Alan Ritch – Twin Towers
Alan Ritch describes a special view from West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz.
Lucid Dreaming Redux with David Jay Brown
We talk about ways to become lucid while dreaming, psychedelia, and the after life as well as visionary art. And we talked with callers about meditating in dreams and about how to keep yourself from losing track of reality while engaging in an intensive lucid dreaming...
Faith in the Time of Corona: Faith & The Police Chief
In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the cruel murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis has sparked protests, violence, and discussions about policing and systemic racism across the country. Santa Cruz has experienced a variety of protests and calls for police to do a...
Supporting Santa Cruz Citizens in Need: Second Harvest Foodbank and The California Homeless Union
On Talk of the Bay this Tuesday host Christine Barrington focuses on initiatives within the Santa Cruz area that serve and support those in need. In the first half of the show, Susan Willis from the Second Harvest Foodbank returns to update us about the...
Ecology Action Bike Month
This week on Good News Santa Cruz host Pauline Seales interviewed Matt Miller of Ecology Action. Covid-19 precluded the traditional May Bike month. Determined to keep the spirit alive, Matt shared with Pauline Ecology Action's plan for the July virtual bike month....
Clearing the Air: How far has pollution dropped since Covid?
This story was produced by Erin Malsbury from UCSC's Science Communications program. In it she explores the question of how far air pollution has dropped since fewer people are driving and what the health impacts are from cleaner air.
Ed Weingold – Crime Family
Ed Weingold takes stalk of our present president.
The Film Gang Review: Boy (2010)
Before winning an Oscar for Jojo Rabbit, and before breathing new life into MCU’s withering Thor franchise, Taika Waititi was New Zealand’s most popular and successful filmmaker. Two of his homegrown films, 2016’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople and 2014’s What We Do...
Antibodies May Hold Key to Covid Treatment
Antibody therapies for COVID-19 Produced by Jack Lee, Science Communications program UCSC. Scientists are racing to develop treatments for COVID-19. Some of these remedies might not look like tablets or capsules: They could be antibodies that doctors inject directly...
Olga Cossi – A Dose of Dozing
In this classical repeat, Olga Cossi gets a dose of dozing.
Scientific Detectives: Using eDNA to Examine Marine Ecosystems
This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist we speak with Dr. Katie Pitz, a research associate at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Dr. Pitz explains what environmental DNA or eDNA is and how it can be used to better understand the critters living within the...
Microplastics are Everywhere!
Picture Credit: Amanda Heidt Music Credit: True Blue Sky, Blue Dot Sessions (CC license CC BY-NC 4.0) Transcript: Looking around, it’s probably easy to pick out things that are made of plastic. But would you believe that they’re also in the air, in your glass of water...
UCSC students get real, serving their community during Shelter in Place
Join Talk of the Bay host Suki Wessling in this discussion with two professors from University of California at Santa Cruz about how they responded to classes going remote this spring. Rebecca London, assistant professor of sociology, and Regina Langhout, professor of...
Paul DeWorken, Watsonville Muralist
Watsonville is a treasure trove of talented artists. One of these is Paul DeWorken, a muralist who, as a young man, was chosen to design the flag of the city of Watsonville. In conversation with Jean Kratzer, Paul explains why for him murals and community...
Gayle McCallum – Girls
Gayle McCallum sees the gifts that are girls.
