Health

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 5, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Thom Becker hosts and we hear-- Two organizers discuss plans and purposes for the International Women's Day March and Strike happening in Portland on Thursday, March 8. Bill Resnick and Joe Clement fill us in on the West Virginia Teachers' Strike and its significance. ... Read more

Mental Health Support for Palestinians

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with psychiatrist Elizabeth Berger about psychological dynamics of living under Israeli occupation for Palestinian children, and some of the links between human rights and mental health.  Berger is a child psychiatrist living in New York City and on the steeri... Read more

Girls Like Me by Nina Packebush

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Madness Radio
  What’s it like to be a teenager in a psychiatric hospital? What is it like to be a queer pregnant teenager? Is it true that friends do make the best medicine? Nina Packebush explores these questions and more in her groundbreaking debut young adult novel, Girls Like Me... Read more

How To Survive Your Childhood Now That You're An Adult

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Ira Israel is a licensed professional clinical counselor and a licensed marriage and family therapist. He has graduate degrees in philosophy, religious studies, and psychology. He has a private practice in Santa Monica, California as well as on-line coaching. He leads... Read more

Children & Environmental Toxins

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Healthwatch
  More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one-third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes, and as rates of childhood dise... Read more

Quality Relationships

Airs at: Thu, 03/08/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
The quality and depth of a relationship you create with yourself will equal the quality and depth of all of your relationships. A deep and eye-opening discussion with Barbara Beck, expert relationship coach and author of Love, Sex and the Spiritual Path. Read more

In-Depth: Biomechanist Katy Bowman

Airs at: Tue, 02/20/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO News and Evening Public Affairs Director Zeloszelos Marchandt speaks with "part biomechanist, part science communicator, and full-time mover" Katy Bowman, who also is the founder of the Nutritious Movement program that aims to bring non-exercise movement back into p... Read more

Managing Pain

Airs at: Sun, 02/25/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week, we discuss pain and pain treatment with Professor Beth Darnall, PhD, a pain psychologist, clinical scientist, and clinical professor at Stanford University. Read more

Meltdown in the Arctic: Humanity Beware?

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  What happens in the Arctic has an out-sized impact on the overall global climate. And right now, it's looking very, very bad.  December of last year was the warmest on record in  the Arctic, and 2018 has already set a string of records for lowest levels of Arctic sea ... Read more

At Peace: Choosing A Good Death After a Long Life

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Dr. Samuel Harrington, MD, is the author of At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life. In this important book, which James Fallows of The Atlantic calls “deeply humane,”  he argues the case for taking a clear-eyed yet compassionate view towards the end of life... Read more