377 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/06/12/hanson-rick-ph-d-a-pre-historic-brain-in-the-21st-century/feed/ 1 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/05/15/arlyck-ralph-the-film-maker%e2%80%99s-film-following-sean%e2%80%a6-technique-and-life%e2%80%99s-stories/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/05/15/arlyck-ralph-the-film-maker%e2%80%99s-film-following-sean%e2%80%a6-technique-and-life%e2%80%99s-stories/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 21:05:52 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2319 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/05/15/arlyck-ralph-the-film-maker%e2%80%99s-film-following-sean%e2%80%a6-technique-and-life%e2%80%99s-stories/feed/ 1 Sean, a four year old child living with his parents in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco in 1969 was the star of a short film about his life. He spoke openly his free-spirited parents, his crash pad home, watching cops bust head, Sean, a four year old child living with his parents in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco in 1969 was the star of a short film about his life. He spoke openly his free-spirited parents, his crash pad home, watching cops bust head, and smoking pot.  Ralph Arlyck made the film while a student at San Francisco State University. Thirty years later he located Sean and his family, and created the film Following Sean. Ralph Arlyck, our guest on this edition of Radio Curious has produced and directed more than a dozen prizewinning films.  Following Sean, is a film as much about Ralph Arlyck’s life as it is about Sean’s.  It will be shown at the Mendocino Film Festival, held in Mendocino, California, the first weekend of June, 2012, where Arlyck will receive the Albert Maysles Award for Excellence in Documentary Film Filmmaking. Ralph Arlyck and I visited by phone from his home in Poughkeepsie, New York, on May 14, 2012, and began when I asked him how Following Sean also became a story of Arlyck’s own life. The film Ralph Arlyck recommends is “Patience (After Sebald,)” a British Film by Grant Gee. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/04/30/maestripieri-dario-the-primate-within-us/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/04/30/maestripieri-dario-the-primate-within-us/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:47:28 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2304 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/04/30/maestripieri-dario-the-primate-within-us/feed/ 0 primates, with Dario Maestriprieri, author of “Games Primate Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships.” We humans are a lot like the other primates on earth, but because we don’t associate with them, we often assume that our interpersonal behavior, how we make friends, work together, interact with strangers, relate to our spouse is the produce of our unique personalities and environment. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Dario Maestripieri, author of “Games Primate Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships.”  He’s a professor Comparative Human Development, Evolutionary Biology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry, and Behavior Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. Professor Maestripieri and I visited by phone from his office in Chicago, Illinois on April 16, 2012 and began with a description of the close relationship human have with other primates. The book he recommends is “Auto-Da-Fe,” by Elias Canetti. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/04/23/chidekel-dana-ph-d-whos-in-charge-your-young-child-or-you/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/04/23/chidekel-dana-ph-d-whos-in-charge-your-young-child-or-you/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:30:15 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2297 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/04/23/chidekel-dana-ph-d-whos-in-charge-your-young-child-or-you/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a 2002 conversation with Dr. Dana Chidekel, author of “Parents in Charge: Setting Healthy, Loving Boundaries for You and Your Child.” Dr. Chidekel's book asserts that parents give their children too much authority and how to reig... Are you or do you know someone who is tired of endlessly negotiating with a 5 year old? How about taking a 3 year old to a restaurant? Children are too often seen and treated as small adults, dressed as adults, and sometimes have their lives planned out for them to be as busy as adults. Treating children as people older than they are -- overlooks the child’s cognitive abilities. This can be a lead to unsatisfying and sometimes traumatic relationships between the child and the parents. “Parents in Charge: Setting Healthy, Loving Boundaries for You and Your Child” was written by Dr. Dana Chidekel in 2002, She’s a child psychologist near Los Angeles, California. Dr. Chidekel argues that the developing brain of toddlers does not give them the capacity to respond to being placed on equal ground with their parents. She encourages parents to assume their rightful role of authority. I spoke with Dr. Dana Chidekel in the winter of 2002 from her office in Southern California. We began our conversation by talking about the developing brain of young children. I asked her what the brain of a young child is able to assess and not able to assess. The books that Dr. Chidekel recommends for young children are the Bernstein Bears series.  The book she recommends for older people is “Seabiscuit.” Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/03/20/cohen-jeff/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/03/20/cohen-jeff/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:55:53 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2254 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/03/20/cohen-jeff/feed/ 0 Who gets to be in the media and who doesn’t? That’s the topic of Radio Curious in a conversation with Jeff Cohen, co-founder of FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. We discuss the dominant paradigm of debates and the censorship from within. Who gets to be in the media and who doesn’t?  That’s the topic of this edition of Radio Curious in a conversation with Jeff Cohen, co-founder of FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. A commentator on Fox news, CNN and MSNBC, Cohen offers an insider’s critique of mainstream media today.  He is the author of “Cable News Confidential, My Misadventures in Corporate Media,” published in 2006.  We spoke in the studios of Radio Curious March 13, 2012 and began our conversation when I asked Jeff to discuss the subterfuge that exists in media today. Jeff Cohen’s website is www.jeffcohen.org. The book he recommends is Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/31/zeig-jeff-ph-d-below-the-radar-of-your-mind/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/31/zeig-jeff-ph-d-below-the-radar-of-your-mind/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:47:28 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2174 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/31/zeig-jeff-ph-d-below-the-radar-of-your-mind/feed/ 0 Radio Curious explores the use of hypnosis in changing your world view and even your life with Dr. Jeff Zeig, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and founder of the Milton Erickson Institute. How to get below the radar of your mind and what to do once you’re there is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious.  One goal is to reach the quantum of personal leaning in the sub-conscious mind and bring that experiential knowledge to the conscious mind of daily life.  A trusted guide is often beneficial. Our guest is Dr. Jeffrey Zeig, in another conversation about the Ericksonian approach to psychotherapy.  He is the founder and director of the Milton Erickson Foundation and a clinical psychologist based in Phoenix, Arizona.  Dr. Zeig has directed multiple conferences on the evolution of psychotherapy including the 11th Milton Erickson Psychotherapy Conference where he and I met in December 2011, in Phoenix, Arizona. We began our conversation when I asked him about the history of psychotherapy. The books he recommends are “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery as well as the books written by Leo Tolstoy. Jeff Zeig's website is www.jeffzeig.com.  The Milton Erickson Foundation website is www.erickson-foundation.org. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/10/sultanoff-steven-ph-d-humor-social-lubricant-glue-and-antidote-for-depression/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/10/sultanoff-steven-ph-d-humor-social-lubricant-glue-and-antidote-for-depression/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:13:05 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2138 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/10/sultanoff-steven-ph-d-humor-social-lubricant-glue-and-antidote-for-depression/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Dr. Steven Sultanoff, a specialist in the use of humor in psychotherapy. Are you interested in a social lubricant, perhaps social glue, or an antidote to depression, stay tuned, you’re in the right place here at Radio Curious.  In this edition we visit with Steven Sultanoff, who portrays himself as a mirthologist and humorologist with a Ph.D. in psychology.  Dr. Sultanoff frequently uses humor in his work, and regularly in his daily life. Steven Sultanoff and I met when Radio Curious attended the 11th Milton Erickson Psychotherapy Congress in Phoenix, Arizona in early December, 2011, where Steven Sultanoff presented a workshop about the importance of humor in psychotherapy and daily life.  I laughed at some of what I heard and asked him if we could visit in front of the Radio Curious microphone.  He agreed.  We began as he described the role of humor in society and his professional practice. Steven Sultanoff, Ph.D. is a specialist in the use of humor in psychotherapy.  His website is www.mirthmatters.com.  The books Steven Sultanoff recommends are all by Malcolm Gladwell:  “Blink,” “Outliars,” and “The Tipping Point.” Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/12/19/2098/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/12/19/2098/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:43:02 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2098 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/12/19/2098/feed/ 0 Storytelling, like radio, brings pictures to the mind of the listener and allows each one of us to imagine what we hear. Radio Curious visits with story teller Mark Binder who explains what happens when the story teller vanishes. Storytelling, like radio, brings pictures to the mind of the listener and allows each one of us to imagine what we hear.   Our guest on Radio Curious is story teller Mark Binder, author of “A Hanukkah Present:  Twelve Tales to Give and Share,” who describes what happens when the storyteller vanishes.  Radio Curious spoke with Mark Binder from his home in Providence, Rhode Island on December 16, 2011.  We began when I asked to discuss the importance of story telling around Hanukkah and other holidays of the winter season. The book Mark Binder recommends is “The Best of Myles,” by Flann O’Brien.  His website is www.markbinder.com Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/11/15/ball-betty-history-of-the-mendocino-environmental-center/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/11/15/ball-betty-history-of-the-mendocino-environmental-center/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:08:01 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2056 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/11/15/ball-betty-history-of-the-mendocino-environmental-center/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Betty Ball, co-founder of the Mendocino Environmental Center in Ukiah, Ca. They discuss the movements to protect northern California's old growth redwood forests, oceans and more. The history of the Mendocino Environmental Center, as told by its co-founder Betty Ball, is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Betty and her late husband Gary Ball, founded the Mendocino Environmental Center, based in Ukiah, California in early 1987, which soon became a central organizing hub for several environmental movements in Northern California. The issues in those years included protection of the Northern California coast from off shore oil drilling, an effort which has remained successful; the Forests Forever initiate campaign in behalf of the Heritage Tree Preservation Act, which narrowly lost a state-wide California election in 2002; and Redwood Summer, a non violent civil disobedience effort to protect old growth redwood trees in northern California from being logged, modeled after the Mississippi Summer civil rights projects in 1964. Shortly before the planned beginning of Redwood Summer in June 2000, Judi Bari, a Redwood Summer organizer was severely injured in a car bomb explosion in Oakland, California. In a subsequent civil jury trial the F.B.I. and the Oakland Police Department were found liable for certain matters related to the bombing, and ordered to pay over $4,000,000.00 compensation. The bombers still remain at large. These and other issues are discussed in this interview with Betty Ball, which was recorded for video and audio broadcast on November 7, 2011, at the studios of Mendocino Access Television in Ukiah, California. We began when I asked Betty Ball what drew her and her late husband, Gary Ball into the environmental movement. The books that Betty Ball recommends are any written by Arundhati Roy, Derrick Jensen or Chris Hedges. This interview with Betty Ball was recorded for radio and television broadcast with the generous cooperation of Mendocino Access Television in Ukiah, California, and the engineering assistance of Mikah Mate. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=55594&version_id=62169&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/11/07/dole-professor-robert-homosexuality-and-schizophrenia/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/11/07/dole-professor-robert-homosexuality-and-schizophrenia/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:57:55 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2040 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/11/07/dole-professor-robert-homosexuality-and-schizophrenia/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Robert Dole, a Professor of English as a Foreign Language at the University of Chicoutimi in Quebec, Canada, about his personal experiences with schizophrenia and homosexuality as described in his book published in 2000, One man’s personal experience in recognizing his homosexuality, is the subject of this program.  Until the mid 1970s homosexuality was considered by many people to be a mental disorder and/or a crime, as it still is in some personal and political belief systems.  Homosexual people sometimes were housed in mental institutions, given medication and suffered an array of treatment methods, including shock therapy and other forms of behavior modification. Professor Robert Dole, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, was one of many individuals subjected to behavior modification of that period in time. In his book, “How to Make a Success of Your Schizophrenia,” he explains how the “treatment” he endured as an attempt to alter his homosexual preference made him schizophrenic.  His personal memoir describes his experiences growing up in the 1960s as a gay man, his institutionalization at the McLean Hospital in Massachusetts, the schizophrenia that consumed him as a result of his treatment, his self-led recovery, partially based on a spiritual experience, and his subsequent extraordinary life in academia. Professor Dole, who is fluent in seven languages, teaches English as a Foreign Language at the University of Chicoutimi in rural Quebec, Canada, where he has lived for 30 plus years.  He and I visited by phone from his office at the University of Chicoutimi on November 4, 2011 and began our conversation when I asked to describe the schizophrenia he experienced. The books Professor Robert Dole recommends are: “The Death of Ivan Ilych,” by Leo Tolstoy and any book from Stefan Zweig. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 28:59 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/10/31/kennedy-randall-racial-politics-and-the-obama-presidency/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/10/31/kennedy-randall-racial-politics-and-the-obama-presidency/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:14:52 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2030 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/10/31/kennedy-randall-racial-politics-and-the-obama-presidency/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Randall Kennedy, author of “The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency,” and "Nigger:The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word." Racial Politics in America is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, in our third visit with author and Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy, whose latest book is “The Persistence of the Color Line:  Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency.”  Kennedy is also the author of  “Nigger:  The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” and “Interracial Intimacies:  Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption.”  We visited by phone from his home in Massachusetts on October 28, 2011, and began our conversation when I asked him to describe the current role of race in American politics. The book Randall Kennedy recommends is “Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination,” by Alondra Nelson. The interview with Professor Kennedy about his book "Nigger:  The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” may be heard here and the interview about his book, "Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption," may be heard here. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=55424&version_id=61948&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/10/03/williampatrick/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/10/03/williampatrick/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:46:22 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1998 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/10/03/williampatrick/feed/ 0 Welcome to Radio Curious, I’m Barry Vogel. How many of us are lonely? What is loneliness and how does it affect us? Approximately 25 years ago, when asked the number of friends in whom we could confide, most people in the United States said “three. How many of us are lonely?  What is loneliness and how does it affect us?  Approximately 25 years ago, when asked the number of friends in whom we could confide, most people in the United States said “three.”  When that question was asked recently most people said “none.” Inquires reveal that 20% of people, -- 60 million in the Untied States alone – are feeling lonely at any given moment.  And, it appears that chronic loneliness may well compete with smoking, obesity and lack of exercise as a significant health risk. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with William Patrick, the founding editor of The Journal of Life Sciences and co-author of “Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection,” along with University of Chicago psychology professor John Cacioppo. My conversation with William Patrick, recorded on October 13, 2008, began when I asked him to define loneliness as used in their book. The book William Patrick recommends is “The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins,” by Burton Mack. Originally Broadcast: October 18th, 2008. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/09/06/liquid-gold-on-lovers-lane-feigin-keith/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/09/06/liquid-gold-on-lovers-lane-feigin-keith/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:32:52 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1957 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/09/06/liquid-gold-on-lovers-lane-feigin-keith/feed/ 1 Radio Curious visits with Keith Feigin, owner of Lovers Lane Farm, at his bee keeping center in Ukiah, California. We discuss bees on the loose, how they orient themselves to a new location, communicate with each other and how Keith harvests the “liqui... This program is about honey. We visit with Keith Feigin, owner of Lovers Lane Farm, at his bee keeping center in Ukiah, California. We discuss bees on the loose, how they orient themselves to a new location, communicate with each other and how Keith harvests the “liquid gold.”  Keith was just leaving to catch up with some bees on the loose when I arrived, and that’s when our conversation began in mid August 2011. The book that Keith Feigin recommends is the “Secret Life of Bees,” by Sue Monk Kidd.  You may contact Keith Feigin via email at loverslanefarm@gmail.com. This interview was recorded on the streets of Ukiah and at Lovers Lane Farm in Ukiah, California on August 15, 2011. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=54218&version_id=60629&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/06/26/franco-mark-the-winnemem-wintus-war-on-the-u-s/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/06/26/franco-mark-the-winnemem-wintus-war-on-the-u-s/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:23:23 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1866 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/06/26/franco-mark-the-winnemem-wintus-war-on-the-u-s/feed/ 0 Radio Curious speaks with the Headman and War Chief of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in Northern California. The Winnemem Wintu declared war on the United States in 2004, in response to the “continued cultural genocide” against the indigenous tribe. Independence Day begs the question of what freedom and independence means. For Independence Day, Radio Curious brings you an interview with the Headman and War Chief of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in Northern California.  The Winnemem Wintu declared war on the United States in 2004, in response to the “continued cultural genocide” against the indigenous tribe.  Since that time they have been in a state of war against the US Government, which refuses to officially recognize the tribe as Native Americans.  The Winnemem Wintu began their war by holding a traditional war dance at the California State capitol building in Sacramento. In honor of Independence Day Radio Curious Associate Producer, Christina Aanestad, visits with Mark Franco, Headman and War Chief of the Winnemem Wintu tribe. His wife, Caleen Sisk-Franco is the Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu tribe. This interview was recorded in July 2010, at a coming of age ceremony on tribal land along the McCloud River in northern California, near an area where their former villages were flooded to make the Shasta Dam. The conversation began with Mark Franco describing what it means to be the Headman of the Winnemem Wintu tribe. The Winnemem Wintu website is www.winnememwintu.us/ (www.winnememwintu.us/). You may enjoy Christina Aanestad’s interview with Caleen Sisk-Franco, the Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu tribe, found here. The book Mark Franco recommends is “Cadillac Desert:The American West and Its Disappearing Water,” by Marc Reisner. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=52715&version_id=59019&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/06/02/cole-prescott-greed-is-now-respectable-elder-financial-abuse/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/06/02/cole-prescott-greed-is-now-respectable-elder-financial-abuse/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:57:37 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1816 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/06/02/cole-prescott-greed-is-now-respectable-elder-financial-abuse/feed/ 0 Elder financial abuse may result from deception promoted as a "seminar," sometimes with a "free lunch" included. Attorney Prescott Cole with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform discusses elder financial abuse and “living trust seminars.” A will is a legal document that one prepares to identify what should be done with property after the writer has died.  In recent years, a document called a "living trust" has come into fashion that if it fits a persons needs and is done properly, would achieve the same purpose. Occasionally so called “free seminars,” are advertised living trusts.  Some of the gatherings are calculated to be more than instructional.  Rather they are calculated to sell the attendees, mostly senior citizens, a living trust at a surprisingly low price, as well as reverse mortgages and annuities. Prescott Cole, an attorney working with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, based in San Francisco, California is our guest on this edition of Radio Curious, in the first of two discussions on financial elder abuse.  In this program we will discuss living trust seminars, how they are organized and what some of their goals are. I spoke with Prescott Cole from his office in San Franciso on May 27, 2011 and began our conversation by asking him to describe a living trust seminar. The website for California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform is canhr.org (http://canhr.org). This interview was recorded on May 27, 2011. The book that Prescott Cole recommends is the “Bartimaes Trilogy,” by Jonathan Stroud. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=52190&version_id=58464&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/05/19/basta-michael-%e2%80%94-relationship-warning-signs/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/05/19/basta-michael-%e2%80%94-relationship-warning-signs/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 02:17:45 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1787 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/05/19/basta-michael-%e2%80%94-relationship-warning-signs/feed/ 0 This edition of Radio Curious is a conversation with Michael Basta, a Gottman Couples’ Therapist. He discusses the traits and behaviors of couples that are useful to predict how long their relationship will last. Why some couples get along and others don’t, sometimes to the extent of terminating their relationship, is a curious question, the answer to which is likely to bring both pleasure and unhappiness to each of us. Michael Basta has been a licensed clinical social worker based in Sonoma, County California, since 1988. He is trained and certified as a Gottman Couples’ Therapist. This training identifies the traits and behaviors of couples that are useful to predict how long their relationship will last. Michael Basta visited Radio Curious on May 21, 2010, and began by describing the negative traits and behaviors that indicate a dark future for the relationship. The book Michael Basta recommends is “The Female Brain,” by Dr. Louann Brizendine. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/03/28/brizendine-dr-louann-the-male-brain-the-female-brain-there-is-a-difference/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/03/28/brizendine-dr-louann-the-male-brain-the-female-brain-there-is-a-difference/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:41:55 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1709 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/03/28/brizendine-dr-louann-the-male-brain-the-female-brain-there-is-a-difference/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Dr. Louann Brizendine, neuropsychiatrist and author of 2 books, "The Female Brain," and, "The Male Brain." She discusses what differentiates the two. Have you ever been curious about the difference between the male brain and the female brain?  Well I have, for a long time.  This week Radio Curious speaks with neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Louann Brizendine, founder of the Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic at the University of California at San Francisco.  In 2006 she wrote a book called, “The Female Brain,” and in 2010 she wrote “The Male Brain,”--very different books about very different genders of our human species. The interview with Dr. Louann Brizendine was recorded March 21st, 2011. The book she recommends is “The Emperor of All Maladies,” by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=50547&version_id=56691&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/03/21/johnson-richard-the-life-and-times-of-mendocino-countrys-curmudgeon/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/03/21/johnson-richard-the-life-and-times-of-mendocino-countrys-curmudgeon/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:46:54 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1693 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/03/21/johnson-richard-the-life-and-times-of-mendocino-countrys-curmudgeon/feed/ 4 Radio Curious pays homage to Richard Johnson, activist and publisher of 4 newspapers in Mendocino County, CA under the banner Mendocino Country. Johnson died Wednesday January 16th, in hospice care. He was 66 years old and leaves a legacy of activist v... Few people in Mendocino County, who are not elected officials, have created as much enmity and as many disruptive relationships as has Richard W. Johnson, Jr., who was the owner, editor and publisher of four local news papers under the banner: Mendocino Country.  Johnson died Wednesday March 16th, 2011, in hospice care.  He was 66 years old and will be remembered by his stalwart stance  activist vigor and irascible nature. He was an original organizer of California Certified Organic Farmers, the recipient of the Mendocino Environmental Center's ‘Walking Stick Award’ in 1992 for promoting an ocean sanctuary off the Mendocino Coast, and as an original proponent of Measure G on the Mendocino County ballot in 2000, which legalized marijuana in Mendocino County.  When we visited he said he wanted to discuss the misunderstood and seldom appreciated Richard Johnson, his life and times.  And he does. The interview was recorded at the studios of Radio Curious in Ukiah, CA on February 19th , 2008.  Richard Johnson's papers will continue.  Radio Curious Associate Producer, Christina Aanestad and Annie Esposito are publishing Mendocino Country Independent, Vistas and Confluence.  Augusto "Zezzy" Chirre will publish El Sol. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=50319&version_id=56456&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/02/21/moglen-eben-internet-security-and-the-freedom-box/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/02/21/moglen-eben-internet-security-and-the-freedom-box/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:18:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1664 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/02/21/moglen-eben-internet-security-and-the-freedom-box/feed/ 0 The concept of what the internet does and how it’s controlled by national forces is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. We visit with Columbia Law Professor Eben Moglen, a developer of the Freedom Box. The best spy system ever created and what the internet does and how it’s controlled by national forces is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious.  We visit with Columbia Law Professor Eben Moglen, a developer of the Freedom Box, which prevents government, businesses and other intruders from obtaining your personal information and internet uses. His blog is:  http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/blog. For more information on the Freedom Box Foundation go here: http://freedomboxfoundation.org/. The book that Eben Moglen recommends is, “Free Software, Free Society,” by Richard Stallman. Click here to begin listening or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=49618&version_id=55708&version=1)to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/01/25/nugent-kevin-ph-d-listen-your-infant-is-speaking-to-you/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/01/25/nugent-kevin-ph-d-listen-your-infant-is-speaking-to-you/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:19:27 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1628 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/01/25/nugent-kevin-ph-d-listen-your-infant-is-speaking-to-you/feed/ 0 This week, Radio Curious visits with Kevin Nugent, Ph.D., author of “Your Baby Is Speaking to You: A Visual guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newbok and Growing Baby." Dr. Nugent is the director of the Brazelton Institute at Children’s Hospital, New born babies have a wide range of behaviors used to communicate with the adults around them – the language of yawning, the varied and rich range of crying, sense of touch, their feeding and sleeping, listening to your voice and recognizing your face. Kevin Nugent, Ph.D., author of “Your Baby Is Speaking to You:  A Visual guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newborn and Growing Baby,” is the director of the Brazelton Institute at Children’s Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts, where he has studied newborn infants and early parent-child relations for thirty plus years.  This book reveals how infants are able to communicate with the adults around them. We visited by phone with Dr. Nugent from his home near Boston, on January 14, 2011 and began with his description of the research that resulted in his book “Your Baby is Speaking to You.” The books Dr. Kevin Nugent recommends are, "Touchpoints-Birth to Three," by T. Berry Brazelton. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=48888&version_id=54923&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 28:59 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/12/20/martin-buzzy-dont-shoot-im-the-guitar-man/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/12/20/martin-buzzy-dont-shoot-im-the-guitar-man/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:47:06 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1562 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/12/20/martin-buzzy-dont-shoot-im-the-guitar-man/feed/ 0 Buzzy Martin taught guitar in San Quentin Prison for three and a half years, where he gained a unique "insiders" perspective about prison life, prisoners, and the guards. He chronicles his experience in a book, "Don't Shoot! I'm the Guitar Man." Buzzy Martin began teaching music to at risk kids in Juvenile Hall.  He then taught guitar in San Quentin Prison for three and a half years, where he gained a unique "insiders" perspective about prison life, prisoners, and the guards.  His book, "Don't Shoot!  I'm the Guitar Man," chronicles his experiences teaching prison inmates, including rapists, child molesters and murderers how to play the guitar.  Martin shares his experiences with incarcerated youth, to teach them that prison is not a “badge of honor,” and he reveals how music can be a universal language to open the hearts of people who may think they don't have one. Buzzy Martin's memoir will be made into a movie.  His website is http://buzzymartin.com/ The interview with Buzzy Martin was recorded on October 11th, 2010.  The book he recommends is, “The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book,” by don Miguel Ruiz. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=48079&version_id=54035&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcasts. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/12/07/munoz-maca-community-radio-in-the-americas/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/12/07/munoz-maca-community-radio-in-the-americas/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:43:34 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1542 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/12/07/munoz-maca-community-radio-in-the-americas/feed/ 0 Radio Curious speaks with Maca Munoz, an organizer with Palabra Radio, a group that facilitates low power radio stations in the America’s, from immigrant communities in the U.S. to indigenous communities in Latin America. As part of our ongoing series of community radio around the world, Radio Curious speaks with Maca Munoz, an organizer with Palabra Radio.  Radio Curious host and producer Barry Vogel and Maca Munoz both attended the 10th international congress of Community Radio Broadcasters in La Plata, Argentina, along with approximately 500 other community radio delegates from 86 countries who gathered to discuss community radio around the world. Palabra Radio is an organization that facilitates low power radio station projects in the America’s, from immigrant communities in the United States to rural indigenous communities in Latin America.  Palabra Radio provides training, technical support and other assistance to communities, collectives and social organizations that want to operate a low-power community radio station.  Their website is www.palabraradio.org The interview with Maca Munoz was recorded on November 12, 2010 in La Plata, Argentina.  The book Maca Munoz recommends is, "Open Veins of Latin America," by Eduardo Galeano. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-MUNOZ_MACA_11-29-10_CA.mp3) to listen to this weeks program, or on the player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=47761&version_id=53691&version=1) to listen to and subscribe to our podcasts. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/12/06/abuzada-fadi-rahman-ahm-bazlur-community-radio-around-the-world/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/12/06/abuzada-fadi-rahman-ahm-bazlur-community-radio-around-the-world/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:43:11 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1528 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/12/06/abuzada-fadi-rahman-ahm-bazlur-community-radio-around-the-world/feed/ 0 AMARC In this edition of Radio Curious, the first in a series about local community radio around the world, we visit with Fadi Abuzada, a community radio activist in Palestine and AHM Bazlur Rahman, the CEO of the Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Commun... Radio Curious host and producer Barry Vogel and associate producer Janet Mendell attended the 10th international congress of the World Association of Community Broadcasters, known as AMARC.  AMARC is a network of more than 4,000 community radio stations, in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1983, its goal is to democratize the media sector. AMARC advocates for the right to communicate at the international, national, local and neighborhood levels. It defends and promotes the interests of the community radio movement through global solidarity, networking and cooperation. The 10th AMARC congress was held near Buenos Aires, Argentina the second week of November 2010, with 500 delegates from 86 countries present. In addition to presenting a workshop on interviewing skills, Radio Curious interviewed conference delegates from several different countries. In this edition of Radio Curious, the first in a series about local community radio around the world, we visit with Fadi Abuzada, a community radio activist in Palestine and AHM Bazlur Rahman, the CEO of the Bangladesh NGO's Network for Radio and Communication. The interviews were recorded in November 2010, in La Plata, Argentina. Fadi Abuzada recommends the movie, The Little Town of Bethlehem. AHM Bazlur Rahman recommends visiting his organizations website, www.bnnrc.net, instead of reading a book. Click here to listen to the interview with Fadi Abuzada and AHM Bazlur Rahman, or click on the player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=47710&version_id=53640&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcasts. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/diamond-jed-irritable-male-syndrome/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/diamond-jed-irritable-male-syndrome/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:31:45 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1190 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/diamond-jed-irritable-male-syndrome/feed/ 0 We often hear terms in the vernacular to describe a man when he is easily frustrated or angered.  Seemingly insignificant things can easily explode into arguments that can affect if not seriously damage couples’ relationships when some men develop wha... We often hear terms in the vernacular to describe a man when he is easily frustrated or angered.  Seemingly insignificant things can easily explode into arguments that can affect if not seriously damage couples’ relationships when some men develop what has been called the “irritable male syndrome.”  Identifying and understanding these troubled waters is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is Jed Diamond, Ph.D., author of the book “Mr. Mean: Saving Your Relationship from the Irritable Male Syndrome.” In this visit we explore the causes of the “irritable male syndrome,” how it affects relationships and how a better understanding of its causal factors and influences can help diffuse anger and frustration that draw joy from couples’ partnerships.  Jed Diamond, Ph.D., is an internationally respected leader in the men’s health movement.  I spoke with Jed Diamond on May, 28, 2010 in the Radio Curious studios in Ukiah, California and began by asking him to define the “irritable male syndrome.” The book Jed Diamond recommends is “Chaos Point 2012 and Beyond: Appointment with Destiny,” by Ervin Laszlo. Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/43289/49397/64968/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-DIAMOND_INTERVIEW_5-28-10_HB_mono.mp3) Click here to download the podcast (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=43289&version_id=49397&version=1) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:11:40 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1185 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain/feed/ 0 Part One - How do we make the big decisions in our lives?  Who to vote for—or who to choose as a life mate or form an opinion about politics or war?  Most of us are certain we consciously evaluate these decisions.  But, we may be fooling ourselves, Part One How do we make the big decisions in our lives?  Who to vote for—or who to choose as a life mate or form an opinion about politics or war?  Most of us are certain we consciously evaluate these decisions.  But, we may be fooling ourselves, if not being fooled by others.  Shankar Vedantam, author of “The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives,” encourages us to be aware of how our unconscious mind is capable of controlling our decision making capabilities.  In this, the first of two conversations with Shankar Vedantam, we explore the unconscious mind, how we rely upon it and how it is can be manipulated by advertising  and our anecdotal experiences.  These interviews with Shankar Vedantam were recorded on May 17, 2010 by phone from his home in Massachusetts.  We began with his description of the “hidden brain.”  Shankar Vedantam is a national correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post and 2009-10 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. The book Shankar Vedantam recommends is “A House For Mr. Biswas” by V.S.Naipaul. Click here to begin listening to part one Click here to download the podcast to part one (http://radiocurious.podomatic.com/enclosure/2010-06-08T11_57_33-07_00.mp3) Part Two Not too long before the pseudo religious organization known as “The People’s Temple moved to the remote jungles of Guyana in the northeast corner of South America where over 900 people killed themselves at the direction of Jim Jones in 1978, they were based in Redwood Valley, California, about 10 miles from Ukiah, the home of Radio Curious.   In this, the second Radio Curious conversation with Shankar Vedantam author of “The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives,” we explore what compelled these people to kill themselves. We’ll examine what compels suicide bombers of the early 21st century to take their own lives and those of others? And are we, in fact, all susceptible to these ideas? The conversation with Shankar Vedamtam, recorded from his home in Massachusetts on May 17, 2010, began when I asked him to explain the attraction of cults, who are drawn to them, and why.  Shankar Vedantam is a national correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post and 2009-10 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. This interview was recorded on May 17th, 2010. The book Shankar Vedantam recommends is “Heart Of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad. Click here to begin listening to part two Click here to download the podcast of part two (http://radiocurious.podomatic.com/enclosure/2010-06-08T15_08_50-07_00.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/basta-michael-relationship-warning-signs/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/basta-michael-relationship-warning-signs/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:26:48 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1182 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/basta-michael-relationship-warning-signs/feed/ 0 Why some couples get along and others don’t, sometimes to the extent of terminating their relationship, is a curious question, the answer to which is likely to bring both pleasure and unhappiness to each of us. Why some couples get along and others don’t, sometimes to the extent of terminating their relationship, is a curious question, the answer to which is likely to bring both pleasure and unhappiness to each of us.  Michael Basta has been a licensed clinical social worker based in Sonoma, County California, since 1988.  He is trained and certified as a Gottman Couples’ Therapist.  This training identifies the traits and behaviors of couples that are useful to predict how long their relationship will last.  Michael Basta visited Radio Curious on May 21, 2010, and began by describing the negative traits and behaviors that indicate a dark future for the relationship. The book Michael Basta recommends is “The Female Brain,"  by Dr. Louann Brizendine. Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/43281/48842/64504/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-BASTA_INTERVIEW_5-21-10_HB_mono.mp3) Click here to download the podcast (http://radiocurious.podomatic.com/enclosure/2010-06-08T10_18_43-07_00.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/03/stiefel-frank-ingelore-speaking-without-hearing/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/03/stiefel-frank-ingelore-speaking-without-hearing/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:44:23 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1171 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/03/stiefel-frank-ingelore-speaking-without-hearing/feed/ 0 What would it be like for you if you were deaf? If you could not speak your first word until you were six? If you had three years of education, your first language was German, and you later emigrated to another country where they speak English? What would it be like for you if you were deaf? If you could not speak your first word until you were six? If you had three years of education, your first language was German, and you later emigrated to another country where they speak English?  Ingelore is the first name of a woman who was born in Germany in 1924, and came to America in 1940 at the beginning of the Third Reich, right after Kristallnacht. The film “Ingelore” was made by Inglelore's son Frank Stiefel, and it tells his mother’s story.  This edition of Radio Curious begins with we a piece from the movie “Ingelore” in which she explains who she is and a little of her story. As we hear is her ability to articulate words in English it’s important to remember  she cannot hear. This interview was recorded on May 29th, 2010 with Frank Stiefel from his home in Santa Monica, California. The books that Frank Stiefel recommends are “Hand Of My Father,” by Myron Uhlberg, and “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy. Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/43165/48718/64399/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-STEIFEL_FRANK_INTERVIEW_5-28-10_HB_mono.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/04/13/clancy-susan-a-ph-d-sexual-abuse-of-children-and-the-catholic-church/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/04/13/clancy-susan-a-ph-d-sexual-abuse-of-children-and-the-catholic-church/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:33:57 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1099 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/04/13/clancy-susan-a-ph-d-sexual-abuse-of-children-and-the-catholic-church/feed/ 0 If you have been sexually abused as a child, or know someone who was, listen to this edition of Radio Curious with host Barry Vogel and Susan A. Clancy, Ph.D, author of “The Trauma Myth:  The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children – and Its Aftermath. If you have been sexually abused as a child, or know someone who was, listen to this edition of Radio Curious with host Barry Vogel and Susan A. Clancy, Ph.D, author of “The Trauma Myth:  The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children – and Its Aftermath.”  This conversation discuss’s the myth of when trauma of child sexual abuse takes place, how and the abuse is perceived by the victim, and the effects of denial, minimization and blame, and how this issue within the Catholic Church is not being resolved.  Susan A. Clancy, Ph.D. is currently the Research Director of the Center for Women’s Advancement, Development and Leadership at the Central American Institute for Business Administration in Nicaragua.  This interview was recorded on April 12, 2010, with Susan A. Clancy Ph.D. from her home in Managua, Nicaragua. The books she recommends are “Happiness: A History” by Darrin M. McMahon, and “In The Woods,” by Tana French. Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/41791/47235/63326/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-CLANCY_INTERVIEW_BV_4-12-10.mp3) Click here to download the podcast of this program. (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=41791&version_id=47235&version=1) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/03/24/dow-katie-how-do-we-feel-about-surrogacy/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/03/24/dow-katie-how-do-we-feel-about-surrogacy/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:18:52 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1092 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/03/24/dow-katie-how-do-we-feel-about-surrogacy/feed/ 0 For millennia when couples were not able to conceive and bear their own children their options were somewhat limited, and not at all available if the complication was on the females parts.  And, these matters still are not much discussed even among the... For millennia when couples were not able to conceive and bear their own children their options were somewhat limited, and not at all available if the complication was on the females parts.  And, these matters still are not much discussed even among the couples themselves.  However in the past decades medical science has developed in vitro fertilization which can accommodate the egg for the intended mother, or from another woman, and the sperm from the intended father, or from another man, depending on what is needed. The fertilized egg can then be placed into a ‘surrogate’ mother who can take the pregnancy to term and deliver the baby for the parents. The many issues surrounding surrogacy form the conversation in this edition of Radio Curious.  We visit with Dr. Katie Dow, who has studied issues of surrogate parenthood in preparation of her doctorial dissertation in anthropology at the London School of Economics. Katie Dow joined us in the studios of Radio Curious in Ukiah, California on March 8th, 2010, and began by explaining what constitutes surrogacy. The book Katie Dow recommends is “A Meaningful Life,” by L.J. Davis. Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/41064/46486/63209/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-dow,_katie_3-8-10_hb_mono.mp3) Click here to download the podcast of this program. (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=41064&version_id=46486&version=1) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/03/09/bell-susan-cone-a-memorial/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/03/09/bell-susan-cone-a-memorial/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:43:25 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1062 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/03/09/bell-susan-cone-a-memorial/feed/ 0 Susan Cone Bell, born July 5, 1946, created a legacy of leadership that will long out live her life which sadly ended in Honduran waters on December 17, 2009.  In a few short words she might be described as a woman who had a talent to spark imagination... Susan Cone Bell, born July 5, 1946, created a legacy of leadership that will long out live her life which sadly ended in Honduran waters on December 17, 2009.  In a few short words she might be described as a woman who had a talent to spark imagination and encourage creativity in many people.  In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Neill Bell who spent 44 plus years with Susan, and hear from Sally Miller Gearhart and Jade Power who share their insights about the remarkable woman Susan Cone Bell was, and still is.  Neill Bell visited the studios of Radio Curious on March 1, 2010 and we began our conversation with his story about how he and Susan met. The book Neill Bell recommends is “Wet Grave,” by Barbara Hambly You can visit the website created by Neill Bell in memory of Susan at www.susanbell.org (http://www.susanbell.org/) Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/40514/45906/62552/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-bell,_neill_on_susan_3-1-10_hb_mono.mp3) Click here to download the podcast of this program (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=40514&version_id=45906&version=1) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/16/project-pooch-dogs-in-juvenile-hall/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/16/project-pooch-dogs-in-juvenile-hall/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:48:17 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=987 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/16/project-pooch-dogs-in-juvenile-hall/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/09/menasian-helen-no-child-left-inside/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/09/menasian-helen-no-child-left-inside/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:01:13 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=973 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/09/menasian-helen-no-child-left-inside/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/02/gehrman-jody-edelman-deborah-the-ticking-clock/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/02/gehrman-jody-edelman-deborah-the-ticking-clock/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:23:42 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=968 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/02/gehrman-jody-edelman-deborah-the-ticking-clock/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/12/07/gallagher-winifred-what-does-it-cost-to-pay-attention/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/12/07/gallagher-winifred-what-does-it-cost-to-pay-attention/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:32:52 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=891 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/12/07/gallagher-winifred-what-does-it-cost-to-pay-attention/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/01/vogel-lillian-brown-secrets-of-a-long-life/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/01/vogel-lillian-brown-secrets-of-a-long-life/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:33:48 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=871 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/01/vogel-lillian-brown-secrets-of-a-long-life/feed/ 0 How can you reach 100 years leading a healthy and fulfilling life? Lillian Brown Vogel, Ph.D., reached 100 in September 2009 and  published her book "What's My Secret," a memoir looking across her life and imparting thoughts and ideas to those of us wh... How can you reach 100 years leading a healthy and fulfilling life? Lillian Brown Vogel, Ph.D., reached 100 in September 2009 and  published her book "What's My Secret," a memoir looking across her life and imparting thoughts and ideas to those of us who would wish to lead a long and active life. Lillian is the mother of Radio Curious host and producer Barry Vogel.  He remembers from his childhood hearing her get to the heart of most any matter with a few simple questions.  A skill which helped put him onto his own curious path in life. This conversation recorded on October 31,  2009, begins by inquiring what makes Lillian curious. The book recommended by Lillian Brown Vogel, Ph.D., is "The Blue Tattoo: The Life Of Olive Oatman." Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/42383/47876/63750/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-LILLIAN_VOGEL_10-31-09_INTERVIEW_HB_WEB_EDITION_MONO.mp3) Click here to download the podcast (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=37175&version_id=42405&version=1) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/08/11/grandin-temple-what-are-our-animals-saying-to-us/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/08/11/grandin-temple-what-are-our-animals-saying-to-us/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:00:58 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=655 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/08/11/grandin-temple-what-are-our-animals-saying-to-us/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/07/14/livingston-gordon-md-how-to-love/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/07/14/livingston-gordon-md-how-to-love/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:24:13 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=616 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/07/14/livingston-gordon-md-how-to-love/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with psychiatrist, Dr. Gordon Livingston about his book, "How to Love." Everybody thinks about love and many people say "I love you", but how is love defined? The book "How To Love" written by psychiatrist Dr. Gordon Livingston answers these and many other questions about love and how to find a compatible and pleasurable partnership. In this interview, we discuss how to choose more carefully in matters of love to get what we desire and deserve. The song "Do You Love Me?" from the musical "Fiddler On The Roof," is our background music. Dr. Gordon Livingston spoke from his home in Columbia, Maryland on July 13th 2009, where he lives and practices psychiatry. The conversation began when I asked Dr. Livingston to define love. The book Dr. Gordon Livingston recommends is "All He Ever Wanted," by Anita Shreve. Click here to begin listening or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/02/02/blevis-marcianne-are-you-jealous-do-you-know-why/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/02/02/blevis-marcianne-are-you-jealous-do-you-know-why/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:21:18 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2009/02/17/blevis-marcianne-are-you-jealous-do-you-know-why/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/02/02/blevis-marcianne-are-you-jealous-do-you-know-why/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/08/29/how-many-wives-are-enough/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/08/29/how-many-wives-are-enough/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:50:44 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/08/29/how-many-wives-are-enough/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/08/29/how-many-wives-are-enough/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/07/28/keller-irwin-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/07/28/keller-irwin-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:54:34 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=555 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/07/28/keller-irwin-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/gottlieb-dr-daniel-learning-from-the-heart/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/gottlieb-dr-daniel-learning-from-the-heart/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 00:39:10 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/gottlieb-dr-daniel-learning-from-the-heart/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/gottlieb-dr-daniel-learning-from-the-heart/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/sutherland-amy-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/sutherland-amy-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:21:55 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/sutherland-amy-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/sutherland-amy-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/04/04/gregory-hartley-maryann-karinch-reading-body-language/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/04/04/gregory-hartley-maryann-karinch-reading-body-language/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:57:20 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/gregory-hartley-maryann-karinch-reading-body-language/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/04/04/gregory-hartley-maryann-karinch-reading-body-language/feed/ 0 I Can Read You Like a Book Have you ever wondered what some body movements mean when people hear certain words or see certain images? Many of these body movements are involuntary reactions inherent to the individual or culturally based. I Can Read You Like a Book Have you ever wondered what some body movements mean when people hear certain words or see certain images? Many of these body movements are involuntary reactions inherent to the individual or culturally based. “I Can Read You Like A Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People are Really Sending with their Body Language,” by Gregory Hartley and Maryann Karinch, describes methods of understanding what people really mean and how to gain insight to their background by watching their physical behavior. Hartley, a former Army interrogator details how to review with an open mind what you see, evaluate to know what is relevant, analyze to identify voluntary versus involuntary movements and then decide or draw a conclusion based on what you observe. Gregory Hartley recommends “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us,” by Dr. Robert D. Hare.. Originally Broadcast: April 4, 2007 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20070414-HARTLEY_INTERVIEW.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/03/28/eunice-lipton-seduced-by-france/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/03/28/eunice-lipton-seduced-by-france/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:00:12 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/eunice-lipton-seduced-by-france/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/03/28/eunice-lipton-seduced-by-france/feed/ 0 French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust. In a passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history, love, sex and art collide with hatred, withering French xenophobia and death, Eunice Lipton, French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust. In a passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history, love, sex and art collide with hatred, withering French xenophobia and death, Eunice Lipton, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, describes her book, “French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust.” Lipton, who lives in Paris and New York received her Ph.D. in art history at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. I spoke with her from her home in New York City the last week of March 2007.  Because she describes painting as her favorite companions, we began when I asked her to tell us about her friends who she calls art. Eunice Lipton recommends “The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion,” by Ford Madox Ford.. Originally Broadcast: March 28, 2007 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20070414-LIPTON_INTERVIEW_3-26-07.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/03/15/zana-briski-ross-kauffman-brothels-of-calcutta-india/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/03/15/zana-briski-ross-kauffman-brothels-of-calcutta-india/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:05:10 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/zana-briski-ross-kauffman-brothels-of-calcutta-india/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2007/03/15/zana-briski-ross-kauffman-brothels-of-calcutta-india/feed/ 0 Born Into Brothels "Born into Brothels" received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005.  A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art, "Born into Brothels" is a portrait of several unforgettable children w... Born Into Brothels "Born into Brothels" received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005.  A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art, "Born into Brothels" is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta, where their mothers work as prostitutes.  The most stigmatized people in Calcutta's red light district however are not the prostitutes, but their children.  In the face of abject poverty, abuse, and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother's fate or for creating another type of life. In "Born into Brothels," directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman chronicle the amazing transformation of the children they come to know in the red light district.  Briski, a professional photographer, gives them lessons and cameras, igniting latent sparks of artistic genius that reside in these children who live in the most sordid and seemingly hopeless world. The photographs taken by the children are not merely examples of remarkable observation and talent; they reflect something much larger, morally encouraging, and even politically volatile: art as an immensely liberating and empowering force. Devoid of sentimentality, "Born into Brothels" defies the typical tear-stained tourist snapshot of the global underbelly.  Briski spends years with these kids and becomes part of their lives.  Their photographs are prisms into their souls, rather than anthropological curiosities or primitive imagery, and a true testimony of the power of the indelible creative spirit. You can learn about this film and Kids with Cameras at www.kids-with-cameras.org. I spoke with Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman in February 2005. Beginning the conversation first with Zana Briski, I asked her to explain what drew her to India before the concept of "Kids With Cameras" was even a dream. www.kids-with-cameras.org (http://www.kids-with-cameras.org/) Zana Briski recommends "Secret Life of Bees," by Sue Monk Kidd. Originally Broadcast: March 15, 2007 Click here to begin listening. LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2006/04/12/dr-dan-gottlieb-a-struggle-to-live/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2006/04/12/dr-dan-gottlieb-a-struggle-to-live/#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:33:31 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/dr-dan-gottlieb-a-struggle-to-live/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2006/04/12/dr-dan-gottlieb-a-struggle-to-live/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Dr. Dan Gottlieb, psychologist, quadriplegic and author of “Letter’s to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life." Letters to Sam:A Grandfather's Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life For most people, the desire to be known exceeds the desire to be loved. Who we are as individuals, how we reckon with our personal abilities and disabilities the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, a conversation with my friend Dr. Dan Gottlieb. Dan Gottlieb, a clinical psychologist who lives and works near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lives with quadriplegia, paralyzed from the neck down as a result of an automobile accident in 1979. He is the host of “Voices in the Family,” a weekly public radio program originating from WHYY in Philadelphia and the author of two articles a month in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Because of his physical condition, Dan thought he may not live to see his young grandson Sam grow to be man. When Sam was diagnosed with a severe form of autism several years ago, Dan decided to write a series of letters to his grandson. His book “Letter’s to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life,” is a collection of the thirty-two intimate and compassionate letters sharing Dan's thoughts, observations and experiences gained from his 27 years with quadriplegia, and his professional life as a clinical psychologist. Dr. Dan Gottlieb and I visited by phone from his in mid April 2006. The books Dr. Gottlieb recommends are “Eat, Pray and Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything, Across Italy, India and Indonesia,” by Elizabeth Gilbert, and “Life of Pi,” by Yann Martel. Originally Broadcast: April 12, 2006 Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=17809&version_id=20798&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2006/03/14/david-wexler-phd-depression-in-men/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2006/03/14/david-wexler-phd-depression-in-men/#comments Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:37:22 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/david-wexler-phd-depression-in-men/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2006/03/14/david-wexler-phd-depression-in-men/feed/ 0 Is He Depressed or What? What to Do When the Man You Love is Irritable, Moody, and Withdrawn Depression often sets off different behaviors, sometimes recognized by others and not by the depressed person.  Depression in men is the topic of this edition... Is He Depressed or What? What to Do When the Man You Love is Irritable, Moody, and Withdrawn Depression often sets off different behaviors, sometimes recognized by others and not by the depressed person.  Depression in men is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, as we talk with David B. Wexler, Ph.D, author of, "Is He Depressed or What?  What to Do When the Man you Love is Irritable, Moody and Withdrawn.”  Dr. Wexler, a clinical psychologist, discusses how to recognize when you or someone you love is depressed, how to talk about it in respectful and successful ways, while taking care of yourself. When I spoke with Dr. Wexler from his home in San Diego, California, we began by discussing different categories of depression and how the symptoms of depression in men are different from depression in women. David Wexler, Ph.D. recommends, "Dharma Punx," by Noah Levine. Originally Broadcast: March 14, 2006 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20060312-David_Wexler_Interview_3-2-06.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/02/24/abha-dawesar-babyji-a-story-of-physics-sex-and-caste-politics-in-india/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/02/24/abha-dawesar-babyji-a-story-of-physics-sex-and-caste-politics-in-india/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:59:09 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/abha-dawesar-babyji-a-story-of-physics-sex-and-caste-politics-in-india/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/02/24/abha-dawesar-babyji-a-story-of-physics-sex-and-caste-politics-in-india/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/02/15/eric-liu-the-benefits-of-mentoring/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/02/15/eric-liu-the-benefits-of-mentoring/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:03:42 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/eric-liu-the-benefits-of-mentoring/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/02/15/eric-liu-the-benefits-of-mentoring/feed/ 0 Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life Every one of us, in every social role that we play, is a teacher and a mentor. Who has influenced us, and how we pass that influence along is a question that goes to the heart of both l... Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life Every one of us, in every social role that we play, is a teacher and a mentor. Who has influenced us, and how we pass that influence along is a question that goes to the heart of both learning and mentoring. The concepts of mentoring are set out in the book “Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life,” by Eric Liu. In this interview, recorded n February 2005, Eric Liu discusses his experiences a mentor, a mentee, and an observer of both. For more information see www.ericliu.com. www.ericliu.com (http://www.radio4all.net/dl.php/1197-1-20050319-LIU__ERIC_2-15-05.mp3?file_id=21002&protocol=http&session=682548536615f08573f9c61885bedf00) Eric Liu recommends "All the King's Men," by Robert Penn Warren. Originally Broadcast: February 15, 2005 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/11688/13867/21002/?url=http://emma2.radio4all.net/pub/archive/04.01.05/curious@pacific.net/1197-1-20050319-LIU__ERIC_2-15-05.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/02/12/peter-c-whybrow-the-conflict-between-our-biological-heritage-and-the-speed-of-our-lives/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/02/12/peter-c-whybrow-the-conflict-between-our-biological-heritage-and-the-speed-of-our-lives/#comments Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:05:13 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/peter-c-whybrow-the-conflict-between-our-biological-heritage-and-the-speed-of-our-lives/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/02/12/peter-c-whybrow-the-conflict-between-our-biological-heritage-and-the-speed-of-our-lives/feed/ 0 Radio Curious speaks with Dr. Peter Whybrow, Author of "American Mania, When More is Not Enough," a book about human biological heritage and it's conflict with modern, everyday life. American Mania, When More is Not Enough Not so long ago before the common use of devices operated by electricity our lives were generally much more calm. And as humans we have a biological a heritage of being are curiosity driver, reward seeking and harm avoiding creatures. The conflict that has evolved between our biological heritage and the demand driven economy in the United States is the essence of a book entitled “American Mania, When More is Not Enough.” Dr. Peter C. Whybrow, author of “American Mania” is our guest on this edition of Radio Curious. He is a professor of psychiatry and bio-behavioral science, and director of the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California at Los Angeles. In this interview, recorded mid-February 2005, Dr. Whybrow discusses this conflict, and its consequences. Peter C. Whybrow recommends “In Praise of Slowness,” by Carl Honore. Originally Broadcast: February 12, 2005 Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=53939&version_id=60326&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 28:55 http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/01/25/kristen-gardiner-report-on-lori-berenson/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/01/25/kristen-gardiner-report-on-lori-berenson/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:06:52 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/kristen-gardiner-report-on-lori-berenson/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/01/25/kristen-gardiner-report-on-lori-berenson/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/03/09/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/03/09/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:47:59 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/03/09/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/02/17/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/02/17/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:38:15 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/17/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/02/17/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/01/27/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/01/27/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:43:57 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/17/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/01/27/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a 2004 conversation with Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues, for Women's History Month. The Vagina Monologues The Vagina Monologues, created and produced by Eve Ensler, tell the stories of women, their relationships, feelings, and, in some cases, abuse. In this edition of Radio Curious, we spoke with Eve Ensler about the origin of the the Vagina Monologues and the film, “Until the Violence Ends.” Eve Ensler recommends "Bush in Babylon," by Tariq Ali. Originally Broadcast: January 27, 2004 Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/09/30/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/09/30/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:54:48 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/17/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/09/30/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/04/15/randall-kennedy-black-and-white/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/04/15/randall-kennedy-black-and-white/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:53:22 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/randall-kennedy-black-and-white/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/04/15/randall-kennedy-black-and-white/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2002/03/19/randall-kennedy-can-you-say-this-word/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2002/03/19/randall-kennedy-can-you-say-this-word/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:52:26 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/randall-kennedy-can-you-say-this-word/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2002/03/19/randall-kennedy-can-you-say-this-word/feed/ 1 Radio Curious discusses the N-word with law professor, Randall Kennedy, author of “Nigger-the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.” Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history. The long history of the pejorative use of the N-word has given it an unusual power that extends to the judicial system, literature and social settings. Randall Kennedy, a professor of Law at Harvard University Law School, is the author of “Nigger-the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.”  His book chronicles the history of this word, in an effort to diffuse and neutralize it. At the end of his book he writes, “There is much to be gained by allowing people all backgrounds to yank the N-word away from white supremacists to subvert its ugliest denotation, and to convert the N-work from a negative into a positive appellation.” I spoke with Professor Randall Kennedy in the winter of 2002 while he was in California and asked him to begin our conversation by explaining this conclusion. The book Randall Kennedy recommends in “The Negro in the American Revolution,” by Benjamin Quarles, written in 1961. Originally Broadcast: March 19, 2002 Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-KENNEDY_RANDALL_N-WORD_2013_CA.mp3) to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/09/22/saul-diskin-identical-twins/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/09/22/saul-diskin-identical-twins/#comments Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:50:33 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/saul-diskin-identical-twins/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/09/22/saul-diskin-identical-twins/feed/ 0 Radio Curious speaks with Saul Diskin, author of “The End of the Twins, a Memoir of Losing a Brother,” a book about being an identical twin. The End of the Twins, a Memoir of Losing a Brother Ever wondered what it would be like to have an identical twin—how alike would you be to that person? How much of an individual would you be? Saul Diskin and his identical twin brother Marty grew up together in New York City where Saul and Marty were inseparable. As adults, they began to live separate lives, Saul in Phoenix and Marty near Boston. In 1991, Marty, who had suffered from leukemia for 20 years, needed a bone marrow transplant, which he received from Saul. In his extraordinarily intimate book, “The End of the Twins, a Memoir of Losing a Brother,” Saul Diskin chronicles the rich relationship beginning with their early childhood and ending well past Marty’s death in 1997, shortly before their 63rd birthday. Saul Diskin recommends “Entwined Lives,” by Nancy Segal and “Cosmology and Creation: The Spiritual Significance of Contemporary Cosmology” by Paul Brockelman. Originally Broadcast: September 22, 2001 Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/02/06/shari-holman-not-even-the-clothes-on-her-back/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/02/06/shari-holman-not-even-the-clothes-on-her-back/#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2001 18:05:57 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/shari-holman-not-even-the-clothes-on-her-back/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/02/06/shari-holman-not-even-the-clothes-on-her-back/feed/ 0 The Dress Lodger In England, in the 1830s, at the time of a major cholera epidemic, a young girl, the orphaned daughter of a prostitute, finds that working in a pottery factory does not earn her enough money for herself and her child. The Dress Lodger In England, in the 1830s, at the time of a major cholera epidemic, a young girl, the orphaned daughter of a prostitute, finds that working in a pottery factory does not earn her enough money for herself and her child. She must work at night like her mother, as a prostitute. Having virtually no money, she rents her dress, and is followed while she walks the streets so that she will not run off with her outfit. She is called a dress lodger. Shari Holman, a native of rural Virginia, and later a resident of Brooklyn, New York, has researched the lives of girls who were dress lodgers in England in the 1830s. She is the author of a book of historical fiction about Gustine, a 15-year-old dress lodger who lived and worked in Sunderland, England in 1831, entitled “The Dress Lodger.” Shari Holman recommends "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down," by Anne Fadiman. Originally Broadcast: February 6, 2001 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive/09.01.05/curious@pacific.net/1197-1-20050829-HOLMAN__SHARI__1-31-01.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/01/16/patrick-mcgrath-moving-to-america-in-1774-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/01/16/patrick-mcgrath-moving-to-america-in-1774-2/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:08:24 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/patrick-mcgrath-moving-to-america-in-1774-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/01/16/patrick-mcgrath-moving-to-america-in-1774-2/feed/ 0 Martha Peake Imagine leaving home and travelling by yourself to a new land where you don’t know the customs or the politics, on a trip that will take weeks to complete in what would now be considered a very small ship, on turbulent waters. Martha Peake Imagine leaving home and travelling by yourself to a new land where you don’t know the customs or the politics, on a trip that will take weeks to complete in what would now be considered a very small ship, on turbulent waters. Imagine making this voyage, never to return to your homeland, when you are 15 years old, and pregnant. Soon after you arrive a war begins that changes the face of the country and set a new type of government in motion. Imagine researching this story and then writing it. That is the work of Patrick McGrath, the author of “Martha Peake,” a book about a plucky young woman who came to American in 1774. I spoke with Patrick McGrath by phone in 2001 to talk about “Martha Peake,” how he researched and prepared to write it, and what British students are taught about the American Revolution. Patrick McGrath recommends “The First American,” by H.W. Brown. Originally Broadcast: January 16, 2001 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20060719-McGrath__Patrick_10-26-00.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/01/02/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/01/02/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well/#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2001 18:10:48 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/01/02/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2000/04/17/mary-catherine-bateson-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2000/04/17/mary-catherine-bateson-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/#comments Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:38:52 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/mary-catherine-bateson-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2000/04/17/mary-catherine-bateson-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/feed/ 0 Full Circles, Overlapping Lives (Culture and Generation in Transition) Do we really know the people around us? Our children? Our family? Our friends? Or are we strangers in our own community? Mary Catherine Bateson, the author of a book entitled, Full Circles, Overlapping Lives (Culture and Generation in Transition) Do we really know the people around us? Our children? Our family? Our friends? Or are we strangers in our own community? Mary Catherine Bateson, the author of a book entitled, “Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transition,” believes that we are strangers. She describes us as immigrants in time, rather than space.In this interview from the archives of Radio Curious, recorded in April 2000, we visit with Mary Catherine Bateson, the daughter of two distinguished anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. The book Mary Catherine Bateson recommends is “Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found,“ by Sarah Saffian. Originally Broadcast: April 17, 2000 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@pacific.net/1197-1-20051204-Bateson_Catherine_4-17-00_and_6-25-02.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/12/12/lynn-freed-reflections-on-a-life/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/12/12/lynn-freed-reflections-on-a-life/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 1997 20:25:59 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/lynn-freed-reflections-on-a-life/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/12/12/lynn-freed-reflections-on-a-life/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/10/03/richard-gardiner-the-mix-of-psychiatry-and-the-psyche/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/10/03/richard-gardiner-the-mix-of-psychiatry-and-the-psyche/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 1997 20:36:55 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/richard-gardiner-the-mix-of-psychiatry-and-the-psyche/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/10/03/richard-gardiner-the-mix-of-psychiatry-and-the-psyche/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/02/12/amy-bloom-love-as-creator/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/02/12/amy-bloom-love-as-creator/#comments Wed, 12 Feb 1997 22:17:27 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/29/amy-bloom-love-as-creator/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/02/12/amy-bloom-love-as-creator/feed/ 0 Love Invents Us Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the enactment of psychological theory about human behavior, also traces the intimate details in the life of E... Love Invents Us Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the enactment of psychological theory about human behavior, also traces the intimate details in the life of Elizabeth Howe from her childhood to middle age. I spoke with Amy Bloom by phone while she was on tour to discuss ‘Love Invents Us” and asked her, “how does love invent us?” Amy Bloom recommends "Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream," by John Derbyshire. Originally Broadcast: February 12, 1997 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive/09.01.05/curious@pacific.net/1197-1-20050606-BLOOM__AMY_2-12-97.mp3) LeGov clean