Jim teams up with Huckleberry Finn to raft down the Mississippi to freedom: the runaway slave and irreverent scamp are an unlikely duo. But 140 years after the
publication of Twain’s greatest novel, Jim continues to be misunderstood.
Homelessness in San Francisco has a human face. And from time to time, there are success stories when someone is rehabilitated, often with the intense help of family. The Lost and The Found relates two such cases.
Canada 🇨🇦 faces an uncertain future as it looks forward to a General Election April 28, 2025. New Prime Minister Mark Carney stares down a shaky economy and new US tariffs. He has said that the key relationship with America 🇺🇸 is over, causing Canadians even more angst.
A tsunami has dethroned the elites from being in charge of information flow to the public. Politicians, Government, Universities are no longer the gatekeepers of what is important for the public to know.
The Zodiac killings took place in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and 70s. But they were never solved. In this episode we discuss two films about this True Crime Story.
Gladstone Intitutes is a leading biomedical research facility doing cutting edge medical research, employing 600 scientists. They bring together stem cell, Gene editing and Artificial Intelligence technologies to craft cures for disease.
Technology company founders more often than not have created extreme wealth for themselves through their companies. And significant social problems have followed.
Search Engines like Google are a major source where Americans get their news. But Google News has a 63% left bias versus 6% right bias. Other search engines have similar biases.
A bookstore worker encounters the 19th Century Romantic Poets in the basement of Beyond Baroque, a Venice, California iconic bookseller and embarks on a journey of self discovery when Shelly, Percy, Keats and Lord Byron come alive.
Deep Seek is a Chinese AI model that’s a game changer. Cheap, quick to develop and open source, it will be a model for a profusion of AI models which will be developed by universities , corporations and individuals.
Life markers on the road to adulthood: leaving home, getting married, starting a career, buying a house , are eluding many Gen X and Gen Z’ers. Why ? Are they running away from responsibility ? The rise of Kidults.
The Israel Hamas Ceasefire came into effect January 19, 2025. Yet Israel 🇮🇱 originally rejected a similar deal months ago. Will the new Trump Administration seek to cut a better deal for Israel and the US at the expense of Iran 🇮🇷 and its’ terrorist allies ?
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. 🇺🇸 in his inaugural address he laid out how he will implement campaign pledges on immigration, border security and the economy.