Podcasts Archive | Page 15 of 31 | In Deep with Angie Coiro

Navigating a Generation Gap: Parents, their Girls, and Sex

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160514F.mp3 To download this episode, begin playback by clicking the 'play' triangle, hover over the black player bar, right-click or CTRL-click on Mac, and select 'Save Audio As.' Show #127 | May 14, 2016 | Peggy Orenstein joins Angie Coiro for a discussion of her new book GIRLS AND SEX: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. These two award-winning journalists sat down on a Monday evening at Kepler’s Books for an important conversation about gender, myths, perception and the potent subtext of sex in the world of young people growing up today. Guests: New York Times best-selling author Peggy Orenstein was named one of its “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years” by The Columbia Journalism Review in 2012. In addition to Girls and Sex, she’s the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem...

Capturing a Wit Through the Ages – Terry Southern

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160507F.mp3 To download this episode, begin playback by clicking the 'play' triangle, hover over the black player bar, right-click or CTRL-click on Mac, and select 'Save Audio As.' Show #126 | May 7, 2016 | Colorado based writer and filmmaker Nile Southern’s newest book is a compilation of his father, Terry Southern’s, letters. The book, Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern, is a homage to the senior Southern’s love of language and storytelling through the collection and organization of his letter. Terry was nominated for two Academy Awards - he wrote the screenplays of Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider - and he was an influential writer known for his unique, comic voice. Guests: ...

The Plight of Solitary: Voices from Hell

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160423F.mp3 To download this episode, begin playback by clicking the 'play' triangle, hover over the black player bar, right-click or CTRL-click on Mac, and select 'Save Audio As.' Show #125 | April 23, 2016 | Oakland journalist and playwright Sara Shourd survived 410 days of Iranian solitary confinement and wrote about it in Hell is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement. Guests: ...

An Exploration of Reality through the Science of Sensory Perception

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160409F.mp3 To download this episode, begin playback by clicking the 'play' triangle, hover over the black player bar, right-click or CTRL-click on Mac, and select 'Save Audio As.' Show #123 | April 9, 2016 | Oakland award-winning journalist and science writer Kara Platoni sits down with Angie to discuss latest developments in the science of sensory perception and her book We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Perception, One Sense at a Time. Guests: After graduating from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Kara Platoni wrote for the East Bay Express and taught at the ‘J School.’ She was the co-host of the self-described nerdy science show, The Field Trip Podcast and is on Twitter at @KaraPlatoni. Permalink for this podcast here. ...

Fred Ross: One of the most influential community organizers in American history

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160402F.mp3 Show #122 | April 2, 2016 | Community and labor activist Fred Ross’s story remains poignant and relevant today, though he first started organizing in the 1930s. Author Gabriel Thompson joins Angie to talk about his book America’s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the 20th Century. Guest: ...

Does today’s ascendancy of Donald Trump compare to Hitler’s rise in the 1930’s?

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160326F.mp3 To download this episode, begin playback by clicking the 'play' triangle, hover over the black player bar, right-click or CTRL-click on Mac, and select 'Save Audio As.' Show #121 | March 26, 2016 | What's behind the increasing comparisons of candidate Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, one of the greatest scourges of the modern age? Shouts from within a rowdy crowd are easily dismissed. But Anne Frank's stepsister and multiple prominent international voices - including past and present presidents of Mexico, and an honored Israeli journalist - are now on record with the same warning. Angie hosts a panel to discuss and take questions from the audience. Guests: Edith Sheffer, Assistant Professor, Modern European History & German Studies at Stanford University, author of Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain and Charles Postel, Assistant Professor, History at San Francisco State University, author of The Populist Vision. Permalink for this podcast here. Read journalist Dave Boyce's article in The...

Democracy for Sale: Money in Politics and its Impact on Our Freedoms

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160319F.mp3 Show #120 | March 19, 2016 | Former political candidate and author Derek Cressman talks about his new book When Money Talks – The High Price of “Free” Speech and the Selling of Democracy. Guests: Derek Cressman began working professionally to reduce big money in politics in 1995 with such nonpartisan organizations as Common Cause and the Public Interest Research Group.In 2014, Cressman ran for California Secretary of State. Though he didn’t win his election, the legislature responded to his campaign, and the efforts of others, by referring a question to the ballot instructing Congress to overturn the Citizens United ruling—the central plank of Derek’s campaign platform. Permalink for this podcast here....

Decades of Diverse Photojournalism, from Olympic Athletes to US Presidents to Military Warriors

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160312F.mp3 Show #119 | March 12, 2016 | Photographer David Burnett’s career has spanned decades and his lens has captured iconic global events and personalities. He sits down with Angie to reflect on a lifetime of photography and journalism. Guests: Photographer David Burnett is co-founder of Contact Press Images, the New York based photojournalism agency, now entering its 39th year. In a recent issue of American Photo magazine Burnett was named one of the "100 Most Important People in Photography." Permalink for this podcast here....

Convergence of Science, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the End of the World

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160305F.mp3 Show #118 | March 5, 2016 | The latest from award-winning writer Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky, is either about the end of the world, the beginning of our future, or both. The novel’s a darkly comic exploration of love, life, and the apocalypse. Guests: American journalist, editor, and fiction writer Charlie Jane Anders discusses her latest All the Birds in the Sky. Her previous novel Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award in 2005. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is managing editor of the science fiction website io9. Permalink for this podcast here....