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015 Doctors Gone Bad: Physicians, Dictatorships, and Warrior Cultures

Airs at: Mon, 05/06/2019 at 7:00am - 7:30am
Produced for:  Prescription for Justice
  This episode reviews the history of unethical human subject experimentation from World War II to the present, focusing on physicians who compromised their professional ethics and facilitated the rise of demagogues and the perpetuation of militarism. I discuss how the coo... Read more

010 Women In Science

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2019 at 7:00am - 7:30am
Produced for:  Prescription for Justice
  Throughout history women have been marginalized and had limited opportunities for formal academic learning and achievement in science. Today, women hold less than ¼ of the jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math. They often are paid less than men of similar ac... Read more

005 Air Pollution - Purifying the Miasma

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2019 at 7:00am - 7:30am
Produced for:  Prescription for Justice
  Together, air, water, soil, chemical, and occupational pollution cause over 9 million deaths worldwide each year, or 1/6 deaths worldwide. This is three times as many deaths as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS combined. Our guest today is Mary Peveto, president, Neighbors... Read more

Green New Deal: a Green Party vision

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Howie Hawkins, New York gubinatorial candidate for the Green party, about the renewed political agitation for a Green New Deal within and without the party. Read more

What’s Up With Your Down There?

This irreverent, fun podcast will help you get to know what’s going on with your “down there”. You can submit questions about genitals, sex, reproductive health, or anything below the belt, all of which will be answered by host Miriam Rosenberg, certified nurse midwife, and... Read more

Error451 #14: Leap Encryption Access Project on VPNs & Psuedonymity

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2018 at 4:00pm - Fri, 01/04/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
Leap Encryption Access Project On this episode, we’d like to share a conversation had a little bit ago with Kali Kaneko, from LEAP.  Leap Encryption Access Project, like pEp featured in our prior Error451 interview, is an open-source project meant to ease… access to encryp... Read more

Error451: #13 (pEp with Hernani Marques)

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2018 at 4:00pm - Fri, 12/28/2018 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
Hernani Marques on Pretty Easy Privacy On this episode I’m joined by Hernani Marques, a hacker and member of the pEp Foundation, talking about Pretty Easy Privacy, a concerted attempt to make adoption of end-to-end email encryption easier and more ubiquitous through automa... Read more

Threshold Shift Episode IV: Whales

Airs at: Sat, 12/29/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
Hello and welcome back to Threshold Shift on KBOO 90.7 FM Portland. I am your host Nicole Martin. A lot has happened since our September show featuring the work of recordist Bill McQuay and researcher Dr. Laurel Symes. We had a very successful KBOO 50th Anniversary live eve... Read more

Whale Songs for Winter

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
UPDATE: The full show track is up on the episode page (with a little tagged from the previous show...scroll ahead a couple minutes) as well as the transcription of the narration and interview for those that would like it. I'm working on the finishing touches of the full con... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 17, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode, which includes: Overproduction and Overdevelopment in China: Bill Resnick and Richard Smith talk about China's over-productive economy Ecopoetry: Frann Michel comments on the political significance of poetry and shares some poetry about clim... Read more