Political Correctness vs. Getting The Laugh: The Manners of Comedy

http://lftlc.com/carriage/AM/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150620A_H2.mp3 Show #90 Hour 2 June 20, 2015 | Jerry Seinfeld bemoans the damage to comedy wrought by "political correctness". Bill Maher backs him up. Salon.com polls 10 top stand-up performers (one black man, one white woman, eight white men) who all agree. Is real comedy truly endangered by hyper-judgmental guardians of the sacred and ubiquitous recording devices? What's still fair game? San Francisco's beloved Debi Durst taps her long experience in both stand-up and improv to tackle the thorny subject. She's currently in rehearsal for Marin Shakespeare Company's "Cymbeline", in the role of Cornelius. She and her husband, political satirist Will Durst, take their "Big Fat Year End Kiss Off Comedy Show" on the road every December. Stand-up comic and podcaster Ron Chapman was featured earlier this year at SF Sketchfest. He's performed at the Set-Up, at Stage Werx with Endgame Improv and Panelmonium, and at other Bay Area venues. ...
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Diversity in STEM

http://lftlc.com/carriage/AM/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150620A_H1.mp3 Show #90 Hour 1 June 20, 2015 | Educators and science professionals dropped their collective jaw at comments from Nobel Prize winner Sir Tim Hunt attempted a joke about the inconveniences of women in the lab. In this week's 11:00 hour, we'll consider the reality of gender divisions in science, technology, engineering, and math. How does the culture welcome and treat women aiming for a life in STEM? Guests: Lake Raymond, Program Director for Black Girls Code; and Ashley Fouts, Treasurer, Palo Alto Chapter of the Association of Women in Science, and scientist at Genentech...
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Silent Voices: People with Mental Disorders on the Street

http://lftlc.com/carriage/AM/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150613A_H2.mp3 Show #89 Hour 2 June 13, 2015 | We avert our eyes when we meet them on the street: homeless mentally ill people with their hand-scrawled signs, shopping carts, and cardboard boxes. Because of our fear and revulsion, we fail to see any human connection with them. How do they end up on the street? How do they survive? What combination of biological vulnerabilities, childhood traumas, drugs, mental disorders, and financial devastation brought them down? And how do some manage, against all odds, to climb out of this desperate situation? Former commissioner of mental health Robert Okin spent two years on the street meeting and photographing homeless individuals with mental illness to find answers to these questions. He masterfully brings these people to life through stories and images that are intimate and gritty. Robert L. Okin, MD, was born in the Bronx, New York. He attended college and medical school at the University of Chicago, and after a psychiatric residency at the Albert...
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Affordable Silicon Valley?

http://lftlc.com/carriage/weact/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150613A_H1.mp3 Show #89 Hour 1 June 13, 2015 | Affordable Silicon Valley: Rent control. Owner move-ins. Skyrocketing property values. How do Silicon Valley and the Bay Area try to keep their populations financially diverse, and keep the American dream alive for those with less income? We'll spend the hour on an examination of the stakeholders, potential solutions, and how other major cities have confronted the issue. Guests: Egon Terplan, Regional Planning Director, SPUR. A regional planner and economic development specialist with more than 14 years of experience, Egon Terplan has authored or co-authored numerous reports and policy studies related to regional planning, economic development, transportation and government reform, including the first-ever report on the Northern California megaregion and a 2011 report on land use planning and high-speed rail in California. Prior to joining SPUR, he spent more than five years with ICF International advising cities and regions throughout the world on economic development and competitiveness. Derecka Mehrens, Executive Director, Working Partnerships. Derecka's work...
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Security and Privacy, Cyrus Farivar

http://lftlc.com/carriage/weact/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150606A_H1.mp3 Show #88 Hour 1 June 06, 2015 | Ars Technica's senior business editor returns to In Deep for an update on the tension between surveillance, security, and privacy. How private is your home with commercial and private drones overhead? What privacy toll is exacted when every vehicle in town has its license plate photographed and tracked - with the information available for sale? What's at stake in the current debate over the Patriot Act? Cyrus Farivar is the Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica, and is also an author and radio producer. His book, The Internet of Elsewhere – about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea – was published by Rutgers University Press in April 2011. He previously was the Sci-Tech Editor, and host of "Spectrum" at Deutsche Welle English, Germany's international broadcaster. He has also reported for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, Public Radio...
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“New York Cuts” – a conversation with filmmaker Luke Lorentzen

http://lftlc.com/carriage/weact/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150606A_H2.mp3 Show #88 Hour 2 June 06, 2015 | This week, Stanford University presents a pre-release screening of New York Cuts, the latest work from documentarian Luke Lorentzen. New York Cuts explores a variety of barbershops and hair salons throughout disparate cultural enclaves of New York City. Focusing on themes of ethnicity, class, and community, conversations between stylists and clients are observed and intertwined in a portrait of urban multiculturalism. Luke Lorentzen is an undergraduate Film Studies major and American Studies minor at Stanford University. His short film Santa Cruz Del Islote, documenting life on a three-acre Columbian island, won multiple awards and screened internationally. ...
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Assisted Suicide, from the perspective of the Disabled

http://lftlc.com/carriage/weact/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150530A_H1.mp3 Show #87 Hour 1 May 30, 2015 | Mark Romeser, Community Advocate, Silicon Valley Independent Living Center, defends the point of view that legislation supporting assisted suicide is not in the interest of the disabled individual....
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Why are Palo Alto’s Kids Killing Themselves? A conversation with writer Diana Kapp

http://lftlc.com/carriage/weact/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150523A_H1.mp3 Show #86 Hour 1 May 23, 2015 | The city of Palo Alto and the Gunn High School administration are slowly opening up about teen suicides. Questions about the first cluster, in 2009-10, met a wall of silence. But as the school saw more suicides, families and authorities began to open up. In her new article for San Francisco Magazine, Diane Kapp interviews students, adolescent depression experts, and bereaved families to piece together why the phenomenon continues. Diana Kapp is a Stanford graduate who writes regularly for write the Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Magazine and women’s magazines including ELLE, Marie Claire, and MORE. She works out of San Francisco's Writer's Grotto. Diana Kapp's original article in San Francisco Magazine: Why Are Palo Alto's Kids Killing Themselves?...
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The Internet Is Not The Answer – A Conversation with Andrew Keen

http://lftlc.com/carriage/weact/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150523A_H2.mp3 Show #86 Hour 2 May 16, 2015 | Tech entrepreneur, writer and skeptic Andrew Keen shares his unalloyed criticism of the powerful interests driving technology with Angie, in a far-ranging and insightful hour. The Internet Is Not The Answer from GroveAtlantic Books. Andrew Keen's blog...
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