Episodes

Anti-Semitism is on the rise in American society. In this podcast we explore the history and why at this moment in time this vile prejudice against the Jewish people has re-emerged and how we can combat and defeat it.

The 2024 Campaign was like no other in modern American Presidential History. The Comeback is a succinct and data rich analysis of how Donald Trump reclaimed the Presidency.

Alex has two addictions: drugs and digital technology. Robbed and injured, he is forced to live in an analog world when his smartphone is stolen. But the people he meets along the way open doors to a new world of experiences and emotions that confuse him.

The Los Padres Hotshots are Wildfire fighters who serve on the frontlines of forest fires in California. They are the elite firefighters who lead our fight to contain and extinguish these vast, threatening fires that are growing in destructive force.

Artificial Intelligence harnessed by behavioral scientists working with your personal biometrics can help you identify better behaviors in your day to day life.

Far Right violence and extremism on the rise in America. Why ?

Apple’s iPhone production is concentrated in China where it has built the most advanced electronics supply chain in the world. Will this geographic concentration be the downfall of Apple ?

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to one of the largest concentrations of Space related research and manufacturing companies in the US.

A CIA operative who managed the DRE, the anti Castro student group has been named, George Joannides ska Howard Gebler. DRE baited Oswald in New Orleans to get him to be interviewed on radio and TV 90 days before the JFK assassination. They actively promoted the recordings to show Oswald as a radic…

The rising generation of voters in the US - Gen Z and Millennials - as a very high proportion of independent voters. Unlike their Baby Boomer parents who register Democrat or Republican the younger generation refuses to be locked into that binary straight jacket of politics.

Jayne Mansfield was a movie star in the late 2950s and early 60s. But as her film career began to decline she made a series of choices in her personal life that added chaos to her professional life.

AI, Clean, cheap abundant energy and genetic engineering technology will spur a profound transformation of our lives over the next 25 years.

Extreme polarization in our politics can be addressed and reduced through Deliberative Polling, a technique developed by Professor Jim Fishkin of Stanford University.

Michelangelo the sculptor, famously painted 34 frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in two phases, over 30 years in the 16th Century. These masterpieces are regarded as one of the greatest artworks in European art. The Exhibition allows the public to see them up close, at their own pace and close to hom…

Haiti 🇭🇹 was the first country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery in 1801. Henry Christophe went to sea aged 12, rose through the ranks of the French Army to become General. He first served as President of the State of Haiti and then King.

Evolution is meeting the challenges of today’s environment by adaptation as it has done for 4 billion years.

Will over regulation of AI by the states hamstring development and hand a first place win in the AI stakes to China ?

The Independent Center focuses on the growing segment of voters who are Independents. And demographics indicates that Millennials and Gen Z are more than 50% Independents foreshadowing a tectonic shift in American politics.

Anti ICE riots in Sanctuary City Los Angeles prompted the Trump Administration to federalize the California National Guard. The Governor successfully sued to have the Guard reinstated under his command. The Trump Administration has appealed the decision and pending the outcome, the Guard will conti…

By pushing power down to the individual concentrating up to power brokers - Mayors, electeds etc it is harder to get big projects done. We have created a vetocracy where one person can stop a project that might have benefited the society as a whole. Individual over Society.

San Francisco was the site of two Antisemitic incidents in 2024, at UCSF, one of the nation’s leading medical research universities and SF Hillel at San Francisco State University. Antisemitism has spread through America’s universities like a plague.

Mayor Lurie is tackling the problems he inherited from London Breed who was defeated in her re-election bid. So far San Franciscans for the first time in 5 years say that San Francisco is on the right track.

Science Cuts will hurt the Silicon Valley Tech industry.

1925 was a major year for American Literature with the publication of Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Hemingway’s “In Our Time” among many other works. This book is a reference guide to the significant works of 1925.