[Dates refer to original air dates on KKUP Radio, 91.5 FM, in San Jose, Calif. Guest information is current as of broadcast date.]
01-10-2002 "True-Life Psychedelic Adventures"
Charles Hayes has worked for 15 years in the world of publishing. His journalistic works have appeared in The Earth Times, E Magazine, High Times, Heads, Oxford American, and Shaman's Drum. He has worked as a writer/editor for a number of businesses and organizations, as a Website designer, and as a communications manager for a marketing firm. He's the editor and author of "Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures," published in 2000 by Penguin Putnam.
02-07-2002 "The War on Pain"
Dr. Scott Fishman is Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine and an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at U.C. Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. He's a recognized authority on pain management and the author of the book under discussion, "The War on Pain," released in hard cover in 2000 by Harper Collins, and available in paperback, published by Quill.
03-07-2002 "The To of Love"
Douglas Abrams, author of The Multi-Orgasmic Man, and Rachel Abrams MD, family practice physician (both co-authors of The Multi-Orgasmic Couple), describe the benefits to one's physical and emotional health of practicing the ancient art of the Tao of Love.
04-11-2002 "F****d Companies"
Philip J. Kaplan, author of "F'd Companies--Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts," describes how his highly popular and highly lucrative Website was built on a whim with no marketing capital. He also discusses some of the excesses of the "Dot-bomb" phenomenon.
05-09-2002 "The Dumbing Down of Luxury"
James Twitchell teaches English and Advertising at the University of Florida. He's the author of "Ad-cult USA: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture", and "Living It Up, Our Love Affair with Luxury." He describes how so-called luxury has become mainstream in our society.
06-06-2002 "Harmful to Minors"
Judith Levine, a journalist, essayist, and author, has written about sex, gender, and families for over twenty years. An activist for free speech and sex education, she is a founder of the feminist group No More Nice Girls and of the National Writers Union. She's the author of "My Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender," and of the book under discussion, "Harmful to Minors--the perils of protecting children from sex," published in 2002 by the University of Minnesota Press, with a foreword by Dr. Joycelyn Elders.
09-12-2002 "What if Fat Doesn't Make You Fat?"
Gary Taubes is an author and journalist with decades of experience writing about science. He's a contributing editor to Technology Review and a contributing correspondent to Science magazine. And he worked as a writer and editor for Discovery magazine for almost 20 years. He's the author of "Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion," published by Random House, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist in the Los Angeles Times Book Awards of 1993. For his 2001 article in Science Magazine, "The Soft Science of Dietary Fat," he received the 2002 Best American Science Writing award and the 2001 National Association of Science Writers' Science-in-Society Journalism Award. He graduated from Harvard with a B.S. in Applied Physics, and has a Masters degree in Engineering from Stanford and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University.
12-12-2002 "Practical Spirituality"
Christian de Quincey is a Professor of Philosophy at JFK University and author of Radical Nature, Deep Spirit, and, with Willis Harman, The Scientific Exploration of Consciousness. In this interview he explores the concept of pan-theism.
