My Podcast Blog

Two podcasts in the space of one week dealing with hate was more than I bargained for. The interview with Kristine Hoover, the Director of Gonzaga University's Institute of Hate Studies was planned some time ago. I had wanted to interview her about…

2,117,000 recall petition signatures were turned in on March 17 the deadline. 1.5 million valid signatures are required to qualify the recall for the ballot.  An outside vendor validated the signatures at a 83% rate, or almost 1.7million valid …

Emily Fromm's  mosaic mural depicting some of San Francisco's most colorful and diverse neighborhoods is huge - 40 feet by 10 feet. Of the 11 art installations at the Harvey Milk Terminal, it is by far the most impressive. Like all great murals…

Cold and rainy Sunday here in Sebastopol as I sit by the fire reading Professor Hank Greely's, book CRISPR People The Science and Ethics  of editing the Human Genome. He and I will be discussing the book in this Tuesday's podcast.   …

California Governor Newsom signed AB 86 into law on Friday, ear marking $2 billion to re-open public schools. But the twist is that the Governor nor the Legislature has the power to re-open. Instead that power is vested in the more than 1000 school …

Today's episode (S7  E4)  was an interview with author Josh Hamilton. His debut book, Brexit: the Establishment Civil War was published yesterday, March 1, 2021. He is also the editor of a UK based political website called The Jist.  …

Iran is back in the news, as the Biden Administration seeks to revive the JCPOA - the technical name of the Iran nuclear deal. In last week's episode, guest Bill Boerum discussed Iran's race to obtain the bomb and the West's efforts to slow it down.…

As we enter the last week of Black History Month for 2021, I am thinking back on the podcast we did on the subject of WWII Black servicemen, with Jonathan Speed our guest. His knowledge on the subject was vast and of course, he does have a Masters i…

TeleHealth and TeleMedicine. The San Francisco Tech Council hosted a summit last week on the subject of Seniors and healthcare delivered over the internet. But first some definitions. Telemedicine is the clinical arm of such healthcare whereas Teleh…