Selected Clips
Social Justice and Community Health Stories:
- How neuroscience can help us treat trafficked youth
- Fields of Fear: California farmworkers speak out about sexual assault
- Dangerous Drift: The risks of pesticides linger long after application
- Probation officer’s love of soccer saves at-risk kids in Watsonville
- ‘Census of the Invisible’ documents plight of working poor in California
- Santa Cruz tattoo removal program offers a clean slate
- Crime survivors look to stop the cycle of crime with more rehabilitation, less punishment
- Public art project builds community spirit in Pajaro Valley
- Undocumented, Uninsured: California needs a statewide health care solution
- A Perilous Link: Pet abuse and domestic violence
- Safe Parking programs offer a respite for the homeless
- Trend towards early puberty in girls continues, researchers ask why
Mind and Body Features:
- Migraine disorder comes with its own set of clues for preventing pain
- Essential oils smell great—but do they live up to their claims?
- A balanced fitness regimen includes balance training: Here’s how to do it
- Teens’ compulsive texting can cause neck injury, experts warn
- Three dietary lifestyles up close: Paleo, veganism and Slow Food movement
- Quality-of-life care may help cancer patients feel better, live longer
- Battling cancer with exercise, nutrition and mental health
- After shifting trends, it’s time for a clear-eyed look at fats in our diet
- Designing a healthy workplace
- Brain fitness can include training games on the computer
- Hot exercise classes catching on like fire—but does heat make a better workout?
Science Features:
- The blended senses of synesthesia
- Bay fog factory: Scientists research coastal weather for clues to climate change
- Biologists suspect residual DDT for thinning egg shells in California condors
- Pacific leatherbacks swim 7,000 miles for a taste of Monterey Bay sea nettles
- Sweat: a cooling system that’s also an ancient language
- Where have all the sea otters gone?
- What we can learn from synesthesia
- Stealth Mode: the Red October of cystic fibrosis
- Shrieking mice: Scientists record ultrasonic screams in wild California mice
- Flight of the butterfly: Winged visitors suddenly scarce in Santa Cruz
Author Interviews:
- Cheryl Strayed on personal journeys, finding solace in words
- Jane Smiley’s ‘Hundred Years’ trilogy looks at our culture’s changing relationship to food
- Cheryl Strayed on writing memoir, bringing meaning to the story
- Terry Tempest Williams on voice—how we find it, lose it, regain it
- Pam Houston: Straddling the border between fiction and nonfiction
- T.C. Boyle pits characters against each other, lets the reader decide who wins
- Russel Banks: To get to the heart of morally challenging topics, write about them
Arts and Entertainment Features:
- When the walls speak, muralist José Ortiz listens
- Blurring Borders: Lila Downs combines song with Mexican votive paintings
- Ira Glass: Listening to a good radio show is like being on a long car ride with someone you love
- Carmel Art and Film Festival highlights the shifting roles of women in film
Personal Essays:
- Writing between the cracks
- One Singular Sensation: Living with synesthesia
- The Facts of Life
- Going for a full drench in hot power yoga