Jen Davis grows 16 kinds of fruits and many of her family's vegetables in her urban yard. She also keeps ducks to eat slugs, and Mason bees for pollination, and she teaches Mason bee care classes around the NW. She is the founder of Bee Friendly Portland, a coalition of folks working at the neighborhood level to protect send sustain our threatened pollinators. Please check it out on FB: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bee-Friendly-Portland/650478741630390?ref=hl
58:41 minutes (53.73 MB)
Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker bring another installment of the Left and the Law. Today they focus on legislation in Texas that allows innocent people to get their convictions overturned. In particular, drawing on a case of purported child-abuse, it allows defendants to challenge junk science pushed by experts with new research. For example, much research has not been done on the inner anatomy of young girls' vaginas, and new research suggests that the hitherto unappreciated variability of some of these features (e.g. the hymen) can be mistakenly attributed to abuse. 16:07 minutes (14.76 MB)
Tom Becker reads a CounterPunch article by Geoffrey MacDonald, "The Revolving Door of Unemployment". MacDonald argues against the fallicious logic that tries to solve problems created by economic growth, like stagnating wages and unemployment, with MORE economic growth.
Bill Resnick talks with local education activist Hyung Nam about high stakes testing in US schools. Hyung talks about how he was threatened with firing from Wilson High School for asking critical questions about high stakes testing, but also for raising other critical questions about teacher's academic freedom. Hyung explains how business interests are driving "education reform" to turn education into a business. This is happening, he says, in the broader context of capitalism's perpetual crisis (stagnating wages, recessions, collapsing tax bases, etc.), which is transfered to the sphere of education in terms of greedy or lazy teachers. 20:17 minutes (18.57 MB)
Here it is... the long awaited premiere of 12 Dancing Princesses (part 1), scripted and directed by Kirsten Liden! And, Noah chats with special guest Ren Green! All that plus Random Moments, Letters From Listeners and much, much more on this month's Sub-Human Intellect Theater!!
[Full episode; as broadcast March 10, 2014.]
59:19 minutes (81.46 MB)
Malinda Lo started writing because she just wanted to be the hero of her own story. She’s now the author of four acclaimed young adult novels, including the science fiction thriller, "Inheritance".
APA Compass promotes social justice, features APA arts and culture, and challenges how APAs are represented in the media. 13:20 minutes (12.21 MB)
