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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

Book Mole: Kingsolver's "Unsheltered"

Airs at: Mon, 11/19/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Larry Bowlden reviews Barbara Kingsolver's latest book. He reports that Kingsolver--scientist, conservationist, and supreme story teller--spins a tale of two families about to lose their shelters: one in the late 1800s, the other in  the present. Science, Darwin, the con... Read more

November 2018 Digital Divide - Greg Matloff

Airs at: Fri, 11/09/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for The Digital Divide
Digital Divide for November 2018 This month tune in for a conversation I have with Astrophysicist Greg Matloff. He explains in as close to human language as possible, how interstellar travel might work, evidence of alien civilizations in space, stellarvores (stars that eat... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 29, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode, which includes: Steve Early on Police Reform: Bill Resnick talks with union activist Steve Early about reforming the police in Richmond, California. Hope, the Gender-variant Chicken: music from Bicycle Face's album, "Wonders of Female Stre... Read more