THE LOH DOWN ON SCIENCE — Each week day, Sandra Tsing Loh – the humorist, pub-radio star (Marketplace, This American Life) and Caltech alumna (BS, Physics)– gives us her unique take on important science stories such as… Procrastinating Primates, The Physics of High Heels and Good News for Coffee Addicts. The Loh Down on Science is produced by KPCC FM and Caltech and is currently one of KPCC’s most downloaded (podcast) shows. A show for those who love science as well as those who love to avoid it.
The Loh Down on Science - November Episodes:
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“5 years ago, I went to the Polish Synagogue, now a library, where my grandfather had likely worshipped before departing to the US. The connection to the place was circumstantial at best. Yet as I stood there, a hundred years removed from the actual events of family history,I began to cry.
Native Alaskans have had the collective accouterments of their history taken by successive colonizers, so when an Alutiiq man was overwhelmed when he saw the masks in a French museum, I got it.
Master storytellers always bring out the universal humanity of a moment and so, I think you’ll get it too. This is an hour well spent.”
Jonathan Groubert , Radio Netherlands
Editorial Board, PRX
Coming Home:The Return of the Alutiiq Masks - A one hour documentary that takes us to Kodiak, Alaska, where Alutiiq peoples work to save their language, cultural traditions and heritage by unlocking the secrets of the masks collected by French explorer Alphonse Pinart in 1872. From two-time Peabody Award winner, Dmae Roberts. A one-hour NPR-news-friendly radio documentary edition of Earthsongs. Produced by the Koahnic Broadcast Corporation & Distributed by Native Voice One.
LENGTH: 54 minute
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: CD, Content Depot, PRX
With a surge in naturalization rates and native-born Latinos turning 18, the power of a growing Latino electorate will have an historic impact in U.S. voting booths.
Radio Bilingüe’s Hacia el Voto 2008 series will feature a 6-hour election-day program and paired 2-hour specials the day before and after an historic election with anticipated record-breaking voter participation and increased Latino turnout.
Teaming up with reporters at partner stations nationwide, this portion of the year-long series will air on Election Day from 12 to 4 pm and from 8 to 10 pm PST focusing on presidential and key congressional races around the country.
* Monday, Nov. 3, a pre-Election Day special will air from noon to 2 pm
* Wednesday, Nov. 5, an aftermath report will air from noon to 2 pm
For more information, visit: http://www.radiobilingue.org/elections/
On October 17-19, 2008 in San Rafael, CA the annual Bioneers Conference took place. The lectures recorded at this conference will be compiled to create the new episodes of Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature.
Lectures included the topics:
*Solutions from the Underground: Using Fungi to Help Save the World
*Saving Our Water Planet
*What’s Democracy Got To Do With It? Politics and Environment
*It Takes a Movement to Save the Planet: Race, Class, and the Power to Transform
*The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The 2008 Bioneers Conference was an inspiring success this year. The Bioneers Conference is an acclaimed leading-edge forum where you can see tomorrow today: a future environment of hope. Social and scientific innovators focus on breakthrough solutions inspired by nature and human ingenuity. These visionaries are already creating a healthy, equitable, diverse and beautiful world, our legacy for future generations and the web of life on which our lives depend. Here you can connect with hundreds or thousands of engaged folks making a real difference.
