Is California really ready to expand abortion services? Panel discussion.
Host Suki Wessling moderates a special Independence Day panel discussion about abortion and California's status as an Abortion Sanctuary State. Our panel includes Pam Conelly, Chief Operations Officer at Encompass Community Services and a board member of Planned...
Celebrating Independent Radio on Independence Day
KSQD brought The Squid to Aptos's "World's Shortest Parade," celebrating independent radio!
Sleep Loss and the Nature of Consciousness with Rubin Naiman, PhD
Sleep loss is at epidemic levels today. What are we missing out on? How can dreams help cure insomnia? Because of what our guest calls, "Wake centrism," Americans are subject to hyperarousal, and 60-70 million of us have some level of insomnia. This is an epidemic...
Steve Pleich – Fourth of July
Steve Pleich talks about this day in America.
Effects of stress on health, protein folding and good and bad chemicals
The roll of stress in chronic hives -- how to detect high histamine levels; The drug Baricitinib for rheumatoid arthritis also works for the hair loss condition alopecia areata; Artificial intelligence general solution to protein folding prediction from just DNA...
The Film Gang Review: Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Modern zombie flicks began with the 1968 George Romero classic, Night of the Living Dead. Comedies were soon to follow. Minor classics such as The Return of the Living Dead and Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive excelled at gross-out humor. But Shaun of The Dead,...
Molly Tierny – Messy Home
Molly Tierney finds solace at the end of the day. Produced by Laurie Corn.
Mental Health Effects of Lyme Disease (Remix)
Episode 44: Psychotherapist Debra Sloss is joined by Judith Ain and Family Medicine Physician Assistant and Integrative Medicine Specialist Dr. Cynthia Quattro to discuss tick-borne Lyme Disease and the mental health effects associated with it. Judith shares her personal story of trying to figure out what was happening as her health deteriorated and how she got diagnosed, sought treatment and learned to live with long-term symptoms. Dr. Quattro offers information about the cause of Lyme Disease and how and where to get accurately diagnosed. She also shares information about integrative treatment approaches.
Olga Cossi – Being Down
Long time contributor to First Person Singular, in this piece from 2015, Olga Cossi shares a story of her husband's encounter in a grocery store.
What do people fear? With Gregg Levoy
Today Katherine talks to Gregg about some mysteries including what people fear and why many people may be not interested in or even fear their own dreams. This is a popular replay show from December 2019. Gregg Levoy has written two books: Callings, Finding and...
CORE: The New Dynamics of Funding Nonprofits in Santa Cruz
On Talk of the Bay, Monday, June 27, 2022 Christine Barrington and Talk of the Bay Co-Host Suki Wessling explore the impact of the County’s new funding model for awarding non-profit grants across the region. In 2015 the county set a new intention for how they disburse...
Tim Rudolph – Fight or Flight
Tim Rudolph, a Santa Cruz poet inspired by Ed Abbey, Gary Snyder, and the perfect Burrito, asks, "Fight or Flight?"
All about kidney stones, kidney function testing, diet and prostate cancer
All about kidney stones; The benefits of age-based kidney function testing; Dairy intake linked to prostate cancer? But research supports yogurt benefits against cancer; Follow up on beer supporting microbiome diversity and the tricky issue of candida overgrowth;...
Jason Scorse – No More Debates
Jason Scorse points out what is debatable about the GOP wanting to pull out of debates. Produced by Laurie Corn.
Alan Ritch – Cypress Point
Alan Ritch regrets the loss of a familiar tree at Westcliff Drive.
