Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

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Social Impact of New Technologies

Airs at: Mon, 08/28/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Urban design professor Nico Larco talks with Bill Resnick about  new technologies such as autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars and buses) and e-commerce (buying things on line rather than going to stores). Unless these technologies are managed in the light of equity an... Read more

Soil Depletion and the Climate

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The ability of our atmosphere to maintain a livable climate depends on the soil and the plants that grow in it. Diana Donlon talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the damage we are doing to both climate and soil and how better management of the soil could help gre... Read more

A Mole Views the Eclipse

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Old Mole Tom Becker reviews our evolving understanding of eclipses and the limits of our understanding of the universe. Photo: By I, Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0 Read more

The Eclipse of 2017 and Kubrick's "2001"

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
What can we learn from the eclipse taking place as this piece was being aired (8/21/17), and from Stanley Kubrik's 1984 film "2001" about our place in the universe and humanity's technological overreach. Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris discuss.  Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 21, 2001

Airs at: Mon, 08/21/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted by Tom Becker, this episode of the Old Mole aired as a solar eclipse, almost but not quite total in Portland, was occurring. The eclipse leads the Moles to reflect in various ways on how dependent humanity is on natural and cosmic forces. What we have done to our ... Read more

Religion For Progressives

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and KBOO engineer and programmer, John Shuck, discuss the progressive aspects of (Christian) religion. They consider religious critiques of traditional theism and traditional morality, the communal ritual aspect of religion as a lesson for political organizi... Read more

Book Mole: The Iron Heel

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reviews Jack London's 1908 novel, The Iron Heel (available online for download and through the Multnomah County Library). One of London's most socialist novels, it tells the story of how a failed revolution in the US leads to the centuries long reign of a fa... Read more

Epidemics of Despair

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge reflects on epidemics of despair, from suicide to mass shootings, and attending to the social and economic roots. Read more

Movie Moles: Detroit

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris and Jan Haaken review Kathryn Bigelow's "Detroit", which dramatizes events surrounding the 1967 12th Street Rebellion in Detroit. The consider what the film has to say about black life, black political movements, and the origins of social unrest. They also ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for August 14, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear the following segments. Musical selection: The George Fox Song, The Red Flag, and What's Going On? Bill Resnick and KBOO engineer and programmer, John Shuck, discuss progressive religion and its critique of traditional theism a... Read more