A one-hour weekly magazine The only dry thing about the program is the humor.
If your listeners delight in the wonders of scientific discovery, and are curious about where innovation is headed, you’ll want to add Big Picture Science to your schedule.
Host and Producer Seth Shostak & Co-Host and Executive Producer Molly Bentley
Big Picture Science examines life and technology on this planet… and beyond, in surprising and humorous ways. Host and Producer Seth Shostak and Co-Host and Executive Producer Molly Bentley make the fast-paced one-hour magazine style program entertaining and informative, and prove that science radio can be fun. (Maybe even more fun than cars!)
What came before the Big Bang? How does memory work? Will our descendants be human or machine? What’s the origin of humor?
Big Picture Science ponders these questions daily… and expounds on them weekly.
Plus, one episode a month, Skeptic Check, is devoted to critical thinking where science is seperated from pseudoscience – and facts from the phony. Whether it’s astrology, Bigfoot, or just the incessant onslaught of dubious medical claims, Big Picture Science takes it all on, wielding the skeptical tools of solid science.
Now Available on PRX and Content Depot RESPONDING TO DISASTERS:From Prediction to Recovery
From re-creating tsunamis in the laboratory to tracking global pandemics, scientists and engineers around the country are seeking new insights into natural and man-made disasters. This one-hour special report looks at what researchers are doing to protect us from and help us survive these life-shattering events.
Susan Suntree is a 2011 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award winner for Sacred Sites The Secret History of Southern California
Where: Saturday December 10, 2011 at 2pm-5pm
Oakland Public Library, Rockridge Branch
5366 College Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618
What: PEN Oakland, founded in 1989, is a chapter of PEN International, founded in 1921. Dubbed “the blue collar PEN” by the New York Times, PEN Oakland annually sponsors the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Book Awards, named for the late poet and faculty member of U.C. Berkeley’s English Department. This year marks the 21st anniversary of the awards. Each year PEN Oakland presents an award to outstanding book titles published in the previous year.
President Reagan’s firing of the Air Traffic controllers for refusing to return to work, introduced a battle with labor whose echo is still very much a part of our contemporary political discourse.
The Action Speaks! panel of experts look at how this moment was nested into the rise of Free Market Philosophy and how it resonates today in the contemporary conflicts in Ohio, Wisconsin and in many other states and municipalities.
