Month: March 2018

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Pod Save America - “Choose your own obstruction.”

The Parkland students enrage right-wing pundits, Trump’s legal problems get worse, the Department of Veterans Affairs gets a new boss, and the Census gets a new question. Then Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, joins Jon and Dan to talk about her new book “Dear Madam President: An Open Letter To The Women Who Will Run The World.”

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Bay Curious - How Worried Should You Be About Shark Attacks on the California Coast?

Learn why our coastline is called the Red Triangle and how you can minimize the risk of an encounter with a great white shark.


Reported by Jessica Placzek. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Jessica Placzek, Paul Lancour, Ryan Levi, Suzie Racho, Erika Kelly, Amanda Font, and Julia McEvoy. Holly Kernan is Vice President for News. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?

Miss Fisher?s Murder Mysteries is one of Australia?s most popular television series and has been broadcast in 172 territories worldwide. Set in 1920?s Melbourne the series? protagonist, Miss Phryne Fisher, seems to have a lot of dead bodies on her metaphorical plate. So how does the series compare with the real life murder rate at that time? Join the More Or Less team as we step back in time for some statistical sleuthing.

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New Books in Native American Studies - Natchee Blu Barnd, “Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism” (Oregon State UP, 2017)

In Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism (Oregon State University Press, 2017), Natchee Blu Barnd examines how Indigenous populations create space and geographies through naming, signage, cultural practices, and artistic expression within the confines of settler colonialism in the United States. Native Space explores these acts as everyday cultural practices, and also examines how settler societies deploy the concept of Indian-ness to create colonial geographies. Barnd takes an interdisciplinary approach toward these subjects, and examines these concepts through the use of demographic and cartographic data, stories, and imagery, each of which underscores the different methods Native peoples use to unsettle settler society and reclaim Indigenous spaces.

Samantha M. Williams is a PhD candidate in History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently writing her dissertation, which examines the history of the Stewart Indian School in Carson City, Nevada through the lenses of settler colonialism and public history. She can be reached at swillia7@ucsc.edu.

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The NewsWorthy - VA Secretary Fired, Facebook Changes & Mega Millions (+ 3QTh with Dr. David Hill) – Thursday, March 29th, 2018

All the news you need to know for Thursday, March 29th, 2018! 

Today, we're talking about another person kicked out of the Trump administration and Facebook's newest promise to improve privacy settings.

Plus: does President Trump hate Amazon, MLB Opening Day and the Mega Millions jackpot.

All that and much more in less than 10 minutes!

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

 Then, hang out after the news for the bonus Three Question Thursday interview. This week we're talking about social media use and the possible impact on both adults and teens. 

Dr. David Hill is Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media. He joins us to share his take.

For links to all the stories referenced in today's episode, visit https://www.theNewsWorthy.com and click Episodes.