KQED's Perspectives
Summary: Perspectives is KQED Public Radio's series of daily commentaries by our listeners. Essays cover a broad range of social and political issues, cultural observations and personal experiences of interest to KQED's Northern California audience.
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Podcasts:
Gary Erickson asked his mom, "Can you make a cookie without butter, sugar or oil?" The result was Clif Bar, an energy bar named after his dad — now one of the most popular energy bars in the U.S.
At a water fountain on Mt. Tam dedicated to a beloved runner, Laura Bello shares an unexpected connection with a total stranger.
Andrew Lewis discovers that on a remote reservation in northern Arizona, big dreams for the future still live.
Away from the city, its quiet. Not really, says Peggy Hansen. It’s just the noise people make that’s absent.
A major quake could severely damage the power grid. Peter Asmus says the answer is ‘microgrids’.
When people feel unheard, they shout. Jeremy Friedlander says some sincere listening might be a better response.
As a kid, Cathy Hughes practiced her DJ routine while her siblings banged on the bathroom door. As an adult, she founded Radio One, the country's largest African-American owned broadcasting company.
The recently concluded Paralympics in Rio reminded Richard Swerdlow that the U.S. lags behind the world by a vital measure – the metric system.
It’s a banner year for yellow jackets. For Michael Ellis and all other non-yellow jackets, that’s not good.
Youth Radio’s Amanda Agustin used to go to great pains to keep her brown skin from getting darker. Those days are gone.
A working democracy requires impulse control. And Jeremy Sherman says we don’t have much of it.
A tattered copy of ‘Little Women’ helps Vanessa Hua imagine a history of her immigrant family, build her own identity and imagine her children’s future.
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launched their photo-sharing app with a server that crashed every other hour. Despite a chaotic start, Instagram became one of the most popular apps in the world.
Climate change is devastating Sierra woodlands, a depleted Forest Service can do little about it, and Matt Mitchell says a lack of trust is behind it all.
Mike Von der Porten notes that before Roanoke, Plymouth, or Jamestown, Sir Francis Drake landed in Marin and made contact with the Coast Miwok.
